3 Report on sexual Cornell harassment 3 CHRONICLE Curran comments on papal visit
7 Salt crystal Volume 19 Number 6 October 1, 1987 lasers
Frank Gannett Revolution papers added seen in data to CU archives transmission
Frank E. Gannett, founder of the media Using a new Cornell process that offers conglomerate that now publishes 90 news- the promise of economical production of papers, including USA Today, was also new high-temperature superconducting active in politics: He sought the Republican material, University of Rochester scientists nomination for vice president in 1936 and have discovered that the superconductors for president in 1940. Gannett's personal can conduct electrical pulses as short as 10 papers were donated to Cornell and have to 15 trillionths of a second without now been catalogued. absorption or distortion and at very high To mark the availability of this fascina- levels of electrical current. The shorter the ting archive which also includes photo- pulse over a digital data line, the greater the graphs of Gannett's political campaigns information that can be transmitted. against the New Deal, as well as the per- Thus, say the scientists, superconducting sonal papers of his late wife, the Gannett digital data transmission lines could be built Foundation and Cornell Libraries will pres- with far greater capacity than even optical ent a lecture, "Frank E. Gannett: A Pub- fibers for transmitting computer data, lisher in Politics," by Richard Polenberg, television pictures and telephone the Cioldwin Smith Professor of American conversations. Also, future computers could History, on Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. in the Hans use superconducting transmission lines to Bethe Auditorium on the seventh floor of move massive amounts of data rapidly Clark Hall. among components on computer chips. The Gannett Foundation, sponsor of the event, is among the nation's 20 largest pri- First application of its kind vate foundations, with assets of more than "These results represent the first $570 million. It has contributed more than application of this newly discovered high- $2 million to Cornell in the last 20 years, temperature superconductor to high-speed including support for the Gannett Health electronics and communications systems and Center and the Performing Arts Center. could trigger a revolution in these areas," The foundation also supports journalism said Gerard Mourou, who directs the education, adult literacy, and community Ultrafast Science Center at the Univrsity of programs in areas where Gannett Co. Inc. Rochester's Laboratory for Laser has subsidiaries. Energetics, and who is one of the team In addition to its newspapers and USA members. Weekend magazine, Gannett operates eight "For instance, we can predict that, over television stations, 16 radio stations and the distances of miles, lossless superconducting largest outdoor advertising company in the transmission lines with 100 times the country. It all began with the Elmira I capacity of optical fiber systems could be Gazette, in which Gannett bought a half developed," he added. Department of Manuscripts and University Archives interest in 1906. He was 29 years old; the A photograph from the Republican National Convention, Philadelphia, Pa., June 1940, Mourou explained that a single such investment was $20,000. one of many photographs in the archives of Frank Gannett, recently made available by superconducting data transmission line The son of a hotelier, Gannett began his the Cornell Libraries. could have information-carrying capacities association with newspapers by delivering of a terabit, or a trillion bits, of information the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, a State as a journalist, becoming the city edi- to Uphold Constitutional Government to per second. newspaper his company has owned since tor of the Ithaca Daily News. His later role oppose Roosevelt's plan to add justices to Such a line could transmit the text 1928. He won a scholarship to attend Cor- as a chain newspaper owner gave him a pol- the Supreme Court. In 1940, after the court equivalent of one thousand Encyclopedia nell, where he covered the university presi- itical platform. Early opposition to Presi- plan failed, Gannett ran for the presidential Britannica's per second, more than 15 dent's office for the Cornell Daily Sun. dent Roosevelt's agriculture policies led to nomination as "the man who stopped million two-way voice conversations or When the president, Jacob Gould Schur- an invitation from Senator William Borah Roosevelt," but Wendell Willkie was named more than 10,000 full-color television rnan, was appointed by William McKinley to run with him for the vice presidency, but by the Republican Convention. He channels. Such a transmission line could as head of the First Philippine Commission, Alfred M. Landon beat Borah for the remained an active Republican, a philan- transmit the entire 25 million books of the he asked Gannett to serve as his secretary. nomination. thropist and a supporter of Cornell until his Library of Congress, the world's largest In 1899, Gannett was back in New York Gannett founded the National Committee death in 1957. — Irv Chapman Continued on page 3 Fact-finders fear Haiti Writer of ILR book to describe may cancel election A fact-finding mission of Caribbean womens' lives, jobs in cotton mills nationals visited Haiti in late August and found political and economic conditions Two women born into poverty in the Andrea Fleck Clardy, an editor in the deteriorating so rapidly that elections for South will visit the university this week to ILR Press, said, "The lives and subculture president and the House of Assembly sche- describe the plight of women in the South- of Southern mill workers are almost com- duled for November may be cancelled. ern textile industry. pletely undocumented. Virtually nothing "There is a serious question as to whether They are Victoria Byerly, author of the that explores workers in the Southern mills the electoral machinery can be gotten into book "Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls: Per- has been written although a great deal has shape in time for elections in November," sonal Histories of Womanhood and Poverty been written on Northern textile workers. said Locksley Edmondson, a member of the in the South," and the Rev. Katie Cannon, "This book deals with life in the company mission. the first black woman to receive a doctorate town where the mill is the only game in "In August, the group which was inde- from Union Theological Seminary and the town. These workers were exploited by low pendently set up by the constitution to ^ first black woman to be ordained in the wages and poor working conditions, but organize the elections had no money nor Presbyterian clergy. there was another side: Working in the mill building in which to carry on their work," Byerly's book is an oral history based on was a way of achieving some security and he said, adding that holding the election interviews with 20 women who lived and comfort." "seems almost impossible at this time." worked in North Carolina mill towns. Can- After graduating from high school — she In February 1986, President-for-Life non is one of the women interviewed. The was the first member of her family to do so Jean-Claude Duvalier, nicknamed "Baby book was published by ILR Press at the — Byerly followed her mother, grand- Continued on page 8 Locksley Edmondson School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Continued on page 7 2 October 1, 1987
Notable Briefs
