Opinion

HARNEY | Trump’s Henchman is Done Defying Court Orders: Now He Issues Them.

By Liam Harney · Friday, Sept. 5, 2025

Liam Harney discusses the dangerous confirmation of Emil Bove III to the Third Circuit and the specter of a judiciary subservient to President Trump.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Join The Sun

By Julia Senzon · Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025

GROSS | The Research University has Reached its Limit

By Sophie Gross · Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025

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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

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.

SCHECHTER | Cornell Can’t Write the Rules of this Game

By Henry Schechter · Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025

Columnist Henry Schechter, in response to Yihun Stith’s recent column, defends Cornell’s lobbying as pragmatic rather than a betrayal, arguing that strategic engagement is necessary, so long as the University protects its core values.

Why You Should Apply to the Hockey Beat

By Jane McNally · Friday, Aug. 29, 2025

Cornell hockey has a flair for the dramatic. Often, the headlines write themselves. But at the end of the day, someone needs to write them.

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.

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.

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.

BURZLAFF | On Beginning Again

By Jan Burzlaff · Monday, Aug. 25, 2025

Columnist and Professor Jan Burzlaff provides hope for the upcoming semester. You're not navigating it alone.

SCHWARZ | On My Mind: Reflections as Fall 2025 Term Begins

By Daniel R. Schwarz · Monday, Aug. 25, 2025

Professor Daniel R. Schwarz broaches President Trump's attack on universities, with reflections on antisemitism, Prime Minister Netanyahu's military policies and education in authoritarian regimes.

GUEST ROOM | ILR Is Union Busting: CGSU-UE Graduate Workers Stepped Up and You Can Too

By Opinion Department · Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025

Graduate workers in Cornell’s ILR M.S. program allege union-busting after the abrupt removal of assistantships. In this letter, CGSU-UE calls for continued solidarity to secure full assistantship support for incoming students.

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.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Class of 2025, It’s Your Time ‘to Do the Greatest Good’

By Julia Senzon · Saturday, May 24, 2025

Editor-in-Chief Julia Senzon '26 congratulates the Class of 2025, urging new alumni to use lessons learned in classrooms when advocating for “good” in the world.

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.

FROM THE ASSOCIATE EDITOR | This Isn’t a Piecemeal Community

By Eric Han · Friday, May 23, 2025

Associate Editor Eric Han '26 writes to the graduating seniors about how trying times on our campus have shown the importance of community building.

REILLY | Don’t Let School Get in the Way of Your Education

By Eric Reilly · Friday, May 23, 2025

The 142nd Masthead's assistant managing editor Eric Reilly reflects on a phrase from his grandfather: "Don’t let school get in the way of your education." His time at The Sun lives up to those words.

FATTAL | Graduation Column

By Max Fattal · Friday, May 23, 2025

Former associate editor Max Fattal identifies the source of his writer's block in political cynicism.

POGGI | The Places We’ve Been

By Julia Poggi · Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Graduating Columnist Julia Poggi takes the reader through a tour of her Cornell experience.