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Deans recommended Provost Don M. Randel has announced he is recommending the appOintments of two new deans. Recommended are Edward J. Lawler, as dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and Philip E. Lewis, as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Theappointments will be presented for approval at the May meeting ofthe Board ofTru tees.
Three on faculty elected to American Academy ofArts and Sciences physic • he i the author of Self-Knowledge By Larry Bernard IDr. Maria ew elected to AS, Page 3 I and Jill Goetz and Self-Idelllity (1963) and Idelllity, Cuuse andMind-PhilosophicalEssays (1984); co Three Cornell S. Shoemaker, the Susan Linn Sage Profes editor, with Carl Ginet, of Knowledge and faculty members sor of Philosophy; Michael L. Shuler, the Mind (1983); and co-author, with Richard have been elected Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Chemical Swinburne, ofPersonal Idelllity (1984). to the American Engineering; and Saul A. Teukolsky, pro Shoemakerha<;received a Fulbri 'htSchol Academy of Arts fessor of physic and of astronomy. arship to the United Kingdom, Gorge and Sciences. They ntayana Fellow hip at Harvard niversity, were among 159 Sydney S. Shoemaker John Locke Lecture. hip at Oxford Univer new Fellows and 26 Shoemaker Teukolsky Shuler Shoemaker, 64, received his Ph.D. from sity,Josiah Royce Lectur hip at Brown Uni foreign honorary Cornell in 1958 and has been a full professor versity and National Endowment for the Hu members to be elected for their distin ar hip, public affairs and the arts. ofphilosophy at the university since 1970. A manities and Guggenheim fellow hips. guished contributions to science, schol- TheCornell faculty members are: Sydney specialist in the philo ophy ofmind and meta- COlllinued on page 4
Housing policy Lei it on the line goes to trustees reflecting input
By Jacquie Powers Pre ident Hunter Rawlings will present the Board of Trustees a revi ed residential housing policy that reflect many of the suggestions and concerns members of the campu community expressed during the past weeks at rallies, press conferences and in conversations with key administrators. Rawlings will present the revised policy to the trustees at their regular meeting later this month. Thefull text ofthe docu ment, "Cornell University Residential Communities Policy Statement," released May 2, i available elec tronically at
1996 Perkins Prize goes to Festival of Black Gospel OBITUARY By Linda Grace-Kobas and Jacquie Powers A celebration of the life of W. Reid The annual James A. Perkins Prize for Thompsonwill be held at the A.D. White Interracial Understanding and Harmony at House on campus, Thursday, May 16, at Cornell was awarded for the second time on 3 p.m. Thompson, an expert in planetary Monday, May 6. science, died April 22 at age 44 after a "In honoring those who have helped to long illness. promote interracial harmony and under A senior research associate at Cornell's standing, the Perkins Prizeestablishes those Laboratory for Planetary Studies, Thomp goals as worthy ones for the university as a son was remarkable in combining expertise whole," said President Hunter Rawlings, in organic chemistry, computer imaging speaking at the afternoon ceremony at the data analysis and the theory of light scatter A.D. White House on campus. ing in planetary atmospheres. The Festival ofBlack Gospel, a 20-year He was an associate memberofthe imag old campus organization dedicated to ing teams on NASA's Voyager and Galileo strengthening ties between Cornell and the missions to the planets, was responsible for community through an annual weekend of widely reprinted Galileo picturesofthe Earth gospel music and worship, received this in visible and infrared light, and made im year's $5,000 award. portant contributions to our understanding Speaking along with Rawlings at the ofthe atmospheres and surfacesofthe moons ceremony were trustee Thomas W. Jones, Titan and Triton. who established the prize in 1995; Presi Known as a brilliant and conscientious dent EmeritusJames A. Perkins, for whom colleague and an inspiring mentor and ad the prize is named; and John L. Ford, the vi er, Thompson was awarded Cornell's Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean DuPont Teaching Prize as well as its Clark of Students. Award for Distinguished Teaching. He was Accepting the Perkins Prize on behalfof Robert Barker/University Photography affiliated with Cornell since 1973, where he From right to left, President Hunter Rawlings, President Emeritus .lames A. the Festival of Black Gospel were Roxanne received an M.S. in chemistry and a Ph.D. in Perkins and trustee Thomas W• .Iones listen to speakers at the Perkins Prize Ryan '98, president; Yvonne Lomax, com astronomy - the latter under the guidance of ceremonies May 6. Don Balcom, associate director of special gifts, is at left. munity liaison officer; and Cleveland Carl Sagan, with whom he was associated Thornhill, adviser. happened in the life of this university and ever since. Since his graduate school days, "I've learned that the path to leadership the life of this country." And he said it colleaguessaid, he dreamed ofusingGalileo is more so paved with pain and prayer than shows, "there is more to celebrate about data to determine what molecules are re 'Also know that blessed are with the power and plaudits that soothe the how far we have come than there is to sponsible for the colors ofJupiter's clouds, the peacemakers. Look at ear," Ryan said. "Alsoknow that blessed are lament about how far we have to go." one of the outstanding mysteries of plan yourself and be sure you are the peacemakers. Look at yourself and be Perkinsadded: "This prize showsthere is etary science. sure you are among the peacemakers." among the peacemakers.' a long line of individuals in the past and Tragically, he died just after Galileo stringing into the future who will handle achieved orbit around Jupiter. Contribu Two finalists for the prize were given - Roxanne Ryan '98, president honorable mentions at the ceremony: Dr. difficulties the way a great university should tions to establish a Thompson Memorial Festival of Black Gospel Martin Harris, staffpsychologist at Cornell's handle such difficulties." College Scholarship in Science may be sent Gannett Health Center, who has worked as Perkins served as Cornell president to Dr. Pete Thompson, 204 Bennington an adviser to and mediator for Latino orga from 1963 to 1969. Jones, who was an Court, Richmond, Ky. 40475. nizations on campus as well as individual mony and to honor Perkins for his "historic undergraduate at Cornell during a student students, and the Department of Theatre decision" to increase the enrollment of mi takeoverofWillard Straight Hall in 1969, Arts, which last fall produced Fires in the nority studentsduringthe tumultuous 19605. is president and chiefoperating officer of Shoemobile visit is Mirror: CrownHeights, BrooklynandOther The annual award is intended to be pre the Teachers Insurance and Annuity As Identities to explore issues ofracial tension. sented to the student, faculty, staff or pro sociation-College Retirement Equities May 24 on campus Kimberly L. Shute, interim director ofcam gram making the mostsignificant contribu Fund (TIAA-CREF), the world's largest pus and community relations, and Robert tion to furthering the ideal of university pension fund. TheDepartmentofEnvironmental Health Mortis, director of audience services, re community while respecting the values of ThePerkins Prizegrant is administered by and Safety (EHS) will sponsor a visit by the ceived awards on behalfof the department. racial diversity. Dean ofStudents Ford. Winners are selected Lehigh shoemobile with a selectionofsafety Jones established the Perkins Prize to At the ceremony, Jones said the prize by a nine-memberexecutivecommitteeofthe shoes on Friday, May 24, from 7:30 to 11 promote efforts for the advancement of allows an opportunity "to pausc and reflect Student Community Fund, made up of stu a.m. and noon to 3 p.m. at the EHS building, campus interracial understanding and har- on some of the positive things that have dents, faculty and administrators. 201 Palm Road. Employees eligible to re ceive department reimbursement for safety shoes should use an L-order with "Lehigh Safety Shoe" as the vendor and an autho Housing continued from page 1 rized signature. The maximum monetary amount allowed by the department should BRIEFS specific programs directions or actions. be stated on the L-order. Employees going Rawlings will inform the board that there to the shoemobile may do so on work time has been considerable debate within the with supervisory approval. Questionsshould • Gannettto start co-payment plan: Campus. Camp hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 campus community over the proposal to be referred to EHS at 255-8200. In order to maintain high-quality health p.m. with additional supervision one hour restrict the option available to freshmen to services in the face of rising health care before and after the camp day. Camp activi live in program houses and to a proposed costs nationally, the Gannett Health Center ties involve the entire campus, with each moratorium on new program houses. will initiateco-payments for clinician visits two-week session having a theme. Fees are In addition, as a result ofthe discussions and psychological services beginning July based on family income. For information with concerned students, faculty and staff, 1. Registered students will be charged a $1 0 and registration materials, call or e-mail the Rawlings indicated that the administration fee for clinician and therapist visits. Nurse camp office in 130 Day Hall: 254-4386, e will engage the whole campus community, Henrik N. Dullea, Vice President for University evaluations and consultationswill continue mail:
Six at Cornell win SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence Six staff and faculty members in Cornell's statutory within the state university system. The SU Y Ad 'isory Mathios, who came to Cornell in 1992, teaches course on colleges are among 194 classroom teachers, librarians and Committee on Awards makes recommendations and re the economics of consumer law and on con umer informa professional service staff in the State University of ew view the nominations submitted by campus presidents tion and government regulation. He al 0 erves a the York system who have been cited for excellence in the throughout the 64-campus system. undergraduate advising coordinator for the con umer eco performance of their duties and named winners of Each recipient will receive an inscribed certificate and a nomics and housing major and the policy analy i major in Chancellor's Awards for Excellence. cast bronze medallion. Here are the award winners from the college. SU Y Chancellor Thomas A. Bartlett recently an Cornell for 1996: • Brenda Brickerwon a Chancellor' Award for Excel nounced the names of the winners from 59 SU Y-affili • Alan Mathios, associate professor of consumer eco lence in Professional Service. She came to Cornell in 1970 ated campuses, commending the recipients for dedication nomics and housing in the College of Human Ecology and and has been director of admission in the College of and contributions to their fields. The awards program was former economist at the Federal Trade Commission, has Human Ecology since 1979. While at the helm, applica- created 26 years ago to honor distinguished performance won a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Contillued Oil page 4 Dr. Maria ew Cornell Tradition Fellows aid human services wins election to By Darryl Geddes Six Ithaca-area human services agen science academy ciesare benefitingfrom the philanthropic spirit of Cornell students. By Larry Bernard AIDS Work of Tompkins County, Dr. Maria I. ew, the Harold and Percy EcoVillage, the Displaced Homemakers Uris Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology Center, the Ithaca Youth Bureau, the and Metaboli m and chair of the Depart Greater Ithaca Activitie Center (GlAC) ment ofPediatrics at the ornell niversity and The Partnership, a student-run organi Medical Col zation. are receiving $13,750 in financial lege, and Pedia support from Cornell Tradition Fellows. trician-in-Chief Each year a handful ofCornell Tradi at The ew tion Fellows are honored for their com York Hospital, munity service with a $2,500 Senior has been elected Recognition Award, which is then do to the National nated to either a non-profit agency or Academy ofSci used to establish a one-year fellowship ence (NAS). at Cornell. This year, several awardees New was have chosen to support Ithaca-area hu among 60 new man services agencies. members Jaime Luis Torres of Central Islip, elected on April N.Y., who graduates in December with a 30 to the AS, degree in biology. split his award be one of the tween the Youth Bureau's One-to-One nation's high program and GlAC's Esperanza program est scientific for Latino youth. honor. Dr. Maria New, chair "Up until now, I've given them my ew earned of the Department of time," Torres said. "This award make it Pediatrics t Cornell a B.A. from possible to support these organizations in Medical College, Cornell and an another way. It makes me feel good to be talks with a patient. M.D. from the able to offerthem some financial support." University ofPenn. ylvania School ofMedi Torres said his philanthropic spirit cine. Her house staff training and post was fostered during his youth when his graduate work has been at Cornell. She has parents often gave to others when it been chair of the Department of Pediatrics meant goi ng without for themselves. "MY since 1980. Her research has centered on the parents were always there for someone genetics of steroid metabolism and hor who was in need," he said. monal hypertension. Tracy Elizabeth ConnorofEndwell, Robert Barker/University Plrotograplry Former president of