The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/slope_day/)
Listening to music activates many different parts of the brain that aren’t even specific to music. These are parts of the brain that are involved in other activities, such as listening to speech, motor planning, and emotional processing.
Preparing for Slope Day, different offices and departments across campus have been working to properly manage the large number of students on and off the slope and to ensure that correct safety precautions are taken.
Since 2003, 15 out of the 17 Slope Day headliners have been male. The Slope Day Programming Board cited money and genre as main contributing factors.
Making ice cream is a precise process. It requires students to not only know the ins and outs of making ice cream but also and the science behind the entire process.
The Student Assembly discussed Students for Justice in Palestine, Slope Day’s headliner and student trustee and S.A. elections on Thursday’s meeting.
Hip hop artist Cousin Stizz and singer EZI will be joining Aoki on the slope this year.
Cornell evacuated thousands of students from Libe Slope during the annual end-of-semester celebration because of lightning and thunder.
Slope Day 2018 will be my third experience with the famous Cornellian festival, and so, I feel as though I am now entitled to make a few observations about it. While the artists who play Slope Day change from year to year, most things about it stay the same: a concert will be given, on the slope during a relatively mild spring day, alcohol will be consumed, free breakfasts will (hopefully) be eaten and merchandise that boasts all of Cornell’s factions and houses will be worn. Yet, the most invariable aspect of Slope Day occurs well before the sun rises on that fateful May day: everyone, every one of you, will complain about the artists chosen to headline it. Alright, maybe not everyone. It seems as though two groups form in response to the headline announcement.
This editorial has been updated to more accurately reflect the Slope Day Programming Board’s expenses. Kanye West. Kendrick Lamar. Drake. Chance the Rapper.
Electronic duo Galantis will headline Slope Day, joined by Young Bombs and Dreezy.