INTO THE STREETS Hundreds of student volunteers will participate in Ithaca-area service ORNELL projects this weekend.
KEEPING THE BUGS OUT Experiments show that insects employ a human-like ability - categorical perception.
Volume 28 Number 6 September 26, 1996 Antonio Gotto joins Cornell Medical College as provost and dean By Linda Grace-Kobas I), and they determined the complete eDNA and amino acid skills that will best serve the college as it approaches the sequence of apo B-1oo, one of the largest proteins ever dawn of the next century. I look forward with great enthu Antonio M. Gotto Jr., M.D., has sequenced and a key protein in atherosclerosis and cardio siasm to working with him in this most exciting and chal been appointed Cornell's provost vascular disease. lenging period for health care and medical education." for medical affairs and the Stephen Gotto is author of The New Living Heart Cookbook and "I am delighted to join this extraordinarily strong institu and Suzanne Weiss Dean of the co-author of The Living Heart and The New Living Heart tion," Gotto said. "I look forward to the opportunity to build Medical College in New York City, Diet, books that explain to the general public the origin and its research infrastructure and to carry out the college's President Hunter Rawlings an dietary treatment of cardiovascular disease. well-developed strategic plan. Iam particularly ~nthusiastic nounced Wednesday. He succeeds Robert Michels, M.D., who stepped down about the prospect of forging still stronger academic rela Gotto is currently the Bob and from the Cornell posts last spring, and will assume his new tionships with our neighbors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Vivian Smith Professor and chair Gotto position on Jan. 1, 1997. Carl Nathan, M.D., will serve as and Rockefeller University, while strengthening our out of the Margaret M. and Albert B. acting dean through Dec. 31. standing clinical ties with New York Hospital and our other Alkek Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medi "It is with great pleasure that we announce today the affiliated institutions." cine and the Methodist Hospital. A nationally renowned appointment ofDr. Gotto as provost for medical affairs and At Baylor, Gotto is Distinguished Service Professor and researcher, Gotto and his associates were the first to achieve dean of the college;" Rawlings said. "He brings precisely also holds the lS. Abercrombie Professor Chair for Athero the complete synthesis of a plasma apolipoprotein (apo C- those research, administrative, clinical and public service Continued on page 2 French studies All right at home program hosts conference on Algerian crisis
By Jill Goetz Ten artists and intellectuals with per sonal and professional ties to Algeria will visit Cornell next week for a conference on the political and cultural issues facing this violence-racked nation in northern Africa. "Algeria: In and Out of French" will run Thursday, Oct. 3, through Saturday, Oct. 5. Free and open to the public, it is be ing organized by Cornell's Program in French Studies and will addresssuch top- Berger . ICS as the complex re- lations between politics and language (Al gerians speak Algerian, Arabic, French and Berber) and the sexual politics of Algeria, where divorced, working and non-veiled women and even young girls have been Robert Barker/University PholOgraphy killed by fundamentalist factions. There was a lot to cheer about in Schoellkopf Field Saturday, a beautiful day for Comell's annual Homecoming "Algeria is the site of a double terror football game. The Big Red made the day complete by beating Princeton in double overtime, 33·27. ism,"saidconferenceconvenerAnne Berger, associate professor ofFrench in the Depart ment ofRomance Studies: "the terrorism of the so-called Islamic fundamentalists whose first targets are women ofall classes, Lane asks scientists to help make the case for research artists, journalists and intellectuals, espe cially the Francophone and Berberophone lly Larry Bernard total federal budget and will drop to one ones-and the terrorism ofa corrupt military seventh by 2002. regime. Meanwhile, France, which has had Federal investment in research could "While we can't predict with any preci a surgeofAlgerian refugees, has been forced , ~ecrease by 20percent or more overthe next sion how this will affect NSF or any other into the scene through repeated bomb at IVe to 10years, but scientistscan help make agency, we do know that there will be tacks by armed fundamentalist groups; the ~he case that there is value to research, the increased competition for funds from this GlA, or Islamic Armed Group, has vowed ( ~ad of the National Science Foundation shrinking slice of the pie," he said during to kill all the artists and intellectuals who SF) said here last week. his speech before a packed audience in have taken refuge in France. 'This nation is getting ready to carry out Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall. "It seemed to me that what was going on an experiment it has never run before: To But scientists and engineers do not have to there deserved to be reported and debated see if we can reduce the purchasing power sit idly by, he said. Lane made his own case here at Cornell," Berger continued. "Every ~~ research investment by 20 percent and for the value of research and encouraged the day in Algeria, people of the word - intel ~IIJ ~e a world leader in the 21 st century. audience to come up with their own stories. lectuals, journalists, writers, academics, hat IS a high-risk experiment" Neal Lane In what he called "subplots" to science, playwrights, actors - are murdered, and I d'Irector ofthe NSF, told a Sept." 20 audience he described how scientists recently discov think of this conference as an homage and at a symposium celebrating the 50th anni ered what they believe may be fossil evi tribute to them." vers~ry Adriana Rovers/University Photography of Cornell's School of Applied and NSF Director Neal Lane dence ofmicrobial life on Mars in a meteor On a broader scale, she said, the Alge EngIneering Physics. He joined national ite found on Earth. Lane said such a discov rian crisis offers a compelling case study of lea~ers in various aspects of applied and Lane said federal discretionary spend ery would not have been possible without the internal and external strugglesoHormer eng~neering physics during the two-day sym ing- the day-to-day running ofthe govern several research areas coming together. colonies and the conflicts arising from POsium on campus. ment and its agencies- is only one-sixth the Continued 0/1 page 4 Continued on page 5 2 September 26, 1996 Cornell Chronicle
Gotto continued from page 1 University women I i and Lipoprotein Research and is i ntific direct rofthe DeBakey Heart Cen t r. He i chiefof th Intern I 1 dicine er- t th ethodi t Ho pital in Hou'ton. tto' re earch intere. t include the tru tur , metaboli. m and function of the pi rna lipoprotein and apolipoprotein ' and th ir r lation to athero lero i ; clinical dis rd r of lipid tran port. including h p rlipoproteinemiasand hypolipidemias; nd the pathology of atherosclero is and c r nar heart di 'ea... He ha written more th n 350 original 'cholarly article. GolIO has served as national president of the merican Heart iation and as a m mber of th ational Heart, Lung and BI d dvi' ry Council and on the ational DI b te Advi ry Board. He is currently pr id nt ofthe International Atherosdero i 'j t} andco-chairofth U..-Ru ian and , Italian Cardia ular Workgroup . Ito received hi B. . in biochemistry from anderbill Uni er ity in 1957, his D.Phil. in biochemi try from the Univer 'ity of0 ford, here he wa' a Rhode holar, and hi' 1.D. in 19 5 from Vanderbilt Uni- r ity chool of Medicine. Hi re idency training was at M sachu ell General Hos Robert Barker/University Photography pita in Bo ton followed by training at the Elizabeth Trapnell RaWlings, left, speaks with Patricia White of the American Association of University Women, ational In titute of Health. Ithacabranch, on Sept. isatthe Women's CommunityBuilding. Rawlings was guest speakeratthe AAUW meeting'.
