The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/category/opinion/opinioncolumns/page/3/)
From a purely intellectual perspective, the students I teach at Cornell are often dazzling — insightful, creative, analytically gifted and unafraid of hard work. So when I see these same students fall into cynicism and despair, I find it . . . well, crushing.
I left Cornell to find something different. Here’s what I found.
Cornell needs to buckle down on the development of critical thinking and writing skills in its undergraduates
Language was developed in order to allow humans to communicate different concepts and express what they mean to others. Several tools such as categories have also been introduced to more effectively achieve this purpose. While these mechanisms were created to accomplish admirable goals, their use in the current day, especially on the modern university campus, has been antithetical to those goals. Language is now purposefully used to obscure and obfuscate one’s intentions. This phenomenon is most observable in more controversial subjects such as politics.
My summer in Korea taught me more about myself than I ever expected.
This Black History Month, remember that Black communities in America and beyond are not a monolith.
Are you thinking of studying abroad? Think again — because it isn’t cheap.
I have been a supporter and a critic of Israel nearly as long as I could spell its name. For nearly the whole of its existence, it has represented complexity to me. It is promise and hope, but also cruelty and idiocy. It is besieged but also discriminatory. It has a right to exist and to defend itself; it has an obligation to change and to reform itself. I defend it; I condemn it.
The government of Israel is no more exempt from criticism than is the government of the United States, which is funding, supplying and otherwise enabling Israel’s scorched-earth war on Gaza.
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