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AREVALO | Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla

By Hannia Arevalo · Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025

Columnist and Graphics Editor Hannia Arevalo ’27 briefly introduces their column Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla as a space for uncomfortable conversations, political taboos and ordered chaos. In liminality and transitions sits an unsettling presence necessary for the growth of Cornell students beyond academics. 

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GROSS | The Research University has Reached its Limit

By Sophie Gross · Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025

Columnist Sophie Gross '27 argues that the recent funding cuts in research labs and universities across has exposed "some of the greatest weaknesses of the American research university model". She explains the problem with relying on federal funding in the first place: "Research must be paid for by someone, and that someone will only pay for research that they deem valuable."

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GUEST ROOM | I Told Students to Dream Big. Now I’m Not So Sure.

By Opinion Department · Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025

In this guest column, Tim Mulderrig, a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Cornell, wrestles with the disillusionment of pursuing a STEM career amid a crumbling scientific infrastructure. Revisiting the motivational messages he once preached to students, he calls for a new paradigm, one that centers human meaning over professional achievement.

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STITH | News Analysis: The Corporate University at Work

By Yihun Stith · Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025

Senior Yihun Stith leads the Opinion’s section’s first News Analysis piece on the recent release of police footage. He highlights Cornell’s doublespeak on free expression, arguing the administration's rhetoric of “debate and dissent” collapses into risk-management. Stith questions whether Cornell can ever be an open forum while operating as a corporate university first and teaching institution second. 

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STITH | Cornell's Secret Summer Affair

By Yihun Stith · Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025

Senior Yihun Stith pulls back the curtain on Cornell’s quiet compliance with Trump, arguing that beneath the rhetoric of “shared values” lies a record of lobbying, complicity, and betrayal. Stith asks what it will finally take for Cornell to stand up to power instead of courting it.

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GUEST ROOM | Cornell Reckoning

By Opinion Department · Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025

Associate Dean Emeritus David N. DeVries critiques Cornell’s austerity measures, arguing that “headcount reductions” obscure administrative mismanagement and disproportionately affect vulnerable workers.

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AGRAWAL | Embrace Your Inner Fool?

By Professor Anurag Agrawal · Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025

Professor Agrawal confesses he’s a professional fool, one whose greatest successes (and most embarrassing failures) were built on magnificent delusions. In this welcome to the Class of 2029, he makes the surprising case that a little self-deception might be the most honest tool we have.

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DEMERS | ITHAKA

By Ming DeMers · Wednesday, June 4, 2025

In his senior column, 142nd Masthead photography editor Ming DeMers takes inspiration from C.P. Cavafy's "Ithaka" to guide the reader through a tour of the most memorable locations of his Cornell experience.

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ELMORE | Cheers to Everyone We Will Ever Meet

By Grace Elmore · Saturday, May 24, 2025

Sex on Thursday Columnist Grace Elmore relates her own graduation to a quote from Bill Nye: “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” Her senior column looks forward to carrying her Cornell experience into the future.

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