The following is a transcribed conversation between Senior Writer Hyung Ahn ’21 and Jim Xue. Hi, Jim! Could you please introduce yourself? My name is Jim Xue. I am a new transfer second semester sophomore. I transferred from Emory. I am originally from Shanghai, China, but I took two years of high school in New...
Guns. Does reading that word make you cringe? Rape. What about that one? If you’re a college student reading this, then the latter word should, disproportionally so. According to a study conducted at a large upstate New York university, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, nearly one of five students surveyed reported being victim...
It’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. meets corporate social responsibility meets fair trade claims, and it’s literally just around the corner. Earlier this week, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced a brilliant little community organizing scheme: to unify the many races of his apparently segregated clientele. The everyday Starbucks goer may have already had the pleasure...
For eight years, Cornell students maintained control of the two seats that represent Ward 4 on the Ithaca Common Council. Ward 4, as you may have heard, is the district comprising most of Collegetown and parts of West Campus. Ninety-seven percent of its residents are students. The residents of the district last night overwhelming elected...