Editorials
EDITORIAL | Has Cornell Forgotten ‘Any Person, Any Study?’
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Powerhouse universities have told their communities how a loss of affirmative action has affected enrollment. Cornell should follow suit.
Editorials
EDITORIAL | What an Editorial Is — and Isn’t
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It’s vitally important that the Cornell campus understands the deliberative process that goes into writing Sun editorials. So here’s what you should know about what a Sun editorial is — and isn’t.
Columns
EDITORIAL | The Futile Cycle of DACA Rhetoric
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DACA has been a point of contention for years. Undocumented children, now adults, walk among us at universities like Cornell. But with their status on the line come 2024, many fear being returned to foreign countries full of crime, violence and war.
Editorials
EDITORIAL | To President Pollack: We Must Not be Punished for Our Words in A Time of War
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As the Middle East goes up in armed conflict, people around the world turn to us to help understand the rhyme and reason for war. But should we be held accountable for our language in war?
Editorials
EDITORIAL | Affirmative Action is Gone. President Pollack: We Need You Now More Than Ever.
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This decision will have impacts for generations to come. Universities must follow suit, the admission process will forever be changed.
Editorials
The Cornell Daily Sun Welcomes its 141st Editorial Board
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After the day-long affair of elections and a gauntlet of long missed in-person speeches charged with an electrifying fervor for student journalism, The Cornell Daily Sun has elected its 141st editorial board. This year’s group of shining Sunnies is poised to create a board that is as vibrant and zealous as its namesake number is palindromic.
Columns
JOHNS | Making Free Speech Rhetoric Free Speech Reality
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President Trump last week signed an executive order that links federal research and education grants for colleges and universities to their unwavering commitment to “[promoting] free inquiry.” Translation: The long-standing progressive censorship game at colleges and universities is now over. Universities and colleges will immediately cease shutting down, impeding or permitting the disruption of conservative speakers, or now risk losing billions of federal research dollars that are generously given away each year to these institutions of higher learning. It is unfortunate that such an order has become a confrontational stance on America’s campuses, but academia has sadly reached that point. Young America’s Foundation, for instance, favorably settled a lawsuit over this precise issue with the University of California, Berkeley last December. UC Berkeley, facing a constitutional challenge to its speaking protocols, agreed to abolish its “high-profile speaker policy” and speaking fee schedule while implementing a policy that ensures that heckling protesters will no longer be permitted to shut down speakers on campus.
911 calls
Cornell Professor Connects ‘BBQ Becky’ to Fugitive Slave Laws In Washington Post Op-Ed
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“For virtually the first time, white Americans have faced social disapproval for being caught on camera in the act of treating utterly normal behavior by black people as criminals,” Baptist and Holden wrote.
Admissions
EDITORIAL: The Small Things
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The biggest college admissions scandal the FBI has ever prosecuted: wealthy individuals paying for their kids’ admissions into elite institutions with fake athletic records and artificially inflated test scores. And a Cornell alumnus, Gordon Caplan ’88, is among the offenders. This scandal goes to the root of a noxious, pervasive problem in higher education — the influence of money on opportunity. Though the $500,000 in bribes from actress Lori Loughlin to the University of Southern California is an extreme example of this national problem, universities like Cornell let wealth legally influence their admissions in small but unfair ways every year. While our University is “need-blind” for domestic applicants, we do not remove money from the admissions process.
collegetown
EDITORIAL: Collegetown Housing: A Work Not Yet In Progress
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Correction appended. Today’s story on the high demand for large apartments in Collegetown underscores the need for substantial change in how Cornell does housing. It is not a sign of health that students feel compelled to sign leases well over a year before moving in — nor is it acceptable that many of those houses often exist in various states of perpetual disrepair. Cornell can and should do more to foster a better system of housing for upperclassmen, particularly in Collegetown. Yes, Cornell has begun to implement its Master Housing Plan, including the much-trumpeted North Campus expansion, but we are skeptical that those efforts will ease the pressure on Collegetown rentals.