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•S ress-relief workshop : The Stress By Marilu Del Toro '97 The contributions munication Strategi,es to look at campuswide 8u teTS workshop pon red by the Health that Cornell employ giving trends. The study, which will take Education Office are back and will meet the The United Way - it's an organization ees have madethrough place throughout the year, will use em first Wednesday of each month through most have heard of but whose function is campus campaigns in ployee focus groupstogaugetheiropinions. D c. 4, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the McManus not always clear. In Tompkins County, un the past have morethan Corne\1's decreased participation not Lounge of Holli ter Hall. On Oct. 2, Cutter derstanding the United Way's role and pur once proven to be withstanding, employee volunteers running Cramt nwillpre nt"LearningtoWorkwith po e is critical, especially since so many Unitedway of life-saving im the campus campaign remain hopeful. th Body in Reducing Stre ." The work- people depend on its work, and institutions • portance for They'veset this year'sgoal at $501 ,000- an h ps are free andopen to all faculty, staffand uch as Cornell contribute essential aid. United Way member agencies. Therecession ambitious third of the total county goal. tud nts. For information about the Stre The Tompkins County United Way is a of the '70s almost eliminated some agencies As the largest employer in the county, 8u ters program, call John Gormley at the non-profit organization that raises funds for until employees at Cornell and other local the "people on the hill" have long been the Health Education Office, 255-47 2. and coordinates the efforts of local service workplaces volunteered to make pledges guardian angels of the United Way's mem agencies. Each fall, the United Way conducts through automatic payroll deductions. Simi ber agencies. II now remains up to indi a countywide fund-raising campaign, the re- larly, the '80s would have been indifferent vidual employee donors to help Cornell ult ofwhich is crucial to seeing its 39 mem campaign years had it not been for the con keep this tradition alive. ber agencies through the subsequent year. tinuous pledges from Cornell that allowed Cornell and theTompkinsCounty United member agencies to create more programs Cornell United Way campaign infor Way have a long history of working to than ever before. mation is available on the Web at
Robert L. Cullen, 85, a memberofthe ball head coaching duties, and the Cullen Robert Perkins Merrill, 61, the Cornell athletic department for 53 years, name has been synonymous with that pro Herbert F. Johnson Chairoflndustrial Chem died Sept. 22 at his home in Ithaca after a gram ever since. In fact, in 1984 the head istry in the School of Chemical Engineer long illne . coaches of the Eastern Lightweight Foot ing, died Friday. Sept. 20, in Ithaca. Although he officially retired in 1979, ball League named the league's champion He was at Cornell for 19 years. 'ews Service Cullen remained as co-head coach of ship trophy the Bob Cullen Trophy. "Professor Merrill was a leader in ex Cornell's lightweight football team with his A member of the Cornell Athletic Hall of ploring how molecules in a gas interact with oldest son, Terry, until his death. He contin Fame, Cullen was inducted into the Upstate solid surfaces." said William L. Olbricht, ued to come to practice and was in the office New York Lacrosse Hall of Fame in January director ofthe chemical engineeringschool. last week. 1996. He assumed the freshman lacrosse "He was an excellent mentor to his students, Cornell Athletic DirectorCharles Moore coaching duties in 1958 and three years later several of whom are now outstanding re said, "Bob Cullen was the epitome of a took over as the head mentor ofthe stickmen searchers and educators." coach. In spirit, he was very competitive, and remained in that position until 1965, Merrill was recruited to Cornell in 1976, • but foremo t, he had the athletes at heart, when he returned to the frosh until 1973. and he played an important role in helping and he was extremely supportive of his A Palmyra, N.Y., native, Cullen gradu the School of Chemical Engineering ex' player. At Cornell, lightweight football is ated from Hobart College in 1937, majoring pand its research program. "All of us in Y 14850 Bob Cullen, and we will be eternally in in chemistry and biology, playing lacrosse chemical engineering have benefited frorn debted to Bob for what he has accom and quarterbackingthe football team. While having him as a colleague," Olbricht said. plished over so many years." working on his master'sdegree in chemistry Merrill. who was born in Salt Lake City. When Cullen came to Cornell in 1943 at Syracuse University, Bob also played Utah, was a 1960graduateofCornell's five and during his career, he coached three amateur and semi-pro football and baseball year undergraduate program in chemical levels of football - varsity, junior varsity in the Rochester area. engineering. He earned an Sc.D. from the and lightweight, twolevelsoflacrosse (var Cullen is survived by his wife, the former Massachusetts Institute of Technology. sity and fre hman), junior varsity basket Ursula Devaney, and six children. He is survived by his wife, Jeanne Cluff ball and women's squash. In 1946, he re A Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled Merrill; a sister; five children; and 11 grand vived the lightweight football program that for 10 a.m. this morning at t. Catherine of children. A memorial service will be held at was halted because ofWorld War II. anu he Siena, 302 St. Catherines Circle. Sage Chapel today at 4 p.m. Memorials may stayed in that position for one year before Memorial gifts can be made to: The be made to Cornell University, Church of returning to the varsity. Robert L. Cullen Fund. c/o Cornell Univer Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) In 1958. he assumed the lightweight fuot- sity, 55 Brown Road. Ithaca, N.Y. 14850. Library Endowment. Cornell Chronicle September 26, 1996 3
Hundreds of student volunteers will go 'Into the Streets' on Saturday By Simeon Moss ning this year's Fall Service Day, and they, in turn, are include cleaning neighborhood sidewalks, streets, utility coordinatedby a boardofsix students led by Adina Saperstein poles and open spaces. Into the Streets, a program of Cornell's Public Servjce '98, this year's director of Into the Streets. Volunteers will gather at 10 a.m. in front ofCollegetown Center, is sponsoring its sixth annual FaII Service Day on "It introduces a large percentage ofstudents to service and Motor Lodge, 312 CollegeAve. From there, teams ofstudents Saturday from 9:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. to issues in the community," Saperstein said of Fall Service and year-round residents will begin their cleanup effort. On that day, several hundred CorneII students, faculty Day. "Ourhope is thatthey will find somethingon that day that Leading the campaign to get students involved in the and staffwilljoin membersofthe Ithaca community in a day they wiII want to make a lasting commitment to." Collegetown cleanup are Jessie ColwilI of Kappa Alpha of public service projects. Participants will gather in the morning at Beverly J. Theta sorority, vice president of the Panhellenic Council, Morethan 120collegecampusesacrossthecountry partici Martin Elementary School to hear kick-off speeches by and Chris Weldon of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, vice presi pate in Into the Streets, which was created to introduce Ithaca Mayor Alan Cohen and Susan Murphy, Cornell vice dent of the Interfraternity Council. students to thoughtful community service and to provide a president for student and academic services. Volunteers Additional support is being provided by the Collegetown learning experience that challenges them to volunteer on a will spend the rest of the day, in groups of five to 10, at Motor Lodge, WVBR-FM, Collegetown businesses, the city regular basis. The mission of Into the Streets at Cornell, service projects in support of 35 Ithaca-area agencies, of Ithaca's Department of Public Works and two Cornell student organizers say, is to foster continuing connections ranging from HOMES Inc. to the Cayuga Nature Center. offices - the Dean ofStudents and Community Relations. between the university and the greater Ithaca community Other students, including members of fraternity and For further information on Into the Streets and Fall through education programs and meaningful social action. sorority councils, and Collegetown residents also will take Service Day, call the Public Service Center at 255-3836 or About 60 students at Cornell have participated in plan- to the streets of Collegetown Saturday. Activities will send e-mail to
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"It i ;tory," he aid. "about the inher- 10 years from now. Flexibility is absolutely nt unprcdictabilityoffundamental research, required. That's not what you find in typical th importance of leading-edge in trumen academic departments," he said. t ti nand facilitie for re earch. the re Horn added that the "information age" is quir ment for a . trong. table national in- not necessarily the age of knowledge or tm nt a ro: the full pectrum of cience wisdom. "You will be able to walk around nd en ineering field: and. rna t impor with the Library ofCongress in your pocket. t ntl , the need to en age th public and Not that you'd want that. You have to be uild appreciation for ourefforts in reearch able to make all that information useful." and ducation:' Gerald Yonas. vice president for Informa For e -ample. Lane aid. without the tion and Pulsed-power Research and Tech F Polar Program. there would be no nology at Sandia National Laboratories. de tematicearch for meteorites in Antarc- scribed national security challenges for sci tica, \.