H. Thomas Hickerson, chairman of the • Nominations sought for a spring 1988 i Cornell Libraries' Department of Manu- Messenger Lecturer: Due to a change in the scripts and Archives, has been named a fel- plans of the scheduled lecturer for the 1988 low of the Society of American Archivists Spring Messenger Lecture Series, the Uni- in recognition of "distinguished service to versity Lectures Committee is seeking nom- the profession and to the society." inations by Oct. 23 for another speaker for A computer specialist, he has been the 1988 spring series. instrumental in the creation of a standard Established in 1924, the series is consi- format for the exchange of machine- dered one of the university's most important readable information on archival holdings intellectual events and has annually brought through the Research Libraries Group, a some of the world's foremost scholars and computerized network of some 50 of the public figures to campus. The coming nation's largest research libraries. Hickerson, spring's lecturer was to have been British 42, came to Cornell in 1974 and has held soil scientist Peter Nye of Oxford Univer- his current post since 1979. sity, but he has rescheduled his talks for the spring of 1989. Nominations and inquiries about the Messenger Lectures should be John J. Clark Jr., dean of the School of addressed to Judy Bower, coordinator for Hotel Administration, has been elected to the University Lectures Committee, 315 the Board of Trustees of the Educational Day Hall, telephone 255 4843. Institute of the American Hotel & Motel Association. • Seminar Oct. 13 on locating government A nonprofit educational foundation, the publications: A two-hour seminar on the institute, which is centered at Michigan organization, use and location of U.S. State University, develops educational and Government Publications is scheduled for 7 training materials for lodging and food ser- p.m. on Oct. 13 in Olin Library. For regis- vice employees the world over. Correspon- tration and other details, stop by or call the dence courses, videotapes, computer Olin Reference Desk at 255 4144. The ses- software and a wide variety of how-to pub- sion will be repeated at 10 a.m. on Oct. 30. lications are available through the institute, the world's largest resource center for the • Graduate school information sessions set hospitality industry. for Oct. 7 & 8: Admissions representatives from 130 graduate and professional schools Robert A. Kent, professor of law and a will talk to prospective students at the leading specialist in civil procedure, will annual Gradate School Days in the Memor- teach and consult at the University of Zam- ial Room of Willard Straight Hall from 11 bia School of Law under a Fulbright grant a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 7 and Oct. 8. A from Jan. I through June 30, 1988. Kent panel discussion on law school application spent 1970-72 as dean and professor of law is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 7 in the at the University of Zambia and as a Charles Harrington Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin member of the executive committee of the An inquisitive Kelsey Muka, granddaughter of Entomology Professor Arthur Muka, Smith Hall. A similar panel on business Law Association of Zambia. On sabbatic listens to the Big Red Band entertaining diners during the Employee Day barbecue at schools is set for 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 8 in during the 1987-88 academic year, Kent is Barton Hail last Saturday. Lecture Room D of Goldwin Smith Hall. teaching and conducting research at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London during the current fall term. Cornell, UAW still apart on wages Negotiators for the university and the they were learning about our work, that Graduate Bulletin union representing service and maintenance they should be familiar with our wages." workers remained far apart after two Last Thursday, the union presented a Course changes: Oct. 23 is the last Corrections meetings last week but agreed to resume new wage proposal which Davidoff said day for changing grade options, credit A seminar announcement in the Sept. 17 negotiations on Thursday. would cost the university about $1.6 million hours, and dropping courses. After Cornell Chronicle contained a typographical Last week, both sides presented new compared with about $2 million for its this date a petition will be required error. The title of an International Nutrition proposals for a one-year wage package, but earlier proposal. and a $ 10 fee will be charged. seminar was "Why Mortality is Higher in each rejected the other's proposal. A federal The union proposed an increase of 50 Fellowships and financial aid: Fel- Bottle-Fed babies in North America," not mediator is participating in the talks, which cents an hour for each worker, retroactive to what was printed: "Why Morality is Higher lowship applications are available in are being held to determine how much pay July 1 and another 50-cent increase on Jan. the Fellowship Office, 116 Sage in Bottle-Fed Babies in North America." about 880 employees will receive for the last 1. Professor Michael Latham, director of the Graduate Center, telephone year of a three-year contract that expires "We would maintain the step system but 255 5819. International Nutrition Program, first June 30. put a $ 1 cap on increases over the next pointed out the error. Although he turned down the latest year," Davidoff said. "Under our earlier Thesis seminars: Possible pitfalls of union proposal, Peter Tufford, chief proposal, some employees would have preparing and filing theses and disser- • tations will be discussed at the follow- An article in the Sept. 24 Chronicle, negotiator for the university, said the union. received increases up to $1.80 or $2 an Local 2300 of the United Auto Workers, hour." ing fall seminars in 100 Caldwell "Russian writer Semynov to lecture," Hall: doctoral dissertation seminar, incompletely identified Michael Scammell. "was showing some movement." Tufford said Cornell is not interested in a Several union members presented mock step system. Also, the proposed wage hikes Oct. 1, 1:30 p.m.; master's thesis He is chairman of the Russian Literature seminar, Oct. 2, 1:30 p.m. Department. paychecks during the annual Employee Day are higher than the university's current barbecue in Barton Hall Saturday afternoon offer. In general, a step system provides for Fellowships and financial aid: Fel- to President Frank H. T. Rhodes; William periodic wage increases in which workers lowship applications are available in D. Gurowitz, vice president for campus can advance to top salary within one work the Fellowship Office, 116 Sage affairs; and Lee M. Snyder, director of grade without being promoted to a higher Graduate Center, telephone personnel services. A fourth check was grade. 255 5819. made out to James E. Morley Jr., senior The union proposal also called for a vice president, but he had left when the $200,000 fund to be administered by the checks arrived. union, university and a neutral party "to Rhodes and Gurowitz, both wearing alleviate poverty and wage inequities," slacks and sweaters, were working on the Davidoff said. Barton Blotter: dinner service line, serving barbecued Earlier last week, the university proposed chicken, baked beans and cole slaw to increasing endowed workers' pay by 40 Piglets among thefts about 2,000 university employees and their cents an hour if they earn less than $6 Two piglets valued at $85 were among families when the checks were handed to hourly and 32 cents if they earn more than $1,815 worth of items involved in thefts them. $6 an hour. The previous offer was 35 cents reported on campus between Sept. 22 The union said the checks, made out for more per hour for all. through 27, according to the Department of $4.66, represented the starting hourly wage Statutory workers would receive 45 cents Public Safety. for a food service worker. more hourly, unchanged from the The piglets were taken from the Swine "It seemed ironic to us that, in the midst university's earlier proposal, which also Barns on Pine Tree Road between 6 p.m. of this dispute over wages, top officials were includes two $250 lump-sum payments to on Sept. 24 and 7 a.m. on Sept. 25. Other doing food service work," said Al Davidoff, workers in statutory colleges. thefts included a $450 VCR unit taken from president of the UAW local. "We thought if — Albert E. Kaff the Media Room of Uris Library, a $350 table taken from the fourth floor of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, and a $625 survey level and tripod taken from a construction Science, public policy essays due area at University Hall No. 4. Four false fire alarms were set off over Oct. 15 is the final entry date for active part in the lecturer's visit. Essays the weekend, two in the University Halls undergraduate essays in competition for the should cover a theme within the scope of area, one in Sheldon Court and the other at J. Eric Nordlander Prize in Science and the program; in the case of lectures to be 6 South Ave. Public Policy. The prize, together with a given by Philip Morrison, Institute Safety officers charged Douglas W. newly established visiting scholar program, Professor at MIT, that theme is the long- Hocking of 777 Stewart Ave. with posses- commemorate a Cornell graduate's career- range consequences of air warfare and sion of marijuana in the Upper Kite Hill long interest in the social consequences of issues of economic equity and sustainability area on Sept. 26. Jea Y. Wood of 3164 science and technology. in the 21st Century. Cascadilla Hall was charged with criminal The J. Eric Nordlander Visiting Scholar possession of a B.B. pistol and a billy club; Program in Science and Public Policy will Additional information on the essay Ann C. Ransweiler of 202 Eddy St. was bring to campus its first lecturer, physicist competition is available from the Office of charged with trespass at Cascadilla Bridge; Philip Morrison, Nov. 18 through Nov. 20. the Vice President for Undergraduate and Sean Benin of 419 N. Albany St. was Winners of the $300 prize in the Education, 309 Day Hall, or by calling charged with loitering at Myron Taylor Nordlander essay competition will take an 255 7595. Hall. 3
