Caption Contest

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST | Week of February 11

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Meet us halfway and submit a caption for this week’s cartoon! The Sun staff will vote and the winning caption — along with the winner’s name — will appear in the Monday, February 18 edition of the paper. The deadline for submission is 11:59 a.m. on Sunday, February 17. Drawn by Alicia Wang ’21

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Congratulations to the winner of Cartoon Caption Contest #22! “Alright, I give up.

Caption Contest

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST | Week of February 4

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Meet us halfway and submit a caption for this week’s cartoon! The Sun staff will vote and the winning caption — along with the winner’s name — will appear in the Monday, February 11 edition of the paper. The deadline for submission is 11:59 a.m. on Sunday, February 10. Drawn by Alicia Wang ’21

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Congratulations to the winner of Cartoon Caption Contest #21! “Excuse me, do you have a minute to talk about our Lord and Savior, Martha Pollack?”

Culture

INOCCIDUOUS THOUGHTS | 35 Things I’ve Noticed About Food on West Campus

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Before people get mad, let me just say that I’m extremely grateful to have access to Cornell’s diverse dining options. Some of my friends back home only have one dining hall, so we are lucky to have six on West Campus, alone. Also, I have worked with Cornell Dining before, and the passion, labor, and patience put into running a dining hall is absolutely incredible, so we should all be appreciative of what we have! That said, I just wanted an outlet to express my opinion on Cornell’s food (specifically West Campus in this article). This is not to offend Cornell Dining in any way!

Politics

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM | “Power is power”: What “Game of Thrones” can teach us about politics

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Millions of Americans have been affected by the government shutdown, and many workers’ livelihoods are at the mercy of the decisions of powerful elites. While witnessing the news about the American government shutdown, another shutdown occurred in my home country of Zimbabwe. On the week of January 15th, the Zimbabwean government blocked internet access throughout the country in response to protests. Even when the internet was switched back on a few days later, Gmail and certain popular social media sites such as WhatsApp and Facebook were blocked in the country. As an international student who was in America when all this was happening, I felt powerless.

Caption Contest

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST | Week of January 28

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Meet us halfway and submit a caption for this week’s cartoon! The Sun staff will vote and the winning caption — along with the winner’s name — will appear in the Monday, February 4 edition of the paper. The deadline for submission is 11:59 a.m. on Sunday, February 3. Drawn by Alicia Wang ’21

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Congratulations to the winner of Cartoon Caption Contest #20! “Oh, that’s how I get back to Cornell in a blizzard!”

Caption Contest

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST | Week of January 21

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Meet us halfway and submit a caption for the first cartoon of the year! The Sun staff will vote and the winning caption — along with the winner’s name — will appear in the Monday, January 28 edition of the paper. The deadline for submission is 11:59 a.m. on Sunday, January 27. Drawn by Alicia Wang ’21

Culture

AKABAS | The Top 50 Players in the NBA: Part 2

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If you’re interested in which guys were 27 through 50 on my list, my criteria for these rankings, or the meaning of the different statistics I’m referencing in this article, check out Part 1. Additionally, after flubbing some players’ rankings in Part 1, I’ve decided to keep my Top 50 in a Google Doc, so that I can both correct my previous mistakes and continue to update the list throughout the season. All stats are current as of 1/11/19.  

26. Marc Gasol – I think he’s a tad overrated.

Culture

AKABAS | The Top 50 Players in the NBA: Part 1

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We know how to rank teams: my team beats your team, therefore my team is better. Just rooting for our teams carries an old-school sense of hometown pride and loyalty, but ranking players is overwhelmingly more interesting and fun — it’s a combination of statistics and intuition, of situational evidence and conjecture. How does one even begin to try to rank basketball players? One obvious way is to determine which players are most valuable to their own teams. That’s what the Most Valuable Player award tries to do, at least in theory, but does anyone really know what that award means? This metric is fairly quantifiable, since we can look at team performance with a certain player both on and off the court.

Life

SKATCH | My Disadvantages Are My Privilege

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Disclaimer: I formally recognize economic, racial, knowledge, gender, and every other sort of privilege as ongoing problems that we should all strive to become more cognizant of, as they have and continue to create inequality that provides for unjust pain and suffering. This article is my opinion on privilege on a much smaller scale within my personal experience. I recently attended an event focused on discussing privilege and diversity at Cornell. Not only did it reinforce my knowledge of advantages that I was already aware of, but it taught me of others I hadn’t known were ravaging people’s lives. I found myself nodding, clapping, and truly loving the candid and safe atmosphere that was being created with each new voice… up to a point.

Caption Contest

CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST | Last Winner of 2018!

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Congratulations to the winner of Cartoon Caption Contest #19! “I’m sorry I must go! It’s the only excuse my professor accepted to avoid my prelim!” — Spencer Sigalow ’19

There is no contest this week, as the semester is winding down. The Sun will resume its Cartoon Caption Contest at the beginning of Spring 2019.