\ here 16.000 Martian meteorites have ence and technology. He said that although b en found. ironically. as part ofa study on the Cold War is over and the threat from a th movement of ice floe:. Yet. "the future major superpower no longer drives the iabilit} of the U.. reo earch pre ence in country's defense spending, there is a "new nt r tica i jeopardizedbybudgetary con world disorder" that is equally threatening. tramt and delayed inve tments in new Terrorism, loose nuclear weapons, re f ilitie," he aid. gional ethnic and religious conflicts around H could ci nti t know that the me the world for which this nation is ill-pre rite originated on Mars? Without the pared to handle. and domestic crime all b ire. archof iking lander. the unique. threaten this country's security, Yonassaid. ignatur ga e of that planet would not be New technology is required in microelectron n n and could not b matched to meteor ics, optoelectronics, computer modeling and ite n Earth. But more important. the in- simulations. advanced materials and manu trument u cd to ima e the u 'pected fo sil Adriana Ro~-ers,Ullh-ersit)' Photography facturing technology and high-performance in thi c Senate continuedfrom page 3 Boyce Thompson receives Park Foundation grant mon ter. We mu t defeat it before it be By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. BoyceThompson board for many years and since approximately halfofexisting drugs com a big mon ter." always had an interest in agricultural re originally were derived from chemicals Under the new policy, program review The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant search and education. My son. Roy, who extracted from plants. Identifying valu ill begin with a self- tudy that prepares Research at Cornell has received a$3 million, shares the same interest, is now a memberof able products in endangered species can the way for an evaluation by a committee of six-year grant from the Park Foundation of the Boyce Thompson board. Our founda be an important consequence. since dem e pert from out ide the university, and it Ithaca to initiate new biodiversity projects. tion has an overriding interest in education. onstrations of value provide worldwide will not duplicate exi ting review processes, ''The study of global biodiversity is a particularly in projects which will create a incentives to limit less of biodiversity but will b integrated into them, according priority of the United Nations Development healthier environment." from the planet. to P ter tein. dean of the faculty. Primary Program and many national agencies around Specifically, the institute will focus its "I am impressed at everything Boyce re pon ibilityforcarryingoutreviewsrests the world. The BoyceThompson Institute has attention on the diversity ofchemicals that Thompson has accomplished working with the college dean . The self-study is specific expertise that can enhance these in organisms use to establish their position in with the environment," said Roy H. Park designed to clarify the unit's self-under- ternational efforts," said Charles J. Arntzen, ecosystems, and on the importance chemi Jr. "This new biodiversity program not tanding and provide a sense ofdirection to president and CEO of the institute. cals play in regulating how successfully an only links Boyce Thompson closer with its work. As population and industrialization in organism interacts with its neighbors and Cornell University but also with global The whole review proce ,as well as crease, humanity is endangeringthe world's defends itself from predators. activity in this field. These links should the. tructure of the individual reviews, wildlife and plants by dramatically altering "This new field ofstudy is often called more rapidly lead to new medical, phar will b over een by a new universitywide ecosystems. Previous biodiversity studies chemical ecology," Arntzen said. "By maceutical and nutritional discoveries Faculty Committee on Program Review have shown that loss of habitat is resulting learning more about the molecules that from our biological environment." (F PR), which al 0 will organize a sepa in extinction of many species. plants and associated organisms produce Arntzen said that the new grant will be an rate. annual evaluation of a broad, cro s "The analyses have also shown that we in natural environments, we can learn extremely important factor in the institute'S d partmental area of cholar hip. Both do not yet even fully understand the impor what factors are important in stabilizing choiceoffuture directions. BTl also plansto the reviews of individual units organized tance of what we may be losing. This mis endangered ecosystems." use the grant to recruit a senior faculty by the dean and the broader cro s-de ing knowledge is what the BTl scientists The institute specializes in environmen memberwith international stature."Wehope partmental reviews under the FCPR may plan to contribute," Arntzen said. tal hiology, genetics and biotechnology. As to work with our colleagues at Cornell Uni I ad to reallocation ot re 'ources. "The link between the Park Foundation it gains new information on naturally oc versity in our new activities, since there is "Thi i. an important step for u to take," and the BoyceThompson Institute is a natu curringchemicals, the institute can develop tremendous talent in chemistry and ecology tein aid after the meeting. "The procedure ral," said Dorothy Park, chair of the Park strategies to obtain new plants with im in this community," he said. The funds also we have adopted will en ure appropriate Foundation Board and wife of the late proved nutritional or health benefits. The will allow BTl to attract young scientists faculty involvement with the entire pro founder of the foundation, Roy H. Park Sr. biodiversity project also may lead to new and let them focus their talents on gram review proces '." "My husband was an active member of the discoveries relating to pharmaceuticals, biodiversity projects. Cornell Chronicle September 26, 1996 5 New concentration gives undergraduates a taste of 'things French' By Jill Goetz Jonathan Laurence '98 has known the French government allure of French history and culture for years, having studied French throughout designates Cornell high school and spending the summer after high school helping to restore a 14th-cen The French government has desig tury chateau in the south of France. nated Cornell University as a Center At Cornell, he has pursued his interest in of Excellence. France through an independent major in the "The French government always politics and culture of modem Europe. But, has made culture one ofits top priori Laurence says, it is his concentration ties in its foreign policy," said Cornell Cornell's equivalent ofa minor - that most history Professor Steven Kaplan, a has whetted his appetite for things French renowned specialist in the social his and most brought him into contact with tory of 18th-century France. "For other people and programs at the university France, which doesn't have oil, ideas that share his joie de vivre. are thought of as real capital, and the That concentration is French Studies, an French are interested in making this interdisciplinary program begun last year in capital available for the world to mine the College of Arts and Sciences. in a variety of ways." Many, if not most, Cornellians are While there have been French in tOUched by French culture at one time or stitutes around the world, he noted, another: whether by reading the works ofde France has not promoted such insti Tocqueville or Flaubert for classes in Arts Jonathan Laurence '98 visits Notre Dame last summer while conducting tutes in the United States. "They be and Sciences; watchingfilms by Truffaut or research in Paris for Comell history Professor John Weiss. gan to worry about their lack ofpres Malle screened by Cornell Cinema; view ence in America," he said, "and the ing masterpieces by Rodin and Daubigny in Ministry ofForeign Affairs decided it would identify a handful ofAmerican the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; 'Through French Studies, several times a semester you can talk attending plays by Moliere at the Center for universities which, as a result oftheir with other students and faculty that shar your interests, even if Theatre Arts (now showing: Tartuffe, co library resources, scholarly achieve ~tarring Jonathan Laurence); or simply bit you don't have time in your schedule to take their classes. That's ments and quality of professors and Ing into a slice of French bread in a something that would never have presented itself without this students, would become bastions of activity for the study and research of Collegetown eatery. program.' things French." The Program in French Studies brings - Jonathan Laurence '98 students inspired by such experiences to Philip E. Lewis, dean ofCornell's gether. "For someone interested in French College of Arts and Sciences, said, culture and history, the biggest challenge at "The designation ofCornell as a Cen Cornell is tracking people down," Laurence Steven Kaplan with his books on bread in ter of Excellence, while giving us said. "What French Studies does is capture 18th-century France. He had justcome back welI-deserved recognition, also fur all these people in the same room. Right from Paris, and he brought in his favorite nishesourfledglingProgram in French now, they are completely dispersed on cam French bread,pain au levain [country-style Studies with the resources it needs for pus; but through French Studies, several sourdough] for us to try." a vigorous launching of its courses times a semester you can talk with other Studentswhoconcentrate in FrenchStud and activities. We are very grateful stUdents and faculty that share your inter ies must develop proficiency in French and for Steven Kaplan's efforts and ests, even if you don't have time in your choose from a variety of non-language buoyed by the opportune support that the French government and a gener schedule to take their classes. That's some courses, such as Camus and His Contempo ous anonymous benefactor [who th!ng that would never have presented itself raries, 19th-Century French Women Writ matched the French government's WIthout this program." Lewis Kaplan ers and Foodways: A Social History of grant] have provided us." According to Arts and Sciences Dean Food and Eating. But the courses extend It's not the first time the French Philip E. Lewis, the program reflects a trend: ments; we felt that French and francophone beyond the French republic, to francophone government has formally recognized "Over the last decade, traditional studies in [French-speaking] culture had a particular lands from Guadeloupe to Gabon. French language and literature have gone allure, a particular resonance, that also would '''French studies' doesn't mean grab the resources at Cornell. This past through a steep decline nationally," he said. be attractive to undergraduates. bingthe French flag and a baguetteorsitting winter, the French Ministry of Cul "During this