22 sexual harassment complaints received during year
Twenty-two complaints of sexual harassment is found." later not to proceed with an investigation at a report to let the community know what's harassment were received by the Office of McPherson's report says that 14 of the that time, and two other cases were not happening. Equal Opportunity from Sept. 1, 1986, complaints received by the Office of Equal investigated because of the length of time "When the Office of Equal Opportunity through Aug. 31, 1987, according to a new Opportunity were made by students, seven since the alleged harassment took place. receives a complaint about sexual report. by employees and one by an area resident. In situations in which an individual could harassment, a staff member discusses the The report was prepared by Cornell's These complaints named five supervisors, not be identified, such as anonymous notes complaint with the person and finds out coordinator of women's services, Carolyn eight faculty, four employees, two groups of or shouted offenses, sexual harassment what the person wants done to resolve the McPherson, for Joycelyn R. Hart, the students and one corporation recruiter. prevention workshops were held for the complaint," she added. "The person named university's associate vice president for departments, offices or student groups to and that person's supervisor are informed human relations. which the alleged offenders belonged, about the complaint, as is the dean or It says that the complaints — 20 from "Complete confidentiality is according to McPherson. In some cases, a department head. women and two from men —included one absolutely necessary if people memorandum was sent to members of the "Our staff work with the department, the or a combination of the following: offensive are to come forward. Cornell group or department. person named and the person filing the comments, harassing notes, unwanted also is vigorous in protecting First report of its kind complaint to find a satisfactory resolution. touching and fondling, harassing telephone The investigations are handled with those who have been accused In a survey conducted last year, 61 calls, pressure for a sexual relationship and percent of 786 upper-class and graduate sensitivity and confidentiality to ensure fair requests for sexual favors in exchange for if no evidence of harassment is female students said that they had treatment of everyone involved. If the preferential treatment in employment or found." experienced "unwanted sexual attention" complainant requests anonymity, the academic status. investigation can be done without using — Joycelyn Hart from someone in authority over them Confidentiality assured during their time at Cornell. Most often, names or specific situations. Complainants "The university takes complaints of the unwanted attention consisted of sexist are protected from retaliation." sexual harassment very seriously," Hart said Four complaints were resolved through comments. Most complaints are resolved through in discussing the report. "We investigate resignations, seven persons were warned to "This is the first time we have done this informal mediation, she said. If that is not each case carefully and sensitively." stop their behavior and in three cases the type of report," McPherson said. "After a successful, formal grievance procedures are She emphasized that "complete staff did not find evidence of sexual recent Supreme Court case on sexual available. confidentiality is absolutely necessary if harassment, McPherson said. The harassment, people began taking a closer For more information about how to people are to come forward," adding that complaint about the recruiter was referred look at the situation and realized more initiate a sexual harassment complaint, Cornell "also is vigorous in protecting those to the corporation for corrective action. In needs to be done. The American Council on contact the Office of Equal Opportunity, who have been accused if no evidence of two cases, persons filing reports decided Education suggested that institutions publish 234 Day Hall, 255-3976. Pope's tour helps to keep Curran busy during first weeks here The move from Catholic University to from a search committee headed by Vice "The library is amazingly good for never Cornell for the current academic year gave Provost Barry B. Adams, once an agree- warn having had a department of religion here," the Rev. Charles Curran his first opportun- ment in principle was reached, until he he said. ity to teach at the undergraduate level and could secure a leave of absence from But more demands on his time are origi- gave him a more heterogeneous student Catholic University. He is pressing for his nating on campus, not unexpectedly. Cur- body than he had taught before includ- right to return to teaching religion there. ran was invited to lecture on ethics at the ing an avowed atheist and two young peo- Looking back on the papal trip, Curran Johnson Graduate School of Management, ple whose graduate plans are to enter admitted that John Paul "came down more on religion and the Constitution as part of rabbinical school. heavily on dissent than 1 thought he might the university's Constitution Bicentennial Curran, who favors sports shirts open at have," but took heart from the contrast observance, and on theology and science for the neck over a clerical collar, is teaching with the pope's last visit eight years earlier. the Program on Biology and Society. Pro- "Fundamental Moral Theology" and "The Then, only one dissenting statement was fessors of history, communications and Renewal of Roman Catholicism at the made in the pope's presence, on the role of human sexuality extended invitations. Cur- Second Vatican Council." Asked if he women in the church. ran is also committed to four public lectures brought his views of the recent American "This time, you had about 10 people say in the spring as part of his endowed visiting visit of Pope John Paul II into his class- exactly the same thing and, interestingly professorship. rooms. Curran said, "I thought I'd better enough, the Vatican had approved all those Ethics in university curricula stick with the syllabus." talks ahead of time," Curran noted. "It's a As to the current concern with ethical But Curran arrived on the Cornell cam- different kind of atmosphere, an incipient content in university teaching, Curran feels pus in August as newspaper reporters and dialogue taking place. At the very min- "it's a little too simple for people to say, broadcast producers were preparing preview imum, if it didn't raise the consciousness of 'Oh, we've got to have, more ethics.' Though stories on the pending visit. He accommo- the pope, it certainly had to raise the con- ethics might not be as inexact a science as dated all who asked for his -views, and those sciousness of many people in the United economics, it's a little dangerous to look at who had not caught up with him before he States." the ethicist as the answer person. left Washington followed him to Cornell. Rev. Charles Curran The role of women in the church "In many ways, the ethicist is probably He videotaped interviews day after day on According to Curran, "the role of like the psychiatrist. Are ethicists the best the picturesque Arts Quad, with reporters me the women's issue is primarily a human women, 52 percent of humankind, is prob- human beings, the best decision makers'? 