A friend who abandoned you when you needed them most. A person who made you feel small. A coworker who frustrated you. We tell the stories enough times that they eventually become part …
Incendiary opinions and factional partisanship. There exists a collapse of democratic deliberation and a growth of resentment in our political dialogue. One Cambridge study found that polarization has increased by 64 percent from 1988 to 2024, with almost all of …
Cornell, Cornell, Cornell. Whenever I open my Instagram, it’s always something new about Cornell University’s institutional coverup of the Jane Doe rape case. In true Instagram fashion, the public outcry has visual consistencies to activist movements of the past. Colorful …
Should Bowdoin continue to honor former Sen. George Mitchell by having Hawthorne-Longfellow Library’s Special Collections and Archives named after him?
My question is prompted by the University of Maine (UMaine)’s announcement last week that they are renaming all campus programs …
On my Orientation Trip to Merritt Island, we were given a huge block of Cabot cheese. Though we didn’t finish it, that block of cheese became a key topic of discussion during those treacherous first couple of weeks. Desperate for …
Based on my past op-eds, I’m clearly interested in how the expansion of digital technology has changed our lives. A phenomenon that I’m tickled to find and that people scrutinize is that of the performer. Performative reading, performative men, performative …
Susan Collins positions herself as a common-sense, moderate politician who gets things done for Mainers. But what does the “moderate” label really mean? Someone like her might say that a moderate is someone who wants the government to work for …
What happened at Cornell University is not an aberration.
Last month, the Cornell Daily Sun reported on Jane Doe’s lawsuit against the university, which alleges that she was gang-raped at the Chi Phi Fraternity house in 2024 and that Cornell …