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SCIENCE | Why Join Science?

By Science Department · Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025

Science Editor Marissa Gaut reflects on how covering research and innovation at Cornell sparks curiosity, builds versatile writing skills and invites students to join the Science section to share groundbreaking stories with the campus and beyond.

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GUEST ROOM | In the Face of Oppression, You Cannot Remain Neutral: Cornell’s Active Recruitment of ICE Deportation Officers Endangers Immigrant Students

By Opinion Department · Monday, Sept. 15, 2025

Kevin Chang '28 and Romneya Quennell '26, members of the Cornell Young Democratic Socialists of America, condemn the listing of a Deportation Officer position with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the Cornell Career Services website. They and Cornell YSDA calls on the University to remove the listing and for greater transparency in selection of employers for career boards.

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GUEST ROOM | Insufficient Elevator Information Fails Disabled Cornellians

By Opinion Department · Monday, Sept. 15, 2025

Kaelin Lamberson '28 argues that Cornell University does not disclose sufficient information about elevator accessibility on its Housing & Residential and CampusGroups web pages. She notes that this is dangerous for disabled Cornellians, and reflects on it as a disabled woman who was negatively affected by Cornell's lack of transparency.

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GUEST ROOM | Nepal's Black Day: Stand With Nepal's Youth

By Opinion Department · Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025

In our guest room, science staff writer Reshma Niraula reflects on Nepal’s Black Day on September 8, 2025, when Gen Z protesters rose against corruption and injustice, and calls on the Cornell and Ithaca communities to stand in solidarity through action and remembrance.

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CHEEK | Big Red, White and You

By Zara Cheek · Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025

Opinion Columnist Zara Cheek '28 introduces her column, Big Red, White and You, drawing from her experiences as a mixed-race student and her desire to encourage her readers to think about how current social and political issues impact and intersect with campus activities and culture. "In an era when educational institutions are increasingly politicized by external forces, creating internal spaces for reflection and discussion is not a luxury, it’s a necessity."

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GUEST ROOM | Flight or Fight?

By Opinion Department · Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025

In our guest room, Professor Kareem Kassam urges tenured faculty to honor their social contract by standing firm in times of political fear, arguing that academic freedom is not retreat but responsibility to contextualize, to speak for the common good and to guide students toward critical reasoning, imagination and empathy.

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BURZLAFF | On Detours and Doubts

By Professor Jan Burzlaff · Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025

Opinion Columnist Jan Burzlaff challenges the myths that students must have their academic paths fully planned or begin flawlessly, instead emphasizing that uncertainty, early stumbles, and detours are inherent to the learning process and often lead to the most meaningful intellectual and personal growth.

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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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GUEST ROOM | From the Inside: eCornell’s Culture of Bias and Burnout

Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025

In Opinion's Guest Room, former Cornell employee Cathy L. Pantano, condemns eCornell’s toxic workplace culture of retaliation, burnout, and ignored discrimination claims and urges the University to reconcile its teachings on leadership, HR, and equity with its own practices.

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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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