1 from Montreal, Boston and Amsterdam. ably the most divisive internal issue that the rights issue." tell my classes, 'You might not know He held a news conference to accommodate Roman Catholic Church is going to face in Smorgasbord Catholicism enough ethicists to answer that question, local media. the foreseeable future. Curran rejects the oversimplification that but I do." Papal commentator "Other questions, like contraception or Americans are indulging in "pick-and- • "Most people would say psychiatrists are The pope's travels between Miami and even divorce and homosexuality you can choose Catholicism, or smorgasbord Cathol- not the most emotionally mature, well bal- San Francisco coincided with the first fort- get some solution to those problems without icism or cafeteria Catholicism. I don't hear anced, head-screwed-on people in the night of classes, and Curran found himself getting structural change necessarily. But in any Catholics saying that we want to get rid world," Curran went on. "But psychiatry is shuttling between New York and Syracuse order to change the role of women in the of three sacraments, or add six persons to important because what they do is study the closest locations for live interviews church, you're going to need structural God, or deny the role of Jesus as Savior. systematically, critically and reflectively Pending the arrival of a satellite uplink on change, the hardest kind of change to There is fundamental agreement on the core what human emotional development is. In the campus in November at the invita- occur. and central issues, and the areas of dissent an analogous sense, that is what an ethicist tion of the MacNeil-Lehrer, To3ay and "And it's very much a cultural issue," he are on the periphery," he said. does with morality. Donahue programs. added. "There's no doubt that feminism is Freed from the ringing telephone and "So you can have good moral people Cornell originally approached Curran further advanced in the United States than interview requests of his first weeks here, who have never read an ethics book. You more than a year ago, before he was pub- in other countries. History bears out that Curran, who brought 300 of his own books can have morality apart from religion. The licly criticized by the Vatican for his views the one thing the Catholic Church has to Ithaca, is spending up to two days a need for moral and ethical considerations °n the limits of dissent from the authorita- learned from the American experience has week in the Cornell libraries researching obviously should follow from our tive teaching of the Roman Catholic been human rights issues, the worth and academic freedom and Catholic higher humanity." Church. He delayed accepting the offer dignity of human beings. And it seems to education. — Irv Chapman
Superconductor Continued from page I library, in two minutes, said Mourou. Engineering worked with a thin film of who led the Cornell team that synthesized of electrical pulses through transmission "These transmission lines would also have superconductor made of yttrium, barium, the material, "The ability to grow smooth, links in the picosecond and subpicosecond the advantage of extreme simplicity due to copper and oxygen grown on a yttrium- thin-film coatings of this superconductor on range. The scientists discovered that propa- the lack of transducers such as modulators doped zirconium oxide substrate by the zirconium oxide has important economic gating extremely short pulses without and detectors," Mourou said. "These Superconducting Thin Film Group at implications for application of the material. attenuation or distortion, even over very components are required in fiber optic The zirconium oxide is at present about 10 short distances, was difficult because of systems to transform the signal from the times cheaper than strontium titanate that absorption by the conducting electrodes. electrical to the optical domain and back." "Such a line could transmit the has until now yielded the best results. To circumvent this problem, the Roches- "But more important, this result shows ter scientists, as well as scientists working Superconductors are materials capable of text equivalent of one thousand Encyclopedia Britannica's per that high Tc films with very high current independently at the International Business carrying electrical current with no resistance. carrying capacity can be grown on Machines Corp. laboratory in Yorktown Last year, a new class of ceramic materials second, or the entire 25 million substrates whose crystal structure does not Heights, N.Y., explored the use of super- Was discovered that became superconduct- books of the Library of exactly match that of the film," said conducting materials for pulse transmission ing at "high temperatures" of up to 90 Congress, the world's largest Buhrman. "This is very promising for the The Ultrafast Science Center is supported degrees above absolute zero (about -183 development of an economical high Tc thin- by the Air Force Office of Scientific degrees Centigrade). Such superconductors, library, in two minutes." film production technology." Research University Initiative, and dubbed "high Tc superconductors" could be — Gerard Mourou The work at Cornell was done at the additional support has been provided by the cooled by cheap liquid nitrogen, which university's Materials Science Center and Department of Energy, the National Science means that large numbers of practical appli- the NNF by a team consisting of Buhrman Foundation and the Strategic Defense cations of the materials are now feasible. Cornell University and patterned into a high-speed circuit at Cornell's National and graduate students Daniel Lathrop and Initiative Office. The Cornell Work was The Rochester scientists — from the Nanofabrication Facility (NNF). Stephen Russek. supported by the Office of Naval Research University's Laboratory for Laser Energetics According to Robert Buhrman, a The Rochester research began in 1982 and the National Science Foundation. and the Department of Electrical professor of applied and engineering physics with a technique to study the propagation — Dennis Meredith 4 October 1, 1987 CALENDAR
Two Icelandic Artists: An exhibition featur- All items for the calendar should ing two leading Icelandic women artists, Nina be submitted (typewritten, double Tryggvadottir and Louisa Matthiasdottir, con- spaced) by campus mail, U.S. mail or tinues through Oct. 25. in person to Chronicle Calendar, Corning Museum Trip: The Johnson Cornell News Service, Village Green, Museum has arranged a one-day excursion to LECTURES 840 Hanshaw Road. the Corning Museum of Glass on Oct. 3 to Notices must be received 10 days view the exhibition "Glass of the Caesars." A prior to publication and must include luxury bus will leave the campus in the morn- the name and telephone number of a ing and return in late afternoon. For more person who can be called if there are information or to reserve a place on the trip, questions. call the Community Relations Department of Africana Studies Notices should also include the the Johnson Museum. The telephone number "Black Women's Literature as Wisdom Liter- is 255-6464. sub-heading of the calendar in which ature," Rev. Katie Cannon, a contributor to the recently published book "Hard Times Cot- the ITemshoul d appear. Willard Straight Hall Art Gallery ton Mill Girls," Oct. 7, 11:30 a.m., Africana Photographs by Thomas Pratt: Exhibition Studies and Research Center. opens Oct. 5 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Wil- lard Straight Hall Art Gallery. For more Comparative Literature information, call Karl A. Iglesias at 255-9507 "Poets at Sea: Metaphors for Poiesis in between 2:30 4:40 p.m. Horace, Mallarme and Cesaire," N. Gregson Davis, Stanford University, Oct. 8, 4:30 p.m., 156 Goldwin Smith.
DANCE F.R.E.E. "Unmasking the Deception of Deterrence." Robert Aldridge, former Lockheed nuclear weapons engineer, current peace activist, FILMS author of two books on nuclear proliferation, Oct. 4, 7:30 p.m., Hollis E. Cornell Audito- FolKdancers rium, Goldwin Smith Hall. Events are open to the Cornell community Aldridge will lead a discussion of jobs, and the general public and beginners are wel- engineers and the arms industry at a brown come. Admission is free, unless stated bag lunch Oct. 5, 12:30 p.m., Upson Hall otherwise. Co-sponsorshop proposals Lounge. His visit is sponsored by the Forum Instruction and requests, Oct. I, 7:30- 10:30 Faculty, campus departments and organiza- on Responsibility and Ethics in Engineering, p.m.; Election, 9 p.m.. North Room, Willard tions are invited to submit co-sponsorship November 11 Committee, Centerpeace and Straight Hall. proposals to Cornell Cinema for the Spring the program on Science, Technology and semester. The deadline is Oct. 15. Please call Society. Theatre Arts 255-3522 for applications or more "Contemporary Dance Through Afro- information. Industrial and Labor Relations American Roots," a dance lecture demonstra- Unless otherwise noted, films are sponsored "History as a Source of Critical Conscious- tion by Dianne Mclntyre and her company by Cornell Cinema. An (*) indicates that ness," Victoria Byerly. author of "Hard Times Sounds in Motion, Oct. 6, 8 p.m., Willard admission is charged. Cotton Mill Girls: Personal Histories of Straight Theatre. Co-sponsored by the Coun- Womanhood and Poverty in the South," Oct. cil of the Creative and Performing Arts and Thursday, 10/1 6, 7:30 p.m., Anabel Taylor auditorium. the Society for the Humanities. Free "Siva's Disciples," documentary, 5 p.m., Uris admission. Library. Libraries "Umberto D," (1951), directed by Vittorio "Frank E. Gannett: A Publisher in Politics," Lorraine Duisit and Tom Espinola will bring the so DeSica, with Carol Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio Richard Polenberg, Oct. 8. 4 p.m., Hans Auditorium on Oct. 3 at 8:30 p.m. and Lina Gennari, 8 p.m., Uris Hall* Bethe Auditorium, Clark Hall.