The Endocrine N. Y., contributed her award to the Dis This year's Cornell Tradition Fellows are, from left to right, bottom row: Society and a member of the New York placed Homemakers Center Scholar Stephanie Cockerl, Albert Nguyen, Katherine Alexander; second row: State Task Force on Life and the Law, ship Fund. Jenee Chizick, Tracy Connor; third row: Jaime Torres, Katrina James, New has edited or co-cdited 12 medical "I decided to support this cause be Aileen Gariepy, Neil Giacobbi; andfourth row: Troy Gras, JessicaCattelino. textbooks and is co-author of The Disney cause there is such a need for funding for Encyclopedia of Baby and Child Care education, especially in light of recent Recognition Award program began in Homemakers Center Scholarship Fund. (Hyperion, 19(5). federal and state cutbacks," said Connor, 1989, Cornell students have supported • Aileen MarayGariepyofScranton. She has written or co-written almost 500 who volunteers about 15 hours a week human services agencie and fellow Pa.; biology and society; a fellowship, research papers and currently is editor in for the Displaced Homemakers Center. students to the tune of 195,000. named for her mother, for a Cornell stu chiefoftheJoumalofClinical Endocrinol Sandra Hill of Displaced Homemak The 1996 Cornell Tradition Senior dent working in the field of education. ogy and Metabo/i m. ers Center said Connor's beneficence Recognition Award winners, their ma • eil Giacobbi of Syracuse; indus ew is a member ofthe ational In ti make it possible for the center to con jors and their designated award recipi trial and labor relations; The Partnership. tutes of Health's ational Advisory Re tinue helping women gain economic in ents are: • Troy W. Gras of Victoria, Texa ; search Resource. Council, the .S. Food dependence. "Thi fund helps with trans material science and engineering; a fel • Katherine Alexander of Lake and Drug Administration's ndocrine and portation, child care costs and some Stevens, Wash.; communication; lowship for a Texas resident who is a Metabolic Drug Advisory Committee, the household expenses, so a woman can EcoVilIage and Green Corp . non-traditional Cornell tudent. ociety for Pediatric Research the Ameri have the opportunity to get an education • Jessica Ro e Cattelino of Saxon, • Katrina Jame of Carteret, J.; can Pediatric Society and the Association or enter the job market to assist in her Wis.; college scholar; Theatre orth human service studies; fellowship for an of American Physicians. desire to be self-sufficient," she said. (Ironwood, Mich.). African-American Cornell student ma She has reccived numerous honor, "It's all about instilling that philan • JeneeChizickofLyndonville, .Y.; joring in human service studies. including the Robcrt H. Williams Distin thropic spirit at Cornell," said Janiece ecology; American Field Service. • Albert guyen of Buffalo; biology guished Leadership Award, the Rhone • Stephanie Marie Cockerl, Brook and society; AIDS Work of Tompkins Bacon Oblak, director of Cornell Tra Poulenc Rorer Clinical Investigator lyn, N.Y.; architecture; fellowship for a dition, which this year awarded County and Youth Positive. Award from thc American Endocrine $27,500 to students who, in turn, di Cornell student majoring in architecture. • JaimeLuisTorresII ofCentral lsiip, Society, the University of Pennsylvania N.Y.; biology; Ithaca Youth Bureau and rected the money to the human ser • Tracy Elizabeth Connor of Distinguished Graduate Award and the vices community. Since the Senior Endwell, .Y.; psychology; Displaced the Greater Ithaca Activities Center. 1996 Dale Medal, the highest award given by the British Endocrine Society. Students will donate clothing to area agencies aiding poor, homeless Before they leave campus latcr this month. Cornell ter, RQbert Purcell Community Center and Humphreys less fortunate people in Tompkins County." students are expected to donate about 15,000 items of Service Building through May 18. Ecology Hou e is still selecting the local agencie that clothing to several local community agencies. That's more Donations also can be left on the front steps at Ecology will rcccive this year's donated items, she addcd. than one article ofclothing for each undergraduate student, Hou e, a residence hall dedicatcd to environmental educa Donations are being sought from Cornell faculty, said Connie Fuess, one of the organizer of the annual tion and awarenes . Ecology House is located off staff and students, and the drivc is bei ng spon. ored by clothing drive. Triphammer Road in the Village of Cayuga Height . Ecology House in cooperation with the university's Fuess, resident community coordinator at Cornell's "Each year. we collect used and new clothing, includ Office of Campus Life and volunteers from the Ithaca Ecology House, says specially marked collection boxes ing orne that still has price tags," Fucss said. "We also Rotary Club. have been placed in the lobbies of residence halls, the Big receive small appliances, games and stuffed animals that For more information, call Amber O'Reilly, chair of the Red Barn, Willard Straight Hall, Noyes Community Cen- we share with groups helping the homeless and other clothing recovery drive, at 253-1283. 4 May 9,1996 Cornell Chronicle
Rawlings reviews discussions on proposed residential housing policy Cornell Presidellt Hullter Rawlings on fay 2 issued thefollowing statementon the discus ion that has taken pLace over the Last 'I remain encouraged that the ix weeks in reference to his draft recom Comell community has the mendations to the Board ofTrustees con capacity to shape its own cerning campus residentiaL communities: future with intelligence, creativity and mutual re Over the last six weeks our campus has had a spirited discussion of my recommen spect•••• Working together, dation to the Board ofTrustees that Cornell 1 have no doubt that we will adopt a comprehensive policy concerning be equal to the task.' the formation and maintenance of residen tial communities. This policy would apply to all forms of campus housing, including traditional dormitories, program houses, the Student Assembly, Faculty Senate, and cooperative , fraternities and sororities. individuals drawn from and by the commu This discussion has involved many nities directly affected by the residential groups and individual participants - incl ud plan. With the leadership ofa steering com ing faculty participating in the faculty-in mittee, these task groups will examine these re idence and faculty fellows programs, fac questions and their implementation. ulty engaged in our everal ethnic studies The Board ofTrustees has asked that our academic programs, the professional staff recommendations be presented at the May of the Department c.f Campu Life and its meeting, and that will be done. Action on many re ident assistants and program assis the basic policy is required now if we are to tant , the director of the Office of Minority begin the necessary preparatory work for Affairs, present and former residents ofpro Charles Harrington/University Photography informed discussion and program develop gram hou es and other students, chaplains, During a May 2 rallyinHo Plaza infront ofWillard Straight Hall, President Hunter ment in the year ahead. tudent services professionals, student lead Rawlings, right, talks with students, including Jigyasa Chander'99,left. Henrik I regret that some of our students have ers in the Student Assembly and our stu Dullea, center, vice president for university relations, looks on. chosen to continue a hunger strike at this dent-elected membersoftheBoardofTrust important time of the academic year. We ee , and interested alumni, parents, and to an intellectually engaged and socially several days to students and others con have listened carefully to their objections to members of the local community. responsible campus environment. cerned with the issue of freshmen in pro the original draft of the administration's In general, this discu sion has been There has certainly been focused dis gram houses, the document that we will proposal and have made substantial modifi carried on with civility and a sense of agreement on one of my recommendations forward to the Board of Trustees will be cations as a result. I again ask these students common purpose. in the original draft, which suggests that limited to the goal and basic principles for to end their protest, which at this point can I am pleased by the support for the residency in our program houses should not residential communities at Cornell that have only be self-destructive, and work with the fundamental goal and basic principles that be an option available for freshmen. I be received broad endorsementon campusover administration in a constructive dialogue lie at the heart of our prop.osed policy. lieve that there is much to be said for insur the recent months. throughout the coming year. Widespread agreement has been given to ing that all freshmen have shared experi This document does not include the spe I remain encouraged that the Cornell the recommendations that we should ·ex ences that expose them to the breadth of cific program direction that Ioutlined in the community has the capacity to shape its tend the university's guarantee ofavailable intellectual, social and cultural opportuni original draft concerning freshmen in pro own future with intelligence, creativity and on-campus housing to those sophomores ties at Cornell. However, many members of gram houses. That subject, along with many mutual respect. We must not allow our and incomingtransferstudents who wish to the community have argued that this objec others - such as the desirable form of new selves to be immobilized, eitherby the pres utilize it, as well as to incoming freshmen; tive is compatible with permittingfreshmen construction, the type of renovations re sure ofexternal forces or by the restrictions to the trengthening and augmentation of the choice to live all orpart oftheir first year quired to improve our existing residential of past decisions. Working together, I have our faculty's involvement in undergradu in one of our ten program houses. In my space, the impact of housing options on no doubt that we will be equal to the task. ate re idential program ; to the encourage judgment, this is clearly a subject that lends student recruitment and retention, and the ment of more upper-division students liv itself to further analysis and dialogue, and I pricing policies affecting student choice The text ofthe document that will be pre ing on campus, particularly on west cam commit the administration to fostering this will be reviewed next year by task groups sented to the Board of Trustees at its May pu ; and to the central goal that all our process in the year ahead. comprising faculty, staff and students from meeting is ul'ai/abLe at
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He has served on the editorial boards of The PhiLosophi five books, most recently, Baculovirus Expression Systems of rapidly rotating neutron stars, stellar dynamics and caL Forum, Philosophy Research Archives and PhiLosophi and Biopesticides (Wiley-Liss, 1995). planets around pulsars. cal Studies and has been a co-editor of The Philosophical Among his other honors are: the American Institute of One of his current projects uses the supercomputing re Reviewand general editorofCambridgeStudies in Philoso Chemical Engineering's Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengi sources ofthe Cornell Theory Center to study colliding black phy. He is a former chair of Cornell's Philosophy Depart neering Division Award in 1989; and the group's Profes holes. He is among a group ofscientists investigating the use ment and president ofthe Eastern Division ofthe American sional Progress Award for Outstanding Progress in Chemi ofhigh-performance computing to solve Einstein's equations Philosophical Association. cal Engineering in 1991. ofgeneral relativity. This collaboration, known as the Binary Black Hole Alliance, was formed through a Grand Challenge Michael L. Shuler Saul A. Teukolsky grant from the National Science Foundation. Shuler, who has a joint appointment in the Institute of Teukolsky, an astrophysicist, has been at Cornell since The goal of the collaboration is to solve Einstein's equa Food Science and also serves as directorofthe Bioengineer 1974. He earned undergraduatedegrees in physics and applied tions by computer, and to predict the gravitational waves that ing Program, has been at Cornell since 1974. mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand, would be emitted by two orbiting black holes that spiral A member of the ational Academy of Engineering, he Johannesburg, in 1970 and a doctorate in theoretical physics together and coalesce. Such a wave will likely be among the earned a B.S. from the University of otre Dame (1969) and from the California Institute ofTechnology in 1973. first signals detectable when the Laser Interferometer Gravi a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota (1973). In 1978 he Teukolsky's research interests include general relativ tational Wave Observatory is in operation in the year 2000. won the Excellence in Engineering Teaching Award from ity, relativistic astrophysics and computational physics. Teukolsky is the co-authoi of several widely used text Cornell. He became a full professor in 1984 and in 1992 was His earliest work led to the development ofthe "Teukolsky books. He has held a Sloan Foundation Fellowship and a named to an endowed professorship. equation," which describes how a black hole interacts with Guggenheim Fellowship. Among his other honors is the Shuler is inventor of five patents held by the Cornell surrounding objects. His subsequent research has included Forefronts of Large-Scale Computation Award and first Research Foundation. He is author, co-author or editor of the physicsofpulsars and supernova explosions, properties place in the IBM Supercomputing Competition in 1991.
