In a Thursday night meeting, the S.A. gathered to discuss late financial aid packages and lobby for the University to officially acknowledge the National Day of Remembrance for the U.S. Indian Boarding Schools.
china
YANG | The Unruly Americans
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Well, mainly the Pandemic. Although, unlike the situation in Jan. 2020, being in China right now means being in a place with one of the lowest number of cases on Earth. I even wrote a column then, hoping that this would not turn into a global pandemic. Trust me; as some of the few Chinese students who chose to spend this last year in the U.S. rather than return home, the differences couldn’t be less drastic. While I’m trying to gauge how bad a semester (turned out to be two) of zoom university was going to be back in Sept. 2020, my friends back home in China were already going to nightclubs with no fear.
Arts & Culture
Festival 24 Makes an In-Person Comeback With a Bit of Luck
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After a year of virtual shows, the Performing and Media Arts Department’s fan-favorite event — Festival 24 — recently made an in-person comeback. At 7:30 p.m. this past Saturday, students returned to the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts to wait in line in hopes of securing a seat for this live theater event.
administration
Administration Responds to COVID-19 Case Spike, Reinforces Commitment to In-Person Teaching
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Despite 201 new positive cases in one week, Cornell University administration sent an email to the Cornell community reinforcing their commitment to keeping the semester in person, citing low chances of transmission in classes.
Campus Reopening
Students on Gap Years or Studying Remotely Look Forward to an In-Person Semester
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After gap semesters and gap years, hundreds of undergraduates — including 120 first-years — have returned to Ithaca and are readaptingto in-person classes
City
‘The Magic Was There’: GrassRoots Springs Back for Modified Festival Weekend
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Guitar strums sounded over crowds of dancing festival-goers on Saturday, soaking up live music at a GrassRoots festival weekend that nearly went dark for the second year in a row.
Arts & Culture
A Seat at The Table: Five Years Later
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The production and the lyrics of the album were breathtaking, and five years later, it still forms the paradox of an album that is both timely and timeless.
Featured in Category
Local Birders Record Rise in Bald Eagle Populations with Cornell App
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According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the american bald eagle population has quadrupled in the last 12 years —- eBird, a Cornell Lab of Ornithology app and database, played a significant role in chronicling this resurgence. Nonetheless, the bald eagle population remains under close monitoring by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Men's Lacrosse
Jeff Teat Selected First Overall in Premier Lacrosse League College Draft
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Despite having only three and a half years of collegiate play under his belt, Cornell’s attackman Jeff Teat has impressed multiple professional teams hoping to revitalize their rosters as the first overall pick in the Premier Lacrosse League College Draft.
Arts & Culture
‘In the Lateness of the World’: Witness to a Denouement
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“In the Lateness of the World” is Forché’s most recent book, her first new collection of poetry in seventeen years. In it, she writes on subjects ranging from the global to the personal — from war-scarred history to a visitation to a lighthouse, from dawn over Paros to the death of a friend.
Arts & Culture
PONTIN | The Burning Soul of Psychedelia
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It can be tempting to trace the roots of psychedelic culture back to the plant-eating, headband-wearing hippies of the 1960s, but doing so neglects an extensive and riveting past. Historical accounts tell of smoking hemp seed in Ancient Greece, consuming mushrooms in the Aztec Empire and the Viking cultures of Scandinavia and chewing peyote in Native American societies across the United States.