Friday, 10/2 Materials Science and Engineering "Children of a Lesser God," (1986), directed "The Pair-Potential Approach for Interfaces: Fundamental Problems and Practical Solu- by Randa Haines, with Marlee Matlin, Wil- tions," Neil Ashcroft, Oct. 8. 4:30 p.m., 140 EXHIBITS liam Hurt and Piper Laurie, 7 p.m., Uris.* Bard Hall. "Dragnet," (1987), directed by Tom Man- kiewicz, with Dan Ackroyd, Tom Hanks and Near Eastern Studies Harry Morgan, 9:30 p.m., Uris.* "Acontextual Approaches to the Bible: A MUSIC "Monterey Pop," (1968), directed by D.A. Critique," Rob Oden, Oct. 13. 4:15 p.m., 374 Hartell Gallery Pennebaker, with Ravi Shankar, Jimi Hendrix Rockefeller Hall. Lewis Hine: Reformer with a Camera: Copy and The Who, midnight, Uris.* photographs from the original Hine albums Southeast Asia Program presented to the Library of Congress by the Saturday, 10/3 "On the Rise and Fall of the Tasaday: The Bailey Hall series National Child Labor Committee in 1954 will Political Economy of an Anthropological '1 be on view at the Hartell Gallery, Sibley Hall "Children of a Lesser God," 9:30 p.m. Uris.* Sign." Jean-Paul Dumont, University of Rotterdam Philharmonic, Bella Davidovich, piano, works by Mozart and Mahler, Oct. 7, through Oct. 2. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.- 5 "Dragnet," 12 a.m., Uris.* Washington. Oct. I, 12:20 p.m., 102 West p.m. Sponsored by ll.R and the Department Avenue, Ext. 8:15 p.m.. Bailey Hall. of Art. "My Sweet Village," (1986), directed by Jiri Mendel, with Janos Ban, Marian Labuda, "The Royal Orders of Burma," Than Tun, Bound for Glory The Specter of Child Labor, a companion and Rudolf Hrusnsky, 7 p.m., Uris.* Center for South and SE Asian Studies, Uni- John Kirk, a tiddler and guitarist most exhibition, can be seen in the Ives Hall class- versity of Michigan, Oct. 8. 12:20 p.m., 102 famous as a member of Walt Michael and room wing exhibition cases through the Sunday, 10/4 West Ave. Ext. Co. Bound for Glory presents three live sets, month of December. "Dragnet," 7:15 & 9:30 p.m., Uris.* at 8:30. 9:30 and 10:30 p.m., every Sunday at Theoretical and Applied Mechanics the Commons Coffeehouse, Anabel Taylor. Johnson Art Museum "Whitney Biennial Film Exhibition I," "Thermal Convection in Cavities," Philip (1985), directed by Yvonne Rainer, 2 p.m.. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, on Blythe, Center for Application of Mathemat- Cornell Appalachian doggers Johnson Museum. the corner of University and Central avenues, ics, Lehigh University, Oct. 7, 4:30 p.m., 205 Tom Espinola and Lorraine Duisit will per- is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 Thurston Hall. form New Age chamber music for harp, man- a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. Call Monday, 10/5 dolin, guitar, voice and percussion Oct. 3 at 255 6464 for further information. "Children of a Lesser God," 8 p.m., Uris.* Women's Studies 8:30 p.m. in Kaufman Auditorium of Gold- win Smith Hall. Tickets are $4 at the door, 8 New York Artists: An exhibition organ- "Intimate Matters: Themes and Issues in the Tuesday, 10/6 $3.50 in advance, available at Rebop Records ized by the Kenkeleba House, Inc., New York History of Sexuality in America," Estelle "Gothic," (1987), directed by Ken Russell, and Ithaca Guitar Works. City continues through Oct. 25, featuring the Freedman. Stanford University, and John with Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands and Natasha D'Emilio, University of North Carolina, Oct. work of eight mature artists living and work- Richardson, 8 p.m., Uris.* ing on New York City's Lower East Side. The 4, 7:30 p.m., Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Department of Music eight artists are: Al Copley, James Bohary, "Wet Earth, Warm People," (1971), docu- Smith Hall. Jonathan Shames, pianist and lecturer of Herman Cherry, Dorothy Dehner, Reuben mentary, 4:30 p.m., 310 Uris Library. "Methodological & Interpretative Issues in piano, and his students will give a perfor- Kadish, Elaine de Kooning, Richards Ruben the History of Sexuality," Freedman and mance illustrating the fact that the process of and Edvins Strautmanis. Wednesday, 10/7 D'Emilio. Oct. 5, 9:30- 11 a.m., 360 Uris playing music, the doing of it and not only "October (Ten Days That Shook the Hall. the finished product is what is most exciting, Art Department Faculty Exhibition: Recent World)," (1928), directed by Sergei Eisenstein, Oct. 6, 8:15 p.m., Barnes Hall auditorium. "Source Material for Writing the History of works of art by current and emeriti professors with musical accompaniment by David Student Recital: Bart van Oort, fortepiano comprise this annual exhibition, which con- Borden, 8 p.m., Uris.