time, however, scholars in major "Many ofour fundamental assumptions under the Eiffel Tower and discussing the ture appointed Kaplan a Chevalier of universities have been developing, under about truth, beauty, life and love are de issues of the world," Kaplan said. Added the Order of Arts and Letters, one of ~he rubric of cultural studies, an exciting rived from French culture," he continued. Berger, "What we call 'French' cannot be France's highest honors. Interdisciplinary approach to the study of "Anne and I sensed that there was this huge reduced to a nation or even to a language; it France, its history, its literature and thought, undergraduate world of people who were is a way ofthinking about language, culture and its influence on Western civilization." going to be doctors, lawyers, business men and history." Students can fulfill require change program offered by the Johnson The concentration is co-directed by and women, who could enrich their Iives ments for the concentration through such Graduate School of Management; take a Steven L. Kaplan, the Goldwin Smith Pro develop a clearer sense of truth and beauty courses as Francophone Caribbean litera class in Parisian architecture in the ColIege feSSor of European History, and Anne - if we could expose them to some of what ture, Francophone African Literature and of Architecture, Art and Planning; or meet Berger, associate professor of French. we call the'French experience.'" Colonialism and Narrative. renowned French chefs visiting the Hotel According to Kaplan, Cornell long has That is the title of the concentration's Ofcourse, Cornell studentsdon't have to School. And they can always go to the been at the forefront in providing French only required course, co-taught by faculty take the French Studies concentration to CorneII Library, which contains the world's stUdies opportunities for graduate students; from several departments, including Ro meet francophone faculty or conduct re largest collection of French Revolution but, like most U.S. universities, has provided mance Studies, Modern Langauges, His search with francophone themes. Besides materials outside of Paris. few such opportunities for undergraduates. tory and English. majoring in French, they can join the lan But for many students, the concentration ''Traditionally these kind of enterprises Laurence recalIed, "That course, more guage House in Comstock Hall; study in makes access to things French easier. "We have left out undergraduates at research uni than anything, displayed the diverse inter Paris through Cornell Abroad's EDUCO can reach students who just love French versities," he said. "We thought we needed to estsofthefacu Ity connected with the French program (conducted with Duke University) movies orwho spent their summervacation mOve beyond the somewhat limited market of Studies Program. Philip Lewis gave a lec or through the Law School's Summer Insti in France, but who are too busy to stop and faculty andgraduatestudentswhowere going tureon 17th-century literature; Richard Klein tute of International and Comparative Law major in French," Kaplan said. "We're say to engage in [French-related] career commit- discussed Coco Chanel; and then, in came in Paris; participate in the francophone ex- ing, 'Come and spend some time with us.''' ------Algeria conference continued from page I rnulticulturalism and multilingualism. "Algeria is one of Mediene and Tassadit Yacine. Friday evening will feature the most complicated sites of enunciation of French in the addresses in Baker Hall Room 200 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. World tOday," she said. 'Algeria is the site of a double terrorism: by Helene Cixous, a writer and professor of literature, and "Contemporary Algeria provides us with an instance the terrorism of the so-called Islamic Jacques Derrida, one of the most renowned philosophers ofa most conflicted use ofthis language, as well as of its fundamentalists - whose first targets are living in Europe. Ot~er founding languages-one which should force us to Saturday morning, starting at 9:15, historian Lucette women of all classes, artists, journalists thInk in no easy ways of the relations between language, Valen i, Francophone literature Professor Hafid Gafaiti culture and history in post-colonial contexts," she said. and intellectuals • •• - and the terrorism and writer Rachid Boudjedra will discuss the interrelation The conference is the first at Cornell to focus on post of a corrupt military regime.' shipofIiterature, language and power in Algeria in Goldwin Colonial Algeria, Berger noted. - Anne Berger Smith Hall Amphitheater D; that afternoon, starting at FA highlight of the conference will be a free concert by 2:30, a roundtable discussion in the same location will S~rhat, the famous Berber singer-songwriter, at 8 p.m. on include all conference speaker, with informal translations MltUrday, Oct. 5, in Barnes Hall. A co-founder of the in French and English. h Ovement for Culture and Democracy in Algeria, Ferhat Chroniques aLgeriennes (1993) and L 'Oasis de La Belle de The conference is being co-sponsored by the Dean's . olds ~ Ph.D. in political science and currently is writing his Mai (1996), are in French' but may be accompanied by Office of the College of Arts and Sciences, Society for the autobiography at his home in France. informal English translation. Humanities, Council for the Arts, Rose Goldsen Fund and C In addition, on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 4:30 to 7 p.m., Thursday and Friday afternoons, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., several other departments and organizations. ~rnell Cinema will present screenings of two films in will feature lectures in the Guerlac Room ofthe A.D. White For more information about the conference, call Anne I1lard Straight Theatre with discussions by the Franco House - some in English, others in French with English Berger at 255-1380 or send e-mail to her at Algerian filmmaker Jean-Pierre L1edo. The films, translation - by Ferhat and anthropologists Bcnamar niversity procedures set for addressing sexual harassment complaints By Jacquie Powers "2) submission to or rejection ofsuch conduct is used as the basis for employment or academic decisions affecting Cornell has adopted new, 'These new procedures further the uni such individual; or univer itywide procedures for re versity's commitment to equal opportu "3) such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreason 'ponding to complaints of sexual nity and meet legal mandates to provide ably interferingwith an individual'swork, academic perfor haras ment that are under the di an educational and working environment mance, or participation in extracurricularactivities orcreat rection ofthe Office of Equal Op ing an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working or learn that is free from sexual harassment.' portunity (OEO). ing environment." The new procedures, which - Valerie Hayes The new procedures provide for an investigation con went into effect July 8, replace ducted by trained professionals in OEO. They also provide , veral different policies, some Hayes for a statute of limitations on complaints. Generally, com formal and some informal, that plaints are to be filed within a yearafter the last act occurred. were being used in various colleges and units at Cornell. for assistance. Charged parties will be apprised of the details of the Full text of the new procedures is available electronically Under the new procedures, OEO has the exclusive complaint, have a fair opportunity to rebut the allegations at By Roger egelken Calling incineration a "complete mis match of solution with problem," a St. Lawrence University chemist on Sept. 17 ugge ted waste audits, recycling and alter native treatments in the CoIlege of Veteri nary Medicine to avoid building an up graded medical waste incinerator. "I have confidence now that Cornell of ticials ar becoming more open to public concerns," Paul Connett commented after his Goldwin Smith HaIl speech, "Dangers of Medical Waste Incineration." The L chemistry professor had been billed as an internationally recognized dio in researcher and medical waste in cineration expert by his sponsors, the Cornell Greens, Citizens Concerned about Charlcs lIarrillgtoll/Ullil'crsity Photograph)' Medical Waste Incineration, Ithaca Breast Paul Connett, St. Lawrence University chemistry professor, makes a point during his Goldwin Smith Hall speech Sept. 11. Cancer Alliance and the Center for Reli gion, Ethics and ocial Policy. That same most remote parts of the planet." cal waste, Connett suggested steam steril glass or stainless steel implements, the day he also spoke at a downtown press The goal of treating infectious medical ization, treatment with disinfectant chemi chemist advised. Reusable implementS conference and at St. Paul's United Meth waste is to "zap bugs," Connett said, but cals, microwaving, sodium hydroxide treat not only are less expensive in the long odist Church on" cience and Politics of incineration adds "a whole set offormidable ment oranaerobic digestion. "All these tech run, but create jobs (to wash them) in Medical Waste Incineration." chemical problems," he said, pointing to nologies are available today," Connett said, Ithaca, rather than in a distant plastics The visiting speaker gave his mostly acid gases, airborne toxic metals and toxic "andguess what? They are cheaperthan on factory, Connett said. tudent audience at Cornell a crash course in ash, as well as dioxin. site medical waste incineration." The issue of medical waste incinera the chemistry of dioxin production from "With incineration," he said, "you have Veterinary laboratories and clinics that tion "goes beyond the science and tech burning chlorine-based plastics as well as to capture materials that are generated by use throw-away plastics should conduct nology," Connell said. "It goes to hoW industrial processes, adding: "Today, orga your solution, not the original targe!." waste audits and continue usingonly plas citizens are invo.lved in the democratiC nochlorine molecules contaminate even the As alternatives to incineration of medi- tics that cannot be replaced by reusable process. Please participate." Cornell Chronicle September 26, 1996 7 CORNELL RESEARCH Experiments describe how crickets tell love songs from bat sounds By Roger Segelken Humans and other "higher" animals aren't so special when it comes to making life-or-death decisions in an