The Cornell Daily Sun

The year ticked by in numbers: on COVID-19 case trackers, through unemployment spikes, on electoral maps. So The Sun tallied it: the 145 campus coronavirus updates. The 22 emails from President Martha Pollack. The 351 coronavirus cases on campus this fall. On the final day of 2020, here’s the year in the numbers that defined it.

The 6th mass exctinction is underway, and insects populations are being annihilated. Crucial to our food security, as many serve as pollinators, here are five ways you can help insects out.

The Student Assembly’s month-long debate over campus police disarmament hit the national stage after Washington Free Beacon and Young America’s Foundation published inflammatory stories on the issue. The conservative groups’ attention resulted in a barrage of harassment targeting three students of color.

Opinion: Rather than claiming firsts, Departments of Literature in the decolonized world should continue to search for language to foster belonging within Eurocentric contexts.

A Cornell research team has shown that vaccinating endangered Siberian tigers is the only viable method of protecting the species from canine distemper virus, which causes respiratory and neurological infections in tigers and other carnivores.

Long anonymous, the University’s biggest donor, Chuck Feeney ’56, is finally receiving a namesake. East Avenue is to become Feeney Way just in time to mark the end of his goal to give away his entire $8 billion fortune.

Editorial: In the wake of racist attacks against Cornell student representatives from national media outlets, students deserve a response.

As COVID-19 cases climb, employees at Collegetown Bagels and Ithaca Bakery are petitioning to end indoor dining and create clearer protocols for positive employee cases. The owners maintain that they’ve gone above and beyond what was required by law.

After weeks of discord and online attacks, the Student Assembly passed a resolution to disarm Cornell Police, proposing that the department lose access to lethal weapons. Previously, the resolution narrowly failed to pass at an assembly meeting almost one month ago.

Opinion: While the Cornell scholars’ attempt to engage in the radical process of decolonization is laudable, they must also consider the exclusionary cultural politics that unquestioningly privileges institutions in the Global North.