ARTS QUAD—For a rare few at the Cornell Daily Sun, journalism centers around the noble pursuit of disseminating knowledge to the public. The task of educating and informing the student body is not an easy one, so when Sun writer Davis Gardner ‘27 was first asked to write an article, he instead turned to his favorite topic: his life.
His first article was a harrowing tale of having to wait twenty minutes at Domino’s and then eating pizza that was slightly too hot for the roof of his mouth. Gardner later woke up to Domino’s Pizza: Too Hot? being a reader favorite amongst his friends and family. “I realized that real news isn’t about auditing the systems we belong to or relaying important conversations about society. It’s quite literally in the name, news is about what’s new with my life,” he noted.
Gardner’s most recent article, Tuesday As A Cornell Student, is an hour by hour account of his life, with elucidating passages on his new route to class in the morning and an underground song he discovered. He wrote long detailed explanations on the clubs he’s involved with and his friends who he had dinner with, or as he likes to put it, things that everyone at Cornell cares about. Gardner’s riveting and unique observations of campus are also unmatched in their talent and prose, like his description of his friends: “Sometimes, they like to goof off and have fun. And other times, they study and eat food.”
Gardner also couldn’t help but thank his editors, who haven’t been with him every step of the way. “During my time at the Sun, I realized that spelling mistakes, clarity, and factuality are secondary to our main goal here, which is to have a good time.”
Next semester, Gardner plans to experiment more by writing opinion pieces on topics that he picked out of a hat.
