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3 undergraduate education Cornell examined Cornell Abroad's CHRONICLE new directors 3 Support for WSKG Volume 19 Number 30 April 28, 1988 7 New corporate liaison post to boost outreach The university has created the new posi- tion of deputy vice president for research and has named the chairman of the chemis- try department, John R. Wiesenfeld, as the first person to fill it. The announcement was made by Joseph Ballantyne, vice president for research. Wiesenfeld sees his job as coordinating the university's already strong corporate outreach programs. "Cornell already boasts an effective cor- porate fund-raising staff and a faculty that is extremely proficient at working with fed- eral agencies to secure funding," said Wie- senfeld, who will assume his new duties part time effective immediately and full time in January after a sabbatical beginning in June. "We also have many faculty with en- trepreneurial talents who have forged effec- tive partnerships with industry," he contin- Claude Level ued. "My principal role will be to help de- John R. Wiesenfeld velop a consistent plan to coordinate these outreach programs and to support interested year, including support from more than 30 faculty in dealing with corporations." companies. Ballantyne said Wiesenfeld understands Wiesenfeld's duties also will include a "both the academic world of Cornell and its broad role in local Cornell and national re- research, and the benefits that corporations search issues, including representing the hope to gain from interactions with univer- university to regional, national and interna- sities." tional research agencies, Ballantyne noted. The Department of Chemistry received In particular, Cornell needs to encourage $6.6 million in external research funds last Continued on page 8 Final state budget leaves Claude Level some key items unresolved Students celebrate Earth Day on the Arts Quad, April 22. "The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For The state budget passed last week left contracts with state agencies — mostly for instance, how much more remarkable is it for us all to be stuck — half of us upside Cornell in virtually the same position it had agriculture-related projects. down — by a mysterious attraction to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space been before the intensive negotiations of The final budget of last week did add for billions of years than to he carried on the hack of an elephant supported on a the last several weeks, but university offi- two relatively small but valued items, Ne- tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea." —Richard Feynman (1919-1988) cials emphasized that some priority matters sheim said. There was a doubling, from are still unresolved. last year's figure of $130,000, of fellowship "Some reports have said the legislature funds to help Cornell recruit academically rejected things which, in reality, it simply superior graduate students from minority deferred action on," said John F. Burness, groups; and the School of Industrial and vice president for university relations. "It's Labor Relations got half of $200,000 — 30,000 expected to attend still quite possible that in the weeks and split with New York University -— to col- months ahead, we'll get favorable action on lect scattered historical papers on the labor some very important matters." movement in the state. commencement on May 29 The state operating budget gave Cornell The unresolved matters referred to by just over $102 million, which is about $2.7 Burness included: Cornell's 120th commencement will mix leges, will simply rise en masse to have million, or 2.7 percent, more than last year • The request for a $20 million loan to leisurely strolling with precise deadlines their degrees conferred by Rhodes and flip and $6 million less than requested for the help build the new Theory Center. It is tied and formal ceremony with relaxed celebra- the tassels of their caps from right to left, statutory units — the Colleges of Agricul- up with a stalled package of $50 million in tion as it unfolds over two and a half hours signifying passage. (Provost Robert Barker ture and Life Sciences, of Human Ecology high-technology educational projects. on May 29. has urged graduates, for the safety and and of Veterinary Medicine and the School • A plan to raise from $3 billion to at The formal finale, when President Frank comfort of their colleagues, not to toss caps of Industrial and Labor Relations. least $4 billion the ceiling on bonded in- H.T. Rhodes confers degrees on about — or pop champagne corks.) The biggest problem, according to debtedness for SUNY capital construction. 