instant, a Cornell study of insect hearfng has found. Even the lowly cricket employs a sophisti cated capability, called categorical percep tion. when its life (or love life) is at stake. "Crickets - and probably many other types of animal - have found a simple way to build a system that responds quickly," said Robert A. Wyttenbach, the Cornell postgraduate associate of neuro biology and behavior who gave crickets a perception test originally developed for human infants. "Crickets have to make a yes-or-no decision in a hurry, and ones that waffle become bat bait." For a cricket flying through the night air, life is a sound spectrum-filling ca cophony, Wyttenbach said, but only two sound sources really matter: other crick ets, calling at 4 to 5 kHz (the familiar chirping that is just above the highest note on the piano), and insect-eating bats, emit ting ultrasound that helps echolocate their prey at 25 to 80 kHz. (Humans with good hearing can detect sounds up to 20 kHz.) Steering toward the low-frequency cricket sound might help the flier find a Daniel Robert mate, or at least the company of other A Polynesian field cricket (behind m~gnifying lens) is prepared for flight chamber studies by postdoctoral crickets. However, failing to steer away researcher Robert Wyttenbach, who has shown how flying insects decide which way to steer. from bats' ultrasound couId cost the cricket not only its life but its place in the gene dishabituating "ba." pool. explained Ronald R. Hoy, the Comell Repeated stimulation at 20kHz habitu professor of neurobiology and behavior 'Crickets have to make a yes-orono decision in a hurry, and ated Wyttenbach'scrickets, and each time whose laboratory conducted the experi ones that waffle become bat bait.' they steered less and less vigorously from ments. Researchers led by Hoy reported - Robert A. Wyttenbach the speaker. (In the real world, that ha in 1978 that cricketscan detect bats' ultra bituated response would have pleased the sound and take evasive action, but those bats.) Next, the neurobiologist tried to get flight studies never answered the ques the crickets' attention and dishabituate tion: What is the cut-off line between bluish-sort-of-green color. backsounds mimickingcricketcalls made them back to normal behavior by playing "good" sounds and "bad," and how does "A more useful ability in some situa the tethered insects "fly" toward the a variety ofsound . Soundsbetween 5 and the insect decide? tions is our ability to tell the difference speaker. And sounds in the bat's ultra 16 kHz were different enough (from 20 The study is reported in the journal between sounds like 'ba' and 'pa,'" sound range made the crickets veer away kHz) to change the insects' behavior, he Science (Sept. 13, 1996), in a report by Wyttenbach noted. "Even though there is a from the speaker. Still, he couldn't very demonstrated, and 16kHz was the divid Wyttenbach. Hoy and Michael L. May, a continuum of variation between 'ba' and well ask the crickets: "Do 20 kHz and 40 ing line. He showed that cricket label former Cornell graduate student, "Cat 'pa' based on voice onset time or VaT, kHz sound the same or different?" sounds above 16kHz as "foe" and tho e egorical Perception of Sound Frequency which instrumentscan detect,ourearsdon't So the neurobiologists turned to a test below as "friend," and that they are ca by Crickets." discriminate. We hear either 'ba' or 'pa' suggested by Cornell psychology Profes pable of categorical perception. The Cornell biologists set up a cricket and that's how we label it. That is categori sor El izabeth Spelke for anothercategory Does this mean that crickets, with just a flight chamber, wired for sound, computer cal perception, and it looked like crickets of notoriously uncooperative research couple hundred thousand neurons in their ized data-gathering and a built-in breeze might categorically perceive sounds as ei subjects, human babies. Spelke's habitu brains, are as intelligent as humans, with from a fan, to make the cricket think it was ther 'other crickets' or 'bats.'" ation-dishabituation test determines pre billion of neurons? "No, of course not," flying while tethered in midair. "Weweren't Categorical perception previously had cisely what stimulus level is "different Hoy said. "It does say that all ofus animals looking for the so-called continuous per been shown at other laboratories in mon enough" to get a subject's attention when have to solve many of the same problems. ception," Wyttenbach said, explaining that keys, chinchillas and some species of it has grown accustomed to (or habitu Some with many fewer brain cells have continuous perception allows human color birds, Wyttenbach knew, but gettingcrick ated to) repeated stimuli. Babies respond come up with acomparable, workablesolu vision to discriminate hundreds of varia ets to explain how they make up their less and less when they hear "pa" re tion. We may now expect to find categori tions between "blue" and "green," even minds would be tricky. His flight cham peated over and over; they pay attention cal perception in many different systems, though humans cannot precisclY.label each ber experiments were showing that play- again when the experimenter throws in a between insects and humans." Teaching spaces are enhanced to allow for technology in instruction Dozens of "teaching spaces" - class classroom technologies specialist for Aca Additionally, they will be attempting to rooms, labs, studios and other areas where demic Technology Services (ATS), a di standardize and appraise the following pay teaching and learning occur-were identified vision of Cornell Information Technolo roll and human resource areas: appoint for technological enhancement this summer (f/ ornell.edu gies, to arrange for a consultation about ments; pay factor; time collection; labor in a proposal process administered by the the new classroom technologies or the distribution; benefit enrollment; and posi Faculty Advisory Board on Information proposal process itself. tion management. Technologies(FABIT). University resources Life Sciences is implementing a project in For further information on the fit-and were allocated in response to FABIT's which video-conferencing technology will Project 2000 Update gap process, contact Diane Downing, unit! recommendation to "improve and enhance create a link between the Ithaca campus and On Aug. 20, 1996, Project 2000's Human college liaison for the HR/payroll Imple classrooms, lab and studios as the primary the Geneva Agricultural Experiment Sta Resources (HR)/Payroll Implementation mentation Team, at 255-7947 or op project provides a co tomer's eye view d e t a-ning room Hain Ho c n people aero. 'campu who don't work at desks p in~ rmed and conn cted in thi. age of electronic mmunication ? H w d th Ykeep up ith rapid changes in t hnolo. that affect the wa. they work? t r well. ot until now, anyway. But thanks to m nterpri, ing volunteers who work in the Cornell hop , thing' have 'tarted to change. It II began when Jake Benninger, trades supervisor of orn 11'. electrical hop, ~ ked the men and women who w r in th 'hop what facet ofwork life needed improve m nt. "Training!" was the mo t uni ersal response. B nninger a 'embl d a team of Cornell Planning, De i 'n nd Con truction (PDq p ople - Dale Aumick and te B bock (Electric hop), Chet Bt:nnett (Sheetmetal h p Pat Ha ell (Refrigeration hop), Mike Hingston ( rp nter h p), B b Houck (Campu. Life. Shop), Jim Humbl (Paint hop), Jim O'Brien (Control Shop), Jose Ion (Pipe h p) and Fran Tagliavento (Ma on Shop) t e amine the i ue. In a roomful of doer, it did not take I n for nan ertoemerg .Theywouldbuildthemselves a training facility. Charles Ifarrington/Unh'ersity Photography 'ith the help of PDC Project Coordinator Art Stern and Keith Boncek, manager of Computing Resources, right, talks about Bear Access in the new training room J ~ ie Fenton, assi tant to PDC Director Steve Wright, of the Humphreys Service Building. Listening, from left, are: Bob Houck, assistant foreman of the Multi m mb rs of the team provid d ideas, design documents, a Trade shop; Jim O'Brien, Control Shop mechanic; Pat Haskell, Refrigeration Shop mechanic; and Jeff or plan and permit . Cornell upplied pace and materi- Morse, consultant/adviser with Computing Resources. aL eraltrade union came through with volunteer labor from their apprentice hip program. The volunteers are especially proud of the suite's com nd a year after they hatched the idea, 10 of them fortable furnishings, its welcoming acoustics, its rheostat gathered with me of their co-workers at lunch time on 'Strong teamwork is a very important part lighting, pull-down screen, built-in shelvingand workspace, ept. I to dedicate a bright new two-room unit. There is a of providing outstanding service to our and computers. Said Jim O'Brien of the Control Shop, cia oro m that can ho t as many as 25 people for informa Comell customers, and this project "We'vegot a good place to have shop meetings and training tion and training ion in the use oflatest trades technolo meetings. It's a nice atmosphere and a good usable space." ses team's success is a great example of our gi ; and there' a computer room where every Cornell Said Shops Director Bruce Bush, "This is a showroom, trade p £son can log on to Employee Es entials, e-mail, the people doing it right.' a way for us to show prospective customers the caliber of Internet - the online world. - Roxi Bahar work we do. The lighting is good. The air control works For tho e involved, the proce provided a double gift: a well. The finish work is superb. The state ofthe art paint job training and computer facility all can u e and valuable hides what used to be a terrible-looking wall. Having this in ight into a id of their work many tradespeople u ually looking for a space for this facility. We learned to see the work to show makes us more competitive." do n t get to ee - the cu tomer' ide of the job. proce ,solve problems, get a feeling for the customer's Roxi Bahar, director ofadministration for Facilities and "Th team members really gained an important perspec ide of the job," noted electrician Dale Aumick. Campus Services, commended the team for their hard work ti e ut being the 'owner' rep.' We learned how painful What does it mean for the continued success of the and patience. "Strong teamwork is a very important part of it can b to make the e thing happen," aid painter Jim shops? Refrigeration mechanic Pat Haskell said, "It'sa new