Chancellor's Awards continued from page 3 tions to the college have doubled, and the diversity and among students by creating teams to work on class pwjects wanted to initiate similar lists at their institutions. Last academic qualifications of the classes have become much and by using role-playing activities in class. He won the award year she was recognized nationally as one of the pio greater. In 1995-96, the college enrolled 400 students from based on his special way of taking complex principles and neers who developed technical services workstations, 1,764 applications. linking them with real-world situations. From 1981 to 1994, where dictionaries, thesauri and handbooks are avail • George W. Hudler, associate professor ofplant pathol he served as associate dean ofacademic programs. He also able in electronic form at the desktop. ogy in the College ofAgriculture and Life Sciences, has won developed faculty and teaching assistantship workshops, • Richard A. Church, director of alumni affairs for a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He created and he initiated the Thornfield Experience, an annual the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and a a course, "Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds," to faculty teaching development retreat. recipient of a Chancellor's Award for Excellence in expose students to the diversity ofmicroorganisms that inter • Janet A. McCue, head of the Technical Services Professional Service, has impacted Cornell by directing act with plants. He makes the subject matter come alive to Division of the Albert R. Mann Library, has won a two offices in the college during his career. For many tudents as he leads them to recognize how microorganisms Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship, years, he directed the admission of undergraduate stu have impacted social and political structure throughout the because she has helped lead the College of Agriculture dents into the college, and each year, the college has course of history. The course has the distinction of having and Life Science's library to the forefront oftechnology. been able to boast that about 80 to 85 percent of its been featured in Rolling Stone magazine. She has changed processing from manual to computer incoming students were in the top 10 percent of their • George J. Conneman, professor emeritus of agricul ized operations, decreasing processing time dramati high school classes, academically. He now directs the tural, resource and managerial economics in the College of cally. She created a list of new books on the World Wide college's Office ofAlumni Affairs. He coordinates many Agriculture and Life Sciences, has won a Chancellor's Award Web, which was one of the first of its kind, receiving functions for alumni, including the recent development for Excellence in Teaching. He stresses cooperative learning local and national attention from other librarians who of workshops to promote life-long learning. Cornell Chronicle May 9, 1996 5
4 Cornellians win Mellon Fellowships for the humanities
By JiB Goetz The Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies has been awarded to three Cornell seniors and one recent graduate. The recipients of the prestigious award, which in cludes a $13,500 stipend and covers a year of graduate school tuition and related fees, are seniors Eric Chwang, a ~hilosophy major, who will pursue graduate study in phIlosophy at Princeton University; Jon Miller, a double major in religious studies and Asian studies, who will study Buddhism at Yale University; Rosamond King of Potomac, Md., a double major in the College Scholar Program and in English, who will study comparative literature at New York University; and Paige Shipman '94 of Westerville, Ohio, who will study history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Chwang has been named to the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's List for each of his eight emesters at Cornell. He is a member ofthe Golden Key, Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Kappa national honor societies. Miller's Cornell activities have included presenting a paper titled "Romancing the Mountain: ostalgia and the Exotic in Contemporary Kunisaki" at the New York Re gional Conference on Asian Studies at the State Universit)' of New York at Buffalo. He is member of the Golden Key National Honor Society. King has written for the CornellDailySUfl and has served as director of the Uhuru Kuumba Dance Ensemble. A former Telluride Scholar, she has served as a communica tion intern with the International Red Cross. At Cornell, Shipman's activities included serving as a team leader for Wilderness Reflections, an annual outdoors • Adriana Rovers/University Photography program for incoming freshmen. She also studied in Asia StanfordpychologlstClaude Steeledeliversthe FlemmieKittrell LectureinUrisAuditoriumApril 29. while enrolled at the university. Ninety-five Mellon Fellowships were awarded from more than 900 applicants for the 1996-97 academic year in a range of fields, from anthropology to Spanish literature. Steele examines. academic stereotypes The awards are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Founda tion and were announced on April 12 by the Woodrow By Dennis Shin '96 Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, which is based in Princeton, N.J. Ten Cornellians applied for thi year's According to Claude Steele, socialized stereotypes 'In order to do well in school and to Mellon Fellowships, and five were interviewed. pose a "predicament" in academics for minorities. The sustain success in school. one needs More than 1,400 Mellon Fellowships have been awarded Stanford psychologist provided explanations for group to take on a personal identification overthe past 14 years to collegeseniors and recent graduates differences in achievement patterns while delivering that harnesses emotion. motivation of outstanding promise, with the goal of encouraging and the 1995-1996 Flemmie Kittrell Lecture April 29 in assisting them in joining the humanities faculties of and self-regulation.' Uris Auditorium. America's colleges and universities. Titled "A Burden of Suspicion: How Stereotypes - Claude Steele Shape the Intellectual Identities and Performance of Women and African Americans," Steele's lecture high lighted results from his recent research on the academic performance of women in mathematics and African partially explains why blacks suffer a 30 percent higher Cornell Political Forum Americans in general studies. college drop-out rate than the national average. In a study According to Steele, his experiments reveal that the of Stanford University students, Steele noted that when wins publication award structure ofnegative stereotypes within American soci given a test that measures "diagnostic ability," blacks ety effectively undermines the self-identification pro tended to underperform. On the other hand, when given a Cornell Political Forum, a non-partisan political cess ofsuch groups as women and African Americans. test that measures "general problem-solving," black stu magazine published by undergraduate students, has re ceived a national award from the Columbia Scholastic "In order to do well in school and to sustain dents were on par with their white counterparts. success in school, one needs to take on a personal "These are not internalized self-doubts," he pointed Press Association. identification that harnesses emotion, motivation out. "They are strategic adaptations to situations." In a competition of 224 college magazines, Cornell and self-regulation," Steele said. Steele also noted that the experiment showed the Political Forum was one of six publications awarded a Stereotypes obstruct healthy identity formation, in blood pressure ofblack students was higher than white Silver Crown, which placed it among the top 11 (or top 5 Steele' opinion. As a result, he argued, students who student when taking the test. He asserted that this is percent) student publications nationally. The award was for are prejudged and categorized unfairly develop a nega because black students are working under higher levels work published in the 1994-95 academic year. tive self-regard that limits their intellectual ability. ofstress due to the threat of negative stereotypes. Members ofthe Forum's editorial board during 1994-95 "Stereotype threats become relevant in any instance "Ifthere is one thing I want to do," said Steele, "it is were Robert Cunjak, editor in chief; Carrie Coberly, man when one might be perceived and treated stereo to change the impression ofwhat minority and women aging editor; Bridget Fitzpatrick and Brian Finch, assistant editors; Alice Goh and Catherine Biondo, layout editor; typically," he explained. "Merely being apprehensive students are like." Lanhee Chai, business manager; Peter Michalik, global about confirming stereotypes will make you the target As a partial remedy to the problem of skewed network coordinator; and Stephen Smith, graduate adviser. end of them." performance levels, Steele proposed reforming the Adding that a student doesn't have to believe in a education system. This i the first time that the Forum has received a Silver Crown from Columbia Scholastic Pres. The publication stereotype to be affected by it, Steele mentioned that "For schooling to be effective with our heteroge was awarded the association's Gold Crown Award twice, everybody is a member ofsome group or another that neous populations, we have to have a more flexible for the 1989-90 and 1991-92 academic years. is negatively stereotyped. approach to disarm negative stereotypes," he said. In addition to publishing a magazine with contributions In the case of women, his experiments showed that Among his suggestions, Steele advocated eliminat from college students across the country twice each semes when given a challenging math test, women scored ing remediation classes because he believes the stigma about four times lower than men. According to Steele, attached to such classes reaffirms negative stereotypes. ter, Cornell Political Forum sponsor yearly debates on he designed the exam to elicit frustration and, there "I agree that stereotypes are implicit in everyone's important issues. Most recently, it organized a Civil Rights fore, activate a stereotype about gender differences in subconscious," said Jarvis Sulcer '97, a Ph.D. stu Symposium in which a panel of professors discussed affir mative action. The is distributed on the campuses of math ability. dent in nuclear science engineering. "It was interest Forum Duke, Georgetown, Harvard and Stanford universities, "Women, when they take a difficult math test, have ing how he showed that they have a powerful influ King's and University colleges in London, SU Y-Geneseo a special burden in the room with them - and that is the ence on how you perform, whether you're black, and Wellesley College. negative stereotype," Steele said. white, male or female." receives financial support from When assured that the test would not show gender The annual Flemmie Kittrell Lecture, established in Cornell Political Forum the Cornell Student Assembly Finance Commission, the differences, however, women performed just as well as 1991, is named for the woman who in 1936, at Cornell, Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Office of the men. Steele believesthis resulted becausethey were not became the first African American in the United States Vice President for Student and Academic Services, the at risk of confirming the stereotype threat. to receive a Ph.D. in home economic. Kittrell later Adelphic Cornell Educational Fund, and Knight Kiplinger The experience of African Americans proves more taught at Howard and Hampton universities. An expert and the Kiplinger Foundation. complex to Steele, because he claims, while women are in nutrition, child development and consumerbehavior The Columbia Scholastic Pre s A sociation has been free of negative stereotypes in such field as literature, and education, she directed a U.S. State Department owned and operated by Columbia University since 1925 black students are typecast as poor achievers in general. nutrition survey in Liberia and organized a College of and function as an educational press organization provid He proposed that the pressure of social stereotypes Home Economics at Baroda University, India. ing service to student newspapers, magazines and year books in schools and colleges. 6 May 9,1996 Cornell Chronicle
