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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.

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Convenient contraception | Pollack's support of Resolution 20 could bring vending machines with health care supplies to campus.

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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.’”

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Palestine panel | Mohamed Abdou, Dana Olwan and Patty Krawec prepare for a conversation on settler-colonialism and indigeneity.

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Study Abroad Brings Challenges, Thrills for Students

By PAREESAY AFZAL Sun Staff Writer

Photographic identification on metro passes, dining halls open for only half an hour and sports practices scheduled until 2 a.m. — Cornellians studying abroad for Spring 2023 are met with a great variety of novel experiences that they say are both challenging and exciting.

Academics “It’s always been my dream to be a student at Oxford,” said Tatiana Bustos ’24, who is studying in the United Kingdom.

Taking English courses at St. Catherine’s College in Oxford University, Bustros attended weekly one-on-one meetings with her instructors to discuss readings, receive feedback on her assignments and ask questions.

“I have not gone to any lectures,” Bustos said. “It’s not really required and doesn’t have anything to do with my tutorials. It’s very independent work that you’re expected to do here.”

Still, according to Bustos, given the distractions and opportunities available abroad, this seemingly light schedule can be hard if one is not self-motivated and holding themselves accountable.

However, for Skylar Xu ’24, who is taking philosophy and film classes in Paris, lectures are the key for academic success.

“At Cornell, I mostly took seminars in the humanities and there’d be a lot of class discussions,” Xu said. “Here, it’s more lecture-based and there seems to be a heavier focus on concrete text — sometimes you have to read an entire book for class.”

Ellie Zhang ’24, studying business in Spain, feels most excited about the international perspective she is opened up to.

“I have people from Portugal, Germany, London — all over the world — in my classes,” Zhang said. “It’s interesting to learn the international experience on a lot of the topics I learned in my finance classes at Cornell. For example, [one great topic is] how much this meal we’re eating would cost in their home country.”

Language Barriers Xu is starting to get used to learning in French, given that the program through which she is studying abroad — EDUCO Consortium in Paris — offers classes taught only in French.

Zhang would experience hiccups like going to a coffee shop and not knowing how to order, or having to use Google translate while communicating with salespeople for important purchases. But she said the language barrier has been permeable because of the presence of many English speakers in Madrid.

Same is the case with Amy Hidalgo ’24 in Singapore, who thinks the Singaporean

lifestyle itself is very American and therefore not too difficult to adjust to.

“People usually speak Singlish, which incorporates Hokkien, Mandarin [and] Malay. And sometimes people’s words, grammar or slang is different from what I’m used to,” Hidalgo said. “Socially people are pretty similar to Americans, so I didn’t find it hard to get along with people.”

Communities and Friends For Hidalgo, community at the National University of Singapore was anticipated because of the dormitory system.

“Their dorms are very close-knit communities — for example, [the school] has 20 different sports teams for every dorm and they compete in inter-dorm competitions,” Hidalgo said. “People are super involved — you know everyone on your floor and are friends with people who you live next to you.”

Xu would also agree to some extent, as she made friends through kitchen conversations.

“I’ve been able to meet friends in unconventional ways — with people living across the hall when we share the kitchen and have conversations,” Xu said.

After a group project meeting that went on until 1 a.m., Hidalgo learned the culture of staying up late in Singapore.

“They also have sports activities that

meet at 11 p.m. and go until 2 a.m.

They order a meal after dinner almost every night. We still have 8 a.m. classes.”

Hidalgo thinks this culture might be in part because classes only meet once a week, so students do not have packed schedules.

Though Bustos has been able to meet students from different countries through mixers designed specifically for visiting students, she struggles to meet British students.

“I know people in my hall, but it’s tough especially because the third year is the last year [in UK universities], so they’re already in their groups,” Bustos said.

Regardless, she got involved with drama events and has crewed for the musical “The Addams Family” organized by her college.

“It feels like Fall semester of freshman year — meeting everyone during orientation, asking their names, hometowns, planning lunch,” Zhang said.

