Editorials
EDITORIAL | Affirmative Action is Gone. President Pollack: We Need You Now More Than Ever.
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This decision will have impacts for generations to come. Universities must follow suit, the admission process will forever be changed.
Columns
DARKBLOOM | Eulogy for a Stocks Lawyer
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Yves and I reminisce on how differently we saw and continue to see this tale: the corporate attorney, graduate from Cornell Law, with an open door to what appeared to be a vivacious life. Only to wake up one day and realize that the Wild West has been domesticated.
Columns
AMADOR | Portrait of a Boy With a Passport and a Dream
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As hard as I tried to forget my sin of being un-American, it would always find its way back.
Columns
AMADOR | A Hunter and Its Prey
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It has been 10 years since I had a machine gun pointed to my head. In a moment like this, your life spirals in countless different directions; the meaningless consistencies of your daily life hurtle around you, and eventually coalesce into a single feeling: longing. The morning coffees that cleanse your minty breath, the rooster’s sunrise song, the way your mother holds the space between your fingers, ever so loosely, as she walks you to school. Almost as if to say, in touch, I want you to be free from me. To live. To learn. To grow. But I am afraid.
Columns
AMADOR | Why I Choose to Write
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Yet despite the change in character, my story has followed me to Ithaca. It reminded me of a key fact of my life: you can leave the wetlands, master the English language and run as far as your heels and heart can carry. Yet, the story runs with you.