NEED COMPUTER ACCESS? Mann Ubrary opens a 'course-free' computer lab for stUdents,students, relievingrelieVing some congestion on the information superhighway.
A DAY AT THE FAIR The governor honors retiring Dean David L. Call, and President Rawlings tours Cornell exhibits at the State Fair.
Returning Cornell students register online, not in line
By Larry Bernard cally by computer, and from wherever they students may take advantage of enhanced line. Then, they would have to go elsewhere are, even from their homes. features that eliminate the need for valida to clear up the hold and return again to lines Students returning to Cornell face regis Cornell offices ofStudent and Academic tion stickersstickers. on their ID cards. Charlayne for registration. tration with about the same enthusiasm as Services, University Registrar, Bursar, Fi Beavers ofthe University Registrar's office But now,now,""JustJu t the Facts" on BearAccess they do a surprise exam. But this year, they nancial Aid and Student Employment, with is project manager of the "Just the Facts" shows whether they are regiregisteredtered or ifthere have a welcome surprise: They can register staff from Cornell Information[nformation Technolo- Management Team. is a "hold" on their eligibility. Bear Access online instead of in line. . gies/Informationgies/lnformation Resources (CIl)(CIT) and its In the past, continuing studentstudents - stutu is the Internet-based suite of network serer Responding to student needs, a team of Project Mandarin Inc. team, have worked dents returning for another semester - had vicesforinformationandaccevices for information and accesssonon coursecourses,, staff members from several Cornell units together to improve students' access to their to wait in line to get a sticker on their ID the World WideWeb, news and chat groups, has improved the process students mustmu t go accounts, both academic and financial. cards showing they were registered. Ifthere the library catalog and other databases. through to pick and choose courses and to Using "Just the Facts," the more than was a "hold" on their registration - for "Students can log on to any computer register. No longer do continuing students 2-year-old user-based service that lets stu unpaid bills, unpaid tuition, academic, health wherever they are and look up their registra have to wait in long queues to check if they dents view information about their Cornell or disciplinary reasons - they would not tion status," said David S. Yeh, assiassistanttant vice are registered- now they can do it electronelectroni-i- status on the Bear AccessAcce s menu, returning have known that until they were through the Continued on page 2
Rawlings and freshmen enter 'new frontier'
By Dennis Shin '96 HavingHavi ng moved into dorm rooms the day before, new students poured into Barton Hall on Saturday to hear President Hunter RawlingsgreetRawlings greet the entering class 00,200 freshmen and their families during the university's traditional Convocation cer emony. A highlight ofthe annual orienta tion program for new students, the president's address officially welcomed the Class of 1999 to campus. Comparingthe new Cornellians to pio neers standing "at the edge of a new frontier full of promise," Rawlings em phasized the importance of students tak ing an active role in shaping the course of their education. "It is not enough to be here soaking up knowledge in lecture halls. You have to be more than a sponge."advised Rawlings. He encouraged students to immerseimmer e themselves in the rich and vibrant intel Adriana RO~'ersIUni"ersityRo~ersJUnl\'er lIy Photography lectual environment that Cornell provides.provide. President Hunter Rawlings converse.converses with students at the President'.President's Reception on the Arts Quad Aug. 27. Describing the university as "a place of great popossibilitiessibilities and yet paradoxes,"paradoxe ," Rawlings invited students to explore their self to the entering frosh and shared hihis affected by it from the very beginning as intellectual vitality on campus and new home in such ways as attending lec own experience of arriving at and adapt Elizabeth and I have been," he said. strengthening the bondsbond between teach tures, volunteering in the community and ingingtoto Cornell. Citingsuchuch ritesofpassage Oneofhis chiefpriorities as university ing and research. participating in extracurricular activities.activitie . as scaling the infamous Libe Slope and president, Rawlings announced at Con La!Lastly,t1y, Rawlings assured the entering IfRawlings appeared to speak with the strollingthrough the Plantations, hespoke vocation, will be to enhance Cornell's class that his door would always be open. bright-eyed enthusiasm ofa Cornell fresh ofthe numerous ways in which he and his reputation as a university that "puts stu He stressed the importance of maintain man, perhaps it was because, in a number wife spent their first weeks here getting dents firsl."Demonfirs!." Demonstratingtrating his dedication ing clearlines ofcommunication between of ways, he is one. Having succeeded acquainted with the university. to the scholarly development ofstudents, students,tudents, faculty and the administration. President Frank H.T. Rhodes thisthi sum "Theintellectual energy ofthis place is he asked them to join him in an educa He promised to keep in close contact with mer, Rawlings jokingly compared him- contagious - and I[ hope you will be as tional partnership aimed at improving the Continued on page 4
Birds offer clues to human family dynamics, biologist Emlen finds we understand when biological tendencies gists and anthropologists will have trouble long evolutionary history of living in ex By Roger Segelken are working against us, we can sometimes with the notion that many of our most cru tended family groupgroups.".n Each time the story ofa stepfather or a intervene and effect a better outcome." ciallifecial life decisions are influenced by natural Emlen's Prediction 9 - based on numer new boyfriend harming his mate's chil Emlen spent more than 10 years study rules-rules-rulesrules that were molded by evolution ous animal studies but proved almost daily dren hits the headlines, one Cornell bi ing the organizational structure and social ary forces during our pre-industrial history by human affairs - states that "replacement ologist is not surprised. interactions of birds that live in complex, of living as hunter-gatherers. breeders (as step-parents are known) will Stephen T. Emlen, author ofa new theory extended families before he issued 15 pre "["I don't disagree that human behavior is inveinvestt less in existingexi ting offspring than will of family social dynamics that explains the dictions that may be applied to human fam stronglytrongly shaped by our current cultural en biological parents." The prediction addadds., evolutionary roots ofbehaviorssuch as infan ilyaffairs. vironment," Emlen said. "But we have "They may infanticidally kill current young ticide, has seen bird families act similarly. The 15 predictions and Emlen's "Evolu much more to draw on. Humans also pos when such action speeds the occurrence, or "As horrible as it seems, infanticide for tionary Theory ofthe Family" are published sess a set of biologically based predisposipredi posi otherwise increases the successuccess,, of their the perpetrator can be ·adaptive''adaptive' in the evo in the Aug. 29 issue ofthe journal Proceed tions for interacting with relatives. That own reproduction." Replacement breedersbreeder lutionary sense," said Emlen, professor of ings ofthe NatiollalNational Academy ofSciences. biological heritage is based on flexible decidcci- do not gain a fitness benefit when they help neurobiology and behavior. "However, if He expects that somesociologists, psycholo- sionion rules that were adaptive during our Continued on page 6'6- 2 August 31, 1995 Cornell Chronicle
BRIEFSRIEFS Community welcome
• CampusCampu Club: The CornellCornelJ CampusCampu Club illilJ break \\ ith tradition next week hen it l pen the year with~ ith a morning offeeotic in.teadin. tead of the uualu,ual FallFalJ Tea. The offeeoffcc \\ ill take place ept. 7 from]from 100 a.m. to n m n ,Itat th"th heratonh raton Inn & onference C nter,nt r, adpcemadjaceOi to the Triphammer Plaza. 1Thhe dub',club's newne\\ honorary president, Eliza hbethth Trapnell Rawling.,Rawlings, wife\\ife of Cornell Pre,identPre. idcnt Hunter Rawlings, wilJwill be present tllto grcetthoegreet those attending. During the coffee, guestsgue.1. may join CampusCampu Club and 'ignign up for it·it manyman) activity and service'ervice groups.group..The duhc1uh al.also0 sponsors a lecture series and sevev eral s(socialial eventse"enl. throughout the year. The Campuampu lub i. an organization open to \\\\omenm 'n in the Cornellom II community, includ ing tru,tru. tee.tee, facult),tacult), staff,taff, graduate tudent.tuden!. and ththe . pou.pauses of men in thesethe e categories.