Zhang finds this aspect of building community from scratch exciting, but she misses the support system and people she loves and appreciates in Ithaca.

Food There are still many practices that are inherently hard to adjust to coming from an American collegiate lifestyle.

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Housing worries | Students prepare for housing selection, which starts March 13.

Underclassmen Gear Up for Housing Selection

By ELIZABETH GARDNER Sun Contributor

With housing lottery time slots released and available to view on their housing portals, students who need to apply for on-campus housing next year are anxiously awaiting room selection to start on March 13.

According to Kristen Loparco, director of Housing and Dining Contracts, students apply for housing in early January.

In the application, students can make six-person roommate ‘blocks’ and assign block leaders, who are responsible for distributing beds to each person in the block.

“In early March, all students who applied will be issued a time slot. All members of a roommate group have the same time slot,” Loparco wrote in an email to The Sun. “During the allotted time, students will log in to the housing portal to select rooms.”

Students can live in three main areas — North Campus, South Campus and West Campus. Due to proximity and access to dining halls, West Campus housing is often most desirable and the first to run out of spots.

“It’s a sprint to get on West Campus with your friends,” said Claire Williamson ’25.

To ensure fairness, a lottery system randomly issues 20-minute time slots

across three days to each student who applied to live in an on-campus residence hall. This system has caused stress among Cornelians, especially those with late time slots on March 15, the last day for selection.

Analisa Martino ’26 has a timeslot on the last day of selection. Martino expressed concern that students will fill all the spots in the newer North and West Campus buildings during the earlier time slots. “[The lottery] is not a hundred percent fair because there are these new buildings that are super nice and then there [are] buildings that can’t even compare,” Martino said. “Obviously everyone’s going to go for the good buildings at the beginning.”

Martino also noted that dorm quality does not factor into the price students pay for on-campus housing. She suggests an alternative method of distributing housing slots, one she believes is more fair.

“It could be first come first serve, where people who have their applications submitted first get first pick,” Martino said.

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Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, ceasing the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.

Marley Levy ’24, PPGA general body member who helped develop the initial idea to implement vending machines, said that she hopes Pollack’s acknowledgment of Resolution 20 will be a first step toward greater reproductive health equity on campus, citing the President’s lack of support for S.A.’s Resolution 15 — which aimed to fund an M.D. gynecologist on campus.

“I am pleased, yet surprised, at [Pollack’s] support of Resolution 20. I hope it is just the start [of] greater access of needed sexual and reproductive strides on campus,” Levy wrote in a statement to The Sun. “I would like to see measurable progress on this resolution before the end of the semester, as President Pollack said in her email to Student Assembly members.”

PPGA co-president Taisa Strouse ’24 also expressed surprise at Pollack’s support, adding that her support for Resolution 20 contradicts her refusal to accept Resolution 15.

“Her hypocrisy is clear,” Strouse wrote in a statement to The Sun. “The intention of the Plan B vending machine is based on the inaccessibility of Cornell Health — due to weekend closures and limited hours — and off-campus medical facilities. Thus, Pollack’s justification that there are ‘several gynecology providers in the Ithaca community’ in her refutation of Resolution 15 is unfounded and disappointing.”

Despite Pollack’s acknowledgment of the resolution, Bhardwaj expressed skepticism regarding whether the President’s support would lead to action.

“It definitely makes it easier to navigate Cornell’s bureaucracy, but her support is not a silver bullet — personally, I won’t be assured of progress until I actually see the vending machines on campus,” Bhardwaj told The Sun.

Ecology representative, and Shelby Lynn Williams ’25, a College of Arts and Sciences representative — said they were pleased by Pollack’s support of the resolution.

Bhardwaj emphasized the resolution’s importance in improving healthcare access at Cornell.

