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Equine Research Park Page 2 CORNELL Summer Repertory Page 2 CHRONICLE Lacrosse Tournament Page 3 Summer Session Page 5 Vol. 5 No. 35 Thursday, May 23, 1974 Education Vacation Page 6 Cornell, Ithaca Plan Exchange Cornell to Reassess Program soon Apartment Project An exchange program between Cornell University and Ithaca College which will enable full-time students at Escalating cost estimates for Cornell's proposed student apartment project on the old Country one institution to take courses, at the other, without extra Club property have caused the University to reassess the project, President Dale R Corson said charge for tuition, was announced today by the two yesterday. schools. In a letter to Cayuga Heights Mayor Frederick Starting in the fall of 1974. the college and the remaining are "technical and legal " university will undertake a two-year experiment in G Marcham and members of the Village Board, The question of Cornell's reassessment of the project is exchanging undergraduate students in fields of Corson said that estimates for the project have expected to be a subject of discussion at a meeting instruction in which opportunities exist at one institution increased approximately 25 per cent during the Friday of the University Senate Committee on Campus but not at the other The program will expand curncular past month, that these estimates are based on offerings and will thereby make more courses available to Life. "most optimistic calculations we can get at this Cornell and Ithaca undergraduates A joint committee Corson said the reassessment of the project does not consisting of representatives from each institution will time, (and) may make the project unfeasible for affect the University's commitment to develop the administer the exchange both the University and for the students who Country Club land, located in the Village of Cayuga Ithaca College President Ellis L Phillips Jr. said. "The would live there " Heights, for student housing or other appropriate opportunity for students to enroll in courses other than Projected costs for a scaled-down project of some 500 educational purposes. those offered at their home institutions will, I believe, beds were $4 08 million on April 16 and $4 98 million The University's proposed housing development has contribute significantly to the quality of the on May 1 6 been the subject of discussion between the University undergraduate education at both the university and the Corson said he plans to discuss the subject with the and the Cayuga Heights Village Board for the past several college The exchange is also appealing in that it makes Cornell Board of Trustees during its meetings in Ithaca months Here is the body of the Corson letter delivered possible a wider variety of courses without the June 1 and 2 Wednesday to Cayuga Heights Mayor Frederick G duplication of instructional resources." In another letter to Mayor Marcham Wednesday. Marcham and members of the Village Board: Cornell President Dale R. Corson said he felt the Cornell Vice President for Planning Thomas W Mackesey program would be an "important new step in the said neither he nor any other officer of the University had "This is written to inform you that severely escalating growing intellectual dialogue between the two asked for another public hearing on the housing project, costs are forcing Cornell University to reassess the institutions Both institutions, as well as the indivfdual and that the University sees no need for further public proposed student apartment project on the old Country students involved in the program, will benefit from the debate on the subject Club property exchange ." (In news media reports of the Cayuga Heights Village "Our cost estimates for the project have increased According to William A Scoones. assistant provost at Board meeting Monday night. May 20. it was noted that approximately 25 per cent in the past month These the college, Ithaca students seem to be interested in the board had set a further public meeting Tuesday increases, which are "based on the, most optimistic taking courses at Cornell in art. art history and certain evening, May 28, and said the meeting was set on the calculations we can get at this time, may make this interdisciplinary courses not available at the college. request of Mackesey ) project financially unfeasible for both the University and Conversely, preliminary studies indicate that Cornell Mackesey referred to his most recent letter to Mayor for the students who would live there I will be discussing students may wish to enroll in courses in the college's Marcham, written on May 8, in which he asked for a this problem with the University Board of Trustees at its five professional schools and in teacher education meeting with the Village Board "so that we can finally meetings here June 1 and 2 In order to take advantage of the new cooperative resolve any issues which may remain," but made no Continued on Page 1 2 mention of a public hearing He said