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2 Campus Cornell recycling 4 Freshman CHRONICLE orientation 7 Memory in infancy Volume 20 Number 1 August 25, 1988 Priority rules instituted by Arts College The College of Arts and Sciences has granted admission priority, for about 5 per- cent of its courses, to students enrolled in the college and others for whom those courses are required, Dean Geoffrey V. Ch- ester has explained in a letter distributed this week in student registration packages. The move responds to the sustained de- mand for Arts and Sciences courses by un- dergraduates enrolled in other Cornell col- leges, Chester said. It is intended to mini- mize the impact of that demand on enrolled Arts and Sciences students, he explained. Waiting lists will be kept for the courses for nonpriority students and — when neces- sary — for priority students closed out of the courses, he said. As of Monday, there were 40 specific courses for which the college had set up waiting lists and two more — Introduction to Art History (Art History 260) and May- hem, Myth and Modernism (English 458) — that were listed as closed. The college offers a total of about 900 courses, according to Lynne Abel, associate Jill Peltzman Continued on page 4 Benjamin Lee, left, and Jeff Welnfeld direct freshman and transfer students registering for Arts College courses Tuesday. Economist calls national computer network 'vital' A high-speed computer network linking to collaborate over long distances. tion and Research Network — testified on cies and institutions," he said. researchers and research projects at col- McAdams cautioned, however, that the economic and management factors in a na- In his testimony, McAdams distin- leges and universities throughout the coun- network would be only as useful as the fa- tional research and education network. guished between "new" information on try is "vital to U.S. international competi- cilities it connects: "The supercomputers on Other experts also discussed the need for which innovation is based and "current" in- tiveness," Alan K. McAdams told a Senate the network must be maintained at the state such a network, plus some of the educa- formation used in the ongoing management subcommittee on Aug. 11. He advocated of the art," he said. tional and scientific uses to which it could of society. Federal support should be lim- federal funding for the network, which he McAdams, an associate professor of be put. Those testifying agreed on the ur- ited to "new" information carried on the said would require a ''modest" investment managerial economics at the Johnson gency for developing such a network and network, and state governments should compared to other important national pro- Graduate School of Management, spoke at on upgrading it as technology advances, share the burden of support for the net- grams. hearings before the Senate Subcommittee McAdams said. work's educational uses, he said. The national network would allow re- on Science, Technology and Space. Its He argued for federal funding to assure McAdams told the committee that the searchers and educators to transmit data, chairman is Sen. Albert Gore. that the network is operated as a fully inte- national network must be high-speed, must including graphic animations of complex McAdams, who has conducted studies grated system with central coordination. connect all researchers and must be ex- supercomputer results and "hyper-media" of the economics and management of cur- "Without such coordination, the babble tremely easy to use. transmissions — simultaneous video, voice rent research networks under contract to of incompatible transmissions is likely to be He emphasized, however, that a national and data transmissions — permitting them NYSERNet — the New York State Educa- compounded by a rabble of battling agen- Continued on page 8 Less flagrant forms of schizophrenia commonly overlooked, psychologist says Psychopathologists could improve the disorder, he said. among the so-called positive symptoms of diagnosis of schizophrenia if they would Lenzenweger, an assistant professor in schizophrenia — that is, the presence of ab- emphasize the absence of normal behavior the developmental psychopathology pro- normal signs and symptoms. But individu- in addition to concentrating on the presence gram in the Department of Human Devel- als suffering from schizophrenia also ex- • of abnormal behaviors such as hallucina- opment and Family Studies, focuses his re- hibit flattened emotions, lack of any tions and delusions, according to a Cornell search on developing accurate classification thought, extreme apathy, social withdrawal study. systems and models of pathology in mental and inability to pay attention, all of which "It is possible that current research has illness. He draws on his clinical experience are called negative symptoms because they overlooked some forms of schizophrenia with schizophrenic individuals in setting his represent the absence of normal psycho- because the contemporary definition of the research direction. logical functions, Lenzenweger explained. disorder