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Performing Arts Center Moves to Next Phase with Corporate Help Cornell Chronicle Volune 14, Number 26 Thursday, April 7, 1983 Performing Arts Center Moves to Next Phase Trustees Approve More Planning Funds The Board of Trustees approved a budget sign for the center to campus and city for the final phase of planning for the new groups and the board. Performing Arts Center at its meeting The design development phase, which March 25-26. will provide more detail of the facility than The board allocated $450,000 from gifts the first phase, is expected to be completed and commitments to the center to extend in September, Matyas explained. the planning process through design de- Subsequently, working drawings will be velopment, according to Robert M. Matyas, prepared and put out for bid by contractors vice president for facilities and business in February 1984, he continued. The time- operations. table for completion of construction is June "The board action moves us full speed 1986. ahead," Matyas said. "It will give us a Funding for the Performing Arts Center complete design for the entire project from construction now exceeds $5 million, half of the architects." the total sought for the first phase of the The firm of James Stirling, Michael project that will result in a combination Wilford and Associates of London was teaching laboratory and performance cen- selected last May by the board as ter for theater, dance and film. An addi- architects for the Performing Arts Center tional $2 million has been received for to be constructed on the southern rim of facility endowment. Cascadilla Gorge at the entrance to campus The total project is expected to cost $16.5 from the Collegetown section of Ithaca. million in 1984 dollars. Wilford was in Ithaca for three days to Included in the facility will be a main Make presentations of the schematic de- Continued on Page 10 Village-Like Center Designed To Fit Character of Area It won't be a monolith, or a block buster make up the Performing Arts Center were °r a massive structure overwhelming all the Theatre Arts faculty, Ithaca's Common others. Council and the Board of Trustees. What the proposed four-level Performing Key elements in the design are four Arts Center will be is a small village that performance spaces, which Wilford said •"espects the urban character of Col- are very different from each other. The 'egetown and the views from Sheldon Court spaces will "constitute a learning and Cascadilla Hall, and reenforces the progression for students from the primitive Park-like nature of Cascadilla Gorge. to the sophisticated," he said. That's what was promised and described The four spaces are: to campus and community groups by . A laboratory theater intended primarily architect Michael Wilford in a series of for teaching, but with a seating capacity of VIEW FROM THE STARS: An axonometric drawing by the London architectural Presentations of the schematic design 120; firm of Stirling and Wilford, with Cornell's proposed Performing Arts Center in the March 23, 24 and 25. It was the first public . A dance performance studio with seat- middle, depicts the new facility in its Collegetown setting. Several separate elements d>splay of the work begun last May by the ing for 150; make up the center: a pavilion; an entrance porch overlooking Cascadilla Gorge; a ^ondon firm of James Stirling, Michael . A flexible theater that can seat between proscenium theater on the western end with production support space behind; a Wilford and Associates. 150 and 180, depending on staging for a lobby/foyer in the center with a vertical circulation tower; teaching areas, offices, a Among the groups that heard Wilford performance; flexible theater and a laboratory theater on the eastern end. d'scuss the series of buildings that will Continued on Page 10 With Corporate Help, Biotech Institute Launched Gifts and grants totaling almost $7.5 laborative effort of th*e corporations and this new relationship with these corporate humankind calling for new strategies, one Million from three of the nation's leading four colleges and two divisions of the leaders, a relationship that is entirely of which is collaboration with industry. Corporations will launch the new university, will be "unique in the nation," compatible with the mission of Cornell. Cornell and the industrial world share a Biotechnology Institute here. according to Cornell President Fr^nk "Our major goals are the creation and common interest in the new biology. We are Eastman Kodak Co., Corning Glass Rhodes. , transmission of knowledge, research and persuaded that the next 10 years hold Works and Union Carbide each will provide Corporate scientists will work with Cor- teaching. As a land-grant university, Cor- promise of a revolution in biotechnology JJP to $2.5 million over the next six years for nell faculty on campus in a basic research nell has the added responsibility of serving that can make a profound benevolent con- basic research in the institute. Cornell