LOMBARDI | Introducing the Office of National Fellowships

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

JASO | One Campus, Two Swindlers

Senior Opinion Columnist Francis X. Jaso ’28 writes that America, much like Cornell, has entered a distinctly Chinese moment in its life, where instead of seeking strength from within, it looks outward for models of power and order, drifting toward the same centralization and state-minded

EDITORIAL | Make Election Day a University Holiday

The Editorial Board argues that Election Day should be established as a University holiday to support democracy and open inquiry at Cornell.

GLASGOW | Ukraine War: Both Sides Explained

ZHOU | Late Night’s Last Night

Opinion Columnist Rayen Zhou ’29 argues that the government’s censorship of late-night television may be alarming, but it only hastened a decline already set in motion by Gen Z’s turn toward social media and more responsive, participatory forms of political commentary.

DAVIS | Making Meaning

CLIFFORD | State of Confusion

BELMONTE | Saved by the Bel

HAN | RE: On Rhetoric and Responsibility

Associate Editor Eric Han replies to Sam Friedman's '26 criticism of his column. The dispute regards one columnist's comparison of Israel with Nazi Germany.