• EnglishEngli h teachers: Interested in help 109ing people from foreignfor ign countries associ atedat U with\\ith the Cornell community? The CornellomelJ CampusCampu Club has a program for AdrianaAdriano RO~'CTs!Unh'CTsityRovers/Univcrsity PhotographyPlrotography teateachinghing English as aeconda second language to Yukiko Matsuda, first-year graduate student from Japanmajoring in public affairs, talks with Richard DoigeDolge from pper.onr.on temporaril)temporarily 10in Ithaca. The classescia es the Tompkins County TNstTrust Co. on Aug. 25. Dozens ofmerchant, community and campus groups introduced their requirer ljuire a two-hour commitment per week.week, services and products to students during the fourth annual infonnation fair last week on Ho Plaza. plus preparation. For more information con tact Ann Marie Dullea at 277-248277-2488 or Joan McMinnM Minn at 277-0013.
• English classes: RegistrationRegiMration for free English classesclas e sponsored by the Cornell Campusampus Club will take place today (Aug. OBITUARY 31), from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the One World Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. There iis a $10 reg;registrationtration fcc.fee. Classeslasses begin Sept.ept. 5. For Peter Gergely, Cornell profeprofessorsor of Buffalo sinceinee itsit inception in 1986,]986, and sand.sands of young engineersengineer. through his in further information call Ann Marie Dullea civil and environmental engineering, died played key roles in developing new seismic spired teachingteachingandadvi.and advisingingofundergraduofundergradu ates and graduate students. He co-authored at 277-24'277-24 S or Joan McMinn at 277-0013. at his home on Aug. 25, after a long battle provisions for eastern states and in workiworkingng with cancer. He was 59. with national agencieagencies in developing new a three-volume undergraduate textbook se • English skills: Visitingi iting academicians Gergely, who taught at Cornell for 32 and improved seismic design philosophies ries (John Wiley) in the 1970s. e king to impro\ieimprove English-languagengli 'h-Ianguagekillskills year,years, made major contributions to a wide and codes. He has published more than 100 He consistentlycon istently ranked in the top group can take a non-credit cour e Tue days and variety of structural engineering prob technical papers. of Cornell engineering faculty.faculty,and thisthi' Thursday',Thun.days, ept.19toept. 19 to ov.30.Feeiov. 30. Fee i $450. lems, ranging from design procedures that He was born in Budapest, Hungary, on year he received a Dean's Prize for Excel Registration deadline isi Sept. 14. Call Donna have been adopted by national building Feb. 12. 1936, a son of the late Maria and lence in Teaching. Colunioolunioatat the choolhool offContinuingContinuing Educa codes to complex.complex seismicei mic analyses and Istvan Gergely. He entered the Technical Noo funeral service will be held. A tion and ummer Sessionsesion at 255-7259. design solutionsolutions for nuclear reactor fa University of Budapest in ]1954954 and was a memorial service is scheduled for Satur cilities. He was consultant on more than freedom fighterfighterduringtheduri ng the Hungarian Revo day, Sept. 16,]6, at 4 p.m. in Alumni Audi 20 major projects. lution of ]1956,956, leaving Hungary at the very torium, Kennedy Hall. HisHi reresearchearch led to important advances in end of the Hungarian resistance to the So Survivors include his wife,wife. Kinga, son understanding the mechanicsmechanic of reinforced viet invasion to come to North America. Zoltan, daughter lila and her husband, CORRECTION and prestreprestresseded concrete, with emphasis on Gergely studied civil engineering at David Burbank, and a grandson, Istvan using research results to improve building McGill University in Montreal and the Uni Burban!.Burbank(all ofIthaca), and a sister,ister, Agota, codes. He alsoal. 0 made pioneering contribu versity of Illinois. He came to Cornell im of Pecs, Hungary. In last week's Chronicle article about new tions in structural dynamics, earthquake mediately after receiving his Ph.D. in 1963. Contributions in Gergely's memory may faces on campus, we inadvertently left out the engineering and hazard mitigation, particu He became chairman of the DepartmentDeparlment of be made to either Hospicare of Tompkins university's new counsel, James J. Mingle, larly for structures and facilities built in Structural Engineering ()(1983-88)983-88) and di County,County. 172]72 East King Road, Ithaca, N.Y. \\ho slartedstarted in his Cornell postpt)st in carlyearly Au regions of moderate seismicity. rector of the School of Civil and Environ 14850, or to the Peter Gergely Seminar gust. PreviouslyPre" iou,ly general counsel for the UniUni- Gergely was one of the primary leaders mental Engineering (1985-88). Series and DistingUIshedDistinguished Lectureship in versityrsity of Virginia.Virginia, Mingle110gle alsoal serves:erves asa<; ofthe Nationalational Center for Earthquake Engi As an educator, Gergely was instrumen Structural Enginecring,Engineering. c/o Marsha Pickens, ecretaryretary of the corporation at Cornell.Comell. neering Research headquartered at SUNY- tal in theIhe Irainingtraining and development of thou- Carpenter Iiali.JJail.
