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HATER FRIDAY | The Manic Pixie Dream Girl Trope
One restless night last December, I woke up, left my room and, under the flickering white lights of a Low Rise bathroom, cut microbangs with hot pink kids’ craft scissors. They fell just a few inches below the top of my hairline — flat, straight and, frankly, jarring. “What the hell did you do with your hair?” is the first response I would receive from my friends. It was the response I hoped for. Satisfied, I put my scissors down and went back to sleep. Looking back on it, I realize that much of what I do is for shock value and the excitement of being different. Wanting to be…
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Julie Farlow ’97 Leaves Midseason, Ending 10-Year Position as Softball Head Coach
Head coach Julie Farlow ’97 suddenly departed from her role as the Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Head Coach of softball, according to an announcement made by Director of Athletics Nicki Moore on Thursday. The announcement comes midway into the softball season, with six games left to go. Taking over is former assistant coach Tara Tembey, who will serve as interim head coach for the remainder of the 2025-2026 season. During Farlow’s time with the team, softball earned an overall record of 107-219-1 and an Ivy League record of 51-109. She originally joined the squad as an assistant coach in 2002, taking the reins in 2015 after the retirement of previous…
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GUEST ROOM | The Incredibly Shrinking University
It was with sadness and embarrassment that I read The Sun’s article, “Kotlikoff Criticizes Kehlani’s Slope Day Headline.” The issue, it seems, is that R&B singer Kehlani has political views. And we, as a university, are now in the business of looking into whether we can cancel engagements with people based on their having such views. How else can we interpret President Kotlikoff’s regret, that “We found out about the social media of this performer roughly three weeks ago” and that “it’s too late to secure another performer that will be acceptable or appropriate for Slope Day”? Private universities’ disinviting people based on their political views is probably legal. New…
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BURZLAFF | The Tip Jar (2): The Courage to Stay: On Belonging and the Quiet Power of Small Choices
A message arrived in my tip jar last week. It was quiet, vulnerable and honest in a way few of us feel allowed to be in public. The writer spoke about living with ADHD and shared how stimulant medication has helped them manage its practical dimensions, even while a recent New York Times article made them rethink the very framework in which we understand it: not so much as a disorder, but as a condition shaped by environment, expectation and emotion. That insight sparked a wider, more personal reflection: What if Cornell isn’t the right place for me? “I have come to realize that I do not belong at Cornell,”…
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‘We Can Do Something About It’: Former Rep. Joe Kennedy III Talks Trump Administration, Federal Funding Freeze
Amid Cornell’s $1 billion federal funding freeze and nationwide tensions between universities and the Trump administration, The Sun sat down with former Rep. Joe Kennedy III to talk about the different challenges the United States is facing during a period of accelerated government change. Kennedy, who is the grandson of former Attorney General and New York Senator Robert Kennedy, served in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2021 for Massachusetts’s 4th Congressional District. During his time in Congress, Kennedy was selected to deliver the democratic response to President Donald Trump’s 2018 State of the Union Address, an honor only awarded to one member of the Democratic Caucus. Kennedy ran…
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SEX ON THURSDAY | Why Women Shouldn’t Have Vibrators
Now that all those who believe this title was genuine are gathered, it’s time for us to have a discussion: Not only should women have vibrators — it is actually a critical act of self-empowerment. One of my friends — we’ll call her Michelle — broke off a month-long relationship with one of the worst men I’ve ever heard of. Seriously, she usually has pretty good taste, so I’m not sure what came over her, but this man was rude to his mom, narcissistic and critical of nearly all of her interests. Worst of all, he expressed disdain toward Michelle having a vibrator. Unfortunately, there are lots of romantic partners,…
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PREVIEW: Last Game of the Regular Season Brings Dartmouth to Schoellkopf for No.1 Men’s Lacrosse Senior Day
Riding the high of a definitive victory against No. 12 Harvard, men’s lacrosse comes home for its final match of the regular season. It won’t be an easy one – Dartmouth boasts one of the nation’s best goalkeepers and is coming off a 13-9 win against Brown. The team will celebrate 16 seniors, including attackmen CJ Kirst and Michael Long, as well as midfielders Hugh Kelleher, Andrew Dalton, and Ryan Sheehan, all of whom earned 10 or more points so far this season. Kirst alone has tallied 59 goals, accounting for over a fourth of the team’s total output. On the defensive end, senior goalkeeper Wyatt Knust has made a…
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2025-2027 Student-Elected Trustee Candidates Speak at Election Forum
Six students are campaigning for the undergraduate student-elected trustee position on the Cornell Board of Trustees. This year’s candidates, who seek to replace incumbent J.P. Swenson ’25, are Marco Martini ’27, Lani Lin-Kissick ’28, David Diao ’27, Reid Schwartz ’27, Keten Abebe ’27 and Christian Flournoy ’27. Elections began on Wednesday and will run until Monday, April 28. The biannually elected position runs for two years, and the chosen representative will become the undergraduate population’s voice on the Board of Trustees, one of Cornell’s top decision-making bodies. On Monday, The Sun held the 2025 Student-Elected Trustee Candidate Forum moderated by Julia Senzon ’26, the editor-in-chief of The Sun, to understand…
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An Armenian in April
“To be hated unto death” is one way to describe the state of a people that has experienced genocide. How does one reconcile oneself with the knowledge that their race, their people, was so hated that others took action to entirely exterminate them? As an Armenian, the month of April, specifically April 24, is a time during which we remember that it was this motivation that led to the events in 1915. Today marks the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, a day that every Armenian takes to remember the events that cost the lives of approximately 1.5 million of their brethren. It is also a day that marks the…
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Metal at the Olympics?
Last year, some 50 years after its inception, heavy metal received its biggest publicity yet at the Summer Olympics. Performing alongside foreign superstars Lady Gaga and Celine Dion were France’s very own Gojira. The French mavericks held their own against pop music’s biggest names, performing a rendition of the revolutionary song, “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)” alongside opera singer Marina Viotti. They later won a Grammy for Best Metal Performance for the song. On July 26, 2024, the televised opening ceremony of the Paris Summer Olympics abruptly turned from the Seine to the Conciergerie, a former prison turned museum that once housed Marie Antoinette. From a window stands a headless…