Visiting professor commemorates centennial of an Ethiopian battle
By Lerato omvuyo Mzamane But for Bekerie, an Ethiopian, Adwa's lessons and legacy have special resonance. One of the large t battle of the 19th When Bekerie completed his bachelor's century has it centennial thi year. The degree in plant science at Haile Sella sie Battle of Adwa, which pitted Ethiopian Univer ity in Ethiopia two decades ago, his again t Italian force, was fought on March family and community were enthralled, he I, 1 96, in what is today the town ofAdwa said. The eldest of seven children, he was in Ethiopia' northern Tigrai province. the first person in his neighborhood in Addis As part of the anniversary's international Ababa to successfully compete in the observation, Ayele Bekerie, visiting profes country's intense college admission proce sor at the Africana Studie and Research dures. For his parents, who had raised their Center, and fellow academic and writers children in poverty, his accomplishment from Africa, orth Americaand Europe have was even sweeter. collaborated on a book titled One House: The "It was literally a life mission for them to Battle ofAdwa 1896 - 100 Years ( yala make ure we got educated, sometimes at Publi 'hers, Chicago). The book tell its story the expen e of meals," Bekerie said. by combining hi toncal accounts with fic Today, despite various challenges, he tion, poetry, essays and art work, from the continue to support his family back home. tum of the century to thi year. And, in'1993, he was able to return to Commemorations of the Battle of Ethiopia after almost 18 years of being in Adwa are being held in many parts of the the United States. world throughout the year, and Bekerie "I was so happy to see my mother, brother has worked with the Africana Center's and si ters," Bekerie said. "While I was as i tant librarian, Ayodele gozi-Brown, there, two of my sisters got married and we to create a di play on the battle in the had a big wedding." center' Clarke Library. In 1976, a United ations Fellowship The battte was fought in the wake of a brought Bekerie to Cornell's Department of wave of European imperiali m in Africa in Agronomy for a master's degree. Upon its the late 19th century, after various We tern completion, he worked as a research sup nation. divided the African continentamong port speciali t here and later as an instructor them elvesat the now infamous Berlin Con at various colleges, always focusing on ference. The reasons for the battle are com Ethiopia. Later he decided he needed to plex, but the immediate impetus was a col broaden the scope of his studies in order to lective effort among Africans to prevent maintain that focus. Ital) from invading Ethiopia. "I began to realize there were lots of The perspective in the book reveal not pieces mis ing," he said. He credits faculty only the complex culture of the ancient members at the Africana Center, including Ethiopian kingdom, but also the range of James Turner, Abdul anji and the late people influenced by the battle and its im Congress Mbatha. for their encouragement pact on the African p yche of today. Adwa while he made the shift from agronomist to Adriana Ro~"ers'Ullilersity Photography blunted the so-called" cramble for Africa" historian. But Bekerie insiststhe shift merely Ayele Bekerie, visiting professor at the Africana Studies and Research Center, and inspired freedom movements in reflected his holistic educational upbring poses with the book One House: The Baft'e ofAdwa 1896 - 100 Years in front America, Africa and the Caribbean, the au ing, which emphasized a non-fragmented of a display on the Battle of Adwa in the John Henrik Clarke Library. thors point out. And in Europe, the defeat of approach to study. He returned to Cornell well-equipped Italian soldiers became an for his master's in professional studies, and tute provides information and support for History: Early Times to 1800" and embarra 'ment leading to what contempo later, his doctoral work which centered on the fundamental rights of Africans to own "Afrocenticity," and he will be on campus rary ob ervers termed an "international hu Ge'ez, a classical African writing ystem. their cultural and historical data, much of through the fall semester. miliation." The defeat also led to proclama Today, Bekerie is an as istant profes or which was brought out of the continent One House: The Battle ofAdwa 1896 tion in the We t that Ethiopians were in fact ofAfrican American tudiesatTemple Uni during periodsofWestern colonial invasion 100 Years can be ordered from its publish "white," and many historians argue that versity, where he is also the founder and and plunder. As a vi iting professor at ers by telephone at (312) 883-9818, or by e Musolini' invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 director ofthe Institute for the Preservation, Cornell, his lectures and informal talks on mail at
B u an Lang Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, Md. Fabric have always been an integral part The fir t 15-minute segment focuses on offlight, according to a Cornell video. And highlights ofthe historical use of textiles in now, thi connection will become an inte aviation and includes information and im gral part of a new Smith onian Institution ages of kites, balloons, blimps, hang glid exhibit in the new gallery, How Things Fly, ers, acrobatic airplanes. a stunt plane on in the National Air and Space Museum in which a saxophone player performs while Washington, D.C. standingon a wing during flight, Count von The video, The Fabric/Flight Connec Zeppelin's airships, the Wright brothers, tion, will be shown regularly for at lea t 10 the Spirit of St. Louis, and contemporary years in a mini-theater of the National Air civilian and military aircraft such as the and pace Museum tarting Sept. 20 when U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds. the gallery opens. The video focuse on Thesecond 15-minutesegmentdiscuses advanced fiber cience concept a viewed composite materials, polymer cience and through the dynamic world of aeronautics. aviation-related careers in fiber science and From ancient kite in China and balloons industrial textiles. and blimp to the first powered airplane in With a Ph.D. in education and a master's 1903 built by the Wright brothers and mod degree in textiles, both from Syracuse Uni ern aircraft, textiles have played a crucial versity, Breen designed her videotape for role, says Nancy Breen, who researched and junior and senior high school c1asse in wrote the video's script. As a textile educa A still from the video The Fabric!F'ight Connection shows one of the great science, technology and home economic; tor in the Department of Textiles and Ap zeppelins of the 1920s and 1930s, which were covered with woven cotton. 4-H clubs; and college and adult audiences. parel in Cornell' College of Human Ecol Her first video, Champio/lshipMaterial, for ogy, Breen collected torie ofkites launched tiles are used in clothing and interiors, but available in the fall. which he is seeking funding to update, 2,000 year ago, two trand ofcotton from many people don't realize how versatile, Fabrics are flexible and lightweight yet focused on fabrics u ed in the uniforms of the Wright brothers' famous airplane, The complex and practical textiles are in indus strongand durable, which historically made legendary and modern athletes that illu Flyer, and film clips ofthe 1986 around-the trial and aviation purposes," Breen said. them ideal for early aircraft. The next gen trate the fiber science principles of stretch, world, non-stop, no-refueling flight of the To go with the video, The Fabric/Flight eration of materials in aviation and industry absorbency, strength and wrinkle resistance. Voyager craft, among scores of other im Connection Handbook, written by Cornell are composites, composed of fibers that The Fabric/Flight Con/lectio/l is avail ages, for the 30-minute educational video textile educator Charlotte Coffman, pro reinforce a material, such as plastic. Com able for purchase for $24.95 or $20 for tape on the role of textile materials in his vides hands-on activities that encourage posite materials are used in a multitude of rental, including shipping and handling, toric, contemporary and future aviation. young people to discover how objects move products, such as boats, automobiles, bul from the Cornell University Resource Cen In researching the video, Breen became through the air, to identify the important letproof vests, tennis racquets and aircraft. ter, 7BTP, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850, or from the fir"t researcher to identify the type of properties of aviation materials and to un Breen conducted much of her research Cornell Cooperative Extension offices fiber the Wright brothers u ed for their derstand design features ofaircraft and avia for the video at the National Air and throughout New York. The project wa landmark flight: cotton. tor clothing. Projects vary in difficulty for Space Museum, the Glenn Curtiss Mu partially funded by the American Fiber "Everyone know how fabrics and tex- children from 5 to 18 years ofage. It will be seum in Hammondsport and the National Manufacturers Association Inc. Cornell Chronicle May 9, 1996 7
CORNELL RESEARCH
Researchers give ·a green light to new sealants for gas pipe joints By Susan Lang Netravali and O'Rourke, working with postdoctoral associate Sanyog The gas industry now can save up to Pendharkar in the Fiber Science Pro 50 to 70 percent of its cost repairing iron gram in the Department ofTextiles and pipe joints with a new durable, safer and Apparel and graduate students Adam faster technology than the conventional Tonkinson, Debanik Chaudhuri and ones, thanks to an extensive evaluation SelcukToprak in civil engineering sub by Cornell researchers. mitted their 400-page report to the in After a two-year comprehensive study dustry early this month. ofanaerobic methacrylatesealants by two The researchers interviewed field Cornell experts, the gas industry can be utility engineers who had worked with assured that the new technology can be the anaerobic sealants; evaluated adopted on a widespread basis. stresses and deformation of joints to The anaerobic sealant technology, de determine how the joints held up under veloped about 10 years ago, has been heavy traffic and temperature changes used in Great Britain, but American gas and increased stiffness after sealant officials were worried that the new seal injection; conducted mechanical aging ants would not hold up as longas conven tests on joints under simulated field tional methods, especially under North conditions; reviewed the sealant proper American conditions. They also wanted ties and current testing procedures; con to understand how these sealants work so ducted extensive tests to assess the long that better and more durable sealants can and short-term performance of the seal be developed in the future. To test the ants; and established criteria for future technology, ajoint panel of gas industry sealantevaluation and testing procedures. officials turned to Anil Netravali, a fiber The new sealant technology involves and polymer scientist and associate pro injecting the methacrylate-based