DAVIS | On Thin ICE

PHAM | The Company Who Cried Green

 Opinion Columnist Ella Pham ‘29 critiques the culture behind environmental sustainability programs that are treated more like marketing strategies than attainable initiatives. 

BADAWI | More Mamdani for Me

Opinion Columnist Leah Badawi ‘27 responds to Opinion Columnist Leo Glasgow ‘26’s recent piece No Mamdani For Me. She argues that New Yorkers have the power to make history by electing the candidate Zohran Mamdani and scrutinizes Glasgow’s dissenting opinions. 

ZHOU | Populism Shouldn’t Be So Popular

Opinion Columnist Rayen Zhou ’29 writes in his latest piece about the electoral and individual dangers of the prevalence of doomerism and populism. He proposes a potential solution inspired by everybody’s favorite transcendentalist: Henry David Thoreau.

KHEDER | Canvas Outage Reveals the Fragile Truth of Digital Infrastructure

Opinion Columnist Zak Kheder '26 argues that theCanvas outage showed much of Cornell’s student body the severity of having all of your digital eggs in one basket.

LOMBARDI | Introducing the Office of National Fellowships

Vice President of Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi announces the launch of the Office of National Fellowships, where students can access support on fellowship applications.

BUTLER | A Federal Shutdown is a Cornell Shutdown

'Beyond Ivory Towers' Columnist Natalia Butler relates the federal government shutdown to harms felt on the Cornell campus.

BURZLAFF | The Basics (3): Learning with Machines — Four Principles for Using AI at Cornell

In this edition of The Basics, Prof. Jan Burzlaff offers advice on the principled and ethical use of artificial intelligence in the classroom.

AGRAWAL | A Theory of Life

WALTER | To The Unconscious Anarcho-Primitivist, I See You

Opinion Columnist Kira Walter recognizes the ways that anarcho-primitivist living can be found unconsciously in the undergraduate experience.

SELL | Why Does Everything Look Like a Mid-Market Hotel Now?

Opinion Columnist Wyatt Sell critiques the brutalist and otherwise lifeless architecture on campus.

GUEST ROOM | Fuel for the Future: Cornell’s Investment in Food Security is an Investment in Student Success

Cornell Dining Director Paul Muscente and Cornell Health Director of Clinical Nutrition Lauren Nickerson write to connect students with campus resources against food insecurity.

Students for Justice in Palestine at Cornell | We’re Back (Sort of)

Seven months after the arrest of 17 protesters for walking out of a panel featuring Israeli and American officials accused of war crimes, Cornell’s Students for Justice in Palestine recounts their suspension, legal struggle and reinstatement as part of a broader fight against the university’s repression of pro-Palestine activism and complicity in genocide.

PETROVA | North Star

Opinion Columnist Mina Petrova ’29 introduces her column North Star, where she explores how students learn, organize and find purpose in a university shaped by politics, history and the fight for justice.

CLIFFORD | Let’s Go to the Mall — What Mall?

Opinion Columnist Elise Clifford ’29 wanders from the aisles of Target to the ghosts of 1980s mall culture, tracing how America’s worship of convenience has transformed shared spaces of teenage freedom into algorithmic isolation and last-mile consumerism that delivers both comfort and loneliness to our doorstep.

VINK | ICE Kidnappings and the Power of Kings

Opinion Columnist Adriana Vink ’27 bears witness to the kidnappings carried out under the guise of immigration enforcement at 26 Federal Plaza, tracing how ICE, the courts and Cornell alike sustain a system of sanctioned abduction and calls on readers to become ungovernable in the face of it.

STEINGARD | Common Matters