“This is critical for increasing health accessibility and equity on campus, as Cornell Health is far for many students, not open 24/7 and the generic version of Plan B they carry is significantly cheaper than the name-brand version offered at most pharmacies,” Bhardwaj wrote in a statement to The Sun. According to a survey conducted by Cornell University Planned Parenthood Generation Action, increased emergency contraception access is both necessary and desired.

Out of approximately 700 respondents from the Cornell community, 53.3 percent said that they have accessed emergency contraception for themselves or another person and 90.32 percent said that they would feel very comfortable or strongly comfortable accessing emergency contraception from a campus vending machine operated by Cornell Health.

Katherine Esterl ’24, co-president of PPGA, also noted that Cornell’s physical isolation from the greater-Ithaca area poses a transportation barrier for students seeking reproductive health care.

“It’s not like you can walk outside your dorm and walk five minutes to a CVS. And it’s also not like you can walk outside your dorm and walk five minutes to Cayuga Health to get an appointment with an M.D. gynecologist… even [going] downtown to the Planned Parenthood can be a barrier,” Esterl said. “I think the vending machines are a pretty easy fix for access.”

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“I think this resolution is important as part of improving our University’s health access and health equality, but especially relevant post- Julia Senzon can be reached at COVID and post-Dobbs,” Cady, who is also a jsenzon@cornellsun.com. general body member of PPGA, told The Sun, Aimée Eicher can be reached at referring to the U.S. Supreme Court reversing aeicher@cornellsun.com.

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Rather than aim for a nation-state, Olwan believes that liberation can be achieved through other means.

“I think for many of us — for many Palestinians — we have enough evidence and we have enough history that it’s really important for us to imagine our liberation, to imagine Palestinian decolonial futures beyond Palestinian national independence within the context of the nation-state,” Olwan said.

Krawec emphasized a similar need for liberation in the futures of Ojibwe people.

“We’re not imagining an Ojibwe state — we’re imagining that we get to live in our place as our own people,” Krawec said. “That’s the world that we’re imagining: a world without borders.”

In a Guest Room column published in The Sun on Monday, 34 members and allies of Cornell’s Jewish community expressed their disapproval that the event was held on Purim, a joyous Jewish holiday that commemorates the events told in the Book of Esther. The column detailed what they believe to be a pattern of anti-Israel events held on Jewish holidays.

“This pattern of scheduling during Jewish religious events is at best a troubling oversight and at worst a deliberate attempt to silence dissenting voices. Jewish students should not have to choose between practicing their religion and defending the existence of their historic homeland,” the column read. “To hold an event where the humanity of Jews and their right to exist in their

historic homeland is called into question without any chance for them to defend themselves is malicious.”

Cornellians for Israel Vice President Zoe Bernstein was one of the co-signers of the column and expressed her concern over the scheduling.

“As engaged members of the Cornell Community at large, who dedicate countless hours each week to various campus initiatives and involvements, it is deeply upsetting and frustrating to see a pattern developing of excluding our voices from anti-Israel events hosted by various student groups and Universitysponsored speakers,” Bernstein wrote in a statement to The Sun. Bernstein pointed to last year’s Muhammad el-Kurd talk that occurred on Shabbat and last semester’s settler-colonialism event that occurred on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism.

“Jewish students are beginning to feel as though their voices are being intentionally excluded from important dialogues, leaving the narratives they perpetuate to be one-sided and lacking the nuance these sensitive and complicated topics demand and deserve,” Bernstein wrote.

Einaudi Center director Rachel Riedl denied claims that the event had been deliberately scheduled on Purim in a statement to The Sun. To continue reading this article, please visit www.cornellsun.com.

Eric Reilly can be reached at ereilly@cornellsun.com.

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could not have prepared themselves for at their study abroad destinations.

“Material-wise what things are made out of is very different — it’s a shock to the eyes,” Hidalgo said. “The different types of trees and how green Singapore is is something to get used to.”

For others, navigating the transportation system can be difficult.

“For metro passes in Paris sometimes you need to put your photo on the pass,” Xu said. “They inspect it and sometimes sneak attack if you haven’t — so it’s a very disciplinary system.”