program that will be open and with its society's needs. While concentrating on tribution to human needs. anticipates its financial support of the findings available to the public. More than basic research, we must also ensure that "Cornell long has encouraged col- institute will be approximately $4 million a 400 scientists and faculty are expected to research finds application. The application laborative efforts between faculty mem- year. participate in the institute. of new discoveries in biology offers a bers and research industries. The Institute The institute, which will be a col- Rhodes said, "We are delighted to form challenge of great promise and benefit to Continued on Page 10 Judge Dismisses Sex Bias Case Against University On March 24, Judge Howard Munson of the fairness and integrity of the faculty Munson's decision has imposed novel and circuit. These rules are well known to all "je U.S. District Court, Northern District review procedure has been strongly af- burdensome requirements upon future practitioners in the field of civil rights law Oi New York, granted Cornell's motion for firmed. What must now occupy \is is a plaintiffs in Title VII cases. The university and are neither novel nor excessively n nU!ym?rv judgment in the so-called ' Cor- continued commitment to affirmative ac- believes that a misrepresentation of the burdensome. "^" 11" case in which four women charged tion and to the standards of excellence on decision would constitute a serious further "The court, relying upon recent and ne university with sex discrimination in which this university was established and disservice to the campus community. Ac- authoritative precedents, noted that Title tenure decisions. for which it has always stood." cordingly, the full text of the decision is VII simply requires neutrality by the em- , following dismissal of the suit, Presi- University Counsel Walter R. Belihan reprinted below. ployer in terms of race, color, religion, sex ' en,t Prank Rhodes said: issued the following statement in reaction "The university is confident that the or national origin and that courts must w We are immensely pleased by Judge to several news reports following the de- court carefully and correctly applied the respect the constitutionally protected right unson's decision. It puts to rest a conten- cision: governing rules of law, as laid down by the of a university 'to determine for itself on ds matter that has deeply troubled the "The plaintiffs and their local lawyer Supreme Court of the United States and the niv ersity community. It is gratifying that have stated in recent interviews that Judge United States Court of Appeals for this Continued on Page 9 2 Thursday, April 7, 1983 Potpourri Government Policies and Effects On Business Is Conference Topic A two-day open conference on the extent tional trade policy, General Electric; Kenn to which U.S. government policies affect George, deputy assistant secretary, U.S. U.S. business overseas will be conducted at and Foreign Commercial Services. U.S. the Graduate School of Business and Public Department of Commerce; Elizabeth Administration today and tomorrow. Jager, economist in international research, The conference will open at 4 p.m. today AFL-CIO; and Robert Keenan, president. in Bache Amphitheatre of Malott Hall with Foreign Credit Insurance Association. a talk by Robert Malott, chairman of the Workshops covering the barriers to trade Chicago based international firm, FMC and U.S. competitiveness will start at 1:30 Corporation, a world leading producer of and 3:30p.m. machinery and chemicals for industry, Participants in the afternoon sessions agriculture and government. include John Bell, deputy consul general, Malott is the son of Cornell President t Canada, NYC Consulate; James Fluharty, Emeritus Deane W. Malott (1951-63). He director of international sales, Goulds will be speaking in the building named in Pumps, inc.; Seiichiro Ohtsuka, deputy honor of his father in 1964. consul general and director, Japan In- Starting at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow, in formation Center, NYC. and Jan Suwinski, A medical coat pocket makes a cozy place for this kitty to observe the Bache, there will be a panel discussion on vice president for exports, Corning Glass passing scene at the State College of Veterinary Medicine. issues surrounding the politics of trade. Works. For additional information, contact Panelists will include Alfred Daiboch, Caroline Violette at (607) 256-4250,312 vice president for Trade Finance, Bankers Malott Hall. Trust. William Durka, manager in interna- Seven Openings for Students to Join Renovation Projects Okayed Three University Facultv Committees The Cornell University Board of Trustees Hall, asbestos replacement in Donlon Hall There are currently a total of seven committee!s) in which they expressed firs approved various renovation, design and (see related story) and extensive heating openings for student members on three choice interest.
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