Brayden Rogers

In 1971, 24 college students were sent into a mock prison (the basement of the Stanford Psychology Department) to play out an experiment on the human psyche and how people react to shifting power dynamics. Nowadays, this is known as one of the most infamous psychological tests: the Stanford Prison Experiment. Run by Professor Philip Zimbardo, the experiment paid healthy college-aged men $15 per day to participate.

Subjective writers from The Sun gathered for a roundtable discussion to examine student protest culture on campus. Our writers considered how attitudes towards protests have changed, discourse vs. disruption, and the University administration’s impact on our protest behavior. The Sun Roundtable series is a recurring discussion that invites writers from Opinion, Arts & Culture, and Lifestyle to deliberate on contemporary and contentious issues affecting Cornellians.

On this day, 25 years ago, the World Trade Center buildings in New York City were the targets of a terrorist attack that shocked the nation. Tragically, 2,977 victims lost their lives in these attacks in New York City, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania. In the years that followed, President George W. Bush founded the Department of Homeland Security, the United States invaded Afghanistan and 20 years of military conflict in the Middle East began.