The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/category/opinion/opinioncolumns/page/4/)
So, armed with this new knowledge of Sage 101 and its raison d’être, my waits for the bus stop on Feeney Way are now buoyed by ruminations on aesthetics and the makings of successful architecture.
Rural America is closer than you may think.
A civil disobedience expert opines about the implications of Cornell’s new policies. Democracy needs disruption.
When we choose to love, we reject all forms of war. We read histories about the systems of domination that have allowed war to shape our world and we put ourselves in the context of people whose voices were taken away by war.
We might conclude that free speech does not allow for hate speech whether from ignorance or malice, but is an evolving, fluid concept depending on good will and human decency.
I would say that the process of studying abroad, particularly as someone on the pre-medical track, is far more difficult than advertised.
Cornell’s criminals have a human dimension unexplored by most.
Let us write. Let us cry. Let us shout. Silence is complacency and your silence is deafening.
Yes, new technologies and trends in society are dehumanizing us and promoting the gentrification of a people as a species. But we need to learn how to survive, stay conscious and thrive in the coming world: Trying to prevent these changes is futile when the path has unfolded this far.
The idea of the meritocracy is a myth, a useful myth but a myth nonetheless. Attacking programs such as affirmative action or DEI in defense of the myth is misguided seeing that the purpose of those programs, though they may be flawed and they are, is to allow the meritocracy to better work for everyone.