W. Kamau Bell's show on Wednesday night was not as provacative as he thought it was. Arielle Cruz ’15 sounds off on the racially charged performance.

Moved by Charles Blow's lecture last Thursday, Adam Lerner '13 revisits a familiar story — how increasingly prevalent opinion journalism is to blame for our country's hyperpolarization. Journalism, he writes, is like yogurt. 

Although some students criticized the University for what they saw as its inadequate response, Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president of student and academic services, also stressed the importance of dialogue, saying it would be helpful to know which students administrators should be responding to.

In a march that denounced the alleged racial incident at Sigma Pi and the reportedly inadequate response from the administration, protesters from Cornell, Ithaca College and the Ithaca community walked from the fraternity to Day Hall Wednesday, bringing with them the sound of syncopated drum beats and the fervor of about 100 shouting voices.

In the wake of an incident early Sunday morning in which several black students were allegedly harassed by unknown individuals, minority leaders on campus expressed fear and anger toward what they said is the dangerous prevalence of racism on campus.

The font used in posters advertising the concert of comedian Margaret Cho has sparked controversy among minority groups on campus, leading some students to successfully demand their removal.

Jon Miller '15 argues that diversity initiatives and affirmative action unfairly benefit minority students based on history and not present circumstances.

Two Cornell alumni at NPR are enmeshed in a national scandal following the release of a controversial YouTube video Tuesday.

When I made my debut in the Opinion section, I advocated a different type of diversity: diversity of thoughts and ideas. Since then, I have avoided that topic, as I consider it too much of a cliché, but a few years later, the time is now ripe to revive this concept with a new twist.

No matter who they side with, those who fail to consider the diverse array of perspectives in composing their arguments are destined to produce poor sketches of their own arguments.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a column about how Asians only hang out with each other. There was a warm and fuzzy message in the end about why we develop friendships in the first place. Plus it was a relatively light-hearted article with sprinkles of humor, mostly making fun of myself and how ridiculously stupid I can be from time to time. I thought it would be relatively easy to swallow. But then I forgot Cornell doesn’t encourage its students to have a sense of humor. I mean, laughter? What’s that? Is it defined in this textbook?