For all the tips, tricks and advice you young freshmen are undeniably being bombarded with in anticipation of your move to East Hill, it will ultimately be up to each of you to make Cornell your own. 

As Cornell alumni flock back to the Hill every year for Reunion Weekend, two main questions are on their minds: What has changed and what has stayed the same? This special Reunion edition of The Cornell Daily Sun will help answer both questions and act as a guide to the weekend for returning alumni.

Last week's student deaths shook up the entire Cornell community and changed the way we look at our University, each other and ourselves. Every individual is affected differently by such tragic events, and each individual takes away his or her own unique perspective.

With the conclusion of the annual staff-wide elections on Saturday, we editors of the newly elected 128th Editorial Board have been handed the privilege of putting out The Sun on a daily basis for the next year. It is a big job — one that will require a lot of dedication and hard work from many talented individuals — but I am positive that we are up to the task.

“I was happiest when I was all alone — and it was very late at night, and I was walking up the hill after having helped put The Sun to bed. All the other University people, teachers and students alike, were asleep. They had been playing games all day long with what was known about real life. ... We on The Sun were already in the midst of real life. By God, if we weren’t!”

To the Editor:

Re: “Defining Resolution 44,” Opinion, Feb. 23

To the Editor:

Re: “Colonialism Redux,” Opinion, Feb. 23

Despite the spatial limitations on his column, Judah Bellin’s “Colonialism Redux” in Monday’s Sun manages to makes countless errors and omissions. I will respond to a few of the glaring ones, as a word of caution to the armchair punditry of the columnist who bites off more than he can chew.

To the Editor:

Re: “Theatre, Film and Dance Department Hit With Cuts” News, Feb. 2.

It has come to our attention that Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences has mandated a massive budget cut to the Theatre, Film, and Dance Department. The $1-2 million proposed cut would cripple the Department and the Schwartz Center, eliminating numerous faculty and staff members who are essential to the department’s work and drastically reducing the quality and quantity of Schwartz Center productions.

Here at the Sun, the floodgates are open as we, the 127th Editorial Board, are preparing to pass the torch.

On April 7, 2009, the editorial board of the University of California at Los Angeles’ student-run newspaper was forced to compromise the front page of its news section to run a full-page advertisement in its place. An editorial in the Daily Bruin that day described the decision to run the ad as a “regrettable but relatively unavoidable consequence of the recent financial trends devastating our sources of revenue and our industry.”

Just two days later, the Los Angeles Times — one of the most widely circulated papers in the country — ran an advertisement on their front page. Though labeled as an advertisement, the ad mimicked the Times’ style for original news content, both confusing readers and blurring the sacred divide in journalism between business and editorial content.