emphasizes positive symptoms Schizophrenia afflicts some 2.5 million He presented results of a study that com- such as hallucinations and delusions, Americans and it costs the United States pared the effectiveness of three contradic- whereas negative symptoms such as social approximately $48 billion a year in direct tory but equally respected models that de- isolation and absence of emotional expres- health care and lost productivity, he said. scribe schizophrenia and the importance of sion are largely excluded," Mark F. Len- Commonly and erroneously described as a positive and negative symptoms. Accord- zenweger reported at the American Psycho- split personality, schizophrenia is a severe ing to Lenzenweger, the models, which un- logical Association convention in Atlanta mental disorder characterized by disorgani- til now had not been directly compared, are: on Aug. 12. zation of thought, perceptions, feelings and • The Crow model, which suggests that Research must focus on improving the relations to others, Lenzenweger said. positive and negative symptoms reflect two criteria for the diagnosis of schizophrenia to Hallucinations, delusions, thought disor- independent disease processes that can co- Claude Levet aid early detection and prevention of the der, catatonia and bizarre behavior are Continued on page 7 Mark Lenzenweger 2 August 25,1988 Cornell Chronicle Briefs Employee Day: The university's 14th annual Employee Day> highlighted barbecue and football g i 1988 Ivy League season against the Prince- ton T.gers. Tickets for employees andS fam.hes will be $3 each for L g $2 each for the chicken barbecue K Hall followmg the game, and will ^fP'^^ghBa^.fP'^^ghBa,, theGthGr T.cket Office. Football tickets only .li^ ava.lable through Sept. 16. Volunteer workers are needed for the Employee Day actrvmes. Persons interested in donating *«r serv.ces should call Janet Beebe at the S?37l°5 AssemMies *> Day Hall at Extramurar*S$? l StudyU1 *: Registratio h n for Ex- TniirrrVParkillg: A P^S a™ "ear Tompkins County Airport has been desig- nated at Langmuir Laboratory for Cornell employees to leave their Cornell-registered vehicles while ou, of Ithaca on unfveSry business The parking bays, which aS eaSt Of 81 Br RdRd. 2at CornelSfnl TResearc "* h Park. For °addi™ - tional information, call 255-PARK te: A ew buS route Jill Peltzman frofrnmMlTm North Campu s" to Collegetow ^inn wilgl Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services Inc., headed by Douglas Dylla, right, has raised some $6,000 to date from start today when the regular academic-year the sale of appliances donated by the university as part of razing 49 World War ll-vlntage graduate student housing campuswide bus service, including the Blue units at Cornell Quarters off Maple Avenue. Dylla talks with perspective buyers Heather McElroy, left, and Jennifer Light Service, goes into full swine The Cooper at a public on-the-site sale Aug. 13. Orders for windows still may be made by calling 277-4500. new bus will use West Avenue in its run from North Campus to Collegetown and East Avenue on its return. The old B-Col- tege town run will follow its usual route from B-Lot down Tower Road to Collee- etown, but is now called the Vet-Collece- town Bus. Some route adjustments will be Recyclers eye mountains of trash made later in the fall upon the completion Campuswide recycling is about to be- according to Robert C. Osborn, assistant creasingly expensive as old dumping areas of the road connecting the newly estab- come reality for Cornell staff, faculty, stu- superintendent for buildings care and a are retired and new ones must meet strict ed l0t at extreme w dents and visitors who throw away moun- 2 f P *?**? ** e« member of the university's task force. In environmental protection requirements. r-nm i f"I g Lot B t0 Judd Falls R<>ad. tains of trash each day. addition to Osborn, members of the recy- Commissioning a new landfill and other as- Complete bus schedules are available on all Over the summer, a 13-member task cling task force are Richard Berlin, Bob pects of waste management could cost local force explored ways to reduce solid waste Bland, Terri Hargett, Joe Lalley, Dennis taxpayers as much as $14 million, accord- on campus, particularly through recycling Osika, Bill Perkins, Scott Russell, Steve ing to Frank Proto, chairman of the county and waste-reduction efforts, and to build on Schwan, Steve Sherman, Walt Smithers, Board of Representatives's Solid Waste • Student parking permits: Students who the university's existing voluntary program, Patricia Welch and Jim Wiggins. Management Committee. P glS r Parking which is about two decades old. Cornell's recycling task force has been "We're going to have a very expensive Uih^e mai,l 1th, s summe° r mus t P*™*pick the m^o«g up bhy During the 1987-88 academic year, an examining the three M's of the waste man- hole in the ground," Proto said of the next Sept 9 from the Traffic Bureau at 116 intensified program was initiated in Day agement problem: the Materials that are county-run landfill.

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