the problems Continued on Page 9 Spring and Student Poetry See Page 3 2 CORNELL CHRONICLE Thursday, May 23 Prof. Egner to Take Administrative Posts Joan Roos Egner, associate the Agricultural Experiment professor of education, has been Station, both at Cornell named acting associate director She will assume her new of research at the State College position on July 1, while Prof of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Joseph F Metz Jr., the associate and acting associate director of director, is on leave She will handle social science programs in the areas of funding, project review and processing Egner is currently using a grant from the Cornell Institute for Occupational Education to develop a model of occupational choice which has included an investigation of the factors .that influence a high school student's choice of careers. She has also completed studies on authoritarianism and TO BE DEVELOPED — Horses stand on part of the site that has been designated to be an Equine Research Park. discrimination, psychological The park will include stabling and field laboratories, and a half-mile track for the study of the metabolism of certain barriers to administrative drugs under simulated racing conditions. careers, student activism and bureaucracy, paraprofessionals. and others She is also an associate editor New Equine Research Park Planned of the ''Educational Administration Quarterly, " and A large tract of land two miles State Veterinary College field laboratories for sections of the international section of from the Cornell campus has Located between Warren and the Equine Research Program on "Educational Administration been designated an Equine Freese Roads, the parks 165 Nutrition. Bone and Joint Joan Roos Egner Abstracts." Research Park for the New York acres will provide stabling and Disease; the Equine Drug Testing and Drug Research Program. the Research By Cornell and I.C. Laboratory for Equine Infectious Diseases. and the Equine Reproduction Unit Eight-week Summer Repertory Season Offered The coordinating manager of the park is Dr John E Lowe, For the fifth consecutive extensive renovations have been starting June 17. from 10 am to 1 8th century comedy of manners associate professor of equine season. Cornell's Department of completed 5 p m Monday through Al-so playing will be Anton surgery at the Veterinary College. Theatre Arts and the Ithaca Opening July 2 and continuing Saturday, and reservations' will Chekhov's "The Seagull," one of Dr. Lowe said that the large dairy College Department of Drama- through Aug 24. on a Tuesday be accepted by calling 273- the great plays of modern barn and accessory buildings on Speech will offer playgoers an through Sunday performance 8588. Box offices will also open theatre, written with infinite the site will be renovated to eight-week season of summer schedule. Summer Rep. '74's six June 17 in the two theatres and tenderness and compassion. accommodate horses and repertory plays will rotate in 64 will have selling hours from 12 Oscar Wilde's winning 19th ponies. but. eventually, The Ithaca Repertory Theatre performances, with three plays noon to 5 pm Monday- century comedy. "The completely new facilities will be becomes a tripartite producing staged in Cornell's Willard Saturday, and from 7 p.m. Importance of Being Earnest." built organization this summer when Straight Theatre and three in the through curtain time on will also bring to the Cornell "Well begin construction -this the Center for the Arts at Ithaca Dillingham Center at Ithaca performance evenings Season stage a world of wit. beauty, year on a half-mile track for the loins the two campuses on a College All performances will mailers with order forms will be charm and grace in a memorable study of the metabolism of a permanent basis, bringing the have an 8:15 curtain mailed to residents of the area in evening of theatre. variety of drugs under simulated two "hills" together with Season tickets may again be the near future Those wishing to In the Dillingham Center at racing conditions. Dr Lowe downtown Ithaca to make purchased with a discount for the be placed on the Summer Rep Ithaca College there will be said "The track will also be Summer Rep '74 a total plays. as well as single '7 4 mailing list should contact Philip King's breezy farce- valuable for diagnostic and community effort to bring quality admission tickets Special the Theatre Business Office in comedy of fast-stepping fun in an instructional purposes since staff theatre to residents and visitors discounts will be available to Willard Straight Hall (256- English Vicarage. "See How and students of the Veterinary to the Finger Lakes Region. students and senior citizens with 5165) They Run." Sophisticated adult College will be able to observe In future seasons it is planned ID and to groups In the Willard Straight Theatre comedy of pure entertainment is patients in actual performance " to present two plays of each A central box office in the this summer there will be Noel Cowards improbable farce.