Register online continuedcOl/lil/ued from page J Cnronicle president for Studenttudent and Academic Services always with up-to-the-minute status; check work on for the last two or three years,"year...," said (SAS) who spearheadsspearhead' the process. financial aid status; kecpkeep track of work H. David Lambert, Cornell vice president H,H~nnknn!. . Dull a. ViceVi~ By Susan J. Barnes Here is good news for Cornell students who never can seem to find an open com puter: Mann Library has opened a computer lab that is "course-free"-open to individual students at all times and never reserved for regular class instruction. In collaboration with Cornel/InformationCornell Information Technologies (CIT) and the Col/egeCollege ofAgri culture and Life Sciences, the new lab willwil/ relieve congestion some students may experi ence on the information superhighway. . "This new facility isi evidenceevidenceofaofa further commitment to supporting student comput ing, to providing facilities needed by stu dentsdent as computing embeds itself in every course they take," said Jan Olsen, director of Mann Library. "Unlike the College of Agriculture's othercomputer facilities, this one won't be usedu ed for regularly scheduled classes-leavingclasse -Ieavinga'as many asa59494 hourshoursaa week available for use by individual students." The new lab will contain 20 Macinto.Macintoshh IIci's, provided by the College of Agricul ture. Formerly in the Riley Robb microcom puter center, these computers have been upgraded by CIT to 250 megabytes of hard disk drive space and 12 megabytes of ran dom access memory. Through computer networkinetworking,ng, they wiwillII have BearAccess and the Mann Library Gateway. The library is expected to hire 15 student part-time assis Adriana RO~'ers/UnillerRo-.:ersiUniversityity Photography tants for the lab. Jan Olsen, left, director of Mann Library.Library, overove...... the installationin.tallation of the new undergrauate computer lab with, center, Bill Kehoe, microcomputer center a.sistant,assistant, and Dean Sutphin, as.ociateassociate dean and director of academic program.programs In CALS. "Faculty have done such a tremendous job of integrating instructional technology into their teaching that the college's com "As more professors demand electronic Library, microcomputers are used about library instruction during the day and for puting labs are becoming occupied by that research best done on computercomputers,, the col 70,000 times annually -an- an average ofabout open access all other times. That has been teaching," said Dean Sutphin, Cornell asso lege has an ever-increasing need for more 200 users a day. This lab sometimes is usedu ed very successful." ciate dean and director of academic pro workstations," Kehoe said. "In this lab, stu for classes, Cornell Cooperative Extension Regenstein once had believed that as grams in the College of Agriculture. "We dents get technical support that is not avail and other projects. private ownership of computers increased, had to do something to ensure that students able when they are using their own comput The collaboration, said Carrie Regen the need for such labs would decrease. "But had the opportunity to do their work. Heavy ers at home. They also have access to soft stein, CIT associate director for instruc we haven't seen that at all. It's been justju t the student use of the existing labs provided us ware they don't own themselves, plus ac tional services, is useful for all parties. "It opposite," she said. "Although roughly 60 with an early indicator of demand that ex cess to high-speed network connections." brings us lots ofbang for the buck, a way of percent ofstudents own computerscomputer here, we ceeds our current capacity." The lab is open to all ComeJlians,Comellians, but it making technology available where it will have not yet seeneen portable computers that Bill Kehoe, microcomputer ccntercenter assis will be especially useful for students in the be used as much as possible," Regenstein are so light that they can be comfortably tant, noticed what the educators also had colleges ofAgriculture and Human Ecology. said. "This model of service is similar to carried up hills, much less across the ice in seen: well-usedwell-u ed computer labs. At the original computer lab in Mann Uris Library, where the lab is used for the winter." Bathrick hopes to bridge gap between Theatre ArtsArls and campus David Bathrick, professor of film and hundred years, but with a new kind of German studies, has been named chair .. stagingshowing interesting useuseoftheofthe text man of the DepartmentDcpartment of Theatre Arts. orinteresting examplesexample ofEuropean stage He succeeds Bruce Levitt,Lcvitt, who had design." Bathrick also mentioned the pospo served as chairman since 1986. Levitt sibility ofbooking foreign dramatic tour will return to the faculty next year after ing groupsgroup that could perform in EnglishEngli h a yearlong sabbatical.abbatical. or in their native languages. Bathrick, who joined Cornell in 1987 Another major goal ofBathrick'sBathrick' will after 17 years at the University ofWiscon be to buildbuiId a strangerstrongergraduate program in sin, looks forward to seeing the depart theater studies. "I think the interchange ment foster a closer relationship with the between the graduate program and the academic life on campus.campu . undergraduate program setset the intellec "Somctimes"Sometimes the bridge between cam tual tone of a department," he said, add puspu andandCollegetowncanCollegetown can seemeemverywide,"very wide," ing that getting the best students and Bathrick said, referring to the the Center expanding the program will be an impor for Theatre Art (CT(CTA)A) location across tant base for anything the department the gorge from main campus.campu . "We oftcnoften does. "Ours iis not a large graduate pro mount productions at the centcrcenter that are gram, but to me it's very important to the related not only to coursework,courscwork, but to spirit of the department." general scholarly projectprojects on the campus, He hopeshope also to promote the creation and in someorne ca es the connection bctweenbetween ofa graduate film program on campucampus by the two never gctsget made." building on the strength of the under Bathrick cites cross-disciplinary post graduate film concentration and the pres performance discussions, conferences.conference , ence of Cornell Cinema. lecturcslectures and involvement with such orga Bathrick is thcthe author of dozens of nizations as the Society for the Humani papers and several books, including The ties as somsomc of the ways to encourage Powers ofSpeech: The Cultural Poli interchange between the department and tics ofthe GDR, which focuses on the the academic community. social function of literature and culture "What we've discovered sinceince we've in the politics of East Germany. He iis been in this building is the extent to which editor ofNew German Critique, a pub courses that were originally thought ofas lication he co-founded at the Univer just theater arts courses really serveerve the sity of Wisconsin.Wiscon in. interests and needsofstudcntsstudentsacrosscam In addition to his 17 years at Wiscon pus," he said. "For instance, engineers Adriana ROllers/UniversityROllers/Unillersity Photography sin, Bathrick has been affiliated with the and architecture students arcare taking light Prof.ssorProfe••or David Bathrick at the Center for Theatre ArtArts.•• Goodman School of Drama in Chicago. ing and scenic design courses. I think we Bathrick earned a bachelor's degree can more actively pursue courses that iis to educate people about issues they Ithaca community. from Dartmouth College (1959) and a cross over into other disciplines." might not find in normal theaterofferings, "We might put on a production of Ph.D. from the UniversityUniver ity of Chicago According to Bathrick, one of the by experimentingwith newkindsofworksnew kindsofworks Goethe's Faust that would be produced (1970). He also attended Free University dcpartmentdepartment's's goals as a producingtheater or bringing in theater groups new to the not as Faust has been done for the last in West Berlin, Germany. 