Embracing AI in Education at Cornell While Navigating Ethical Challenges
Cornell University has a unique opportunity to lead the way in integrating AI in education, while ensuring ethical considerations are prioritized.
Opinion
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It’s Time to Cancel “Cancel Culture”
At its core, cancel culture represents a shift in how ideas are debated. Students used to advance their ideas through persuasion and discourse, which made thinking about the issues a collective, constructive effort. Now, many students seek to implement their agenda through social pressure and intimidation, refusing to hear any alternatives to their viewpoint.
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The Coddling of the Cornellian Mind
The culture of Safetyism that surrounds trigger warnings threatens the success of American society and the health and happiness of the individuals that comprise it.
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Trigger Warnings are Bad, Voluntary or Not
Exposure to only the ideas one agrees with or finds “comforting” invalidates the entire purpose of a university education.
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Cornell’s free speech revival is far from complete, and not all of the recent developments are good.
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HEARD AT CORNELL: On UA Resolution 7 – The Right to Protest
Heard at Cornell is a column that regularly quotes important statements made by Cornellians. This excerpt is taken from the Comments of the Concerned Alumni, authored by Robert Platt Esq. ’73, JD ’76 and Elias Lehrer, ’98. Mr. Platt is a former trustee. The statement was posted to the comment section of UA Resolution 7: Right to Protest, which is scheduled for consideration today.
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Antisemitism Makes its Way to Cornell
It was unnerving seeing a crowd of Cornell students, some of whom I have sat next to in class, call for the destruction of the only Jewish country in the world. Yet, as the local Hillel students said, the rhetoric was “shocking, but unsurprising.”
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Freedom of Expression Between Students Needs Protection
Unfortunately, Cornell has instead enacted a complicated and much-misunderstood enforcement mechanism under Title IX and Cornell Policy 6.4 that regulates all communications between students — online, face-to-face, in classrooms, in the dorms, outside, and even off-campus.
