Columns
SCHECHTER | Vox Populi, Vox Dei: On My Civic Faith
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Today, instead of wallowing, I’m falling back on my civic religion to move forward and keep making progress.
Columns
SCHECHTER | Neutrality Is a Balancing Act
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Today, Cornell set an aggressive standard on punishment, and neutrality is easier said than done.
Columns
SCHECHTER | I Don’t Agree With A Thing She Says, But I Still Showed Up To Hear Ann Coulter Rant
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For everyone who disagrees with the ideas Coulter promotes, we are the ones who should show up in the masses.
Lifestyle
Introducing Lifestyle!
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Today, The Sun is excited to launch Lifestyle, a new subjective department that aims to spotlight student life, advice and personal experiences for and from the Cornell community.
Multimedia
MULTIMEDIA | How to Submit Your Opinions to The Sun
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Associate Editor Max Fattal and Opinion Editor Henry Schechter walk you through how to submit your opinions to The Cornell Daily Sun.
Columns
SCHECHTER | Childish Antics Backfire on Republicans
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As early as kindergarten, kids generally learn to not talk out of turn. Republicans — especially Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — must’ve never taken a lesson.
IDEAS
SCHECHTER | The Land Grant Act Needs A Revamp
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Over 160 years ago, Senator Justin Morrill implemented a new law that would propel universities like Cornell into powerhouses of success. But in 2023, this has failed our University, universities across the country and our working class. We need something new.
Columns
SCHECHTER | “F*ck Israel” Graffiti Artist: I Know You’re Better Than This
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Around the nation, students have grown divided on the Israel-Hamas conflict. Protests have erupted, individuals have grown frustrated and angry towards those that fail to see their side. But are students expressing their anger in effective ways?
Columns
SCHECHTER | Empathy Among Rockets: A Lesson from a Palestinian Best Friend
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Over the last fifteen years, Sal, an Arab man alongside whom I’ve grown up, has taught me to see into his world.
Columns
SCHECHTER | The Bottom Tier
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Last week, I sweated through my bedsheets for five nights in a row. Upstate New York was suffering through record heat and, like most of you, my dorm room has no air conditioning. A decision that probably made sense at the time when it rarely ever got hot enough to need it. Until, that is, the era of climate change.
My sleepless nights, coupled with what I’m learning in GOVT 2294: Politics of Climate Change led me to think not about my own discomfort, but about how hard an anthropogenically warmed world will be for people in underdeveloped regions, poverty-stricken areas, my children, their children and the generation after them who won’t be able to survive in Earth’s natural climate.