Kai Sam Ng '14 muses on our cultural memory. When will Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" become Petula Clark's "Dowtown"?

With their horn-rimmed glasses, casual cigarettes and vinyl records, the feisty and colorful 20-year-olds in director Valery Todorovsky's films look like your average hipsters. But this is Cold War Russia, and these youths have never been to America. Kimberly Scarsella '16 is pleasantly surprised by Hipsters, playing at Cornell cinema this weekend.

Franco-American love is in the air again for Julie Delpy. She adeptly treads the fine line between absurdist satire and complete farce in 2 Days in New York. Natalia Fallas '14 is won over by this racously funny and fiercely charming sequel. 

After reading the blog post "Betches Love This College: Cornell University," A.J. Ortiz '13 shares some reflections.

Straight up. No chaser. Still warm! A Cornellian abroad partakes in a unique Maasai ritual. 

By dehumanizing any person that commits an abhorrent act, we ignore the underlying cultural and societal problems. 

I knew New Orleans existed before this summer, but only from an eighth grade memory of the media frenzy that followed the worst hurricane in 40 years. And the first emotion I felt when reading a placement email from my company was fear.

Jing Jin '13 discusses the irony and absurdy of the trial finding punk band Pussy Riot guilty of hooliganism.

Roadmap to Apartheid is a difficult documentary to watch, Lubabah Chowdhrury '14 writes. This film about drawing and crossing lines will be screened at Malott Hall on Sunday. 

What academia and it's reaction, anti-academia, fail to teach us.