Over Winter Break an individual brought to our attention the fact that several of Sun columnist Amyn Bandali’s ’11 Ramblings columns contained passages that were identical or nearly identical to passages in Andrew Webb’s ’08 Confessions of a Mental Patient columns which appeared in The Sun from Fall 2006 to Fall 2007.
For all the tips, tricks and advice you young freshmen are undeniably being bombarded with in anticipation of your move to East Hill, it will ultimately be up to each of you to make Cornell your own.
As Cornell alumni flock back to the Hill every year for Reunion Weekend, two main questions are on their minds: What has changed and what has stayed the same? This special Reunion edition of The Cornell Daily Sun will help answer both questions and act as a guide to the weekend for returning alumni.
Last week's student deaths shook up the entire Cornell community and changed the way we look at our University, each other and ourselves. Every individual is affected differently by such tragic events, and each individual takes away his or her own unique perspective.
With the conclusion of the annual staff-wide elections on Saturday, we editors of the newly elected 128th Editorial Board have been handed the privilege of putting out The Sun on a daily basis for the next year. It is a big job — one that will require a lot of dedication and hard work from many talented individuals — but I am positive that we are up to the task.
“I was happiest when I was all alone — and it was very late at night, and I was walking up the hill after having helped put The Sun to bed. All the other University people, teachers and students alike, were asleep. They had been playing games all day long with what was known about real life. ... We on The Sun were already in the midst of real life. By God, if we weren’t!”
Despite the spatial limitations on his column, Judah Bellin’s “Colonialism Redux” in Monday’s Sun manages to makes countless errors and omissions. I will respond to a few of the glaring ones, as a word of caution to the armchair punditry of the columnist who bites off more than he can chew.
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