4 August 31, 1995 Cornell Chronicle Kramnick examines role ofuniversities Cornell welcomfwelcomE By Dennis Shin '96 What goesgoe on far above Cayuga's waters? Speaking to an audience of new students and parents in Bailey Auditorium duringfreshman orientation on Aug. 26, IsaacI 'aac Kramnick examined that question and explored the dynamic role ofuniversitieuniversities in modern America. Kramnick isi chair of the Government Department and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. To understand what universities do, Kramnick encouraged students to go to the Eddy Street gate,gate. which sets off Cornell from Collegetown, where they will find an inscription reading, "So enter that daily thou mayest be come more learned and thoughtful."thoughtfuL" Universitiesoften have such gates, he explained, in order to remove stu Kramnick dents from the rest of the world and educate them in isolation. Even Cornell's alma mater depicts this separatism in its second verse, Kramnick noted. "But that is by no means all that colleges and universitiesuniversitie do," he said. The university exists in today's society as a dynamic institutionin titution that serveserve a great number of purposes, many of which are not obvious,obviou , according to Kramnick. With the development ofthe university in the post-Civil War era, new purposes of higher education evolved as schoolschools set out to make their students more useful and implemented practical training in addition to traditional liberal artarts education. "Cornell University,University. in fact, in its early years required all students to do manual work on campus in order to learn usefulu eful mechanical skills," Kramnick said. "We did, by the way,~ay, abandon thithis requirement some time ago." Besides educating students and preparing them for the professionalprofes ional world, Kramnick listed various other roles society designates to the American university. In a way, Kramnick observed, the university takes over as a parent,parent. and it serves as the "custodian of high culture and good taste, which it papasses. es on to each new, barbaric television-crazed freshman class." It also provides for class mobility since a university education offers individuals tickets ofentry to higherstatus.status, both socially and economically. Unintentionally, the uni versity further servesserve· asasaa political forum in which the major issuesis 'ues of the day are tried and debated. As an example,example. Kramnick pointed out how college campuses have led the struggle to promote gender and racial equality in the United Statestate si nce the 1960s. "Thecollege and the university in America have become perhaps the mostmo·t crucial agent in the socialization ofyoung people," Kramnick stated. During his lecture, Kramnick added that the inscription on the inside ofthe Eddy Street gatecontinues with aseconda second line, which reads,reads. "So depart that daily thou mayest become more useful to thy country and to mankind." Rawlings continued from page I students by making himself accessible and also by visiting them at their residencere idence halls. The open invitation seemed to strike a chord with his audience.audience. ."I,\ really like him. He's very enthusiastic, and his speech made me feel very welcome," said Samantha Sherman, a freshman in the College ofAgriculture and Life Science.Sciences. "Rawlingsstrikes me as a very dynamic speaker," added EngineeringCollegeCollegcfreshmanfreshman Dennis Chow. "Itseems like he cares aboutahout the students and he wants to learn from them, too. It's a two-way street,street. and I like that." More than 3,000 members of the CiaCI' Besides offering advice to the incoming class,class. the presi last week, unloading truckloads of I dent also addressed the parents. Referring to his own four campus and each other at numeroLlInumero&ll children, the youngest of which is in college, Rawlings top: Hamilton Ho, right, of Medford, I• reminded parents to keep in touch with their new Cornellians.Corncllians. with the aid ofDave Kennedy of Balti the "slap·and.scream""slap-and-scream" technique at i "He spokespo,,"e on two levels which connected with both the in white T·shirt,T-shirt, carries clothes tohilh;l students and the parents. We thought that was a nice touch, '91; Human Ecology Dean FranciU.FranciUe andund it made us immediately like him," said Jim and Ann Sunday's President's Reception; I·!I-~ Silvius.ilvius. parents of engineering student Mark Silvius. Sing; parents lend a valuable helpi~ When asked if there was one particular message he hophopedd to convey to the entering class, President Rawlings said emphatically, "Participate actively in your education. There arc so many resoureesresources here available to the students, .. and it is to their advantage to make use of them." • With his own orientation wrapping up and the freshman PhotG one under way, Rawlings seemed to share in the anxiety and thrill of emharking on a new experience together with the Adria"Adriar1 last Cornell class of the 20th century. "This isanis an exciting time to he at Cornell," Rawlingssaid. ..• "It's impossibleimpossihle not to feel that sense of excitement as you walk around campus." Cornell Chronicle Au ust 31,1995 5 ESP is real, professor thehe Class of1999 tells freshmen, parents By Roger Segelken FreshmenFre hmen and families attending a Saturdayaturday afternoon orientation lecture on extrasensory perception (ESP) by psychology ProfessProfessorr DaryDarylIJ. Bern got a lesson in scientific objectivity and scholarly inquiry by a man who knows how to fake ESP but usuallusuallyy doesn't. Now one of the world's leading researchers in the parapsychology question of whether ESP is real and the first to publish positive results in a mainstream psychology journal, BemBern was a magician performing mentalist tricks on stage long before he was a psychologist -since- sinc age 17, in fact. His magician's skill at making others believe mental telepathy wawas occurring when it wasn'twasn t eventually led to hihis serious examination of the phenomenon, he told the audience in AlumniAuditorium. "In order to do ESP research, you have to have tenure."tenure," the tenured pro fessor began,began. giving the frefreshmen'hmen an early introduction to to the academic world they are about to enter. Under graduates make the best reresearchearch as sistants in ESP research becausegradu ate studentstudentsand postdoctoral research ers can't afford to risk their reputa- Bem tions,tion , BemBern noted. When he writes letters ofrecommendation for undergraduatesundergraduate who assisteda. si ted him in the so-called ganzfeld experiments, he said the letters' recipients may think, "That's"That' a pretty cockamamie thing to do but at least you know how to collect data." Like a typical lecturing professor, Bem'firstBem"first defined his terms. "Psi"is the scientific term for any anomalous process of information or energy transfer. The term includes telepa thy (receiving information from another person), clairvoy ance (knowledge ofan event that no one elelsee perceives) and precognition (knowing of an event before it happens), asa well as psychokinesispsychokine is (a mind's control over matter).matter), Ihethe psychologipsychologistt noted. "Who" he asked rhetorically, "be lieves this kind of stum"stuff?" About 50 percent ofofthethe American public believe in EPESP and other psip i phenomena, according to a Gallup poll, and among college-educated Americans, 66 percent believe. The believer rate for college profesprofessorsor. in generalgen ral is Ihethe same 66 percent, but for ppsychologistsychoJogists the number drops to 34 percent. "Psychologists don't believe in it," Bem .said,aid, "and neither doesd es Carl Sagan." To scientists whosay ESP is an impossibility, BernBem