Above: credit, wfsu The Cornell Daily Sun’s Stand with Harvard on Affirmative Action editorial has aroused controversy and backlash, in my view, for good reason. The backlash has been so severe that the editorial board has had to publish another take, tempering some of its extreme claims while maintaining ad hominem attacks on Edward Blum....
The Cornell Republicans announced that they plan to make an announcement regarding a presidential endorsement later this week. In response, the Cornell Daily Sun published an editorial titled “Cornell Republicans Must Renounce Donald Trump.” According to the Sun, Trump’s candidacy “poses an imminent threat to the values of our country and our campus” and is...
Last Friday the Cornell Daily Sun published an article about a Facebook page purporting to represent a “Union of White Cornell Students.” The article, authored by editor-in-chief Sofia Hu ’17 and managing editor Phoebe Keller ’18, is titled, “Aided by White Nationalist Groups, Union of White Cornell Students to Release Demands, Host March” and details...
The Cornell Daily Sun’s latest staff editorial, “Failing Shared Governance”, calls on the Cornell’s Board of Trustees to divest the university’s endowment from fossil fuel companies. The piece is in reaction to the board’s recent decision not to divest and its creation of new standards whereby the board will only vote to divest the endowment...
Since beginning regular print publication on Aug. 28, the Cornell Daily Sun has run about 35 articles in its opinion section. Seven of them have mentioned Donald Trump, with two featuring his name in their titles. In other words, 20% of the Sun’s editorial output has focused on Donald Trump, effectively making him the most...
“It is no longer cool to be politically correct in America.” So begins an exceptionally banal defense of censorship political correctness courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun columnist Emily Hardin ’16, which goes on to sing praises of PC despite acknowledging all the detrimental effects it has on free speech and the development and exchange of...
As we all know, the student trustee is the most important, influential, highly regarded, grandiose, and coveted position a Cornell student can assume. From day one until graduation, administrators, faculty, and fellow students tell us this. Why then was less than half a percent of the undergraduate student body present at today’s student trustee debate? Given all...
Two days before Spring Break, a group of student protesters marched into Statler Hotel and for two hours tried to infiltrate a Board of Trustees closed door meeting. The students chanted, danced, stomped feet, slammed on doors and walls, and screamed profanities at Cornell employees and trustees, but failed to force themselves into the meeting. Eventually,...
According to an article in today’s issue of the Cornell Daily Sun, last Tuesday’s Ferguson-related protest in downtown Ithaca that shut down two intersections was peaceful. The headline of the article, authored by Zoe Ferguson, is “Route 13 Closed During Peaceful Ferguson Protest in Ithaca.” I started to wonder: Was the protest indeed peaceful, and what does...
For those of you who are fortunate enough not to know, every other Thursday the Cornell Daily Sun runs two sex columns, one written by a male and the other by a female. Written under pseudonyms, these articles are often borderline-pornographic, or go for as much shock and awe as possible. One of last Thursday’s column,...