* Sexuality," Freedman and D'Emilio, Oct 5, noon I p.m., ll.R Conference Center. works of Mozart, Clementi, Haydn, and Dus- tinues through Oct. 18. Works in various sek, Oct. 2, 8:15 p.m., Barnes Auditorium. media, including watercolor, photography, Thursday, 10/8 sculpture and oil, are on view. "The Magician," (1958), directed by Ingmar Ujstilus: Hungarian folk songs and dance The following artists' work is exhibited in Bergman, with Max Von Sydow, Ingrid music from Transylvania, Oct. 3, 8:15 p.m., Barnes Auditorium. Free admission. the show: Roberto G. Bertoia, Zevi Blum, Thulin and Gunnar Bjomstrand, 8 p.m., Uris. Stanley J. Bowman, Victor E. Colby, James "Performance & Process at the Piano," a W. Cole, Norman D. Daly, Richard M. "And That is Why the State is to Blame," directed by Frank Diamand and Jan van der public demonstration of music in perfor- Estell, Kenneth Evett, John A. Hartell, Victor mance, Oct. 6, 8:15 p.m., Barnes Auditorium. G. Kord, Jean N. Locey, James Owen Maho- Putten, 8 p.m., Anabel Taylor. ney, Elizabeth H. Meyer, Eleanore A. Mikus, Lecture-Recital, Stephen Montague, Gregory Page, Barry A. Perlus, Stephen F. composer-pianist: "The European New Music Poleskie, Arnold Singer, Jack L. Squier and Scene, 1987," Oct. 7, 4 p.m., Barnes W. Stanley Taft. 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Hebrew Speaking Club: Tuesdays, 8:30 Computer Science Pharmacology p.m., G_ 34 Anabel Taylor. "Model Based Object Recognition and Local- "Modulation of Calcium Currents in Snail High Holidays: ization," Tom Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence Neurons: Second Messengers and G Pro- Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- teins," Ronald Harris-Warrick, Oct. 5, 4:30 Yom Kipper, Oct. 2-3: Conservative servi- nology, Oct. I, 4:30 p.m., BI7 Upson Hall. p.m.. Pharmacology Library, D10IL Schur- ces. Bailey Hall, Sept. 2, 6:15 p.m., Sept. 3. man Hall. 10 a.m.; Reform, Anabel Taylor Hall audito- Computer Services rium, Oct. 2, 8:30 p.m., Oct. 3, 10 a.m.; Con- Plant Biology servative and Reform combined afternoon and "Computer-Assisted Instruction for Under- concluding services at Bailey Hall, 5 p.m.; graduate Students of Labor Law," Constance "Are Plants Better Engineers Than Man?" Orthodox, Edwards Room Anabel Taylor Finlay, Oct 1, 12:20 p.m. 1:10 p.m., 100 Karl Niklas, Oct. 2, 11:15 a.m., 404 Plant Hall, Oct. 2, 6:15 p.m., Oct. 3. 9 a.m. Caldwell Hall, a Project Ezra demonstration. Science Bldg. Free tickets are necessary for Conservative "SiGMA: Simulation Graphical Modeling Plant Pathology and Reform services. They may be picked up and Analysis," Lee Schruben, Dept. of Opera- at the Hillel office, G 34 Anabel Taylor. The tions Research and Industrial Engineering, "The Dollars and Sense of Screening for telephone number is 255 4227. Oct. 8, 12:20 p.m. 1:10 p.m., 100 Caldwell Agricultural Chemicals," Jack Bruhn, Oct. 6, Hall. 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., 404 Plant Science Bldg. Korean Church Every Sunday, 2:30 p.m. Anabel Taylor Cooperative Extension Psychology Hall. "Department Highlights," R. Jeffrey Topic to be Announced, David Hamilton, Wagenet, chairman of the Dept. of Agron- University of California at Santa Barbara, Muslim omy; "Programs for Employment and Work- Oct. 2, 3:30 p.m., 202 Uris Hall. Sunday through Thursday, I p.m., 218 place Systems," Michael Gaffney, senior Anabel Taylor Hall. Friday 1 p.m. Anabel extension associate in ILR and a PEWS asso- Textiles and Apparel Taylor Edwards Room. ciate, Oct. 5, 9 a.m., 401 Warren Hall. "High Strength/Modulus Polyethylene," Robert Wincklhofer, Allied Fibers, Oct. 6, Protestant Ecology and Systematics 12:20 p.m., 317 Martha Van Rensselaer Protestant Cooperative Ministry: Every Sun- "Size Variability and Competition in Plant Hall. day, 11:15 a.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. Populations," Jacob Weiner, Dept. of Biol- ogy, Swarthmore College, Oct. 7, 4:30 p.m., Vegetable Crops and Pomology Zen Buddhism Morison Seminar Room A106 "Advances in Strawberry Breeding," Gene Zazen meditation: Tuesdays at 7 p.m., Corson/Mudd. Galletta, USDA, Oct. 8, 4:30 p.m., 404 Plant Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Every Science Bldg. Thursday 5:10 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture For more information or to arrange beginner's "Production Opportunities for Glasshouse Western Societies Program instruction, call Ian Dobson at 277-4364. Crops in Denmark," Ole Voight Christensen, "Agricultural Revolution and Industrial Horticulture Institute of Glasshouse Crops, Revolution: Two Cumbersome Bodies," Louis Oct. 8, 12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m., 404 Plant Bergeron, EHESS, Oct. 2, 12:15 p.m., 153 Science. Uris Hall. "The Survival of Minority Culture in East- Food Science and Technology ern Europe: The Case of Rumania," Ujstilus: Topic to be Announced, Neil Walker, Milk Hungarian Folk Music Group, Oct. 2, 4:15 Products Inc., Oct. 6, 4:30 p.m.. Stocking p.m., 201 A.D. White House. Hall. SEMINARS "How Finland Went Western," Arvo Salo, History and Philosophy of Science and Oct. 6, 4:30 p.m., G08 Uris Hall. Technology "Action at a Distance: Evidential Contexts Agricultural Engineering and the Solar Neutrino Experiment," Trevor of New Age chamber music to Kaufman Pinch, Dept. of Sociology University of York, "Using Models to Evaluate Simultaneous Oct. 7, 4:30 p.m., 165 McGraw Hall. Impact of Alternative Pest Control Practices on Crop Damage and on Ground Water," Immunology Christine Shoemaker, Chairwoman environ- mental engineering/civil and environmental "Antibody Responses to the Hemagglutinin THEATRE Engineering, Oct. 5, 4 p.m., 400 of Equine Influen/a Virus," Judith Appleton, Riley-Robb. Oct. 2, 12:15 p.m., C 207 Schurman Hall.