anaero fessor of textiles and apparel, and Tho bic compounds in a pipe joint through a mas D. O'Rourke, a geotechnical engi small hole. The sealant gets absorbed and neer and professor of civil and environ transported by thejute packing present in mental engineering. the joint, the researchers said. The jute "Our analysis determined that the new packing acts as a reservoir for metal ions, technique of injecting anaerobic sealants available in the form of iron, rust par is, indeed, an effective and reliable method ticles and debris that have penetrated the for repairing leaks in the cast iron jointsof fibers from the pipe surfaces. The metal gasdistrib.ution piping and can stand up to ions, in turn, act as a catalyst for the environmental stresses, such as heavy traf formation of a rubber-like polymer that fie, weather and aging, for up to 50 years," solidifies throughout the jute fiber matrix said Netravali, who teaches courses in the and develops adhesive bonds with sur physical properties offiber-forming poly faces in the joint. mers and fibers in Cornell's College of The gas industry operates approxi Human Ecology. mately 62,000 miles of cast iron gas The researchers' conclusions also open pipe, with joints at 12-foot intervals, the door for the industry to combine these totaling some 30 million pipe joints. sealants with a much less disruptive and "Leaks can develop at these locations, safer method of exposing joints using Adriana Rovers/University Photography and the industry devotes millions of keyhole and vacuum excavation technol From left to right, Tim Bond, technical service manager at George Winter dollars, considerable time and effort to ogy, says O'Rourke, a member of the Lab, poses at the Thurston Hall lab with Thomas D. O'Rourke, professor of maintain these joints and pipes," Geotechnical Engineering Group at the civil and environmental engineering, and Anil Netravali, associate profes Netravali said. In the New York City School ofCivil and Environmental Engi soroftextiles and apparel, infront ofa hugepipe joint usedfortesting a new metropolitan area alone, there arc nearly neeringin the CollegeofEngineering. He sealant technology. 5,000 miles of gas pipe line. teaches courses in geoenvironmental en Next, the researchers plan to evaluate gineering, earth support systems and rock excavating a large hole to expose the very little cleaning. Soon, internal robotic and analyze the use of new polymer lin mechanics, and he studies earthquake en entirejoint to give workers plenty ofroom devices introduced from a single excava ings as a way to renovate gas mains with gineering, ground failures, lifeline sys to sandblast, clean and seal it. Also with tion are expected to enhance this technol out replacing them. tems, infrastructure rehabilitation and un encapsulation, the keyhole and vacuum ogy by injecting thesealants into joints up The study was funded by the Gas Re derground construction technologies. method utilizing anaerobic sealants needs to 50 to 60 feet in either direction under search Institute, the Consolidated Edison The conventional encapsulation a much smaller hole to expose only about ground, thereby minimizing excavations Co. of New York Inc., Brooklyn Union method to repair leaks typically involves one-third ofthe joint, no sandblasting and and further maximizing the savings. and Consumers Gas ofToronto, Ontario. Researchers find clue to developing disease resistance in tomato plants jouma~ By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. Society's Plant Disease (Vol. 80, No.3). The research was funded by the Asgrow Seed Co., Kalamazoo, That savory slice of juicy tomato reserved for the 'Viruses are very difficult to control, Mich., and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Scientists had scoured the world looking for related top of a freshly grilled burger or a gently tossed salad since there is no viricide to eradicate has been spared from nature's short list. Cornell plant plants to move resistance from the wild world into the pathologists have found the gene that resists the cu them. Once a field is diseased, there is domesticated agricultural market. In the process, breed cumber mosaic virus (CMV), a plant disease that nothing a farmer can do. The crop is ers found some wild tomato plants that resisted the virus; severely threatens tomatoes. The breakthrough: They ruined.' however, they were not able to transfer this resistance have genetically engineered the resistance by intro - Marc Fuchs, research associate into commercial varieties. The gene from the virus is ducing a segment of the viral genome - the coat at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva spliced into the chromosome ofthe non-resistant tomato. protein gene - into the tomato. The result is a tomato plant resistant to CMV, an accom "It's a devastating disease, very severe in places like plishment that previously had eluded scientists. Italy, Spain, China, Japan, and it can be severe in Gonsalves said this technique has been commercially California," said Marc Fuchs, Cornell research associate distortions and reductions in size," Fuchs said. "Eating available for other fruits and vegetables. In fact, in plant pathology at the university's Agricultural Ex tomatoes with this plant virus won't harm humans, but Gonsalves' lab has collaborated with Asgrow Seed Co. periment Station in Geneva. "Viruses are very difficult consumers in almost every country wouldn't buy them to develop virus-resistant vegetables. Freedom II, the to control, since there is no viricide to eradicate them. for the fruit's cosmetics." genetically engineered squash variety resistant to zuc Once a field is diseased, there is nothing a farmer can do. Fuchscollaboratedwith colleaguesRosario Provvidenti chini yellow mosaic virus and watermelon mosaic virus The crop is ruined." and Dennis Gonsalves, both Liberty Hyde Bailey profes 2, was distributed for commercial sale last year. The economic losses for tomatoes due to CMV infec sors of plant pathology at the Agricultural Experiment But, have the scientists found a way to permanently tions in many countries have been so profound that Station, and Jerry L. Slightom of the Upjohn a)., reduce diseases? The Cornell researchers feel that this tomato production was abandoned in some areas. CMV Kalamazoo, Mieh. The study, "Evaluation of Transgenic technique will help control a number of viruses. How infected tomatoes suffer an oppressive stunting of the Tomato·Plants Expressing the Coat Protein Gene of Cu ever, it is not the only answer. They said a range of plant's growth and significant yield losses. While the cumber Mosaic Virus Strain WL Under Field Conditions," approaches need to be taken to control plant viruses on a tomatoes are edible, they are not marketable. "There are was published recently in the American Phytopathological case-by-case basis. 8 May 9,1996 Cornell Chronicle
Rotary awards student with Flamboyant males may advertise parasite-safe sex By Roger Segelken scholarship Like a personal ad proclaiming: "Tall, good looking, disease-free," brightly col By Jill Goetz ored male animals are advertising some thing of importance to their prospective Andrea DeTerra, a Cornell enior with a mates. Shouldthe female assume the gaudi double major in theater and English, has est male has parasite-resistance genes that received a Rotary Foundation Ambassado will benefit her off: pring? Or that she rial cholarship for a yearofstudy in Spain. simply won't pick up bugs from the guy? The 21,500schol A Cornell biologist's analysis of mat arship will enable ing-success studies, as reported in the DeTerra to study March 5, 1996, Proceedings ofthe Na Spani h literature and tiona/Academy ofSciences (Vol. 93, pp. theater at the Univer 2229-2233), suggests that the direct ben sity of Seville for the efit - avoiding parasites for herself and 1996-97 academic her young ones - may have a role in the year. The award, evolution of male flamboyance. which is available "Accounting for conspicuous male only to non-Rotarian , DeTe,... displays - the elk with the huge rack of cover rou nd-trip antlers orthe peacock with the bright train tran portation, a month of intensive Span of feathers - was a problem for Darwin's i h training in Madrid, and two seme ters of theory of evolution by natural selection," living and tudying in eville. said David J. Able, a doctoral student in DeTerra's tudy in Spain will not be animal behavior and sole author of the applicable toward an academic degree; in- PNAS article, ''The contagion indicator tead, it is intended '·to further international hypothesi for parasite-mediated sexual understanding and friendly relations among selection." Darwin recognized that char people ofdifferent countrie ," according to acteristics that make animals a target for a Rotary publication. he will be required to predators also reduce survivability and make several talks to Rotary andothergroups reproduction, Able noted. in pain and in her home state of Alaska Darwin's rationale. that conspicuous when he return . male displays persist and grow ever more DeTerra will graduate from Cornell on conspicuous because matingfemales pre May 26 in the top 10 percent of her class. fer them, never fully explained the ben efit of choosing the brightest or loudest. However, in the last 15 years, evolution ary biologists began to focus on debilitat Lansing park ing parasite infections and inherited re sistance to infection. Adriana Rovers/University Photography renamed for . For example, red jungle fowl (the an David Able, doctoral student in animal behavior, examines a male newt, ce tors ofbarnyard chickens) have glo y whose taUtin size - rather than its parasites - influences the probability of feathers and bright eyes when they are its mating success. CD librarian healthy but dull plumage and glassy eyes when certain parasites infest them. Experi the potential for parasite transmission is doesn't explain everything about con By Darryl Geddes ments show that the brightest jungle fowl related to male mating ucces. spicuou male displays," Able acknowl The park on Uptown Road in the vil males have the greatest mating success. When the analysis was complete, six edged. "But it is beginning to look like, lage ofLansing has been renamed in honor In his analysis, Able examined previ ofeight species with associatively trans when a femaleselectsa flamboyant male, of Philip R. Dankert, collection develop ousstudiesofparasite transmittability in mittable parasitesshowed a negativecor avoiding contagion may be more impor ment librarian at the Catherwood Library 15 pecies with conspicuous male dis relation between parasite intensity and tant than getting good gene ." in the School of In plays. Fourteen studies were conducted male mating success. In other words, A graduate ofIndiana Univer ity with dustrial and Labor by others and ranged from ring-necked males with the fewest transmittable para a degree in biology, Able has been con Relations, in recogni pheasants and zebra finches to fence sites have the most conspicuous traits ducting his research and teaching at tion ofhi exceptional lizards and guppie ; one study was hi and the best luck. And in species where Cornell for even years with teaching commitment to youth own, with red-spotted newts. His spe parasites are not transmitted by as ocia assistantship in introductory biology, of the Ithaca area. cies-by-species analysis questioned tion (including Able's newts, which get animal behavior and animal social be The park was offi whether the parasites are transmitted by blood parasites from leech bites and not havior. Research reported in the PNAS cially renamed the association (during mating or by fre directly from each other), the number of paper was supported in part by a National Philip R. Dankert Vil quenting the male's territory), the level parasites tended not