menu_open Columnists

Cornell Daily Sun

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

BADAWI | Cornellians, the Time to Act Is Now!

BADAWI | Cornellians, the Time to Act Is Now!

If the true spirit of a university lies in its ability to set a good example for its students, Cornell has failed us. As an academic institution with...

previous day 2

Cornell Daily Sun

Leah badawi

WALTER | When Values Actually Matter in Close Relationships

WALTER | When Values Actually Matter in Close Relationships

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I plead guilty on all accounts. During the four-hour February break mecca from metropolitan New York to quaint...

friday 2

Cornell Daily Sun

Kira walter

COMMITTEE ON THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | Universities Need to Take a Human-Centered Approach

COMMITTEE ON THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | Universities Need to Take a Human-Centered Approach
05.03.2026 2

Cornell Daily Sun

Committee

CORNELL DINING STUDENT WORKERS | While Cornell Collaborates with Trump’s Austerity, Student Workers Pay the Price

CORNELL DINING STUDENT WORKERS | While Cornell Collaborates with Trump’s Austerity, Student Workers Pay the Price
04.03.2026 5

Cornell Daily Sun

Cornell dining student workers

BELMONTE | Making Trump Sound Normal

BELMONTE | Making Trump Sound Normal
02.03.2026 3

Cornell Daily Sun

Adrian belmonte

SELL | Fix the Elevator

SELL | Fix the Elevator
02.03.2026 3

Cornell Daily Sun

Wyatt sell

GLASGOW | Your Only MAGA Voice

GLASGOW | Your Only MAGA Voice
02.03.2026 2

Cornell Daily Sun

Leo Glasgow

BUTLER | Academia Wants Impact? Black History Already Wrote the Manual

BUTLER | Academia Wants Impact? Black History Already Wrote the Manual
02.03.2026 3

Cornell Daily Sun

Natalia butler

CORNELL DINING STUDENT WORKERS | Student Dining Workers Have Had Enough

CORNELL DINING STUDENT WORKERS | Student Dining Workers Have Had Enough
02.03.2026 3

Cornell Daily Sun

Cornell dining student workers

STEINGARD | America Is Only Doomed on Your Phone

STEINGARD | America Is Only Doomed on Your Phone
02.03.2026 2

Cornell Daily Sun

Mihir steingard

AYSW? | Musings on Watching

01.04.2025 10

Cornell Daily Sun

Pen Fang

MAIA ON THE MIC | Friendship Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought — It Should Be Everything

25.03.2025 10

Cornell Daily Sun

Maia Mehring

SOLAR FLARE | Taking the Last Train to London

18.03.2025 10

Cornell Daily Sun

Dani Mendell

WILLIAMS | Latasha's Life

The country knew Latasha Harlins primarily by the grainy image broadcasted again and again on the courtroom television and on national news networks:...

14.03.2025 9

Cornell Daily Sun

Finley Williams

HATER FRIDAY | The Death of Emotion

14.03.2025 10

Cornell Daily Sun

Jenna Ledley

GUEST ROOM | The Urgency of Listening: A Reflection for Holocaust Remembrance Day

14.03.2025 10

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

Student Artist Spotlight: James Koga

14.03.2025 8

Cornell Daily Sun

Melissa Moon

HATER FRIDAY | College Isn’t a Movie, and That’s Okay

14.03.2025 9

Cornell Daily Sun

Mikayla Tetteh-Martey

GUEST ROOM | In Response to the Weaponization of Judaism

Are we really to believe that Patrick Dai’s threats against the Jewish community and the riot at the Statler Hotel happened out of nowhere? Such...

09.03.2025 10

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

KOTLIKOFF | Pathways to Peace: A Call to Conversation Over Conviction

Next week, in Bailey Hall, we will be holding an event that will uphold Cornell values: Pathways to Peace will bring four experts on Israel/Palestine...

05.03.2025 9

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

AREVALO | You Don’t Know What’s Happening at the Border

There is a reason why we leave and come to the United States. We are told that America is a land of opportunity, a place where we can escape...

05.03.2025 6

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

ABOU-ALFA | STEM Education’s Greatest Overlooked Tool

Through its always-online model, Ed has redefined how students and professors connect. In a world where learning never stops, it’s time every...

04.03.2025 5

Cornell Daily Sun

Ayman Abou-Alfa

REYEN | Anabel’s Defunding Sheds Light on a Larger Issue

12.5 percent of undergraduates reported that they very often ate less than they felt they needed because of the cost of food on campus. The post REYEN...

01.03.2025 4

Cornell Daily Sun

Carlin Reyen

SCHECHTER | Go Home, Ted Cruz

Sen. Ted Cruz's political attack on federally funded research for political gain isn’t just lazy, it’s a direct threat to academic freedom — one...

28.02.2025 5

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

GROSS | The Problem with Prelims: How We Can Turn a Season of Stress into a Week of Work

Prelim season at Cornell is a relentless cycle of exams, stress, and burnout — but does it have to be? Columnist Sophie Gross argues that a midterm...

27.02.2025 5

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

WEIRENS | A Cornellian’s Exodus to Punxsutawney Phil

Last Sunday, I had the immense honor of celebrating Groundhog Day with Punxsutawney Phil himself. I’d like to share my experience and tips, as well...

16.02.2025 7

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

FATTAL | The Importance of Angela Davis in 2025

Speaking to a sold-out audience at Bailey Hall on Monday, Professor Angela Davis reminded us of that Karl Marx aphorism, in so many words: We make our...