Xu also added that it has been interesting to live through the nationwide strike in France.

“I see posters. I hear people talk about it. I watch people canvass. The transportation disruption — I’ve never experienced a strike before on this scale,” she said.

Bustos has been pleasantly shocked by her spacious dorm room.

“My favorite thing is my dorm — I have my own sitting area, a huge room with two beds, a bathroom and it’s so, so nice,” Bustos said. “Incredible, 10/10, amazing.”

The hefty pound-to-dollar conversion sometimes takes Bustos by surprise.

“One of the biggest adjustments from life at Cornell is the [Oxford’s] dining hall situation,” Bustos said. “Every campus has its own dining hall — you go to your one dining hall. There are very restricted hours — for example, you can only get breakfast Monday to Saturday from 8:15 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. and if you miss it, it’s gone. You pay individually for every item you put on your tray.”

The college Bustos goes to also has a formal dinner every night which students have to sign up for 24 hours in advance online.

“Tables are all set with cutlery and they serve food to you — you have to stand up when the deans come in,” Bustos said.

“They sit in the front row and everyone else sits down the hall, so that’s very interesting.”

Though Hidalgo does not enjoy the quality of her on-campus food compared to Cornell’s, she finds good food off campus that is very cheap compared to U.S. prices.

“They have so many different types of cuisine, and it’s pretty friendly to people with dietary restrictions,” Hidalgo said.

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L

iving on Cornell’s campus secluded from easily accessible mega-chains and franchises means one thing: A lack of fast food.

Sometimes even Louie’s Lunch (the fast-food truck by Risley) can+not satisfy my intense desire for Taco Bell, McDonalds or Panda Express. Despite how strong my cravings are, I prefer to use the unlimited dining hall plan rather than Doordash or Postmates to satiate my appetite.

Eating at the dining halls around campus is a great way to save both your Big Red Bucks and regular money.

From this cheapskate mindset blossomed various creations of mine that are intended to mimic your favorite fast foods.

These are what I refer to as my “fast food dupes”.

Dupe is short for duplicate, and is widely used to reference any sort of substitute that works the same, but is cheaper than the original item. A fast food “dupe” is a recreation of a particular fast food item that is made using ingredients in the dining hall that taste and appear nearly identical to the original food.

is the sauce.

For this dupe, go to North Star and grab both a plate and a bowl. On your plate, lay as many crispy fries as your heart desires, and then add a heap of caramelized onions. Then in a separate bowl, add 3 pumps of mayo, ketchup and Thousand Island dressing. Mix and pour the sauce mixture over the fries and onions. Enjoy!

a plate and add a single omelet (with cheese preferably), a sausage patty and a pump of syrup. Go back to the toaster and grab your bagel. You now have 2 options:

1

Add cream cheese to one bagel. Place the omelet and sausage on top of it. Add the other bagel. You’ve just made an Egg McMuffin!

the cream cheese.

Dupe is short 2Skip Grab your bagel. Spread a dash of syrup over for duplicate, each side. Place the omelet and sausage on top of it. Add other and is widely the syrupy bagel. You’ve just created a McGriddle! used to House Waffle: Ever reference any Waffle wondered how you can turn your basic blasé waffle into sort of something worth eating? Grab plastic cups. substitute that 2Head first to the ice cream station, and scoop yourself whatworks the ever toppings you like. PersonI’d get a combo of Oreos and sprinkles for color. Then same, but is ally, head to the waffle station. Fill cup all the way with cheaper than upbatter.the Mix the toppings into the batter using a spoon. the original Pour the toppings-filled batter into the mold. Cook your item. waffle to perfection. Then, deSo, I present to you — my best fast food dupes!

In-N-Out Animal Style Fries: North Star Dining Room in Appel Commons has great fries, unlike In-N-Out burger. But still, sometimes I find myself drooling at the thought of an animal style burger and fries. The most important ingredient to animal style fries

McDonalds Breakfast Sandwich: Missing McDonalds? Me too. But just because McD’s is unavailable doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy your breakfast.