to affect female Institutes of Health Neurobiology and lage Park during cer of parasite infection and the conspicu choice or the male traits. Behavior Training Grant and U.S. De Dankert emonies last Septem ousness of the male trait, and whether "This is far from conclusive, and it partment of Agriculture (Hatch) Funds. ber. when Lansing Village Mayor Ted Wixom prai ed Dankert for his dedication. calling him the "patron aint" ofvolunteers. "It was a surprise to me to be honored in uch a way," aid Dankert, who joined Biological controls effective in controlling watermilfoil Cornell 33 years ago. "I do my volunteer work becau e it's something Ienjoy. Idon't By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. natural enemies: the root-mining weevil, do it for any ort of recognition, so this Hylobius transvenm'ittatus, attacks the main honor is quite humbling." For most ofthe last 30years, scientists and 'This weed is the zebra storage tissue of the purple loosestrife; two Dankert' volunteer service to youth has engineers have waged a war on the Eurasian mussel of the plant world. leaf beetles, GalerLlcella calmariensis and been exten ive. He currently is a member of watermilfoil, a non-indigenous water weed Almost every state has this G. pusilla, can completely defoliate indi the Tompkins County Youth Board and is that diminishe swimming, boating and the vidual plants and entire purple toosestrife problem.' chairman of the Recreation Partnership environment. Using standard mechanical populations; the weevil Nanophyes Board. Previously, Dankert has served as a means of harvesting the mil foil, winning the - Bernd Blossey marmora/us feeds on the nowers; the wee member and committee chairman of the war looked bleak. But, environmentally vil N. brevis feeds on the seeds. Ithaca Youth Bureau Board ofAdvisors, the friendly biological control may be the an All of them attack nothing but their host Village of Lansing Parks and Recreation swer, according to a Cornell scientist. and by studyi ng the effects of natural insect purple loosestrife, Bios ey said. Committee, the Joint Youth Commission, "This weed is the zebra mussel of the enemies of the purple loosestrife, Blossey The watermilfoil is but one weed in thou as program advi er for the Cayuga Heights plant world," said Bernd B1ossey, director believes there may be a scientific, biologi sands. In New York, for example, there are and orthea. t schools' ski programs, as of the Biological Control of Non-Indig cal template for controlling this type of more than 1,400 non-native plants grown. cubma ter and member of the Boy Scout enou Plant Species Program at Cornell. water weed. Scientists cringe at the thought of using Troop committee, and as a member of the "Almost every state has this problem. It is Meanwhile, harvesting the weeds seems chemical herbicides on such underwater boardofdirectorsofthe Ithaca Youth Hockey replacing the native macrophytes and has to make the problems worse. Blossey said. weeds. And chemicals provide only varying A' ociation. In addition. Dankert coached detrimental effects on the ecology of in Whenever a weed like purple 100 'estrife or degreesofsuccess. Biological controleems Kiwanis ba eball for nearly a decade. fested waters." the watermilfoil is mechanically harvested, to be the mo.t appealing method of tackling When time permits, Dankert serves as Using lessons learned from the war the plant's natural enemies have no food to the problem. a volunteer fireman for the Lansing Fire against another weed, purple loosestrife, survive-at least until it grows back. Within The search for biological control contin Department. Blossey, Robert John on, manager of the a few months the problem is just as bad as ues. "Biological methods are not always "My volunteer activities all began Cornell Experimental Ponds, and Nelon before or worse. readily available." Blossey said." or have when I participated with my children in Hairston, Cornel' pr fes or of ecology and There is hope of controlling milfoil those methods always been well-endorsed youth activities," he said. "I was able to systematics, wa I to wage biological con around the country. Blossey suggests just or financially supported. Despite an excel ee the joy and benefit of being a part of trol against the llilfoil. Blossey pre ented being patient. Simply allow the host-spe lent safety record, skepticism concerning the e activities, so I've been volunteer his report, "Biological Control of Weeds in cific, natural entomological enemies to do the safety and effectiveness of exotic insect ing ever since." Natural Areas," at the Cornell Biocontrol their job, Blossey said. introductions for weed control remains high Dankert and his wife, Ginny, reside in Conference April 12 in Ithaca. In the case of the ornamentally beautiful among the general public, administrators the Village of Lansing. Through research performed in Ithaca purple loosestrife, there is a long list of and even scientists." Cornell Chronicle May 9,1996 9
Students and programs awarded during National Volunteer Week Cornell students, led by the staff of the prove his reading skills. One method she Public Service Center, celebrated National used in teaching him to read wa a "Lan VolunteerWeek from April 21-27.The high guage Experience" story in which the man lights ofthe week included formal presenta described an event while he recorded the tion of two ervice awards. story. Burnside's proposal is to enhance the On April 26, the Community Partnership computerskillsofthe students by setting up Fund Board (CPFB), a program of the Pub a computer center to publish the e Lan lic Service Center, honored its] 995-96grant guage Experience. tories and other tudent recipients. CPFB seeks to fo ter student works on the Internet. leadership and social responsibility by en Susan Crisfield - Crifield became in couraging students to take action against volved with Ithaca eighborhood Housing social problems, and provides monetary Services while volunteering with Commu awards to advance such projects. This year's nity Unity to rebuild/repair local houses. recipients include: Her proposal is to link the efforts of INHS • HydroSummer '96 - a grassroots in and students of horticulture and landscape ternational project established to introduce architecture to rebuild the yardsofthe newly micro-hydroelectric powergeneration to the refurbished homes, thus increa ingthe value Dominican Republic. of the neighborhood. She has been a sisted • designers for a Better Community by other Cornell student· and faculty, in Working in cooperation with Ithaca Neigh cluding Sarah Wilkinson, Jennifer Sitts, borhood HousingServices(I HS), student Catherine Baker, Joy Grefrath and Charles will focus on revitalizing and landscaping a Ufford; and professors Paula Horrigan and rehabilitated home. Jon Rei fPHOTOLlNK Irene Lekstutis. Benefactors of the Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Awards, from left at bottom, • Legal Readers - a children's literacy Gerald Robinson '54, Margot Robinson '55, Helen Appel '55 and Robert Appel ahmjin Kim - Kim has volunteered in program started at the Cornell Law School '55, pose with this year's student winners, from left top, Nahmjin Kim, Susan the Ithaca Youth Bureau One-to-One Pro with the help ofthe school's service organi Crisfield and Shelly Burnside. gram since 1994. Her proposal is to create a zation, Phi Delta Phi. four-week afternoon science camp for eight • Mental Health Association and Sigma students. This award wa established by lems. Three students are selected and each to ]0 children and introduce them to various Gamma Rho- Sorority members worked on alumni Gerald Robinson '54 and Margot receives $1,000 to further a community field in the science , demonstrate the ci a campaign to inform the Ithaca community Robinson '55, and Robert Appel '53 and service project that he or she has initiated ences' relevance to the children's lives and about people with mental health concerns. Helen Appel '55. The Robinson-Appel and proposed. This year's winners are: spark an interest in the various sciences via • The Partnership - mobilizes student Humanitarian Award was created to recog Shelly Burnside - Burnside's idea to hands-on experience. volunteers to work on a variety ofconstruc nize and honor students who have had sig create a computer publishing center at the For more information on the Community tion projects for low-income families. nificant involvement in community service Literacy Volunteers of Tompkins County Partnership Fund Board or the Robinson On April 27, the Robinson-Appel Hu by providingsupportfortheirprojects which came to her as a result of tutoring a man in Appel Humanitarian Award, contact the manitarian Awards were presented to three addressacommunity'ssocial needs or prob- danger of losing his job if he did not im- Public Service Center at 255-1148. ISSO keeps mission, but changes address in campus relocation
By Jill Goetz The Cornell International Students and Scholars Office (ISSO) routinely helps others settle into unfamiliar terri tory. But a recent disruption of the office's own routine temporarily turned the tables on that scenario. On May 1 and 2, the office relocated from Barnes Hall at the center of the Cornell campus to the newly renovated Caldwell Hall on the Ag Quad. The move was part of the campus reconfiguration known as the "SageShuffle," which is affecting over 300 people in a dozen buildings. The ISSO now is located in B-50 Caldwell Hall. It will share the building with the Graduate School - whose old site, Sage Hall, i slated to become the new home of the Johnson Graduate School of Management. According to ISSO Director Jerry Wilcox, little will change in terms of the office's aims and ervices. The office's mission is still to assist international students (stu dents who have a non-immigrant visa and who are engaged in a full course of study at Cornell), and scholars (foreign nationals with academic appointments at Cornell and non Ro~ers Uni~'(!r immigrant visa status) by advising them on federal immi Adriana it}' Photography On May 3, Ann Haessner, administrative assistant in the Graduate School, helped pack up boxes to be gration, tax, labor and other regulations and by providing moved from the school's old home in Sage Hall to its new one in Caldwell Hall, where the International counseling on personal, academic and cultural issues. Students and Scholars Office also has relocated. "We're pleased that the move is happening early in May rather than later, because the period after finals control on international students, and a proposed amend Once international student and scholars have settled in, tends to be one of our busiest," Wilcox aid. "Many ment by U.S. Sen. Alan Simp on (R-Wyo.) would also the ISSO engages them in ongoing social and educational students will leave technical immigration matters to the tighten restrictions on their activities and increase paper programs, including a weekly coffee hour in the Big Red last minute; we'll have people coming in to sign docu work, he said. Barn and an annual trip to the nation's capital. The office ments and running off to the airport." But, the ISSO does much more than distribute appropri also works with the Campus Club of Cornell International Guiding international students through a maze of red ate immigration and tax forms. In one of its programs, Committee, which sponsors non-credit English classes, tape is oneoftheoffice's major functions. And that function PREPARE(Preparation for Academic Resources for Excel International Women's Friendship Clubs and the Interna has grown increasingly complex. "Figuring out what form lence), international undergraduate students arrive on cam tional Student Hospitality Program. to file can be a nightmare," Wilcox said. pus a few days early for individualized orientation sessions. These programs