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Indigenous communities at Cornell and in Wisconsin bring to light the University’s ties to over 100,000 acres of northern Wisconsin land.
The pumpkin placed on top of McGraw Tower on Friday, Oct. 20 paid homage to a 1997 prank where a pumpkin sat on top of the clocktower for 158 days.
After 143 years of independent publication, The Sun looks back at the work of generations of journalists.
Though students today might associate Willard Straight Hall with COVID-19 surveillance testing or free popcorn, the hall has a rich history of student engagement and political expression.
By applying President Biden’s National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism to the Willard Straight Takeover, we discover that the strategy is not in the interest of freedom but is a threat to American rights.
To the Editor:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘54 loved Cornell. She spent much of her life near the Hill in Washington, but she never forgot our Hill in Ithaca. She often fondly recalled her undergrad years and she remained an active alumna, frequently giving her time to the University. And the Cornell community loves Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As one of our most notable alums, her name is commonly invoked as a point of pride.
What an honor to finish off the year and decade with this semester’s last regular print publication. Just like that, The Sun wraps up another semester. But, don’t worry, The Sun is not setting just quite yet. We may not be sending out our usual dozen Facebook posts a day, but we will still publish major Cornell happenings on our website, Twitter and Facebook. For those of you waiting on your toes for our full-time return, we will be back next semester after our editors get some major sleep and overcome their denial that The Sun affected our final grades.
Cornell’s longest-serving professor, Prof. Anil Nerode, mathematics, first journeyed to Ithaca in 1959. Sixty years later, he shared his story of what drew him to Cornell and what inspired him to stay.
In Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s viral tweet, she used the shoes as an example of the hard work she put into campaigning.
“You would think this was something documented, but it’s not. We don’t have a single record of a student suffrage group.”