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To the editor: We would like to thank the Cornell community for welcoming our debate on climate science and greenhouse gas emissions this past week. We appreciate the coverage by Sun reporters Sofia Rubinson and Eric Reilly but would like to clarify a few points made in their article. The pre- and post-debate audience poll results were displayed on a large screen on stage in Call Auditorium during the event but did not yet include the number of polling participants. The final poll results, inclu...

In the article “Three Years Since COVID-19 Lockdown, Cornellians Reflect on Pandemic,” authors Aimée Eicher and Sofia Rubinson interviewed several students and a professor regarding their COVID-19 experience at Cornell. The Cornellians they selected had nothing but fawning praise for Cornells pandemic policies, and Eicher and Rubinson failed to include a single criticism of Cornell’s restrictions.  Worse, one student, Ceci Rodriguez ‘26, made demonstrably false assertions in a ludicrou...

Last week, Laur Kim ‘23 wrote a Letter to the Editor claiming that my article,

To the Editor: In his most recent column, Patrick Mehler ’23 argued that Cornell’s new judicial system is the “most community-focused and recidivism-preventing judicial process across college campuses.” Hyperbole aside, as a member of the Cornell community, I find this claim highly suspect.Under the new system led by Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan […]

To claim, as Kevin Cheng and Aaron Friedman did, that I attacked “the personal and academic integrity of students in the Greek system by implying that students in Greek life cannot be trusted to manage their own time” combines hyperbole with reductive nonsense and has no relation to what I wrote.  

We would thus like the opportunity to provide our own views on Greek life, with the hope that we may help both Prof. Schwarz and our fellow Cornellians to better understand why fraternities and sororities still have their place on campus today. 

In the Sun article from Oct. 24,

Newsletter Signup Subscribe to our daily newsletter! To the Editor:The Guest Room “Ann Coulter is Not Welcome Here” denounces Cornell’s decision to host a lecture by Ann Coulter ‘84 to be held on Nov. 9.  The op-ed is more performance art than a reasoned argument for violating Cornell’s commitment to free speech and viewpoint diversity.First, […]

Dr. Wickham’s recent letter was an important and helpful clarification of the redistricting changes affecting the Cornell community. With the election just a few days away, I’d like to add a further exhortation for everyone who’s eligible to get out and vote.