Head to Morrison Dining and grab a mini bagel (or two). Put them into the toaster, and go to the hot breakfast line. Grab

pending on whether you have a mild, moderate or extreme sweet tooth… add your toppings: Whipped cream, strawberries, syrup.. even ice cream.

Is this really breakfast? No. But it’s a Waffle House, not a health house!

McDonalds Oreo McFlurry: Grab a mug from Appel.

Scoop classic vanilla ice cream

and place into the mug along with a couple scoops of Oreos.

Use a spoon to stir the concoction together until the ice cream is melted and the Oreos are incorporated. Enjoy!

You can also do the same with M&M’s to resemble an M&M McFlurry.

Chipotle Bowl: Both Appel and Morrison have their own Mexican offerings. While Appel has the bowl option, which is most similar to Chipotle, Morrison (sometimes) has a taco bar in the grill section.

Both are great options for a basic bowl. I personally prefer the Morrison taco bowl, so let’s go with that.

First, grab a plate from the salad bar at Morrison. Add some spinach to the bottom of the plate(for health purposes). Then proceed to the cold toppings section of the taco bar. Add a heaping scoop of iceberg lettuce to your plate.

Then proceed to the hot line: Add grilled chicken, taco beef, riceand beans.

Ignore the glances of onlookers (they’re only watching you in envy…) who are wondering why you avoided the tortillas and taco shells. Head back to the cold line. Add sour cream, cheese and, of course, the habanero salsa. Grab another plate and head back to your table. Mix it together and enjoy! I personally think it tastes better than Chipotle.

Panda Express Orange Chicken Combo: Panda Express is amazing. But Cornell is even

better. At Okenshields, the wok station offers items you would see on any Panda Express menu. If you have a craving for Panda, head to Okenshields. Grab a plate. Add a heaping scoop of General Tso’s Chicken. It’s crunchy, juicy and so, so yummy. Add either the vegetable/tofu fried rice or the lo mein. Then add a serving of cooked veggies — broccoli, carrots, etc! Tastes almost exactly like Panda.

Izze Sparkling Drink: Are you a sparkling water fan? If not, one of the best hacks to make sparkling water taste a little better is by adding a splash of juice to form a fizzy, sweet concoction.

Go to any dining hall and add equal parts Bubly Lime sparkling water and apple juice to your glass. Swish your cup around, sip and enjoy!

Although fast food can be delicious and convenient, you can save money and maintain your health by making your own versions of your favorite commercialized treats in one of Cornell’s many dining halls.

Although some foods you create at the dining hall may still have a high calorie count, it beats fast food that is filled with preservatives and additives. Additionally, you can customize your fast food dupe to make your meal as healthy (or not) as you like.

Reva Rao is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at rr654@ cornell.edu

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Lifting the FeMale Gaze

was never so aware of my womanhood (should we call it femininity?) until I came to Cornell. My guy friends remind me that I am a woman when they offer to walk me back home in the dark.

This reminder is sort of a friendly one (although the idea that I need protection is not entirely comforting to me — that this protection is available to me, should I want it, is nice). My self-proclaimed feminist friends remind me of my womanhood, too, but they do so largely in a self-victimizing way with which I’m much less comfortable.

Sometimes I joke that I’m an anti-feminist, not at all because I am opposed to female empowerment but precisely the opposite. I don’t know exactly when feminism started to confuse itself with female victimization, but I noticed it more than ever speaking to self-proclaimed feminists at Cornell.

I experienced a particularly strong aversion to feminism during a disturbing conversation with one of my feminist friends.

After class one day, I asked my friend what she thought about our (male) professor.

Her response was somewhat hilarious: “He’s always looking at my boobs.” What

glanced at a single boob the entire time. It was amazing how two women experienced the world so differently. I feel sorry for the woman who thinks she is constantly the object of male desire. She flatters herself while at the same time objectifying herself in a self-deprecating way. Women like her victimize themselves within patriarchal constraints, making them just as complicit to the existing standards as men.