providing outstanding service to our Cornell customers and Humble, peakingofthe work required to locate a site, draw start on training. It's a wonderful experience for all the this project team's success is a great example ofour people up pi n , get the plan approved, obtain the neces ary shops to come together. Training's important for the future doing it right," she said. rmit - before the first crowbar, hammer, wire snip or of the hops. We can keep up with all the new stuff that's Said Benninger, "There is nothing I have done in my 25 p intbru h could be lifted. coming out. We can stay ahead of it. And now the shops years at Cornell that was as much fun as working with this " tarted out from day onewith a map ofthe building, people can learn from each other." team and watching them work together." Policy expert to discuss China, Hong Kong and Taiwan OAS secretary B Jill Goetz tice a system different from that ofChina as as vice president ofthe Law Teachers Asso a whole. Deep down, it is seen as a strategy ciation of Hong Kong and president of the Byron .J. Weng, profe or of govern to subjugate the governments and peoples International Law Association, Hong Kong general to visit ment and public administration at the Chi of the territories concerned." branch, and is currently secretary of the Cesar Gaviria, president ofColom ne University ofHong Kong and member In his Oct. 2 lecture, Weng will turn to Chinese Law Programmefor the Hong Kong bia from 1990 to 1994 and secretary ofthe Mainland Affairs Council, Executive Beijing'sTaiwan policy and Taipei's main Institute for Asia-Pacific Studies at the Chi general of the Organization of Ameri uan - which guide Taiwan' policy to land policy since 1979 and will consider nese University of Hong Kong. can States (OAS) since September ard mainland China - will deliver three these policie from an international per- Lee C. Lee, a Cornell professorofdevel 1994, will deliver a public lecture on e enger Lectures on campu this fall. pective. The following day he'll examine opmental psychology and of Asian studies, Tuesday, Oct. I, on campus. The theme of the lecture i "China' Sino-American relations since 1979 and met Weng when she was a Fulbright profes Gaviria's visit to Cornell is spon 'On Country, Two y tern' Policy and Its will take a new look at Taiwan in the post sor in Hong Kong. sored by the Johnson Graduate School Implication for ino-American Relation ." Cold War era, with particular attention to "Having lived and taught in Hong Kong of Management and its Latin American III cture are free and open to the public. U.S. policy options. He also will address since the mid-1970s - observing first-hand Business Association, the Latin Ameri Th lecture are: these topics at informal gatherings with the processofpolitical change - he is perhaps can Studies Program, the Colombian • on., ept. 30, '''One Country, Two Cornell student and faculty. the most experienced observer of East-West Student Association and the International ytem 'and the Hong Kong 1997 Transi Weng i uniquely positioned to make encounters and also the most insightful," Lee Business Association. tton," 4: 0 p.m., Room 700, Clark Hall; the e presentations, having served as a con added, noting that Weng has been widely Gaviria will present "Integratingthe •W d., Oct. 2, "Between Beijing and sultant to leaders in both Hong Kong and quoted in such publications as Time, Business Americas: Opportunities and Chal Taipei: Politic of a Divided ation," 4:30 Taiwan. He was a member of the Hong Week and the Asiall Wall Slreet Journal. lenges" at 4 p.m. in the David L. Call p.m., Room 165, McGraw Hall; and Kong Law Reform Commission from 1985 Wengsummarized the points he will make Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. • Thurs., Oct. 3," ino-American Rela through 1991 and a part-time memberofthe at his Cornell lectures this way: "One, that the He will discuss the OAS' involve tion and the Que tion of Taiwan," 4:30 Hong Kong government's Central Policy 'one country, two systems' policy is a new ment in the promotion ofinter-Ameri p.m., Room 165, McGraw Hall. Unit from 1992 to 1994. He frequently gives challenge for both theoreticians and practitio can trade cooperation. By the year In the first lecture, where he'll be intro lectures to high-level personnel ofthe Civil ners of constitutional law and international 2005. the OAS hopes to establish the duced by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings, Service Training Centre and Judicial Stud law; two, that the concept ofsovereignty and FreeTrade Areaofthe Americas, which Weng will provide a critical analysis of the ies Board ofthe Hong Kong Supreme Court. the international system based on that concept would facilitate the economic integra B ijing propo. ition to have two contradic On Taiwan he has been a member of the need to be changed in order to adequately tion of the Western Hemisphere tory' t m' ofgovernance in one country. Mainland Affairs Council since 1993. In address the question of divided nations; and through the elimination of trade and "'On country, two systems' refer to 1994 he helped the council produce the three, that academics and policy-makersalike investment barriers. Beijing' policy for nation I unitication in- initial draft ofthe Hong Kong-Macau Rela should beware that the U.S. policy toward Gaviria also will lead a public semi 01 in the three territ TIC ofTaiwan, Hong tions Act, and in March 1995 he was ap China, Taiwan and Hong Kong will have a nar, "Consolidation of Democracy in ong nd 1acau," eng aid recently from pointed a research member of the ational significant impact on the future development Latin America: Issues and Prospects," at hi H ng ng office. "Beijing already has Unification Council by Taiwan President of the international system." 12: 15 p.m. in Room G-08 of Uris Hall. d id d th' t Hong Kong \"ill practice capi and Cornell alumnus Lee Teng-hui. The Messenger Lectures were established During his term as president of Co t Ii m for 50) car after July I, 1997, whil The editor or co-editor of seven books in 1924byagift from Hiram Messenger. who lombia, Gaviria promoted constitu th m mland ill c ntinue to practIce. and author of over \00 articles, Weng re graduated from Cornell in 1HSO, with the tional reform and oversaw the disman CI II m. n th urfa e, th 'one country, ceived his rna. ter's and doctoral degrees in intent to raise the moral standards ofpolitical, tling of the Medellin drug cartel. He to. t m 'p lie) simpl) mean that for a political science at the niverity of Wis bUSiness and social life. Weng's lectures at left the presidency in 1994 with a popu p TI dofume oncorallofthethreeternto consin-Madison and his la \' degree from Cornell are hei ng co-sponsored by the Cornell larity rating of close to 70 percent. ri \"illhd\ autonom .andeachwillprac- ational Taiwan University. He has served Law School and the East Asia Program. Cornell Chronicle September 26, 1996 9 Professorship Homecoming snapshots honors noted SOUNDBITES Here is a samplillg of quotatiolls from labor leader Camellfaculty andstaffthathave appeared recently ill the national news media: The School of Industrial and Labor Rela tions (ILR) has established the Jack "The public would probably be willing ~heinkman Chair of Collective Bargaining to pay a little extra at a Broadway theatre In honor of the former president of the with more bathroom stalls for women, but Amalgamated Cloth we can't readily vote with our dollars be ingandTextile Work cause we don't have that information when ers Union (ACTWU). we buy tickets." Sheinkman will visit campus Monday, - Robert Frank, the Goldwin Smith Sept. 30, to meet with Professor of Economics, Ethics and Public faculty and students. Policy, quoted in theNewYork TimesMaga Sheinkman, who zine, Sept. 8 earned a bachelor's Sheinkman degree from the ILR • School in 1949 and a "Americans have always wanted to know juris doctorate from the Cornell Law School what it means to be American. Ifone goes to in 1952, was elected president emeritus of John Muckey/University Photography the Smithsonian. they can get a picture of Joining the Big Red Bear in the Agriculture and Life Sciences tailgate ACTWU last year after having served as tent before Saturday's football game are, from left, Jim Blackwood '53, what it means to be an American." secretary-treasurer and co-chief executive Ann Louise Mann, Bob Mann '53 and Sandy Blackwood. - Michael Kammen, the Newton C. officer ofthe union. The merger last year of Farr Professor of American History and ACTWU with the International Ladies Gar Culture, quoted in an article about the 150th ment Workers Union created a new organi anniversary of the Smithsonian Institution zation called the Union of Needle Trades in the Boston Globe, Aug. ] O. and Industrial Textile Workers (UNITE). Professor Harry Katz, respected as one of the most distinguished scholars in the field of • collective bargaining, will hold the Jack "Buddhism has moved beyond being Sheinkman Chair of Collective Bargaining. the exotic kid on the block to being nor mative." While on campus Sept. 30, Sheinkman will be honored at a luncheon at the Statler - Jane Marie Law, assistant professor Hotel. At 4 p.m. that day Katz will deliver a in Asian Studies, quoted in the Boston Globe, public lecture, "The Growing World-Wide Sept. 1. Variation in Employment Relations," in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel. • "The School of Industrial and Labor Rela "These new findings are interesting, but tions is privileged and honored to have the they build on previous work pointing to an Sheinkman Chair and recognize the lifetime innate basis for musical perception." For achievements of this important individual," instance, Krumhansl and Peter W. Jusczyk said David B. Lipsky, ILR School dean. of State University of New York at Buf In addition to his ACTWU responsibili ~ falo have found that by the age of 4 1/2 ties, Sheinkman serves as chairman of the John MuckeylUnhoersity Photography months, babies listen longer to Mozart Amalgamated Bank of New York and the Carol True Palmer, associate director of special gifts, goes over a map minuets that have short pauses inserted Amalgamated Life Insurance Co. He is vice of campus Saturday with, from right, Don Taylor '54 and Dick Elliot '54. between phrases, which musicians treat chairman of the Council on Competitive as "natural" segmentsofthe musical flow, ness and of the Business Labor Community than to the same