DEMERS | ITHAKA

REILLY | Don’t Let School Get in the Way of Your Education

The 142nd Masthead's assistant managing editor Eric Reilly reflects on a phrase from his grandfather: "Don’t let school get in the way of your education." His time at The Sun lives up to those words.

FATTAL | Graduation Column

Former associate editor Max Fattal identifies the source of his writer's block in political cynicism.

POGGI | The Places We’ve Been

Graduating Columnist Julia Poggi takes the reader through a tour of her Cornell experience.

CHANCELLOR | For Whom the Chimes Toll

WEIRENS | A Smattering of Lessons Learned From Four Years at Cornell

Graduating Columnist Aurora Weirens unpacks some of the lessons she's learned over her time at Cornell.

REYEN | Goodnight (Daily) Sun, Goodnight Moon

Columnist Carlin Reyen takes a beat before graduation to discuss her thoughts on being a Cornell student.

Ave Morem

Sun Columnist Francis Xavier Jaso reflects on how some of Pope Francis' quiet virtues offered unity in a period of moral disarray. Could the Cornell community learn from his example?

AREVALO | Slope Day and the Politics of Being "Apolitical"

BURZLAFF | The Grade Doesn’t Know You: On Final Exams and What We Can’t Measure

Columnist and Professor Jan Burzlaff reflects on the stress of finals as a determination of success and the end of the semester. But no grade can measure the questions that kept you up thinking, coming to office hours, or helping a classmate understand something better.

GUEST ROOM | Cornell AAUP Chapter Statement Condemning Cornell’s Disinvitation of Kehlani

KOH | Confessions of a Senior

Graduating Columnist Serin Koh reflects on her time at Cornell. She writes: I would say that I am glad that my four years here were not the best years of my life because they have prepared me for all that is to come.

AGRAWAL | A Rose by Any Other Name…?

Professor Agrawal, the point is, how we see ourselves through our name — and how others see us through the same, can be complicated. Names reflect our confidence, biases, comfort and ideas about society. A soul by any other name is still itself, and the given name, that initial sound, should not be of such significance. Or, perhaps, it’s a lot less complicated, and it’s simply a name. At the end of the day it’s your name, so you decide how you're seen.

FARAJ | Leveling the Playing Field for All: Athletics Must Protect All Sports’ Team Budgets

Cornell has long prided itself on being a trailblazer — one of first universities to allow women to attend, one of the first to preach equality in education. If that legacy means anything today, it must show in action. It’s not enough to point to our past. We must set a new standard — one for Ithaca, one for the Ivy League and most importantly, one of institutions nationwide to protect its female athletes. 

SCHWARZ | U.S. Universities in Crisis: The Implicit and Explicit Threat of Nationalization

Professor Daniel R. Schwarz argues that, by using the threat of withholding research funds and taxing endowments, Trump and his acolytes are trying to nationalize universities.

CHANCELLOR | Everyone is Religious

Columnist Armand Chancellor reflects on religion: Everyone has a god, whether money or themselves, because everyone believes in something.

GUEST ROOM | Neurodiversity in the Trump Era

In a Guest Column, Rebecca McCabe and Sierra Hicks discuss the wording of Autism Acceptance versus Autism Awareness month, amidst larger shifts of treatment of neurodivergent people by the Trump Administration.