How far protesters should go to achieve what they think is right has been a recurring question at Cornell, from the Straight takeover of 1969 (and before) down to this past semester.
Opinion
GUEST ROOM | Cornell reproduces Big Oil’s disinformation: It’s time to ask why
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Cornell publicly supports international climate goals while touting a “climate action plan” that falls far short.
Columns
DO | Goodbye to My Small Handful
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One insight that my dad often shares with me is that whether you are happy is mostly dictated by a select few relationships in your life.
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OBASEKI | Leaving A Promising Cornell
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For a fruitful educational and developmental experience, strive for that which seems impossible but is feasible with a steadfast dedication to the concept of free speech we all look to champion: a common sense for civil discourse.
Columns
GUEST ROOM | It’s Time for Just Cause Employment Protection
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This is why the Working Families Party, Workers Center and countless small businesses, unions, and local organizations are advocating for a new piece of legislation: Just Cause Employment Protection.
Opinion
BATEMAN | Cornell Folding to Congress Is Nothing New
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It is well-past time for Cornell – if not the leadership, then the rest of us — to hold its ground. Because the fight for higher education is just getting started.
Columns
EICHER | Why I Don’t Drink in College
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I gave much of the first two years of my college experience to alcohol, but over the past two years, I have gained so much back.
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Sandford | Days of Future Past
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I am a historian by trade, borne back ceaselessly into the past. As such, various professors have beaten into me the fact that my writing needs what we in the industry call a “So What Question.” The question that I’ve had on my mind since the beginning of this year is what comes next?
Columns
AMADOR | From Backpacks to Briefcases
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A while back I set out on an adventure to capture portraits of my classmates. To see what changes in 20 years, and what doesn’t.
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ELF | The Spring Encampment: Failed Revolution or the Only Way to Live? (ft. Spencer Beswick)
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There was never revolutionary potential in the Liberated Zone. I wrote in April that there were always two likely outcomes: that Martha Pollack would dismantle the encampment outright, as police did at Columbia and UCLA, or that she would trust in the existing cultural order to prevent the demonstration from reaching any sort of leveraged position in negotiations. Pollack’s stall tactics succeeded — ahead of the summer recess, the Coalition for Mutual Liberation called an end to the encampment last week.
That my piece received heartfelt recognition from within and outside of the encampment should indicate some acceptance by proponents of the Liberated Zone that the demonstration would fail. Did it mean nothing, then? Was it a disingenuous attempt by privileged Ivy League students to virtue signal, with little concern for its success?
Columns
BYRD | ‘The Past is Never Dead’
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In linking the genocide in Palestine to the genocide that created Cornell, CML has proven just how deep settler investments go.