Perhaps I shouldn’t blame feminism for my friend’s absurd conclusion. Some might say that I should blame the source, that is, the proverbial “man” or the patriarchy, for making her think she and I might only be as successful as our boobs are big.

But I find fault with this rationalization.

My friend victimized herself, without any actual evidence that the professor was being predatory. A woman like her does not need a man to feel oppressed — she oppresses herself.

If we think that every man is out to get us, we live an isolated and fearful I feel sorry for the life. Conversely, if we woman who thinks she think that every man is constantly the object desires us, we live a of male desire. She dilusional life. flatters herself while at Women have been conditioned to conthe same time sider men as one of two things: Pursuers or the latter more so for our own objectifying herself in a predators, safety, which is not at all trivial. By this perception, women understand themselves depricating way. as either the pursued or the prey. was most surprising about this was that she didn’t even seem wildly creeped out by her own comment. What followed from her was even better: “You’ll get an A. You’re pretty, and you have nice boobs.”

While I was flattered by the compliment, I was also stunned by her nonchalance.

She seemed indifferent about the whole situation, almost as if she had resigned to her own objectification.

I was skeptical of my friend from the onset, as I had heard her speak about other male professors this way before.

Was every male professor looking at her boobs? I thought it unlikely but, giving her the benefit of the doubt, during the next class, I paid particular attention to our professor’s gaze. Not once did the professor’s eyes fall on her chest or mine.

I made the same note every consecutive class for about a week after. He hadn’t

This sort of binary thinking is detrimental to women (as well as men) for reasons that are too exhaustive to list in this article.

Put simply, when women objectify themselves, they make themselves more vulnerable to the very men that they criticize. Similarly, when women victimize themselves, they become their own assailants.

If we think that every man is out to get us, we live an isolated and fearful life.

Conversely, if we think that every man desires us, we live a delusional life.

Learn to silence the part of your brain that tells you that your male friends only like you because they are into you. Learn to silence the part of your brain that tells you that your male professors gave you an A because they liked your boobs.

Playing the victim card becomes dangerous quickly in this game of life.

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C.U. Study Finds That Nanoparticles in Food May Affect Intestine Function and Microbiome

By BRENDA KIM Sun Contributor

Through a collaboration between Cornell and the State University of Binghamton in February, scientists found that food grade nanoparticles may potentially have detrimental effects on the function and shape of the intestine. This collaboration was funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Food grade nanoparticles are small metals used as coloring or anti-caking agents in food products. Anti-caking agents prevent the clumping of foods, such as powders.

The study focused on the nanoparticles titanium dioxide, silicon dioxide, zinc oxide and iron oxide. Titanium dioxide and silicon dioxide are two of the most commonly used nanoparticles in the food industry, whereas zinc and iron oxide are often used in supplements.

Despite the ubiquity of titanium dioxide and silicon dioxide in the food industry, there is a lack of transparency surrounding the amount people consume. Because the Food and Drug Administration does not require companies to report the presence of nanopar-

ticles on food labels, there is no accurate measurement for the amount people consume.

According to Prof. Elad Tako, food science and technology, this lack of regulation poses a potential problem.

“We consume them without knowing how much we consume nor the long term effects of consuming them,” Tako said.

However, Tako refrains from labeling all nanoparticles as detrimental to long term health, although he stated in his study there has been evidence that long-term consumption of titanium dioxide can pose health issues in the future.

The questions regarding how nanoparticles may affect digestion motivated their study that focused on exploring the effects of these nanoparticles on intestine tissue behavior, development, shape of the intestine and the microbiome of the intestine. The microbiome refers to the microbes, such as bacteria, that live in the intestine.

The Tako Lab observed a shift in bacterial populations in the intestine following the consumption of nanoparticles, as well as noted that titanium dioxide harmed the function of

the intestine.