minuets with pauses Coalition of New York City. placed in the middle of phrases. Shei nkman was a member ofthe Cornell - From Science News, Sept. 7, Carol L Board ofTrustees from 1970 to )988, when Krumhansl, profe sor of psychology, he was elected an emeritus member. quoted and cited on studies about infants' perceptions of music. • WalterKohn "Weknow ofno astrophysical processthat could account for the narrow-band candidate will deliver signals META has recorded," [Harvard as tronomer Paul] Horowitz and Sagan wrote, "and we have been unable to find any corre Bethe Lectures lation ofsource positions with unusual astro physical objects." Was it ET? As Sagan often Walter Kohn, professorofphysics emeri chides, "Extraordinaryclaimsrequireextraor tus at the University of California at Santa Adriana Rovers/University Photography dinary evidence," and extraterrestrial intelli Barbara and winner of the National Medal Comell authors participating in a Homecoming group book·signing at gent life is no modest claim. of Science, will be the Hans A. Bethe Lec the Campus Store Friday are, from left, Edward Hardy, MFA alumnus, turer at Cornell. with his book Geyser Ute; Marcelle Lapow Toor, lecturer in communi· - From Science News, Sept. 7, on a cations, with her book Graphic Design on the Deslctop; and Robert paperco-authored by CarlSagan,theDavid Kohn will give a Frank, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics and Public Duncan Professor ofAstronomy and Space free, public lecture, Policy, with his book The Winner Talce·AII Society. "Shifting Viewpoints Sciences, on the search for signals from in Condensed Matter extraterrestrial intelligent beings. Physics, 1950-1995," on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 8 p.m. in SchwartzAuditorium, Kohn Rockefeller Hall. Ithaca-areaAlumniAssociation kicks offnew year While on campus, Kohn also will deliver these talks: It was standingroom only in the view • Oct. 19: Tailgate party at the Colgate party at the Center for Theatre Arts. •A physics colloquium, "Density Func ing room at Cornell Plantations, Sunday football game. • Finally, in May, a picnic welcoming tional Theory of Electronic Structure in afternoon, Sept. 15, as Cornell Alumni • Nov. 7: John Hopcroft, dean of the the high school students of the area who Physics and Chemistry," Monday, Sept. 30, Association of the Ithaca Area members College of Engineering, will give an il have been accepted to Cornell. at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium. saw a video of the history of the Planta lustrated talk about the socioeconomic A new slate of officers for the Ithaca •A condensed matter theory seminar, tions, then took a short tour guided by value of Antarctica to the United States. association will be on hand to greet mem "Edge Electronic Structure, The Airy Gas," Plantations Director Donald Rakow. A • Dec. 15: President Emeritus Frank bers at the events. They include: M. Dan on Thursday, Oct. 10, at 1:15 p.m. in 701 wine-and-cheese social hour followed to H.T. Rhodes will read Dylan Thomas' Morris '44, '76, president; Fred Antil '55 Clark Hall. close the successful, first-monthly event "A Child's Christmas in Wales" at a and John Beresny '93, vice presidents; Kohn,a UCSB faculty membersince 1979, of the 1996-97 year. family party. John Bailey '87, treasurer; Steve Magacs is a theoretical physicist with expertise in There are 5,000 alumni who live and/ • Jan. 18: A buffet supper and men's '79,secretary;thedirectorsareGeneAmold condensed mater, or solid-state physics, and orwork in the Ithaca area and are eligible and women's basketball double header MBA '66, Rayne Butler '96, Jim Byrnes is credited with many contributions to the to be in the organization that keeps them against Columbia. MBA '64, Mary Ellen Cummings '61, Rip theory of the electronic structure of solids. connected to the campus. Program Vice • Feb. 20: A tour and talk at the Wil Haley'5I,Rustin Howard MBA '89, Karen From 1979 through 1984, Kohn was di President Fred Antil '55 and his commit son Synchrotron. Hurlbut '86, Jane Lawrence '38, Scott rector of UCSB's Institute for Theoretical tee have arranged an eclectic calendar of • March 18: The third annual as Malaga '89, Joe Minogue'45, and Allison Physics. A member of the National Acad events for the year: tronomy lecture from Prof. Philip Doney Riley '84. emyofSciencessi nce 1969, he was awarded • Oct. 17: International Spirit of Nicholson. For questions about the association, the National Medal of Science from Presi Zinck's night at Ruloffs. • April brings a theater and dessert call John Beresny at 257-6372. dent Ronald Reagan in 1988. 10 September 26, 1996 Cornell Chronicle Johnson Museum ofArt exhibition from pag.12 this fall showcases mythical women This fall the Herbert F. Johnson Museum The prints depict women as virtuous and Law School showcases mythical women in ·U. . DecISion-Making," Larry Johnson, Office The Power of powerful. Furthermore, all of the images in of the Legal Counsel of the United Nations, Sept. Women in Renaissance and Baroque Priflls. this exhibition are by male artists, as female 27,10 a.m ,285 Myron Taylor Hall. The exhibition. which run through Dec. 15, printmakers from this period are relatively includesarti ts' depictionsofthe Virgin Mary, rare. The creation of these images by men, M41."~lg.r Lectu • Eve, Susannaand the Elders,Venusand Circe. and often for men, allows us today to exam Byron Weng professor of government and pubrc administratIon at The Chinese University of The exhibition presents Renaissance and ine the Renaissance man's fascination and ong ong, will give the following lectures' Baroque prints of women and examines how repul ion ofwomen by the perplexing duali ~One Country, Two Systems' and the Hong the e image embodied accepted Renaissance ties he projected through his art. The exhibi ong Transition," Sept. 30, 4:30 p.m., 700 Clark and Baroque values and concepts regarding tion includes work by Albrecht Durer, Lucas Hall. the role and position of women within those van Leyden and Marcantonio Raimondi, Between Beijing and Talbei, Politics of a DI vided Nation:Oct. 2, 4:30 p.m., 165 McGraw Hall. worlds. The Virgin Mary and Eve, the two among others. An exhibition tour will be 'Sino-American Relations and the Question of most prominent women in the Bible, personi given Oct. 17 at noon by museum Director Taiwan," Oct. 3, 4:30 p.m., 165 McGraw Hall. fied the extremes ofgood and evil in Renais Frank Robinson. sance ideals of femininity. While the Virgin Museum hours are Tuesday through Sun y c. Mary extolled virtue, chastity, long- uffering day, a.m. to p.m. For more information James Becker Lecture. -Science in the Public 10 5 nterest: Changing Ideas of Accountability,' Judy and compassion. Eve embodied all that was about this and other exhibits at the museum, Albrecht DUrer's"The Fall ofMan,from Franz '59, executive officer, American Physical evil, immoral and sensual. call 255-6464. the Small Passion" (1510). Society, Oct. 2, 4:30 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium, RocI Chad Levitt makes a run at the Big Red record book By Peter Rattien In his first three seasons for the Big Red, Grief,~ Gail Holst-Warhaft, classics and compara Chad Levitt has run through the competition tive literature, Oct. 3,12:15 p.m., G-08 Uris Hall. as well as the Cornell varsity football record Pharmacology books. The Melrose Park, Pa., native is look "SH2 Domains and the Library Affinity Selec ing forward to a great 1996 campaign to tion - Mass Spectrometric Technique," Larry complement his performance last year. And Wennogle, Ciba Pharmaceuticals, Sept. 30, 4:30 he's off to a great start. p.m., Lecture Hall III, Veterinary Research Tower. The Big Red began the season Saturday Physiology by topping Princeton in a thrilling, double "Cytocentrin, RAL GTPases and the overtime Homecoming game 33-27, and Centrosomal Cycle," Andrea Quaroni, physiology, Leavitt gained 178 rushing yards. Oct. 1,4p.m., Lecture Hall III, Veterinary Research After Cornell completes a three-game Tower. road trip with stints at Lafayette, Buffalo and Plant Biology Harvard, it will return home to face Colgate "Cyclic GMP, Calcium and Calmodulin in the on Oct. 19. This contest will represent the Photopolarization of Pe/vetia Zygotes," Kenneth 1OOth anniversary ofthis rivalry in which the Robinson, Purdue University, Sept. 27, 11 :15a.m., Big Red owns a 46-30-3 record. 404 Plant Science Building. In 1993, Levitt came offthe bench in only Tim McKinney Plant Pathology his fourth game to become the first Cornell AII·America tailback Chad Levitt runs to daylight in 1995. "Comparison of the hrpNC Regions of E. freshman football player to run for over 100 amy/avora and E. chrysanthemi," Ji-Hyun Kim, yards since the formation of the Ivy League of the Year and Don Hansen's "National plant pathology, Ithaca, Oct. 1, 3:30 p.m., Barton in 1956. He rushed for a career-high three Football Gazette" All-America second team. Laboratory, Geneva. "Plant Virology Research at the Scottish Crops touchdowns and averaged acareer-high 8.83 With his great career at Cornell, the eco Research Institute," Peter Palukaitis, plant pathol yards percarryon the day. This was only the nomics major has turned his attention to the ogy and the Scottish Crops Research Institute, beginning of a great career at Cornell. National Football League (NFL), where he Oct. 2,12:20 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building. In his sophomore year, Levitt earned a hopes to make a career. Although hopes of well-deserved spot on the starting squad. He the NFLmust remain within reason, Levitt's Psychology TBA, Robert VanGulick, Syracuse University, responded more than appropriately to his new uniform, placing him second all-time in hard work and determination can only fur Sept. 27, 3:30 p.m., 202 Uris Hall. role, leading the Ivy League in rushing (1 ,319 career rushing yards at Cornell. He must ther his chances. yards), scoring (48 points), and all-purpose rush for 1,316 yards during the rest of this Forthe past two seasons, he has led the Big Science & Technology Studies running (145.1 average pergame). He contin season to surpass the all time rushing leader, Red in rushing and scoring and hopes to carry "On Yet Another Difference Between SCience ued his rushing dominance in his junior sea Ed Marinaro, who ran for 4,715 yards in over his great success to this year. Levitt's and Politics, the 'Parliament of Waters' in France," Bruno Latour, Ecole des Mines, Sept. 30, 4:30 son, by once again leading the Ivy League in 1969-1971. importance to the team is evident, and he p.m., 609 Clark Hall. all three categories. Levitt rushed for 1,428 Levitt's great numbers and hard work carried astreak of20straightgameswith 20or "Sur Ie Culte Moderne des Dieux Faitiches," yards, scored 92 points and averaged 155 have not gone unrecognized. For two years more carries into 1996 and continued that Bruno Latour, Ecole des Mines, Oct. 1, 4:30 p.m., yards a game in all-purpose running. running, he has been named to the All-Ivy streak with 40 carries against Princeton. 