said, "."I say shame on them." Newew and seemingly impossibleimpos ible scientific phenomena are being proved to be true all the time, he said, noting that until the early 18th century, most scientists didn't believe in meteorites. Not that psi can't be faked, Bem said, describing how clever psychics manage to give such personalized readings. "And the advice psychics give is usually rea<;onabiereasonable - about as good as you get from counselors," he said "You just shouldn't be paying $2.99 a minute (on a 900 call) for it." Bem,Bern, the magician/psychologist who once studied to be a physicist, said he got involved in p,psiireresearchearch through parapsychologistparap ychologist Charles Honorton. BemBern waswa asked to find any way Honorton or his experimental ubjects in ganzfeld (or total field sensory isolation) test·tests could be faking. He couldn't; the magician was convinced the experiments were scientifically valid, and he collaborated with Honorton on examining his and other' ganzfeld tests of ESP.ESP. In the now-standardized ganzfeld ESP test, "receivers"• receiver" have a one-in-four or 25 percent chance ofcorrectly guessgues ing the information supposedlyuppo edly being transmitted from the mind of the"the "sender."'ender." However, in more than 60 ESP experiments conducted by parapsychologists,parapsychologi ts, including Bern, a statistically,statistically significantignificant 33 percent of"receivers"get . 99 joined the Cornell community the message. The surprising results from the Honorton I"~Snt!s and getting acquainted with atlo.,atlon events. Clockwise from the BemBern analysis of ESP experiments were announced to a .~l1sarts luggage to his residence hall 1993 national meeting ofthe American Association for theIhe lit left; Kena Richardson practices Advancement of Science (AAAS), shortly after IionortonHonorton !e"se!ense workshop; Daniel Howard, died, and were subsequently published in the journal Psyp:,y :It:Ithh the helpofalumnus MarkCisz chological Bulletill. ..'Igh chats with new students at Bem'sBern's experiments at Cornell continue,continue. he said, describ ~~h belts out a song at the Quad ing the ganzfeld experience. "Receivers" relax in a reclin ingchair, listening firstfir t to thethesoothingvoiceofasoothing voice ofa meditation instructor. Their eyes arcare covered by halved lable-tennistable-tennis balls while earphones play "white noise" 10to block other soundsounds.. "College students are always so sleep-deprivedleep-deprived they often fall asleep," BernBem said. IS'S by "Modern""Modern phyphysicsics has phenomena Ihatthat physicistsphyicists don't understand," Bem said.'aid. "At some point our view of how OVersaVers reality really works is going to change." In the meantime, Bern said, he is among the minority of psychologists. "I"~I am a believer," he stated. "People in my department are just amused. But they don't want to throw me out ... I) think:'think." 6 August 31, 1995 Cornell Chronicle Russian, N.Y. Arntzen named apple scientists president ofBTl will join forces By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. Charles J. Arntzen, a premier researcher By Linda McCandlessMcCandle s who is developing new medicinal uses for plants, on Friday becomes president and At Cornell'Cornell's. Agricultural ExperimentSta chiefexecutive officer ofBoyceThompson tion in Geneva, the end of the Cold War and Institute for Plant Research Inc. at Cornell, the.the subsequentubsequent breakup of the Soviet Union replacing Ralph W.F. Hardy, who retires means that horticulturist·horticulturists are now free to today (Aug. 31). collaborate on one ofthe great botanical con "I am personally troversies: the origin of the apple. The "gar pleased that the institute dens"den ,. ofmutual interest are wild apple forests hasattracted a leaderwith in the mountainousmountainou regionregions of Central Asia such outstanding scien where wild MaluMalus is concentrated. tific accomplishmentsaccompl ishments "Apple geneticgenetics and germplagermplasmm of wild and administrative expe Malus are of mutual interest in hybridiza rience," Hardy said.sajd. "His tion with MalusMalu domestieadomeslica to produceapples breadth of senior man- Arntzen with increaseddiseaincreased diseaseeandand insect resistance."re istance," agement experience in academe and indus saidaid Vladimir V. Ponomarenko, curator of try will provide a basis for strong leadership the Malus germgermplasmplasm collection at the N.!.N.J. for BTl."BT!." Vavilov ReResearchearch Institute ofPlant Industry K. Colton/NYSColtonlNYS Agricultural Expcrimcnt Station/Cornr:1IStation/Corncll Prior to coming to BTl, Arntzen was in t.\. Petersburg, RuRussia.·sia. Ponomarenko's From left,JimMcFerson, supervisor ofthe USDA·ARS Plant Genetic Resources professorofbiochemistry and biophysics "wildest dream" was to visit the 3,000 ac Unit, Phil Forsline, horticulturist and curator of the apple collection at PGRU, at the Albert B. Alkek Institute of Bio cecessionsions ofapple in the USDA-ARS collec and Vladimir Ponomarenko, curator of the apple collection at the N.I. Vavilov sciences and Technology at Texas A&M tion at Geneva.Geneva, as he did recently during a Research Institute of Plant Industry in St. Petersburg, examine the New York University, Houston. He also served as State AgriculturalAgricUltural Experiment Station's collection of M. sievers;;, a highly three-week"apple"tourt ur ofofthethe United States. resistant apple from Kazakhstan, which is being evaluated for resistance to adjunct professor in physiology at the Ponomarenko's botanical explorations apple scab, cedar apple rust and fire blight. University of Texas Medical School, for the origin'origins ofapple have taken him on 34 Houston. Before that, he was the deputy collecting missions throughout the entire Forsline is planning a return-trip to orientales, M. sieversii and M. baccata chancellor for agriculture and dean ofthe territory of the former USSR. They parallel Kazakhstan this fall with former Cornell wild species that contributed to the domes College of Agriculture and Life Sciences similarmissimilar missionsions madebymade by Philip L. Forsline, graduate student Elizabeth Dickson and tic apple as we know it. at Texas A&M University, and he also horticulturist and curator of the USDA James Luby from the University of Minne Apples of Western and Central Europe served as director of the Texas Agricul ARSPlant Genetic ReResourcesources Unit (PGRU), sota to make additional collections of M. (M. sylvestris) tend to be extremely resis tural Experiment Station. and Herb Aldwinckle, chairman of the De sieversii in areas that were not collected in tant to dry, hot summers and dry, cold One of the most noted examples of partment of Plant Pathology, who have previously. Ponomarenko will accompany winters. Apples of the Caucasus (M. Arntzen's research includes developing trekked to Kazakhstan and other middle them to certain locales. oriemalis)orientalis) are tall, late blooming trees that fruits and vegetables into low-cost delivery Asian countries on similar missions. PGRUPGRU During his weeklong visit at Geneva, produce prodigious quantitiesofbitter-tast systemsto replace costly and often-dreaded hostedho ted Ponomarenko along with Cornell's Ponomarenko conducted a seminar and ing fruit. Apples of Central Asia (M. injection vaccinations. "The hope is to make departments of Plant Pathology and Horti·Horti several roundtable discussions on his four sierversii) are resistant to a very hot, dry transgenic fruits or vegetables such as ba cultural Sciences. fold areas of interests: the Vavilov Insti climate and produce large red, yellow and nanas with antigens for diarrheal diseases Aldwinckle and Forsline have made pre tute; genetic resources of wild Malus of greeh,grech, bitter- and sweet-tasting fruits that ofchildren in developingcountries," Hardy liminary evaluations of samples of Malus the former USSR and their utilization in easily are stored for up to three months