The Cornell Daily Sun is an independentnewspaper atCornell University inIthaca, New York. It is published twice weekly by Cornell University students and hired employees. Founded in 1880,The Sun is the oldest continuously independent college daily in the United States.[2]
The Sun features coverage of the university and its environs. It prints on Wednesdays when the university is open for academic instruction.[3] In addition to these regular issues,The Sun publishes a graduation issue, reunion issue, and a freshman issue, which is mailed to incoming Cornell freshmen before their first semester. The paper is free on campus and online.The Sun edits under its proprietary "Sun Style Guide," an amended version ofAP Style.
Aside from a few full-time production positions,The Sun is staffed by Cornell students and is fully independent of the university. It operates out of its own building in downtown Ithaca. As of 2023,The Sun is ranked the third-best college student newspaper in the nation, behindYale andSyracuse, according to College Choice's annual rankings.[4]
The Cornell Daily Sun was founded in 1880 by William Ballard Hoyt to challenge Cornell's original and leading publication, the weeklyCornell Era, which was founded in 1868. In the newspaper's first edition, published on September 16, 1880,The Sun boasted in its opening paragraph: "We have no indulgence to ask, no favors to beg."
The newspaper later incorporated and changed to daily frequency, earning its longstanding boast "Ithaca's Only Morning Newspaper." In 1912, it added a second, "first collegiate member of theAssociated Press."
Following the shift of its main competitor,The Ithaca Journal, from evening to morning daily publication in 1996,The Sun changed its traditional front page slogan which, after several iterations, now states "Independent Since 1880." This period also marked a shift inThe Sun's content from national to local and university-related stories.
The newspaper's common features include "Around the Sun," a weekly multimedia recap series, and a sex column that appears weekly on Thursdays.
The headquarters ofThe Cornell Daily Sun
In January 2003, the Cornell Daily Sun Alumni Association purchased the formerElks Lodge in downtown Ithaca, erected 1916. Led by Stanley Chess, the founding president of the Association, John Schroeder '74, and Gary L. Rubin '72, the alumni completely renovated the building over the next several months. Now called the Cornell Daily Sun Building, it has housed the paper's offices since June 2003 and is coincidentally located next door toThe Ithaca Journal's offices. The building also houses akava bar in its basement.
In the fall semester of 2004,The Sun turned free and started featuring full-color front and back pages as part of a redesign in its layout. These moves were partially effected to boost circulation in response to Cornell'sStudent Assembly's decision to provideThe New York Times andUSA Today on campus for free to all undergraduate Cornell students.
On September 17, 2005, more than 370Sun alumni and guests gathered in Manhattan to celebrateThe Sun's 125th anniversary. Speakers includedKurt Vonnegut '43,Carl Leubsdorf '59,Sam Roberts '68, Jay Branegan '73,Howard A. Rodman '71, S. Miller Harris '44, andJeremy Schaap '91. The emcee was Stan Chess '69. A 130th anniversary dinner was held on September 25, 2010.
In 2016, the newspaper announced that it was reducing its publication rate from five days a week to three.[5] In 2020, it further cut back to twice a week as a cost-reducing measure. At the beginning of the 2024-2025 academic year, the paper further reduced publication to once per week, with 24/7 publishing online.
The Cornell Daily Sun Alumni Association, comprising former editors, managers, and staff of theCornell Daily Sun, exists to further journalism by Cornell University students.
Dick Brass, associate editor (1971–72); technology investor, executive, and pioneer who developed first electronic dictionary and thesaurus,ClearType, andOpen eBook
Other prominent Cornellians have written letters to the editor, including future U.S. Supreme Court JusticeRuth Bader Ginsburg, who responded to an op-ed on wiretapping written byCornell Law School students with a letter to the editor in 1953.
Margulis, Daniel ed.A Century at Cornell: Published to Commemorate the Hundredth Anniversary of the Cornell Daily Sun. Ithaca, New York: Cornell Daily Sun, 1980.ISBN0-938304-00-3
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