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students, Beyond the faculty and students seated Maiden C. Nesheim, vice president for If the increase is approved this year, Cor- will take place between noon and 1 p.m. on on the field, Rhodes will look across to the budgeting and planning, will result from re- nell will proceed, with $9 million worth of Schoellkopf Field. Schoellkopf Crescent, whose 20,638 seats jection of a $3.2 million Cornell request to planning to renovate and expand the Veteri- The graduates and faculty members will are invariably filled for this annual rite. meet increased utility costs, inflationary in- nary College and the Mann and Cather- be seated on the field facing the west Another 4,000 people will fill the west creases for supplies and expenses, and sup- wood libraries. The action is backed up by stands, at the foot of which will be a white- stands, and hundreds will watch the spec- port for salaries. the more general deadlock over legislating canopied ceremonial stage with 75 folding tacle on foot, predictscommencement coor- The legislature did approve an $8 mil- the use of contracting companies owned by chairs for Rhodes, academic deans and uni- dinator Vickie Goss, who will be watching lion lump sum toward those costs at all 34 women and minority-group members. versity administrators. her own production from the artificial turf State University of New York units; and • Possible changes in the Tuition Assis- About 250 Ph.D. recipients will march as recipient of an M.B.A. from the Johnson Nathan Fawcett, director of statutory col- tance Program levels of eligibility and to the stage in alphabetical order for a presi- Graduate School of Management. lege affairs, said this week that he had been maximum amounts. dential handshake and photo, and then re- To ensure that the participants can get "notified that we will be receiving some re- • Governor Cuomo's proposal for Lib- turn to their seats at the northwest corner of into the field for the ceremony, the Com- lief " from that sum. But it still will leave erty Scholarships to supplement existing aid the field. mencement Committee has asked specta- the university far short of what it needs. plans to guarantee worthy students the cost AH other graduates, clustered by de- tors to be in place a full hour before the Outside the operating budget, Cornell of a college education in the state. grees and by their Cornell schools and col- Continued on page 8 also received about $1.5 million in new — Sam Segal 2 April 28, 1988 Cornell Chronicle Three black executives to offer Briefs thoughts on planning a career Three black business executives, includ- United States in 1976 when at age 32 he • Beebe Lake: The 150th birthday anniver- ing a general manager in BP America, one was appointed president of Wilberforce, a sary of Beebe Lake, created in 1838 when a of the nation's largest oil companies, will predominantly black university in south- youthful Ezra Cornell dammed up what ac- discuss career opportunities for students at western Ohio. He left the university eight cording to legend was known as Flea Hol- a forum today at 4:30 p.m. in the Bache years later to join Standard Oil Co., where low Swamp, will be celebrated May 1 be- Auditorium of Malott Hall. he became the company's highest-ranking tween 1 and 6 p.m. with a series of events, Speaking on the topic "Developing Ca- black executive. including a floating birthday cake. Other reer Strategies" will be: Despite corporate concerns about his activities aimed at both young and old will • Charles E. Taylor, former president of personal safety, he volunteered and went to include natural history walks, talks, tours, Wilberforce University and now general South Africa to inspect an operation in musical entertainment, foot races and a manager for marine transportation of BP which Standard Oil held a minority interest. puppet show. Cornell President Frank H.T. America, formerly the Sohio Oil Co., He gained visibility in London when he Rhodes, Ithaca Mayor John Gutenberger Cleveland. delivered a report on U.S. corporate philan- and Ithaca Centennial Commissioner • Ronald E. Goldsberry, general man- thropy to executives of British Petroleum Robert Kane will take part in the celebra- ager of the plastic products division of Ford Co., a major shareholder in Standard Oil. tion. For more information, telephone 255- Motor Co., Detroit. Last year, British Petroleum took over op- 8722 or 255-8734. • Mary-Frances Winters, president of erations of Sohio Oil and renamed it BP The Winters Group Inc., a business consult- America. Taylor manages a $550 million • Lacan on Lacan: A television interview ing organization in Rochester. operation and a staff of 100 people. with the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. of- The Black & Hispanic Graduate Busi- Goldsberry holds a Ph.D. in chemistry ten called the French Freud, will be shown ness Association in the Johnson Graduate from Michigan State University and an Charles Taylor by Cornell Cinema at 8 p.m.