From my first few weeks at Cornell to the present moment, the one thing that has remained a part of my life here with absolute consistency is my identity as a contributor, writer or columnist for the Sun
Arts & Entertainment
SWAN | War Films and Perspectives
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It seems as though the more gritty and realistic a war film appears or claims to be, the more it actually works to glorify war’s destruction.
Alok Vaid-Menon
LING | The Dangers of Binaries
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Menon invited the audience to sit with their loneliness and to embrace the confusion that comes with being a young person.
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ROLNICK | Tropical House and Time Travel
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There is something about the predictability of EDM, “tropical house” in Kygo’s case, which I feel really exemplifies the integration of music and time.
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SIMS | Take Me Home, West Virginia
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When we’re visiting a place most of us need a reminder that it exists apart from our visiting perspectives, that the visitor’s center doesn’t include event listings for too-early funerals because of cancer or lung disease or opioid overdoses, and that no visit or poem or song will every fully convey what it is like to pin your life to a place.
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SWAN | truth’s Noble Yet Puzzling Practices
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If truth wanted to tap in to the link between masculinity and nicotine use, it could have done so without portraying men only in relation to heteronormative courtship.
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YANDAVA | Do Androids Dream in Iambic Petameter
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That there is something so achingly sad and human in the death of Oppy who we sent out to explore the universe for us shouldn’t surprise us.
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LING | The Museum and Protest
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Good art is political. As long as it remains political, museums will be sites of contention.
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GUEST ROOM | Arts Editors’ Valentine’s Spectacular
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Sex, cuddling and blank walls?!?
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ROLNICK | Bebeboy is Next-Up
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Bebeboy authentically stands and has the potential to break out in the music industry.