Agronomy International Nutrition "low Temperature Stress and Corn Produc- "A Perspective of Parasitism," D. W. T. Theatre Cornell Crompton, Dept. of Zoology. University of tion in Northern Areas," George Estes, Uni- Preview of a one act musical by Polly Pen, a Glasglow, Oct. I, 12:15 p.m., N207 Martha RELIGION versity of New Hampshire, Oct. 6, 4 p.m., 1976 graduate of Ithaca College, directed by Van Rensselaer Hall. 135 Emerson Hall. guest artist Andre Ernotte, Oct. I, 8 p.m., in Drummond Lab Theatre, Lincoln Hall. A Applied Mathematics Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering concert reading open to the public. Call "Void Formation in Elastic Materials," Scott "The Phase Dependence of Swirling Turbu- 255 5165 for information. Sage Chapel J. Spector, Southern Illinois University, Oct. lent Boundary Layers," D. H. Wood, NASA Rev. Katie Cannon, Episcopal Divinity 2, 4 p.m. Sage Hall. Ames, Oct. 6, I p.m., 282 Grumman Hall. School and a contributor to the recently pub- "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble; Fire, lished book "Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls" Biological Sciences Burn; MHD Bubble," Paul S. Lykoudis, will open the service at Sage Chapel Sept. 27 "Gene Transfer and the Expression of the Purdue University, Oct. 6, 4:30 p.m., 282 at 1 1 a.m. Nerve Growth Factor Receptor," Moses Grumman. Chaos, Dept. of Cell Biology, Cornell Medical Catholic School, 4:30 p.m., 204 Stocking Hall. Microbiology Mass: Every Saturday, 5 p.m.; every Sunday, Topic to be Announced, J. E. Cronan Jr., MISC 9:30 and 11 a.m., and 5 p.m., Anabel Taylor Biophysics Dept. of Microbiology, Univ. of Illinois at Auditorium. "Expressions of Functional Torpedo Acetyl- Urbana-Champaign, Oct. 8, 4:30 p.m., 124 Daily Masses Monday through Friday, choline Receotor Channels in Mouse Fibro- Stocking Hall. 12:20 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. blast Cells," Toni Claudio, Dept. of Physiol- ogy, Yale University, Oct. 7, 4:40 p.m., 700 Music Graduate Lambda Association Christian Science Clark Hall. "Survival of Minority Culture in Eastern The Graduate Lambda Association, a social Europe," Oct. 2, 4:15 p.m., A. D. White organization designed to help eliminate the Testimony Meeting: Every Thursday, 7 p.m., Chemical Engineering isolation of homosexual people, will hold a the Anabel Taylor Founders Room. House. "Microbial Desulfurization of Coal by the social on Oct. 2, 8- 11 p.m, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall. For more information, contact Episcopal (Anglican) Thermophilic Organism," Fikret Kargi, Dept. Neurobiology and Behavior of Chemical Engineering, Washington Univer- "The Electric Goner," Henry Lester, Dept. of GLAS president Wendell Carter at 273 7981. Every Sunday, 9:30 a.m., Anabel Taylor sity, Oct. 6, 4:15 p.m., Olin Hall. Chapel. Biology, California Institute of Technology, Oct 8, 12:30 p.m., Corson/Mudd Hall. Intramural Ice Hockey Chemistry Single elimination play will begin Nov. 2 in Friends (Quakers) "Sodium Channels in Excitable Mem- "Defect Chemistry and Transport of Matter the evenings. Minimum of 12 to enter, all Sunday, 9:45 a.m., adult discussion; 11 a.m. branes," Peter M. Vassilev, Dept. of Physiol- and Charge in Transition Metal Oxides," equipment supplied except skates and sticks. meeting for worship, Edwards Room, Anabel ogy, Michigan State University, Oct. I, 12:30 Rudiger Dieckmann, Oct I, 4:40 p.m., 119 (No figure skates allowed.) Fee is $20 due Taylor Hall. p.m., Morison Seminar Room Corson/Mudd Baker Laboratory. with roster by 4 p.m. on Oct. 7 in the IM Hall. office. Jewish "The Aldol Reaction from a Crystallo- Morning Minyan: Young Israel House, 106 grapher's Perspective," Paul G. Willard, Nutritional Science Intramural Squash West Avenue. Call 272-5810. Brown University, Oct. 5, 4:40 p.m., 119 "Transportation, State Marketing and Agri- Baker Laboratory. Deadline for entries is Oct. 1 at 4 p.m. in the cultural Hinterland," Mark Gersovitz, Prince- IM office. Fee is $2 per team due with roster. Conservative / Egalitarian Services: Friday ton University, Oct. 9, 4 p.m., 498 Uris Hall. 5:30 p.m., Saturday 9:45 a.m., Anabel Taylor "Femtosecond Viewing of the Chemical Play will be straight elimination tournament Hall Founders Room. Bond,"Ahmed Zwail, California Institute of Mon.-Thurs. evenings, probably at 9 p.m. Technology, Oct. 7, 4:40 p.m., 119 Baker Ornithology Orthodox Shabbat Services: Friday even- Laboratory. "John James Audubon: The Man and His Shotokan Karate Club ings. Young Israel House, 106 West Avenue. Art," Mike Harwood and Mary Durant, Shotokan Karate Club welcomes new Call 272 5810. Saturday, 9:15 a.m., Anabel authors of "On the Road with John James City and Regional Planning members, beginners and advanced. The club Taylor Edwards Room. Audubon," Oct. 5, 7:45 p.m., Fuertes Room "How Can Urban Advocates Inject Their meets Monday through Friday in front of at the Laboratory of Ornithology, 159 Sap- Reform Services: Friday evenings 5:30 Issues into the Presidential Campaign of Barton Hall, 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. For informa- sucker Woods Rd. p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. 1988?," Linda Davidoff, executive director, tion call Scott, 272 2512, evenings. Human Serve Campaign, New York City, Oct. 2, 12:15 p.m., 157 E. Sibley. 6 October 1, 1987 PLEASE POST
-STAFFING SERVICES WILL BE CLOSED October 1, 1987 ON FRIDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1987 FOR IN- SERVICE STAFF TRAINING. DELIVERIES Number 37 MM BE DROPPED OFF AT 147 DAY Office of Human Resources HALL. Cornell University Job Opportunities 160 Day Hall Ithaca, New York 14853-2801 In compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Cornell University is now required to check the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires. Effective June 1, 1987, If you accept a position, you must show documents on or before your first day of work, that indicate your identity and employment eligibility; for example, a state issued driver's license and a birth certificate. For more information, contact Staffing Services, 255-5226.