in said. "Usingplants to enhance human health sieversii for resiresistancetance to apple scab,cab, cedar breeding; origins and evolution of M. casual stone cellars. Apples of Eastern Si may be an increasingly important theme for apple rust and fire blight - all important domestica; and the current state of apple beria (M. baccata) are hardy in -40°C win plant science." diseasesdisea es to commercial apple growers in breeding in Russia. ters and grow multitrunked, extremely Looking out for humanity isi indeed part New Yorkstate.tate. IfM. sieversii is as resistant Ponomarenko showed Geneva horticul dwarfed forms that are productive after of the institute's mission. The institute's aas horticulturists sususpect,pect, it could be ex turists slides that amply demonstrated the only two years' growth. In the Far East, M. founder, Col. William Boyce Thompson, tremely important in the breeding of new incredibly diverse adaptations that apple manshurica produces cherry-size fruit in a discussed the relationship between plants diseadi ea e-resistant varieties at the Station. has made in Europe,Caucasus,Europe, Caucasus, MiddleMiddleAsia,Asia, very humidclimateon rocky salt-andsalt- and wind and human health almost 70 years ago. The "Ponomarenko is the most accurate Malus Eastern Siberia and the Far East. Apples swept cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. institute is the only major national indepen taxonomist in the former USSR," said range in size from berries to half-pounders; M. sieversii and other species have been dent not-for-profit plant research facility in Forsline. "Our plan at PGRU is to expand in colorfrom white to yellow, green and red; hybridized over thousands of years, noted the country. ourourcollectionscollectionsofthesespecies in collabora in taste from sweet to bitter; in flowers from Ponomarenko. In general, the species mi Under Hardy's leadership, the ininstiti tion with him. In additionaddition, we will visit common five-petaled varieties to multi grated along trade, silk and spice routes tute has flourished as one overwhelming collections in other areaareas of Russia like petaled to no petals at all; and in form from from Middle Asia into Eastern and then theme has come forward: the environ Maykop and Volgograd. We also may de single to multitrunked; from bush to 200 Western Europe - assessments with which ment. "Over 90 percent of our current velop three-way collaborations with col year-old tree. In his discussions, Ponomar horticulturists at the Experiment Station research projects relate to environmental leagues in China." enko concentrated on M. sylvestris,sylveslris, M. generally agree. concerns," Hardy said. Birds offer clues continued from page J rear offspring of previous breedings, the biologist noted, "If we consider even the possibility of heritable tenden because the offspring do not carry the step-parent's genegenes.•. cies for parents to invest slightly less in children who do not Other predictions deal with suchuch mattersasfamilyfamil y group share their genes (step-children), we can useusc this awareness stabilitytability and instability, assistanceas istance in the rearing of young, to detect possible symptoms of family stress much earlier, incest avoidance within families and disruptions expected before any serious problems occur," Emlen said. with the loss ofa biological parent. His new theory, Emlen The part of the theory that relates economic resources said,aid. tries to "Darwinize" the social-science field ofoffamilyfamily and chances of reproductive success to family size can lifelifetudiesstudies by adding an adaptive approach to complement predict widespread sl)cialsocial changes, as well, Emlen noted. current mechanisticand developmental approachesofstudy "A'"As betlerbetter economic opportunities come up, extended ing family function. families tend to 'disintegrate' into nuclear families," he Emlen's adaptive approach considers four factors to said. "This has happened repeatedly in industrial societies have been of special importance in the evolution of natural throughout the world. rules offamily interactions: genetic relatedness ofindividu And knowing what works for most families, human and als within and outside family groups, social dominance otherwise, can alert us to possible problems when we try a among such individuals, the benefits ofgroup living for the different model, the biologist said, pointing to single family and the probable success of independent reprOdUCreproduc parent situations. tion itif members leave the family group. "Female parents living in extended family situations Highly social birds, such as the white-fronted bee-caters have a built-in suPPOttsuppo~t group, consisting not only of their that Emlen studied in Kenya for eight years, make good male mate but also a network ofoffemalefemale relatives,"relative. ," he said. "animal models" for the study of human family dynamics, "When nuclear families became the norm, this female kin the Cornell biologist said. No other mammals, including the support group largely disappeared. And with the increase in non-human primates, form thelhe socially monogamoumonogamous ex divorce rates in recent decades, mothers often are losing the tended families that many humans have, but numerous bird support of their mates as well. species do, Emlen observed. "This is the type of family "Such a rapid change from extended family to single structure which, until very recently, typified virtually all parent parenting is without parallel in the animal kingdom," human societies." Emlen noted. "It constitutes a social experiment for which Animal behavior studies, he wrote in the National Acad we have no animal models. When a female of a species in emy journal article.article, "provide us with a valuable window NatalieNatalic Dcmo,,!:DemollE: which both parents typically provide care for offspring loses through which we can more easilyea<;ily view the fundamental Stephen Emlen, professor of neurobiology and behav·behav her mate, she often is unable to rear her dependent young biologicalhio/ogical rules lhalthat govern social interactions within family ior, studies birds in Panama. alone, and she seldom, if ever, continues to produce addi groups. By looking through this window, we can gain insights tional offspring without pairing again." into non-cultural factors that affect ourown social behaviors." problems, Emlen said. He cited, as an example, families with Human single parents should be aware, he said, that they A hellerbetter understanding of genetic predispositions might step-parents and step-children, and noted that step-children'tep-children arcare "participating in a new experiment - given our evolu help human-servicehuman-~ervice workers and parents predict and avert are more likely to get in trouhletrouble and drop out of school. tionary past." Cornell Chronicle August 31, 1995 7 A day at the Fair President Hunter Rawlings and representatives from the College of Agriculture and Life SciencesScience went to Syracuse for opening day ofthe Statetate Fair on Aug. 24. While there, they attended a Governor's Day Luncheon honoring state agriculture and retir ing Dean David L. Call,Call. and toured Cornell exhibits. Photographs by Adriana Rovers Gov. George Pataki greets ComellCornell President Hunter Rawlings and Vice President Henrik Dullea at opening day at the State Fair in Syracuse Aug. 24. Rawlings,RaWlings, right, meets with Richard T. McGuire, com Pataki, center, greets well·wishe,.well-wishe,. .tat the Governor's D.yDay Luncheon honorI,..honoring st.t.state missioner of the state Department of AgriCUltureAgriculture .ndand .griculture.agriculture. The govemorgovernor recognized retiring Dean David L. Call, .tat right with hi.his Markets, which organizes the State F.irFair each ye.r.year. wife, Mary. At leftlett is ComeCornellII trustee RichardRlch.rd C. Call.C.... During a tour of the Youth Building, which houses 4·H4-H exhibits and participants Dan Tennessen, assistant