have grown in size with that ofCornell's Emerging fears about terrorist activity are not likely to In another, the Foreign Scholars Residence Program, the international community. Cornell now has more than 2,500 make life any simpler for foreign nationals or for the ISSO, ISSO helps scholars locate appropriate housing and other international students, up from 1,857 a decade ago, and more he added. FBI Director Louis Freeh has called for greater services for themselves and their families. than 1,050 international scholars, up from 858 a decade ago. Summer renovations at Gannett Health Center will limit some access Beginning Monday, May 20, renova This temporary main entrance will include a for X-rays. Rides will be available for stu administration floor and share space in the tions beginning at Gannett Health Center handicapped-accessible ramp. dents and others without transportation." billing department. Psychological services will temporarily relocate several depart The health center is scheduled to be fully The laboratory will move temporarily to will remain on the ground floor, but it will ments and restrict entry to the building. operational by Aug. 26, barring any con the third floor of the health center, which operate with a reduced staff and service The main entrance, which fronts on Ho struction delays, said Nianne VanFleet, di will continue to house the contraception, throughout the con truction. Patientsand vi i Plaza, and the rear emergency entrance will rector of nursing and coordinator of in gynecology and sexual ervice (CGSS) tors are advised to use the elevator to move be closed for the summer. All patients, visi house construction. units and the health education office. between floors and units and to be alert to tors, del iveriesand emergencieswill be served "The Radiology Unit will be the only The tudent insurance office will relocate signs that help guide them through the center throughout the renovation by the entrance service closed for the summer," VanFleet to the main floor, and the dispensary will during the con truction period. located at the upper parking lot in the rear of said. "Gannett patients will be referred to remain on the main floor for the summer. The For information and renovation updates, the building (accessed from Campus Road). Convenient Care Center on Warren Road cashier'sstation will move temporarily to the call 255-5155. 10 May 9,1996 Cornell Chronicle
Rawlings: Higher education can take lessons from corporate sector
By Darryl Geddes College and univer itiescan learn valu 'The pace of change makes it able lessons from their corporate counter essential that we offer part, especially on how to become more ongoing education to our competitive globally, aid Cornell Presi employees. Technologies are dent Hunter Rawling. Speaking before more than 80 corporate emerging that will enable executives and Cornell faculty, administra education to be available tors and staffmembers at a forum Apri130 on anytime and anywhere.' campu ,Rawlingssaid universities mu tmake - Lewis Platt, CEO changes - like tho e made in the corporate Hewlett-Packard ector - if they are to remain globally com petitive. He noted that competition for fac ulty, tudent·, grants, contracts and corporate funding has become more intense. university resources to meet business needs, "While the world's children come to U.S. • preparing students to work in virtual, research universities, we cannot afford to be geographically dispersed teams, complacent." said Rawlings during remarks • increasing diversity of advanced de at the first Cornell Corporate Executive Fo gree graduates and increasing the supply of rum, held at the Statler Hotel. "Resources minority science-trained personnel. from have ceased growing, and we have not be Adriana Rovers/Unhwsity Photography senior managers to bench-top scientists, come price sensitive; we must change." Executives from more than 80 companies attended the first-ever Cornell • keeping higher education costs and fi Rawlings suggested that the expansion University Corporate Executive Forum April 30 at the Statler Hotel. Among the nances under control and i t attitude of many universities, which has attendees were, from left, Hewlett-Packard CEO Lewis Platt, who co-hosted • urging faculty to produce value lead to spiraling tuition costs, growth in the forum with Cornell President Hunter Rawlings; Donald Greenberg, profes added, applied research rather than aca di ciplines taught and institutions created, sorofcomputergraphics; and Gene Resnick, vice president of Schering-Plough demic research. Research Institute. may need to be re-examined. The forum also focused on dominant The Corporate Executive Forum, coor corporate issues, the competitive workforce, dinated by Cornell's Office of Corporate Gone are the days when employees had to our employees," Platt said. "Technolo the workplace of the future, innovation and Relation , offered executives, managers, to talk to their directors who, in turn, had to gies are emerging that will enable education technology, and the empowered or expend Cornell faculty, administrators and staff relay information to their bosses. Today to be available anytime and anywhere." able corporate employee. member an opportunity to exchange and corporate presidents heardirectly from work Platt challenged colleges and universi "The exchange of ideas that took place te·t ideas on issues confronting both the ers on the assembly linevia telecommunica ties to find a way to educate people in their during the forum will continue," said Nick corporate and education sectors. tions, Platt said. homes or in the workplace. Komanecky, director ofcorporate relations Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Of The technology also is changingthe work In a preforum survey of issues faced by for Cornell. "Several working groups have ficer Lewis Platt, who earned his bachelor's environment and the work day, as informa companies, executives said they wanted been created to examine various issues, degree at Cornell, co-hosted the forum with tion is now accessible anywhere and at all university graduates to be continuous learn among them concerns over intellectual prop Rawlings. "Change is the only constant in hours of the day. It also is changing the ers to help keep pace with the changing erty, corporate best practices, business-in today'sbusiness world,"Plattsaid. "Change relationship between corporations and cus marketplace. Other suggestions on how dustry needs, future forums and the 'best occurswhen dissatisfaction about status quo tomers. "There is a new intimacy with cus universities could be of more assistance to deal' for Cornell graduates." exceeds anxiety over change." tomers, as many are on-line, communicat corporations included: Among the corporations represented One area driving change today is tech ing with us directly," he said. • providing lifelong learning systems for at the forum were Allied Signal, AT&T, nology, which, according to Platt, has made Technology, too, will help advance the graduates and employees, Bausch & Lomb, Chase Manhattan, Citi it ea ier for employeesto communicatewith relationship corporations have with colleges • better use ofuniversities forcontinuing Corp, Eastman Kodak, General Motors, each other. "The organizational chart is ir and universities. "The pace ofchangemakes education by executives, GTE, IBM, Intel, Merck, Motorola, Sprint relevant today," he said. it essential that we offer ongoing education • developingstrongercollaboration with and Xerox.
Thousands ofstudents take a bath on Slope Day - a mud bath By Larry Bernard Cornell student took to the slopes on May 3, but they 'We've seen a lot of knees messed up, weren't skiing. probably for the rest of their lives.' Mud sliding was more like it. Dr. Janet Corson-Rikert, With more than 5,000 students congregating on Libe acting director of Gannett Health Center lope on the last day ofclasses - forever for graduating eniors, in an annual rite of passage from Cornell dozens of them went careening, rolling, tumbling and just plain falling down the hill as rain made the slope it Fun" T-shirts, designed by Madison and Tower, the re emble a California mud (ide more than a grassy knoll student advertising agency. at the foot of Uris Library. But it's grass no more. With 13 extra police officers, two vans to shuttle be As a result, there were fractured bones, torn liga tween the slopeand the hospital. extra mattresses in Gannett, ments, dislocated joints, cuts and bruises, teeth knocked 4.800 16 oz. bottles of water, portable toilets around the out and dozens of other injurie that had the Gannett slope's perimeter, double staff at the hospital emergency Health Center looking like a MASH unit. room and a volunteer corps on patrol, Cornell appeared "We've seen a lot ofknees me sed up," sai~ Dr. Janet ready for anything. But the students persevered, and even Corson-Rikert, acting director of Gannett, "probably for a steady rain did little to dampen their revelry. the rest of their lives." "This is the worst I've ever seen it in my 10 years," Although only three people had to be taken by ambu Dennis Osika, director of the Grounds Department, said lance from the slope to the emergency room at Cayuga ofthe condition ofthe slope. "Therewasquitea lotofloss Medical Center for alcohol poisoning, about 20 were ofgrass and erosion on the steepest part ofthe slope. We drunk or sick enough to require a rest at the Health only have three weeks until commencement. I don't Center. Thirty mattresses were brought there in advance, know if we'll make it, but we're trying." just in case. And while no one was comatose, emergency Grounds crews were working "feverishly," he said. medical technicians reported that many ofthe more than spending seven hours on the slope Saturday doing 40 people they treated on the hill were too drunk to know cleanup and prepari ng for seeding. '"It's very di fficult where they were. to seed there because it's so steep," Osika said, adding Cornell Police reported that they responded to 114 that it would cost more than $3,200 for cleanup and incidents and made dozens of arrests, most of them for repair of the area. liquor law violations. The amount of alcohol was so Charles Harrington/University Photography At times it got ugly, as reported by Cornell Emer great, police confiscated more than 200 cases of beer Thousands of students congregated in the rain gency Medical Services technicians who were on the and 100 cases of beer in one vehicle alone, which a on Libe Slope on May 3 for the annual Slope Day front lines. Not just beer and Frisbees were flying, but gathering, marking the end of classes for the fraternity was going to pass out for free on the slope. That spring semester. Several used the slope behind they reported numerous airborne UFBs - Unidentified wa not to be, as police reminded the offenders that they Uris Library as a mud slide. Flying Bottles. Combat pay was demanded only half would need a liquor license for that amount of alcohol. facetiously upon return to the relative safety of the EMS till, officials said it was a better Slope Day than last not a good idea, and food was available from Tucker's tent across the street on West Avenue. Even President year, when the hospital emergency rooms were over Catering and Domino's Pizza. Hunter Rawlings, whocame out to greet the students, had flowing and health care workers had difficulty keeping The student group StudentsOffering Support, chaired to turn back after a short time. And after one mud slider up with the injured. by Leslie Kirchler '98, with the Dean ofStudents Office, slid right under a Bang's ambulance on the path beneath Credit the administration planners. The Dean of Stu rounded up more than 200 students, faculty and staff the slope, that was enough for Cornell Police, who closed dents Office, led by Catherine Holmes, director of stu who were trained to patrol the grounds and try to keep off that area. dent activities, helped ensure a safe but fun day. Student students out of trouble. The volunteers were spotted Class of 1996, your soon-to-be alma mater has one and Academic Services determined that live music was easily by their pink "Slope Day 96 - Keep it Safe, Keep question: Was it worth it? Cornell Chronicle May 9,1996 11
