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The Reality of Having a Fresh Start in College
By Martha Dolan As someone who grew up in the same small town in Upstate New York my entire life, coming to Cornell was a huge culture shock. I went from the population of my town being around the same size as my residency hall. Growing up and knowing the same group of people from kindergarten onward shaped my life in a way that I cannot begin to describe. I felt as if my identity was primarily sculpted when I was very young, and everyone had me pretty much figured out. When I graduated high school and prepared to come to college, a whirlwind of emotions and possibilities occupied my…
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A Declassified Student Assembly Guide
By Vanessa Long The transition into college incites a mix of feelings and fresh experiences that make the first semester feel like a blur. Attempting to cram fun into a rigorous academic environment leaves little room for much else. Hangouts become study dates, and dinner transforms into a hangout. Then suddenly, in the midst of this period of acclimation, Instagram stories are infiltrated with students asking for your vote to become a Representative in the Student Assembly. What follows is a slew of emails reminding students of the upcoming elections and the deadline to vote. Suddenly, as you stare down at one of many emails informing you of candidates and…
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100th Annual Hotel Ezra Cornell Conference Brings Diverse Panelists, Traditions
The 100th Annual Hotel Ezra Cornell came to a close on Saturday evening after three days of networking, business panels and meals prepared by undergraduate and master’s students in the School of Hotel Administration. HEC is one of the oldest organizations at the University, allowing hotel school students to plan and operate a hospitality conference for faculty, current students, alumni and business leaders for three days. While the first HEC started as a “hotel-for-a-day” event at Risley Residence College, it has expanded over the years and is now a major hospitality conference. Through the conference, current students display their business planning skills and operational abilities in the hospitality industry, while…
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ABOU-ALFA | Make-or-Break Study Tips: Part 2
More than the course content itself, it is often the study strategy adopted for a particular class that is the real determining factor in success. If done well, even the hardest engineering or economics class can be tackled effortlessly enough, but a botched execution can often be destructive academically and mentally. In the last rendition of “Make-or-Break Study Tips,” we reviewed some of the more common organizational and focus techniques adopted by students. Now, we will shift our attention to the act of studying: what to use, how to use it and when to stop. In some classes, professors go the extra mile by providing practice prelims to students, allowing…
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Cornell Musicians Oppose Kehlani’s Cancellation
We, as graduate students in Cornell’s Department of Music, condemn President Kotlikoff’s cancellation of Kehlani’s Slope Day performance. We reject the selective singling out of certain artists as “political,” as though there were “apolitical” music that exists free of entanglements with the world at large. In our roles as music historians, ethnographers, composers, performers and pedagogues, we understand that all music is political. Any attempt to argue otherwise is, at best, historically misinformed, and at worst, an attempt at censorship. This is not the first time Slope Day has faced controversy. In 2005, Snoop Dogg headlined Slope Day despite objections from some students who perceived his music to be misogynist.…
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‘I Am Not Antisemitic’: Kehlani Speaks Out After University Rescinds Invitation to Headline Slope Day
Cornell revoked Kehlani’s invitation to headline Slope Day over what President Michael Kotlikoff labeled “antisemitic, anti-Israel sentiments.” A few days after the April 23 announcement, the R&B singer rebuked Kotlikoff’s classification. “I am not antisemitic, nor anti-Jew,” Kehlani said in a video posted to her Instagram on Saturday. “I am anti-genocide. I am anti the actions of the Israeli government, I am anti the extermination of an entire people, I am anti the bombing of innocent children, men, women — that’s what I’m anti.” This is not the first time she has faced criticism for her beliefs. “This keeps coming up as a means to silence me, as a means…
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‘We Should Not Go Through This Again’: Roald Hoffmann Accounts Survival of the Holocaust for Yom HaShoah
Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Prof. Emeritus Roald Hoffmann, chemistry, gave a lecture in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Anabel Taylor Hall’s auditorium on April 24. The event, hosted by Grinspoon Hillel, saw over 50 students and community member attendees, serving as a memorial and celebration of Jewish resilience throughout the Holocaust. Rabbi Talia Laster, Hillel’s campus rabbi, started the event by introducing the purpose of Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance and celebration of the Jewish people’s strength throughout the Holocaust. Hoffman spoke of his personal experience in the Holocaust in his lecture, beginning with, “I tell you a story. I fulfill my own desire to tell the…
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‘I Will Always Come Back’: Inside the Cornell Jazz Ensemble and Its Performance WIth Legend Vincent Herring
The Cornell jazz ensemble is a group of 21 student musicians who practice and perform alongside Prof. Paul Merrill, music. Each semester, the largest ensemble in the Ivy League puts together shows for Cornell students to attend for free. On April 19, the Cornell Jazz ensemble put on a spring performance as they played 11 songs with alto and soprano saxophonist, Vincent Herring. The Sun spoke to Herring, Merrill and other members of the band in order to gain insight on this successful group as well as their experiences performing alongside a jazz legend. Experience at Ensemble Many members of the band stated that they have seen the difference between…
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Support, Resilience, and Community at Cornell
To the Editor, On behalf of the Mu Chapter of Sigma Pi Fraternity at Cornell University, I write to express our deepest gratitude to the Cornell community for its extraordinary support during a challenging chapter in our history. Following the discovery of mold damage in the fall, our undergraduate brothers were displaced from our chapter house as critical repairs and renovations were undertaken. In the midst of uncertainty, it was the strength of our partnership with Cornell that made all the difference. We are especially grateful to Jenny Loeffelman from Student and Campus Life for her guidance and support in coordinating temporary housing and food service for our brothers. We…
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GALPERIN | Slope Day’s Real Problem
When the Slope Day Programming Board announced Kehlani as this year’s headliner, the reaction on campus was swift: Nearly everyone I spoke to seemed to agree that Kehlani was a poor choice. Some students pointed out that she isn’t as high-profile as previous headliners, such as Kendrick Lamar and Drake. Others have felt that her music doesn’t fit the typical energy of Slope Day. But beyond the debates over genre and star power lay a deeper, more disturbing issue — one that goes far beyond music and raises serious questions about how this decision was made in the first place. Kehlani is an antisemite, plain and simple. That is not…