professor in the Department of from every county, Rawlings gets a lesson in "enviro-shopping" from Kerry Ann Floriculture .ndand OmamentalOrnamental Horticulture, explains his Newell and Alicia Johnson, youth participants in the New York City 4-H program. hydroponics exhibit. Gov. Pataki honors Dean Call for his years ofservice to N.Y. agriculture was served at the Governor's Day Lun Noting several of the dean's accom developed a state-of-the-art repository for By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. cheon honorihonoringngstateagriculture on Aug. plishmentplishments,, Pataki pointed out the Inte agricultural information. One of his mostmo t Before a few hundred of David L. 24. opening day ofthe 1995J995 State Fair in grated Pest Management program, "ini important decisions was to actively re Call's closest friends, colleagues and Syracuse. Cornell PrePresidentident Hunter tiated as a pioneer program to reduce the cruit minority students, faculty and staff. relatives, Gov. George E. Pataki saidaid last Rawlings alsoal 0 attended the luncheon and use ofchemicals in agriculture, is now a The governor praisedprai ed Call as an edu Thursday that the retiring educator was added his personal congratulations. national model."modeL" Pataki alsoal 0 indicated cator and visionary who "worked ag "richly deserving of our gratitude for a Richard T. McGuire, commissioner that the PRO-DAIRY program has been gre sively to ensureen ure future viability of job well done." After 17 years of stewtew of the state Department of Agriculture a boon to New York's dairy production. the food and agricultural system.y tern. While arding Cornell's College of Agriculture and Markets, presented Call with a $5,000 Call has enjoyed a 45-year association doing so, he has earned the heartfelt and Life Sciences (CALS), the dean of check- money rai ed from the luncheon with Cornell. ThedeanThedean 'saceomplishments'saccompli hment appreciation ofthe food and agricultural ficially steps down today (Aug. 3\).31). - to add to the David L. Call Ever-Green make for an extraordinarily long list;Ii,t; he community, as well as the citizens ofthe A heaping helping of praiseprai e for Call Ivy Fund. expanded CALS into biotechnologybiotechn logy and Empire State." 8 August 31,199531, 1995 Cornell Chronicle under 12), except for Tuesday night Cinema Off00 Building. The theme of this year's forum is "The Ave., call 272-5810. GenterCenter at the GenterCenter for Theatre Arts ($2) and Future of Unions"Unions· and will be addressed by Lynn Saturday Services: Orthodox, 9:15 a.m., Saturday or Sunday matinees ($3.50). Films are Williams, former president of the United Steel Edwards Room, ATH; Conservative/Egalitarian, heldin Willard Straight Theatre exceptwhere noted. workers ofAmerica, and Edward Cleary, president 9:15 a.m., Founders Room, ATH. of the New York State AFL-CIO. Thursday.Thursday, 8/3t8/31 Korean Church "La"laStrada" (1954), directed byFederico Fellini, Southeast Asia Program Sundays, 1 p.m., chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall. with Giulietta Masina and Anthony Quinn, 7 p.m. "A Publishing Episode in Vietnam in 1752 and "Outbreak'"Outbreak" (1995), directed by Wolfgang the Southeast Asia Program Today at Cornell," LatteLatte~day....day Saints (Mormon) Petersen, with Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman Keith Taylor, Asian stUdies,studies, Aug. 31,12:15 p.m., Discussions on the Book of Mormon: Wednes and Donald Sutherland, 9:30 p.m. Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. days,days. 7:30 p.m., 314 Anabel Taylor Hall. All are "Memories ofUnderdevelopment: Indonesia in invited to come and discover the religious writings Friday,Friday.9/t9/1 the lateLate Sukarno Period," Benedict Anderson, of ancient American cultures. "Before'Before Sunrise·Sunrise" (1995), directed by Richard government, Sept. 7, 12:15 p.m., Kahin Center, Sunday services: Cornell Student Branch, 9 Linklater, with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, 7 640 Stewart Ave. a.m., Ithaca ward, 1 p.m. For information, call 272 p.m., Uris. 4520,257-6835 or 257-1334. 'To"To Live" (1994), directed by Zhang Yimou, with Gong Li, 7:30 p.m. Muslim "Outbreak:"Outbreak," 9:15 p.m., Uris. Friday Juma' prayer, 1:15 p.m., One World ·Vertigo·"Vertigo" (1958), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Room, Anabel TaylorHall. DailyZuhr,Asr,Daily Zuhr, Asr, Maghreb with James Stewart and Kim Novak, 10 p.m. and Isha' prayers at218at 218 Anabel Taylor Hall. 'Pulp"PUlp Fiction" (1994), directed by Quentin Tarantino, with John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Protestant Cooperative Ministry Samuel Jackson, midnight, Uris. Sundays, 11 a.m., chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall. Saturday,Saturday. 9/2 Department of Music Sri Satya Saisai Baba "Outbreak,"'Outbreak: 7 p.m., Uris. • Sept. 1,8:151, 8: 15 p.m., Barnes Hall: A program of Sundays, 10:30 a.m., 319 N. Tioga St. For ·Casablanca·"Casablanca" (1942), directed by Michael 17th-century Italian and English music will be details call 273-4261 or 533-7172. Curtiz, with HumphreyBogartand Ingrid Bergman, performed by the Elizabethan Conversation (Su 7:30p.m.7:30 p.m. san Sandman, recorders, and ElerwoodDerwood Crocker, Zen Buddhist "To Live," 9:45 p.m. lute) and William Cowdery, chamber organ. sandSand Tuesdays,Tuesdays,5p.m.;Thursdays,6:45p.m.,chapel,5 p.m.; Thursdays, 6:45 p.m., chapel, "Before Sunrise,"Sunrise: 9:45 p.m., Uris. man, a music professor at Wells College, won a Anabel Taylor Hall. "Pulp Fiction:Fiction," midnight, Uris. National Endowment for the Humanities Study Grantthis summertowork on the music ofHildegard Sunday,Sunday. 9/3 von Blingen. Lutist Crocker also is a nationally "Before Sunrise," 7:30 p.m. acclaimed early instrument maker. He has builtthe "Casablanca," 9:45 p.m. luteand chamber organ to be played in the evening's concert. Cowdery is on Cornell's music faCUltyfaculty and Monday.Monday, 9/4 is the university choirmaster. All itemitems for the Chronicle Calendar should • Sept. 2, 8:15 p.m., Barnes Hall: The Sienko be submitledsubmitted (typewritten,(typewrillen, double spaced) by "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942), directed Viol Consort will perform all thefantasias for viols by campus mail, U.S. mail orin person to Chronicle by Orson Welles, with Joseph Cotten and Anne Henry Purcell (1659-1695) in commemoration of Calendar, Cornell News Service, Village Green, Baxter, 7 p.m. 840 Hanshaw Road. "Pulp Fiction," 9 p.m. the tercentenary of his death. The Sienko Viol Astronomy & Space Sciences Notices should be sent to arrive 1IOdays prior Consort grewoutoftheannual Cornell SummerViol "Bending Modes of Stellar Disks," Jerry to publication and should include the name and Tuesday, 9/5 Program, founded by John Hsu in 1970. Its main Sellwood, Rutgers University, Sept. 7, 4:30 p.m.,p.m.• telephone numbernumberofaofa person whocan be called "... and the Earth Did NotSwallowHim" (1994), focus is on French Baroque solo viol playing, but 105 Space Sciences. if there are questions. directed by Severo Perez, 7 p.m. other viol repertoires also are taken into consider Noticesotices should also include the subheading What You See Is What You Get Series: "Cut ation. Since 1985, the program has been supported Boyce Thompson Institute ofthe calendar in which the item should appear. ting Edge"Edge· (1995), various directors, 7:30 p.m., by the Carol T. Sienko Memorial Endowment Fund, Distinguished Lecture in the Life Sciences: CTA. and the ensemble is named in her honor. Members "Zoopharmacognosy: A 'Biorational' Strategy for "Badlands""Badlands· (1973), directed byTerrence Malick, oftheconsort include Martha Bishop, Selina Carter, Phytopharmaceutical Prospecting," Eloy with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, 9:15 p.m. Laurie Castellano, Roland Hutchinson, Brent Rodriguez, biological sciences, Sept. 6. 