soprano Emily Lott then performs Gabriel Faure's Sustainable Agriculture," Jamie Jonker, graduate send e-mail to [email protected] or access the La Chanson d'Eve. Goff then performs Rossini's student, May 14,12:20 p.m., 348 Morrison Hall. Web site at http://LGBRO.comell.edu. Au Chevet d'un Mourant and Ralp'h Vaughan Williams' Four Hymns for Tenor, Viola and Piano. Biochemistry Lunchtime Meditation "Mechanisms of Transcriptional Control by For beginner through experienced meditators, Johnson Museum Retinoic Acid Receptors: Christopher Glass, health educator Nanci Rose will give instruction in On Saturday, May 11, at 12:30 p.m., the UCSD, May 10, 4 p.m., large seminar room, Bio various techniques Wednesdays from 12:15 to 1 information desk, first floor, caldwell Hall. Tyetones, directed by Jonathan Blocksom, will technology Building. p.m. in the North Room of Willard Straight Hall. • Diplomadistribution: Diplomas will beavail sing The Mass Euge Bone by Christopher Tya in Open to all faculty and staff and sponsored by the able for May 1996 degree recipients who com the lobby. Boyce Thompson Institute ALERT Peer Education Program. For information, pleted requirements by mid-March. Many fields Distinguished Lecture in the Life Sciences: call Gannett at 255-4782. and/or colleges will be distributing diplomas at Bound for Glory "Special Enyironmental Responses of Agaves & ceremonies after commencement. Diplomas will May 12: Albums from the studio. Bound for Cacti: Park Nobel, May 15, 3 p.m., Boyce Thomp be mailed to other recipients. Glory is broadcast Sundays from 8 to 11 p.m. on son Auditorium. • Ph.D. recognition event: The ceremony to WVBR-FM, 93.5 and 105.5. honor Ph.D. recipients will be held in Barton Hall at Genetics & Development 5 p.m., Saturday, May 25. Family, friends and 'Epigenetic Control of an Endogenous Gene faCUlty advisers are invited; reception will follow. Family in Arabidopsis: Judith Bender, Johns Candidates who participate must wear a cap and Hopkins University, May 13, 4 p.m., large seminar gown and must register in Barton Hall between room, Biotechnology Building. 3:45 and 4:15 p.m. before the ceremony. 'General and Specific Translational Activators "Faculty: Graduate faculty meeting will be Interacting With the Mitochondrial COX3 mRNA Baseball (17·27, 8·12 Ivy) held on Friday, May 24, at 4 p.m. in Caldwell Hall. 5'-untranslated Leader: Maria Costanzo, May 15, Season complete. The meeting is solely for the purpose of voting on 12:20 p.m., small seminar room, Biotechnology The diamondmen closed out the 1996 cam May degrees. BUilding. paign by going 3-3 in the final week ofthe season. " Summer registration: Forms for summer Sage Chapel On Sunday, the Red split a doubleheader with graduate registration are available starting Mon Phillip J. Lee, Presbyterian parish minister, Microbiology Gehrig Division co-champion Princeton in New day, May 13, at the Graduate School information Church of St. John & St. Stephen, in Saint John, 'Highly Efficient Germ-Une Transmission of Jersey. The Tigers won the first contest 3-1 and desk, first floor, Caldwell Hall. The summer pe New Brunswick, Canada, will give the sermon May Proviral Insertions in Zebrafish: Nancy Hopkins, Cornell won the second 8-2. Last Friday, Pnnceton riod begins on May 20. Student 10 and in-person 12 at 11 a.m. in Sage Chapel. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 10, was in Ithaca for a pair of games, and the Tigers registration are required. Students must register 12:15 p.m., Boyce Thompson Auditorium. won thefirst game 6-4, and in the nightcap, Cornell if they are 1) receiving financial aid during the African·American "The Ins and Outs of Two Persistent Viruses: wasvictorious5-2 Earlier in the weekatLewisburg. summer (such as fellowships, summer loans, Sundays, 5:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Union. Herpes and Hepatitis B Entry and Egress: Timo Pa., the Red also spirt a twin bill with Bucknell, assistantships, travel grants, or tuition awards); thy Block, The Jefferson University, Philadelphia, winning 18-3 and losing 6-3. 2) wish to use campus facilities during the sum Baha'i Faith May 13, 12:15 p.m., BoyceThompson Auditorium mer; or 3) are off campus but need to be regis Fridays, 7 p.m., firesides with speakers, open Men's Llwt. Crew (4-3) tered for summer study. Graduate students who discussion and refreshments. Meet at the Balch Neurobiology & Behavior May 19, Eastern Sprints at Worcester, Mass. have been registered for a regular semester dur Archway; held in Unit 4 lounge at Balch Hall. 'A Warp in the SUbspace Continuum: The The lightweights went up against tough com ing the preceding academic year do not pay Sunday morning prayers and breakfast, 7 a.m. Representation of Time in the Bat Auditory Mid petition in Concord, N.H., on Saturday, May 4, and tuition for non-credit summer registration. Stu brain: Bill O'Neil, University of Rochester Medical the result was Dartmouth winning the varsity, dents approved for summerresidence credit must Catholic School, May 9, 12:30 p.m., A106 Corson Hall. junior varsity and first freshman races. pay the appropriate pro-rated Graduate School Weekend Masses: Saturday, 5 p.m.; Sunday, tuition rate. Tuition must be paid for summer 10 a.m., noon and 5 p.m., Anabel Taylor Audito Ornithology Women's Varsity Crew (6-2J courses taken through the School of Continuing rium. Daily Masses: Monday-Friday, 12:20 p.m., 'The Making of a Field Guide: Jim Cae, May May 12, Eastern Sprints at Lake Waramaug, Education and Summer Sessions. Anabel Taylor Chapel. Sacrament of Reconcilia 13, 7:30 p.m., Fuertes Room, Lab of Ornithology, Conn. tion, Saturday, 3:30 p.m., G-22Anabel Taylor Hall. 159 Sapsucker Woods Road. The women's crew enjoyed a successful dayin Ascension Mass: May 16,12:20 p.m., Chapel, Concord, N.H., on Saturday, as the Big Red swept Anabel Taylor Hall; 7 p.m., Chapel (French Mass). Plant Biology all four races. 'Induced Resistance in Crop Plants - How Christian SCience Molecular Biology Can Help a Natural Phenom Golf (0-1) Testimony meetings sharing healing through enon to Be of Practical Use,' Andres Binder, CIBA Season complete. prayer and discussion every Thursday at 7 p.m., GEIGY Agrobiotech, May 10, 11:15 a.m., 404 Junior Chris Simms (North Hollywood, Calif.) Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. For more Plant Science BUilding. played in the NCAA District II Golf Championship information see
Composile pholo courtesy oJ Department oJ Threalre Arts Winners of this year's Shavelson Film Awards are, from left, Charlene Sun for Luce, Brendan Yetter for The Chimes 01 Abraham Bell, Catherine Tingey for The Conversation and Chris Spurgin for Moonwalk. The film awards are named for All items for the Chronicle Calendar should be submitted by campus mail, U.S. mail or in Melville Shavelson '37, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, producer and director. person to Chronicle Calendar, Cornell News Service, Village Green, 840 Hanshaw Road. otices should be sent to arrive 10 days prior to publication and should include the name and Cornell's student films attract Hollywood attention telephone nu mber ofa person whocan be cKirk Douglas, Clark • Sculpture by Stacy Latt, May 12-18. Rivchin, senior lecturer in filmmaking, wants to finish a film print, the costs for a 15 Gable, Cary Grant, Bob Hope, Sophia Loren, speaking about the final projects of the four minute film are typically $2,000 to $4,000. Frank Sinatra and John Wayne. Kroch Library Exhibition Room 2B students in the Advanced Undergraduate It's less costly to shoot in film and transfer Sha-velson, president of the Writers "Invention and Enterprise: Ezra Cornell, a 19th Film Program. "The films reflect what they to video fbr editing and much cheaper to do Guild of America-West, is the author of Century Life: curated by Elaine Engst, university archIVist, through June 9. see out there on the big screen." it all in video, but most students here like the two novel and four works of non-fiction, Three of these films get their world pre 'film look.'" including the recent bestseller, Don'tShoot Tjaden Gallery (M·F, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) miere May 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Willard Straight To offset this expense, Hollywood It's Dnly Me, in collaboration with Bob BFA Thesis Shows, through May 24. Hall. Moonwa/k premieres in December. screenwriter, director and producer Hope. Charlene Sun, who hopes to attend medical Melville Shavelson, a 1937 Cornell gradu Shavelson will attend the May 12 screen Veterinary Medical Center Paintings by Corinne T. Kenney, DVM '62, are school this fall, said her idea for writing and ate, has established the Melville Shavelson ingofstudent films and meet with Shavelson on display in the center's gallery through June 9. producingLucewaspartly inspired by Disney. Film Awards. Awards winners May 13.
Im~ Films listed are sponsored by Cornell Cinema "Pee Wee's Big Adventure' (1985), directed by Harvey Keitel and David Bowie, 7 p.m. • Move to Caldwell: The following Graduate unless otherwise noted. All films are $4.50 ($4 for Tim Burton, with Pee Wee Herman, midnight, Uris. 'Pee Wee's Big Adventure," 10:15 p.m. School offices have moved from Sage Hall to students and children under 12), except for Satur Caldwell Hall: Records Office, Thesis Adviser, day or Sunday matinees ($3.50). Films are held in Saturday, 5/11 Tuesday, 5/14 Admissions Office, and Fellowships and Financial Willard Straight Theatre except where noted. "The World of Apu' (1959), directed by Satyajit "Mary Reilly: 7 p.m. Aid Office . The Deans' offices and the Publica Ray, with Soumitra Chatlerjeeand Sarmila Tagore, 'Heat" (1995), directed by Michael Mann, with tions and Statistics Office will move on May 14 and Thursday, 5/9 7p.m. Robert DeNiro, At Pacinoand Val Kilmer, 9:30 p.m. will be closed that day 'Nico Icon' (1995). directed by Susanne "Pee Wee's Big Adventure: 7:20 p.m., Uris. • May degree: All requirements for a May de Ofteringer, 7:30 p.m. "Nico Icon: 9:25 p.m. Wednesday, 5/15 gree must be completed by May 17. "The Usual Suspects' (1995), directed by Bryan "Mary Reilly, 9:25 p.m., Uris. "A Better Tomorrow I" (1986), directed by John • Commencement: Commencement is on Sun Singer, with Chah Palminteri, Kevin Pollack and "The Usual Suspects: midnight, Uris. Woo, with Chow Yun Fat, Leslie Cheung and Ti day, May 26. Commencement information pack Stephen Baldwin, 9:25 p.m. Lung, 7:15 p.m. ets have been mailed to all recipients of August Sunday, 5/12 "Heat: 9:30 p.m. 1995 and January 1996 degrees. Candidates for Friday, 5/10 "Mary Reilly: 4:30 p.m. May 1996 degrees. Professional Master's degree 'Mary Reilly' (1995), directed by Stephen Cornell Student Films II, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 5/16 candidates may obtain packets in graduate field Frears, with John Malkovich and Julia Roberts, "Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business' offices; M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degree candidates 7:15 pm., Uris. Monday, 5/13 (1995), directed by Helena Solberg, with Cynthia may pick up packets at the Graduate School 'Nico Icon: 7:30 and 9:15 p.m. "The Last Temptation of Christ' (1988), di Adler, Eirck Barreto and Lerticia Monte, 7: 15 p.m. 'The Usual Suspects: 945 p.m" Uris. rected by Martin Scorcese, with Willem Dafoe, "A Better Tomorrow': 9:15 pm. Continued on page 11