When the Supreme Court decided Biden v. Nebraska, which declared President Biden’s loan forgiveness program unconstitutional, I am sure it was to the frustration of many around the nation and especially here…
Month: August 2023
OBASEKI | Dealing With The Coming Pandemic
Something is spreading among the student population: a fast-approaching scourge that will inevitably infect a significant portion of Cornell and other schools alike. Specific to seniors, this condition risks a student’s mental,…
BEARD | Men at Work
Like many off campus Cornellians, I began my senior year with the ritual of moving: leaving my home of the previous academic year and relocating to greener pastures. Or at least, I…
SCHWARZ | Should a Lottery be Added to the Admission Process?
To think admission to elite colleges has been fair is a form of magical thinking. For that reason, I propose we select a quarter of the entering class at Cornell as well…
Chemical engineering graduate student makes waves as vegan powerlifter
BY KONNER METZEditor-In-Chief Bradie Crandall has spent the past few years rising in the ranks of powerlifting. By winning competitions, receiving invites to national events and attracting sponsors, Crandall’s stock in weightlifting…
SWASING | A Little Perspective
Newsletter Signup As I gear up for the semester, I find myself falling back into the familiar feeling of pressure associated with being a college student. As young adults, we put so…
TEBBUTT | Now We Are Become Death: Oppenheimer (et al.) In the Age of Co-authorship
Like you, I did not expect to walk out of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and into the library with renewed inspiration to crunch my dissertation data. Like you, I couldn’t begin to justify…
WEIRENS | Our Writing Is At War
In the 1950s, in his essay “The Two Cultures,” C.P. Snow anticipated a concerning phenomenon: The humanistic and scientific communities were not only losing contact with one another, they were at war….
Football preseason notebook: Blue Hens enter opener with new-look defense, options at QB
BY DANIEL STEENKAMER Managing Sports Editor Delaware won its 2022 football season opener at Navy, its first game under Head Coach Ryan Carty, on the back of a stifling defense littered with…
SPARACIO | No Spaces Between Us
The spaces that were once empty are now full. They are so full. The freshmen are living in “quintuplets” , a striking contrast to my own freshman-year living situation where I was…