16.02.2025 7

Cornell Daily Sun

Max Fattal

GUEST ROOM | RE: Cornell’s Energy Transition, A Troubling Delay on Decarbonization

A recent response to Interim President Kotlikoff’s op-ed argues that Cornell’s flawed decarbonization approach aligns with discredited Big Oil...

14.02.2025 5

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

STARR | Why Care About Trans People? 

Cornell’s founding principle of “... any person … any study” and our core value of free and open inquiry and expression are under threat....

13.02.2025 8

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

GUEST ROOM | ACP Statement on Demands to Dean Marla Love

The Alliance for Community Protection demands that Cornell take immediate action to protect students, faculty, and staff from systemic threats that...

13.02.2025 10

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

CHANCELLOR | L-O-V-E

In modern times and on college campuses like Cornell, we do not even know what love is. Love used to be commonplace in families, but became...

10.02.2025 2

Cornell Daily Sun

Armand Chancellor

GUEST ROOM | Jewish Voice for Peace at Cornell Statement on the Weaponization of Antisemitism

Jewish Voice for Peace at Cornell condemns President Trump’s executive order for weaponizing antisemitism to suppress pro-Palestinian activism and...

09.02.2025 9

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

KASSAM | A Plea for Pluralism: Difference Matters!

Difference is so fundamental that the capacity to perceive it is shared by all living organisms from the worm to the human. Cognitive diversity is the...

08.02.2025 10

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

KOH | Stop the Pre-Enrollment Scam 

Cornell should introduce a pre-enrollment preview, a digital tool offering past syllabi, lecture recordings, and student reviews. The post KOH | Stop...

08.02.2025 10

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

GUEST ROOM | Classics is the Best Subject to Address Our Current Age

At Cornell, I’ve come to realize that, by this point in history, to think that anything at all is unprecedented is simply to have not read enough...

07.02.2025 10

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

TIAS | Battling the Loneliness Epidemic

While the physical size of our campus cannot be changed, we need to address loneliness at Cornell by engaging in discourse that can contribute to...

07.02.2025 4

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

GUEST ROOM | The Urgency of Listening: A Reflection for Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust testimonies bear witness to humanity at its most vulnerable. They urge us to confront the fragility of memory and the weight of history....

07.02.2025 4

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

GUEST ROOM | From Repression to Resistance: Activism at Cornell Prevails

On Jan. 21, the first day of the semester, pro-Palestinian activists vandalized the A.D White statue. Even if Cornell identifies and punishes the...

06.02.2025 3

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

AGRAWAL | The Monarch’s Edict

Since we're in the 90 day comment period before monarchs would officially be listed under the Endangered Species Act, I thought I would publicly offer...

05.02.2025 10

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

GUEST ROOM | A Plea for the Museum of the Earth 

The Museum of the Earth, however, is in imminent danger of closing its doors. After more than 90 years of contributions to paleontological research...

04.02.2025 7

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

SCHECHTER | You Poured Paint on the Wrong Guy

The pro-Palestinian protesters' crime shows a laziness to not understand the college community they are a part of and seek to shape The post SCHECHTER...

04.02.2025 10

Cornell Daily Sun

Henry Schechter

POGGI | Blame The Rapists

While we must critique and reform systems that enable such atrocities, we must not see rape culture as an exogenous issue. The post POGGI | Blame The...

01.02.2025 6

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

REYEN | I Loved the TikTok Ban

Banning TikTok gave us a brief glimpse of what it would be like to set Gen Z free. I’d be happy to see the ban return, this time for good. The post...

30.01.2025 9

Cornell Daily Sun

Carlin Reyen

SEX ON THURSDAY | Want a Whiff?: Poppers and the Hijacking of Gay Culture 

The effect only lasts for about a minute or so. But far more useful, the poppers relax your blood vessels and muscles, including a certain back door...

30.01.2025 6

Cornell Daily Sun

Jackstrap

SEX ON THURSDAY | Ditching Virginity

As I reflected on what to bring to the table for my first truly public column, I realized that it only makes sense to start from the beginning. For a...

29.01.2025 8

Cornell Daily Sun

Grace Elmore

LIEBERWITZ | Interim President Kotlikoff Has Violated Faculty Academic Freedom

Kotlikoff owes Cheyfitz an apology. But he owes the University community something more. He owes us an affirmative, public commitment that going...

27.01.2025 9

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

ROSENSAFT | Why I Object to Professor Eric Cheyfitz’s Course on “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance”

Cheyfitz's course is cause for concern. He should not be able to promulgate his anti-Zionist views in the classroom. The post ROSENSAFT | Why I Object...

22.01.2025 10

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

KOTLIKOFF | Cornell’s Energy Transition

Cornell is committed to eliminating carbon emissions from its energy usage. Achieving this goal in a rapidly changing energy landscape in a manner...

22.01.2025 10

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

ABOU-ALFA | We Can Do Better Than Rate My Professor

However, Rate My Professor reviews barely differ in their form from course evaluations, as both ask for written opinions on course and professor...

22.01.2025 7

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department

DASSER | If Oppenheimer Had Gone to Sunday School

In a world where a lack of ethical reasoning can lead to disastrous consequences, we must ask: Are we doing enough to foster genuine moral integrity...

21.01.2025 9

Cornell Daily Sun

Opinion Department