609 Clark Hall. Levitt's mark of 1,428 yards placed him first team. Last season, he was also named to Levitt will be completing a phenomenal Soil, Crop & Atmospheric Sciences second all-time among single season rush the ECAC first team and ranked sixth in run for the Big Red this season. He has posted "Ecophysiological Aspects of Phytochrome ing leaders at Cornell. This feat also set him rushing in Division I-AA. He has also re great numbers, received prestigious awards Mediated Germination in Soil Seed Banks," R. atop the all-time single season rushing mark ceived such awards as the FootballNews Ivy and impressed his fans on the gridiron. And Gallagher, SCAS, Oct. 1, 3:30 p.m., 135 for a junior. LiaguePlayeroftheYear(twice), the Charles with agreat season, he has achance to become Emerson Hall. The 6-1, 240-pound tailback has gained Colucci Award and Stone Travel Big Play Cornell's all-time leading rusher. South Asia Program 3,400 rushing yards in a red and white Award (twice), Ithaca Journal MaleAthlete "The Urdu Ghazal and Its Place in Indo-Muslim CUlture," Carla Petievich, Montclair State Univer sity, Sept. 30,12:15 p.m., G-Q8 Uris Hall. Statistics TBA, Kung-Y{le Liang, Johns Hopkins Univer sity, Oct. 2, 3:30 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building. Textiles & Apparel "Failure Analysis of Astronauts' Gloves: How Did They Get Cut?" Cheryl Gomes, ILC Dover, Men's Cross Country 11·1) Varsity Football 11-0, 1-0 Ivy) to Princeton 2-0 on Saturday and beating St. Sept. 26,12:20 p.m., 317 Martha Van Rensselaer Oct. 5, Sundodger Invitational at Seattle, Wash. Sept. 28, at Lafayette, 1:30 p.m. Bonaventure 4-2 in overtime the following day. Hall. The team improved on its eighth-place show The Big Red opened up the 1996 season in "Carpet Recycling," John Southern, Monsanto, ing in 1995 to finish second at the Fordham Invita exciting fashion by beating Princeton 33-27 in Men's Tennis 10-0) Oct. 3, 12:20 p.m., 317 Martha Van Rensselaer tional with 69 points last Saturday. double overtime last Saturday at Schoellkopf Sept. 27-29, at Army Invitational Hall. Field. Women's CJQss Country 13-0) Women'. Tennis 10·0) Theoretical & Applied Mechanics Oct. 5, Sundodger Invitational at Seattle, Wash. Golf 10·0) Oct. 11-13, at William and Mary Tournament "A New Analytical and Experimental Approach The women's cross country team turned in Sept. 28-29, at Dartmouth Invitational to Rubber Thermodynamics," Richard Farris, Uni strong performances atthe Fordham Invitational in Oct. 3, ECAC Qualifier at Saratoga Volleyball (3-5,0-0 Ivy) versity of Massachusetts-Amherst, Oct. 2, 4:30 Van Cortlandt Park last weekend as it earned its The Big Red placed 12th at the Bucknellinvita Sept. 28, at Rutgers, 2 p.m. p.m., 140 Bard Hall. fourth straight victory at the Invitational with a first tionallast Friday and Saturday in Lewisburg, Pa. Sept. 29, at Siena, 4 p.m. place score of 26. The volleyball team faced some tough compe Veterinary Medicine Men's Soccer 13-0, 2-0 Ivy) tition last weekend at the Texas Christian Univer "Emerging Viruses: Lessons From the Fe Field Hockey 12·2, 0·1 Ivy) Sept. 29, at Bucknell, 4 p.m. sity Invitational in Fort Worth, Texas and finished lids," Stephen O'Brien, National Cancer Institute, Sept. 29, Holy Cross, 1 p.m. Oct. 2, at Colgate, 4 p.m. the tourney with an 0-4 record. Sept. 26, 4 p.m., Lecture Hall I, Veterinary Educa Oct. 1, Syracuse, 7:30 p.m. The 16th-ranked Cornell men's soccer team tion Center. The team went 1-1 last week, beating Lehigh outlasted a defensive-minded Princeton squad 1 (2-1 , OT), while losing to Princeton (5-0). oFriday evening at Robison Alumni Field. Athletics Info Ltwt. Football 10·1, 0·0 ELFL) Women's Soccer 11·3,0-1 Ivy) Information about Cornell athletics is Sept. 27, Princeton, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 28, Hartford, 1 p.m. available on the World Wide Web at The lightweight football team began its season Oct. 1, Bucknell, 4:30 p.m. French Studies Program A conference on politics and culture in post- ~ ~ ~ ~~ colonial Algeria, "Algeria In and Out ofFrench," will rnI [) be held Oct. 3-5. See story on Page 1 for details. ------Bloodmobile LGB Resource Office • Internalized Homophobia Workshop, Oct. 3, The American Red Cross wiJI sponsor blood • Newcomer's Evening Out will be coordinated 7 p.m. For location, contact the LGB Resource drives on campus Sept. 30 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. by the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Resource Office Office at 254-4987. in Malott Hall. on Sept. 27. Those interested in meeting for dinner and then attending the Ithaca LGB Task Force's Stress Busters Campus Club monthly coffeehouse together should contact the "Learning to Work With the Body in Reducing The Campus Club will sponsor a tour of the LGBRO at 254-4987, e-mail Films listed are sponsored by Cornell Cinema unless otherwise notedandare open to the public. All films are $4.50 ($4 for students, kids 12 and under andseniors), except for Tuesday night Cin ema Off-Centeratthe Centerfor Theatre Arts ($2), Thursday early bird matinees (5:15 p.m.) and Sunday matinees ($3). Films are held in Willard Straight Theatre except where noted. Thursday, 9/26 'Purple Noon" (1960), directed by Rene Clem ent, with Alain Delon and Maurice Ronet, 5:15 p.m. 'Hate" (1996). directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, 7A5 p.m. Fargo" (1996), directed by Ethan Coen, with Steve Buscemi and Frances McDormand, 10 p.m. Friday, 9/27 "The Celluloid Closet" (1995), directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, narrated by Lily Tomlin, 7:30 p.m. Stanley Tucci, right, stars as Secondo, an Italian immigrant who has come to 'The World's Best Commercials '95" (1996), 8 America to open a restaurant, and Minnie Driver portrays his American girl" p.m.. Uris. friend in Big Night, the story of two brothers at~empting to save their failing 'The Children's Hour" (1962), directed by Wil restaurant business and attain the American dream. liam Wyler. with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, 9:45 p.m., $2 with admission to 'The Celluloid Closet.' 'Fargo," 9:45 p.m., Uris. 'Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981), directed by Cornell Cinema is offering Steven Spielberg, with Harrison Ford and Karen Allen, midnight, Uris. a BigNight offilm and food Saturday, 9/28 "Big Night" (1996), directed by Campbell Scott Cornell Cinema will present a screening and arugula. But the fancy fare doesn't de and Stanley Tucci, with guest screenwriter Joseph of Big Night, a film about food starring light patrons, and brother Secondo (Tucci) Tropiano, special benefit ticket prices, $7 and $8, Campbell Scott, Tony Shaloub and Stanley wants the menu to offer' the mundane, like see story at right, 7 p.m. "Raiders of the Lost Ark," 7:35 p.m., Uris. Tucci, on Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Willard spaghetti and meatballs, ifit means keeping "Ashes ofTime' (1994), directed by Wong Kar Straight Theatre. Admission is $8; $7 for the eatery open. wai, with Leslie Cheung, 10 p.m. students, seniors and children 12 and under. In an attempt to turn things around, a "The World's Best Commercials: 10:15 p.m., Proceeds from the screening, which is co suggestion is made to get Louis Prima and Uris. sponsored by the Office of the Dean of his band to dine at the Paradise_ Accepting "Fargo: midnight, Uris. Students, will benefit the Cornell Cinema the advice the brothers hatch plans for a "big Sunuy, 9/29 Media Arts Center. night," featuring a banquet they are hopeful "Purple Noon: 2:30 p.m. Joseph Tropiano, who won the Waldo Salt will impress the star and win the hearts and "Hate," 7:30 p.m. Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film stomachs of local diners. "Dr. Mabuse der Spieler: Part II: The Inferno" Festival for his screenplay, will (1922), directed by Fritz Lang, presented by Big Night The film, which runs 117 minutes, fea Pentangle, 7:30 p.m., Uris, free. introduce the film and answer questions. tures supporting performances by Minnie "Fargo: 9:45 p.m. The film, directed by Scott and Tucci, Driver, Ian Holm and Isabella Rosellini. I., I Folk o.tIclng returns audiences to the 1950s as two Italian After the film, Cornell Cinema is offer Thursdays, 8 p.m, Edwards Room, Anabel MoneIay, 9130 brothers try to keep their New York restau ing a "big night" of its own - an Italian Taylor Hall. Free and open to the community. "Le Jour se Leve (Daybreak)" (1939), directed Beginners are welcome; no partners are neces by Marcel Carne, with Jean Gabin and Jules Berry, rant, the Paradise, from failing. Primo (Tony feast (like the one in the movie) at the sary. For Information, call Minna at 257-7833. 7:15 p.m. Shaloub) is achefahead ofhis time, devoted A.D. White House - but tickets for the "Raiders of the Lost Ark," 9:20 p.m. to the best exotic ingredients, such as risotto dinner are sold out. Tue"'y, 10/1 "Purple Noon: 7:15 p.m. Margaret Mead: Bridging the Old and the New, 7:30 p.m., CTA Film Forum. vides remainder of tuition. Deadline is Oct. 18. pital, Carlton Victoria, Australia, Sept. 30,4 p.m., "Hate," 9:45 pm. • NSF fellowships: A limited number of paper 146 Morrison Hall. applications for National Science Foundation Wednesday, 10/2 Graduate Fellowships and NSF Minority Graduate English "Red Lotus Society" (1994), directed by Stan Fellowships will be available in the Graduate Fel "A Magazine Fiction Editor Looks at His Trade," John on u um of Art Lai, with Chen Wenming, Na Weixun and Li lowships Office. Application also can be made C. Michael Curtis, senior editor, The Atlantic The Herbert F. Johnson Museum ofArt, on the Tongcun, 4:30 p.m., free. electronically through the World Wide Web at Monthly, Sept. 26, 4 p.m., Kaufmann Auditorium, er ofUmverslty and Central avenues, is open 'Chronicle of the Year of Embers" (1976). di