The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/category/opinion/)
For “any person any study” to mean anything, the campus must be a welcoming place and not make people who have traditionally been impacted by discriminatory policing tactics feel further discomfort constantly. The creation of a heavily monitored environment will further hinder the University’s commitments to free inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge, hindering debate and stifling dissent.
Daylight savings changes our lives, whether we know it or not. Climate change adds another wrinkle.
The give-and-take of informed discussion provides laboratories for future elected and appointed leaders in our democracy.
Criticism of the Chinese government is not an insult to the Chinese student community at Cornell University, nor can acting as a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party fully represent all Chinese students. These truths should be self-evident. At Cornell, the critique and resistance against the political violence of the Beijing regime never stopped.
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No one prepared me for the heartbreak of losing my mother tongue. At Cornell, I acutely feel disconnected from the Russian language.
Valdez justified the statement by citing ignored reports of messages inciting harm against others. Have we reached a state where it is acceptable to respond with violence to equally harmful statements?
Ultimately, Cornell’s rush to suspend nonviolent protesters and its sluggish approach to sexual harassment and assault are simply two sides of the same coin. Both betray the administration’s disinterest in the welfare of its students, demonstrating that disciplinary procedure not only fails to achieve justice or provide safety for the campus community, but that it does so by design.
In a world where a lack of ethical reasoning can lead to disastrous consequences, we must ask: Are we doing enough to foster genuine moral integrity within students at Cornell?
Some long-forgotten Thanksgiving history.
Growing up gay in a small Upstate New York town was not easy, so I stayed closeted until college. Even after coming out, I was so scared of having sex to the point that I didn’t lose my virginity until this past January. But right after ripping off that bandaid, I became a real horn dog.
