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Vol. 139 No. 43
THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 2023 n ITHACA, NEW YORK
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Underclassmen gear up for the Housing Selection process.
Without fast food chains close to campus, Reva Rao '26 suggests 'dupes' for student cravings. | Page 5
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Seniors complete a dessert-making event, three years later than scheduled.
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Deadheads Rejoice for Tickets Long-awaited ticket lottery for Dead and Co. announced By SOFIA RUBINSON and AIMÉE EICHER Sun Managing Editor and Sun Assistant Managing Editor
Dead and Company announced on their Twitter around 1 p.m. today that the lottery has opened for tickets to their Cornell ’23 concert on May 8. Seven tiers of tickets are available, including general admission tickets specifically for Cornell students. Students may enter the lottery for the $77 tickets until Friday, March 10 at 11:59 p.m. One entry is allowed per student, and winners will receive information about how to purchase tickets on March 13. Anyone can enter the ticket lottery for reserved seats, however, which will be held concurrently. Ticket price options range from $300 to $1,500, with all proceedings going towards MusiCares and the Cornell 2030 Project. For an elevated seat on the south bleachers, tickets are sold for $500, premium reserved seats and standing room in the pit can be purchased from $750 and VIP tickets — both premium reserved, which are seated, and pit — are sold for $1,500. Guests can only request two tickets at a time. VIP tickets include access to the Cornell ’23 VIP reception on May 7, which will feature a special
photo exhibit, a private cash bar and food offerings. VIPs will also receive a limited edition Cornell ’23 event poster signed by the artist. A travel package, which will go on sale Friday, March 10 at 1 p.m., is also available that includes hotel accommodations. This package is not part of the ticket lottery and will not require lottery sign up. Prices range from $760 a person for two nights in the Best Western to $3,275 per person for two nights at the Statler Hotel. This concert marks the official start of Dead and Company’s “Final Tour” and is held on the 46th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s May 8, 1977 concert at Barton Hall. This concert was memorialized in a live album from the show, “Cornell 5/8/77,” and was widely considered to be one of the band’s best performances, selling out the venue and generating around $59,000 in revenue. The concert is being organized by Cornell Alumni Affairs and Development. Sofia Rubinson can be reached at srubinson@cornellsun.com. Aimée Eicher can be reached at aeicher@cornellsun.com
ISABELLE JUNG / SUN CONTRIBUTOR
Convenient contraception | Pollack's support of Resolution 20 could bring vending machines with health care supplies to campus.
President Pollack Promotes Plan B By JULIA SENZON and AIMÉE EICHER Sun News Editor and Sun Assistant Managing Editor
Hint of Spring
JULIA NAGEL / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Beautiful buttercups | Winter aconite, an early blooming bulb, emerges from cold soil and leaf litter.
President Martha Pollack expressed support for Student Assembly’s Resolution 20 — which proposes increased access to nonprescription health care supplies, including contraception — in an email response to the S.A. on Tuesday. “I support efforts to expand access to non-prescription health care supplies, including contraception,” Pollack wrote. “Cornell Health and campus partners are currently reviewing a proposal for such supplies to be made available via campus vending machines and I encourage your continued collaboration with them.” The S.A. passed Resolution 20 on Thursday, Feb. 9, and the University Assembly
conveyed their version of the proposal — Resolution 5 — to President Pollack on Thursday, March 2. According to an email obtained by The Sun, President Pollack responded to Duncan Cady ’23, chair of the U.A. and an S.A. undesignated representative-at-large, who also co-sponsored Resolution 5 and Resolution 20. On Monday, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly also passed Resolution 7, their version of the proposed resolution. Resolution 20 aims to implement vending machines with nonprescription medicine and emergency contraception around campus. Several members of the S.A. — including Sanvi Bhardwaj ’24, the College of Human See PLAN B page 3
Controversial Panel Discusses Settler-Colonialism in Palestine By ERIC REILLY Sun News Editor
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies hosted a panel on Tuesday on settler-colonialism and indigeneity in the contexts of North America and Palestine. The event, which was held on the Jewish holiday of Purim and centered on settler-colonialism — a concept that has been used in criticisms of the Israeli government — faced pushback from Jewish community members. The panel featured Syracuse University Prof. Dana Olwan and Patty Krawec, author and co-founder of the Nii'kinaaganaa Foundation, a non-profit that collects money and distributes it to Indigenous-led groups. Mohamed Abdou, global racial justice post-
doctoral fellow at the Einaudi Center, served as moderator for the event. Olwan and Krawec traversed themes of settler-colonialism, indigeneity, religion and solidarity through a series of questions posed by Adbou. The panelists addressed how these concepts apply to both Turtle Island — an indigenous term for North America — and Palestine. Krawec, a member of the Ojibwe people — an indigenous tribe native to the northeastern U.S. and Canada — focused her contributions on building community. She expressed frustration with her fellow Ojibwe people, urging them to be more welcoming to settlers, arrivants and newcomers who she thinks often align with the nation-state that gives them a home.
“We need to build worlds where other people will be safe within them, where our Ojibwe world exists, but you will be safe in that world if you need to be there,” Krawec said. “We can exist together without needing to impose on each other.” Olwan similarly grappled with the role of the nation-state when considering the context of Palestine. “Within Palestinian struggle, for us the violence of nationalism and the violence of the nation-state is super clear, and we understand its harm.” Olwan said. “For many of us, we actively refuse to tie our sense of liberation within the boundaries of a so-called ‘Palestinian nation-state’ that the Israeli state will agree one day to quote-unquote ‘cede.’” See PALESTINE page 4
ERIC REILLY / SUN NEWS EDITOR
Palestine panel | Mohamed Abdou, Dana Olwan and Patty Krawec prepare for a conversation on settler-colonialism and indigeneity.