3 p.m., Wissick, Rosamond Morley and Hsu. Boyce Thompson Auditorium. Wednesday, 9/6 • Sept. 3, 8:15 p.m., Barnes Hall: Fortepianist "A Flame in my Heart·Heart" (1988), directed by Alain Malcolm Bilson and soprano Judith Kellock will Ecology & Systematics Tanner and Myriam Mezieres, with Mezieres, 7 end the weekend with songs by Johannes Brahms "Ecological and Evolutionary Implications of p.m.p.m (Wie Melodien, Dein blaues Auge, Nachtigal/,Nachtigall, Skeletal Variation in a Caribbean Soft Coral: Pat "Adjusting in Nicaragua: The World Bank IMF Standchen, An eine Aeolharfe, Der Tod and tern and Process," Jordan West, ecology & evolu and Community Development"Development· (1994), 48 mins., Sonntag) and Robert Schumann's Waldszenen, tionarytionarybiology,biology, Sept. 6, 4 p.m., A106Al06 Corson Hall. Cornell Dance Series and "School of Assassins"Assassins· (1995),18 mins., Latinlatin op. 82. In the second half of the concert, Kellock Singer, writer, choreographer and performer American Film Series, 8 p.m., Uris, free. will sing Schumann's Frauenliebe und-Iebenund-/eben and Fruit & Vegetable Science Meredith Monk will present ·Songs"Songs From the Hill," "Badlands," 9:30 p.m. will finish with Franz Schubert's Suleika, Dass sie "Thesis: The Influence of Postharvest Heat an evening of music and movement, Sept. 1 at 8 hier gewesen, Du Iiebstliebst mich nicht, LachenLaehen und Treatment on the Shelf-Life Qualities of Fresh Weinen, Die junge Nanne,Nonne, An die Nachtigall and p.m. Inin the Proscenium Theatre at the Center for Thursday,9nThursday, 9n Market Tomato," Chime Paden Wangdi, fruit & Theatre Arts.Arts Tickets are $10, $8 for students and "The lastLast Klezmer"KJezmer" (1994), directed by Yale Suleikas zweiter Gesang. vegetable science, Aug. 31, 4 p.m .. 404 Plant seniors, and are available at the center's box office Strom, 7 p.m. Science Building. or by calling 254-ARTS. "Kiss of Death"Death· (1995), directed by Barbet Bound for Glory "The Changing American Diet: Consequences Schroeder, with David Caruso, Samuel Jackson Sept. 3: Singer-songwriter and former Ithacan for Sustainability," Marvin Pritts, fruit & vegetable and Nicolas Cage, 9 p.m. Mark Rust will open up the 29th season of Bound science, Sept. 7, 4 p.m., 404 Plant Sciences. for Glory. The show runs Sunday nights from 8to8 to 11, with live sets at 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. Mechanical & Aerospace Admission is free and is open to everyone. Kids are Engineering always welcome, and refreshments are available. "Entrepreneurism - America's Best Weapon Bound for Glory is broadcast on WVBR-FM, 93.5 in Global Competition."Competition," Gordon Blankton, presi and 105.5. dent and CEO of Nypro Inc., Sept. 7,4:307, 4:30 p.mp.m.,.. 155 Olin Hall. Johnson Art Museum Microbiology The Herbert F. Johnson Museum ofArt, on the "Feline Immune Deficiency Virus Infection.Infection' cornercomer ofUniversity and Central avenues, is open • Late registration: Bring student 10 card to Vaccination Studies and Antiviral Therapy," Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. the University Registrar's Office, 222 Day Hall, and Herman Egberink, FacultyFacully of Veterinary Medicine,Medicine. Admission IS free. Telephone: 255-6464. go to the Graduate School for course enrollment. Utrecht, The Netherlands, Sept. 1, noon, Boyce • "Light and Shadow: Mezzotints From the 17th • Course enrollment: Forms are available in Thompson Auditonum.Auditorium. Century to the Present," through Oct. 14. graduate field offices and at Sage Graduate Cen • ·Cornell"Cornell Art Department Faculty Exhibition," ter. Return completed form in person totothethe Gradu Plant Pathology through Oct. 15. Sage Chapel ate School by Friday, Sept. 22. Students who "The New York Seed Potato Program," Steven • "Augustus Vincent Tack: Landscape of the The Rev. Robert Johnson, director of Cornell completed precourse enrollment forms last spring Slack, plant pathology, Sept. 6, 12:10 p.m., 404 Spirit," through Oct. 22. United Religious Work, will give the sermon Sept. do not need to complete a course enrollmentenrollmentform;form; Plant Sciences BUilding. • "Indian Miniatures and Photographs,·Photographs," Sept. 2 if there is a change in their schedules, they should 3 at 11 a.m. through Oct.Oct 22. complete a Course Drop and Add form. • Faculty meeting, Friday, Sept. 8, 4 p.m., African·American ComCornellII Library General Committee Room, Sage Graduate Cen Sundays, 5:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Union. "Remembering Cornell" documents the history ter. This meeting is solely for the purpose of voting ofCornell with vintage photographs, memorabilia, on August degrees. Baha'i Faith onginaloriginal manuscripts and other rare materials. • Teaching assistant workshops: Saturday, Fridays, 7 p.m., firesides with speakers, open Designed as a walking tour, it is displayed through Sept. 9; registration forms are available at gradu discussion and refreshments. Meet at the Balch out Olin, Kroch, Uris, Mann and other libraries ate field offices or at the Office of Instructional Archway; held in Unit 4 lounge at Balch Hall. through Sept. 9. A souvenir guide is available. Support, 14 East Ave., Sage Hall, phone 255 Sunday morning prayers and breakfast, 7 a.m. 3493. There is no charge to students. Alcoholics Anonymous Hartell Gallery Catholic Catholic Meetings are open totheto the public and will be held Ithaca artistartIst Renate Ferro is exhibitingeXhibiting a retro Weekend Masses: Saturday, 5 p.m.; Sunday, Weekend Masses: Saturday, 5 p.m.; Sunday, Monday through Friday at 12:15 p.m. and Satur spective of her Birthwork series, 1986-1995, at 10 a.m., noon and 5 p.m., Anabel Taylor Audito day evenings at 5 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Hall. For the Hartell Gallery in 129 Sibley Dome through rium. Daily Masses: Monday-Friday, 12:20 p.m., more information call 273-1541. SeptSept. 11. Birthworkcombinesdrawing, printmaking, Anabel Taylor Chapel. Sacrament of Reconcilia collage and artist's books in reflecting on the collage and artist's books in reflecting on the tion, Saturday, 3:30 p.m., G-22 Anabel Taylor Hall. Cornell Savoyards imperative of women's choice and the attendant Auditions for Cornell Savoyards' fall produc JOYs,10ys, uncertainties and challenges of creativity. Christian Science tion, RUddigore.RUddigore, will be held on campus Sept. 6 The gallery isIS open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Testimony and discussion every Thursday at 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. in 403 Barton Hall. Leading roles p.m., Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. for: four baritones, one tenor, one soprano, one City & Regional Planning mezzo, one alto,allo, including large chorus. Appoint "President Clinton's National Urban Policy: A Episcopal (Anglican) ments are encouraged, although walk-ins are Community Empowerment Agenda," Michael Sundays, worship and Eucharist, 9:30 a.m., welcome. Accompanist provided. Monologue or Stegman, assistant secretary for policy develop Anabel Taylor Chapel. reading encouraged. Also looking for technical ment and research.research, U.S. Department of Housing crew. Info: 257-0496. and Urban Development, Sept. 1, 12:1512:15p.m.,p.m., 115 Friends (Quakers) Tjaden Hall. Sundays, 11 a.m., meeting for worship in the Emotions Anonymous Edwards Room ofAnabel Taylor Hall. Discussions This 12-step group that helps people deal with Industrial & Labor Relations most weeks at 9:50 a.m., 314 Anabel Taylor Hall. emotional problems meets on Sundays at 7:30 Films listed are sponsored by Cornell Cinema The annual pre-Laborpre-labor Day forum will be held p.m. and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. at the St. Luke unless otherwise noted andare open to the public. Aug. 31 at noon in Gl0G10 of the Biotechnology ..ewishJewish Lutheran Church, 109 Oak Ave., Collegetown. For All films are $4.50 ($4 for students and children Morning Minyan at Young Israel, 106 West more information call Ed/Karen at 273-5058.