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. 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. ''The Sun'' features coverage of the university and its environs. It prints on Wednesdays when the university is open for academic instruction. 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 of '' AP 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, behind

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, according to College Choice's annual rankings.

History

19th century

''The Cornell Daily Sun'' was founded in 1880 by William Ballard Hoyt to challenge Cornell's original and leading publication, the weekly ''Cornell 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."

20th century

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 the

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." Following the shift of its main competitor, ''

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'', 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 in ''The Sun''s content from national to local and university-related stories.

21st century

The newspaper's common features include "Around the Sun," a weekly multimedia recap series, and a sex column that appears weekly on Thursdays.

In January 2003, the Cornell Daily Sun Alumni Association purchased the former Elks 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 to ''The Ithaca Journal''s offices. The building also houses a

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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's Student Assembly's decision to provide ''

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'' on campus for free to all undergraduate Cornell students. On September 17, 2005, more than 370 ''Sun'' alumni and guests gathered in Manhattan to celebrate The Sun's 125th anniversary. Speakers included

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'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. 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 the ''Cornell Daily Sun'', exists to further journalism by Cornell University students.

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special award recipient Other prominent Cornellians have written letters to the editor, including former U.S. Supreme Court Justice

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, who responded to an op-ed on wiretapping written by

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students with a letter to the editor in 1953.

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From the Hill: Housing News: A Home for the Sun
" ''Cornell Magazine'', Vol. 105 No. 5, March/April 2003. * Bishop, Morris. ''A History of Cornell''.

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, 1962. * 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.

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''Cornell Daily Sun'' Digitization Project''Cornell Daily Sun'' editorial board
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