Researchers saw that titanium dioxide led to a smaller surface area of the villi of the duodenum, which is important for digestion. The duodenum is a part of the small intestine that is responsible for absorbing nutrients from food.

As such, the small intestine villi, resembling hairlike projections, is especially important in maximizing surface area for greater absorption.

The researchers used Tako’s embryonic chicken model, injecting doses typical for a human into the prenatal chicken and collecting samples from the chicken’s intestines. The results revealed that even after a short period of exposure, the microbiome was affected, with increases in the populations of E.coli and other harmful bacteria following exposure to silicon dioxide, zinc and iron oxide.

The study observed the effects in vivo, or within a living organism, building on their previous study that focused on an in vitro, or cellular, system.

The scientists used chickens because they are genealogically similar to humans, as well as easier to manipulate due to the separate system of the embryo

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Chicken model | The Tako Lab injected doses of titanium dioxide into the intestines of the embryonic chicken model in order to view its cells.

when in egg form, compared Tako noted this limitation to other common model organ- of the study and explained isms such as rats. the scientists’ plans for fur“It is very naive, so it’s very ther research using a long term easy to test the effect of a spe- feeding trial to investigate what cific ingredient. In this case, effects are seen over a longer it was the specific food grade period of time, funded through nanoparticles, but not in the an NIH grant. context of a diet because you To continue reading this article, just introduce them [to the please visit www.cornellsun.com. embryo], and any results you collect are directly associated with the substance you introduced,” Tako said. “This makes Brenda Kim can be reached at the results or potential conclu- bmk86@cornell.edu. sions extremely accurate.”

Cornell Food Science Students Experience the Science of Confections Three Years Later

By JESSICA DAI Sun Contributor

Senior students in Food Science 1102: Leadership and Career Skills in Food Science, gathered for a dessert making event in December 2022 — an event that was scheduled to take place during their freshman year prior to the COVID-19 campus shut-

down during the Spring 2020 semester.

The confections event is part of the FDSC 1102 course, which allows students to apply topics learned in food science classes into real world scenarios, such as preparing candy.

Prof. Julie Goddard, food science, who teaches the career skills class, explained

the importance of the confections event for food science students to take their freshman year.

“Few people who come in are excited about 700 chemistry classes, but in this event, we link the sciences that drew you to the major,” Goddard said. “It’s also about team building and getting to know different communication

styles that can only be done in group learning activities.”

The teams worked on two creations, vegan gummy worms and butterfingers, which exposed students to key ingredients such as baking soda and pectin.

For example, students used the leavening agent baking soda when making butterfingers, which reacts with acid to release carbon dioxide gas bubbles, causing the cookie layer in butterfingers to rise.

“Few people who come in are excited about 700 chemistry classes, but in this event, we link the sciences the major.”

Pres. Julie Goddard

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Gummy candy | Gelatin is a protein that forms weak bonds with water and allows the thickening of liquid solutions, giving certain candy their chewiness.

event, however, students created vegan gummy worms by substituting gelatin with pectin, a fiber that is also used to thicken and gel foods.

“Pectin is a carbohydrate found mostly in raw fruit and, when added with sugar, creates the structural integrity and texture in gummy worms,” said Dane Allen ’23, a student in the class.

The senior class used these ingredients in making gummy worms and butterfingers to demonstrate how much they had grown throughout nearly four years in the food science program.

“I didn’t have concerns about fire, boiling sugar, safety and lab techniques,” Goddard said. “The students also now have experience communicating with professionals and know how to reserve the space and work with reimbursements.”

As the senior class graduates, the freshman class of 2026 will take part in the confections event in May, which Goddard will continue to lead.

Meanwhile, gummy worms are chewy, non-crystalline candy that lack a defined form and typically use gelatin — a protein that forms weak bonds with water — to allow the thickening of liquid Jessica Dai can be reached at solutions. In the confections jrd299@cornell.edu.