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Campus Moon Club: ‘Sunnies’ Should Be ‘Moonies’ By A.D. LIGHT IT UP Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell Daily Sun has lost its reign as the only club named after a celestial body on campus. Now, a club known for moon gazing and anti-capitalist sentiments is urging The Sun to shake the sunshine from its name. “As a group of moon lovers who endorse moon gazing and advocate against Sun-hours propaganda, we are calling for The Sun to reconsider its name,” Cornell Moon Club wrote in an online petition. “The moon is the center of our universe, and we think it deserves its rightful place as the ultimate celestial body on this campus.” The Moon Club meets every full moon at Baker Flagpole to moon gaze and blaze, and knits together a group of moon lovers who hope to push against internalized capitalism on campus through the Instagram page @cornellmoonclub. But according to Moon Club founder and president Luna Mond ’22, group moon-gazing and memeing isn’t enough to spread its influence across campus. Mond said the Cornell community needs to embrace
the moon as the superior celestial body, and renaming its newspaper is a powerful way to start. The petition has circulated across social media and has amassed more than 420 signatures as of Monday evening.
“Sunshine already had its moment.” Luna Mond ’22 “With all due respect to The Sun, I think The Nightly Moon would better suit our nocturnal campus,” Mond said. “Sunshine already had its moment. It’s time to look to the moon, because it is seriously dope as hell. If we can get enough signatures, maybe we can bring this to the editorial board by the next full moon.” The Cornell Daily Sun editorial board wrote in a joint statement that it was aware of the petition and said a long-term name change remains unlikely. The newspaper remains fond of sunshine, the statement read, but the editors
are willing to test out the moonlight for one day only. Dozens of Cornell Daily Sun alumni took to social media to criticize the petition, arguing that the calls to rename the paper are “seriously disrespectful and damaging to this 140-year-old institution,” one Facebook comment read. Another alum wrote on Facebook that changing celestial bodies “would be dishonorable to Kurt Vonnegut ’44.” A young alumnus tweeted that he worried renaming the newspaper would have other consequences — including forcing staffers and alumni to call themselves “moonies” instead of “sunnies.” Still, Mond said Cornell Moon Club looks forward to continuing to spread its affection for the moon across campus. “The petition is a step in the right direction,” Mond said. “Who wouldn’t want to be a moonie? Even if we can’t convince them to permanently change celestial bodies, I really hope the newspaper editors keep our dear moon close to their hearts.” A.D. Light It Up can be reached at alight@cornellsun.com.
Trustees OK Department Name Change to ‘English: Get Lit’ Profs embrace cannabis, ‘other postmodern subjects’
By CHARLES BIG DICKENS Sun Staff Writer
Getting lit | A. D. White’s statue smokes a doobie on the Arts Quad on April 20.
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After renewed advocacy and a department vote, the Board of Trustees approved the second English department name change in just over two months — trailblazing from the Department of Literatures in English to the Department of English: Get Lit. “We wanted to diversify our department, and we soon realized that our current name was not inclusive enough,” said Wendy Hemphries, the chair of the new English: get lit department. “Ostensibly, the word ‘literature’ narrows our range of humanistic inquiry, and ‘lit’ more aptly embraces the shift in academia toward the study of cannabis and other
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postmodern subjects.” ty embraced this proposal, The name change approv- which the department voted al comes just weeks after the to approve at the first faculty New York State Legislature meeting after the state legalvoted to legalize recreational ized cannabis in late March. marijuana. But according to Still, Eyre said the name some English faculty, the change has given her a boost name change of optihad been brewmism, as “This was a really the departing at Cornell since March hard-fought win.” ment looks 13, 2020 — to welcome Prof. T. H. Collins when a group the latest of the departtrends in English ment’s more eco-critically inclined pro- scholarship more broadly. “This change is a result of fessors gathered to blow off steam in the Nabokov an ongoing shift in literary Lounge in the wake of the study in this department — and others across the country campus shutdown. Director of Under- — to focus on the true meangraduate Studies Prof. Mary ing of ‘lit,’” Eyre said. Jane Eyre, English: get lit, Eyre added that she is told The Sun she was sur- a strong proponent of the prised how many facul- change and is most excited for
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the new accompanying curriculum — which includes classics such as Catcher in the High, Bong of Solomon, All Quiet on the Western Blunt, Much A-Doobie About Nothing and Ganja With the Wind. Department graduate students are also eagerly anticipating much chiller first-year writing seminars and discussion sections, encouraging their students to be one with the literature. “This was a really hardfought win,” Prof. T. H. Collins, English: get lit, told The Sun, while smoking a blunt on Libe Slope. “I’ve already started celebrating.” Charles Big Dickens can be reached at cbdickens@cornellsun.com.
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