-Send cover letters and resumes to Starring Ser- ESTIMATOR II-REFRIG. & CONTROLS design Abie to work with WP & page-layout ol microcomputers operation & software (IBM coursework in chem., or math pref. Able to vices, 160 Day Hall, Cornell I niversity. Ithaca. (PG36G3) M&SO software. Understanding of busn. writing & hos- PC & Mac) nee. Supv. exp. highly desir. Able to safely handle lab chemicals & pesticides; exp. in NY 14853. Prepare detailed general construction esti- pitality industry. Send cover letter & resume to interact with a variety of people on a regular greenhouse plant care. Apply by 10 9. mates for maintenance, repair, & or construc- Esther Smith by 10 5. basis. Send cover letter & resume to Esther Minimum Biweekly Salary; $470.80 -Employment and employee transfer applica- tion projects. Visit job sites & obtain data to Smith. tions forms are available at both Staffing Ser- prepare both budget & detailed job cost esti- SR. TECHNK AL WRITER (PCI92) Compu- Minimum Biweeklv Salary: $556.14 TECHNICIAN, GR19 (T3404) Genetics & vices locations-160 Day Hall and East Hill mates: compile accurate labor estimates & com- ter Semeevreposi Dev elopment-repost Plaza. plete material lists utilizinf rings & Produce intro. to advanced level publ < ADMINISTRATIVE AIDE, GR22 (C37I2) Provide tech. & admin, support for efficient blueprints. to clearly & correctly explain software systems of Hngr. Dean's Office operation ot genetic lab. Duties incl. participa- -Requests for referral and/or cover letters are not Req.: AAS in air cood. A: icing or related some complexity; produce edit materials public- Provide executive assistance to Grad. Engr. tion in research, maint. & ordering of lab supp- accepted unless specified in the ad. field. Mm. 5 yrs. exp. in field. Thorough under- izing CCS activities & functions. Programs Committee & daily coord, for 11 MS, lies & maint. of a collection of genetic strains oi standing of HVAC. reffig , pneumatic, elec- Req.; BA or equiv. Min. 2 3 yrs. related exp. Engr programs. Coord. & promotion of MHng C. elegans. -Cornell University is an Affirmative Action/ tronic, electric A direct digital controls. 1 in tech. writing. Knowl. of IBM. CMS & traineeships program to students & corps. Req.; BS in bio. pref. with course work in Equal Opportunity Employer. univ. research em &. familiar with computers DEC VMS mainframe computers, microcom- Req.: AAS or equiv. Min. 2 4 yrs. exp. genetics. Min. i 3 vrs. lab exp. Apply ASAP. helpful I skills. Send cover letter & puters tespecialK Mac), text editors WP desk- Knowl. of basic acctg. & stats. Report & letter Minimum Biweekly Salary: $469.53 -This listing is also available on CUINFO, Cor- resume to .1. Courtney Fletcher top publishing software & prgrmng. languages. writing. Broad org. skills. Med. typing. nell's computerized info service. Send cover letter, resume & writing sample to Minimum Biweeklv Salary: $556.14 LAB EQUIP. TECH., GR20 (T3707) Theatre ESTIMATOR H-GENERAL CONSTRUC- Esther Smith. Arts TION (PG3602) M&SO Resp. for interpreting & implementing lighting Prepare detailed general construction esti- designs for theatre productions; hang, cable, Administrative mates for maintenance, repair, & or construc- General Service locus, circuit theatrical lighting instruments; tion projects. Visit job sites & obtain necessary implement & maintain special effects & projec- data to prepare both budget & detailed job cost Clerical lions; purchase & maintain lighting & sound and Professional estimates. Assist depts. in fulfilling specific reqs.; equip.; recruit, train, supv. student crews. Mon,- prepare .sketches, drawings & or project descrip- Fri., 9 5 flex.; some eves. & weekends. Req.: AAS, BA desir. Theatre bkgrnd. strong- tions; compile accurate labor estimates & com- REGULAR EMPLOYEES Submit an employee Minimum salaries listed are for recruitment pur- plete material lists utilizing arch, drawings & lv pref. Fxp. with theatrical lighting & sound poses only. transfer application to Staffing Services, hast equip, req. Bkgrnd. in theatre, exp. reading blueprints. REGI LAR EMPLOYEES Submit an em- Hill Plaza. EXTERNAL APPLICANTS; Im- Req.: AAS in construction tech. or equiv. ployee transfer application, resume & cover let- draftings & plans, working knowl. of electronics. HUNGRY BEAR DINER MGR. (PG37O2) plovment applications are available at Staffing Good org. skills. Exp. with students or volun- Min. 5 yrs. related exp Understanding of bklg. I er counseling interviews are available by Services, East Hill Pla/a 9-noon, Mon.-Thurs. Unions & Activities-RPU codes, scheduling (CPM) & project mgmt. 1 \p. appt. EXTERNAL APPLICANTS Submil an teers helpful. Apply by 10/16. Coord, night Diner Services & sups. & tram- in univ research env. & familiar with computers employment application & resume. Interviews Minimum Biweekly Salary: $496.80 ing of student employees. Resp. foi inventor} LAB ATTENDANT. SO 14 (G3706) Pharma- helpful. Exc. comm. skills req. Send cover letter arc conducted Wed. from I 6pm at Starting cology -Statutorv purchasing, daily maim. of area, pricing Si resume to .1 Courtney Fletcher, Service;., East Hill Plaza by appt. Contact Esther CIRATORIAL AIDE, GR20(T3706) Ecology for resale & monthly rep< Sat . 9 Smith (255 6878) or Lauren Worsell (253 7044). Wash scientific glassware for 5 7 research & Systematic^ groups; provide overall cleaning & maint. for p.m. 3:30 a.m.; year round position bid. sum- CONTROL SHOP FOREMAN (PG360I) Assist in daily operation of research & teach- mers with interruption during academic breaks. equip, areas & labs. ing of vertebrate (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds M&SO RECORDS ASST., (1R16 (C37IO) Acquisi- Req.. H.S. dip. or equiv. Fxp. in glassware Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Managerial & supv. Supv. all work ol M&SO Controls Shop tions-Olin Library & mammals) collections. Duties incl. record- exp. req. Fxp. in use of cash register, food han- washing & maint of labs pref. keeping, data entry, specimen prep., collection which includes electricians, plumbers & apprent- Data entry, claims; reports; file; limited typ- Minimum hourly rate: $4.66 dling, preparation & food retailing & skills deal- ices who perform work on HVAC conti ing; shelving, retrieving & packing books maint. & misc. duties associated with vertebrate ing with customers & supv. of student em; collections. terns Install, trouble shoot. & repair pneumatic Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Lt. typing. Data CUSTODIAN, SOI6 (G370I) Buildings Care- Send cover letter & resume to J. Courtney electric HVAC controls. entry exp. desir. Attention to detail. Req.: BS; some course work in biolog, sci. Fletcher. l ndowed K p. with taxonomic keys & biolog. collec- Req.: BS in mech. elec, engr. pref. Min. 5 yrs. Minimum Biweekly Salary: $401.78 Provide general custodial care ot bldgs. & exp. in controls field, or related exp. Send cover tions. Able to work independ., exposure to grounds in immediate vicinity ot assigned area research environ.. It. typing, skills & attention to ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (PA3706) Human letter & resume to .) Courtesy Fletcher OFFICE ASST.. CiRlh (C3708) Coop. Ex- Mon.-Thur., 6 a.m. 2:30 p.m.; Fri 6 a.m. 1:30 Ecology Alumni Affairs tension detail & exc. org. skills. Apply by !0 16. p.m. Minimum Biweekly Salary: $495.35 Under Dir., manage alumni affairs ettorts tor ADMIN. SUPERVISOR (PA36N) Classics Screen, greet, & receive visitors via phone & in Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Able to operate a College, meet with & provide staff support for Provide functional spw lor dept.'s adminis- person. Receive & record applicant info ; set up of neav) power equip., lift 50 lbs. & climb Human Ecology Alumni Assoc & committees tration. Act direct!) lor Chairperson, working & maintain applicant files; type corresp.. reports TECHNICIAN, GR20 (T360I) Vet. Micro- an S ft. ladder. Basic reading & writing skills. Baker Inst. pian & coord. 7 10 off-campus alumni events - independently, coordinate 8t spvse personnel & & memos. Minimum hourly rate: $5.14 conferences per yr & 6 8 on-eampu>. business aspects, handle COimdestiaJ materials Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Min. I 2 yrs. offc. Perform tech. duties in infectious disease Work under H.E. Dir., Alumni Affairs & exp. Strong interper. & comm. skills. Able to oriented immunology lab. Tissue culture & bio- ( I STODIAN, SO16 (G3703) Residence Life- chem. techniques. Handle infectious agents &. lab Development, faculty, alumni volunteers. Han- iii Business or Acctng. 3 5 yrs work well with variety of people. Able to set Endowed dle alumni con ivith planning & writ- rial or admin, exp. Knowl. of Cornell priorities & work in complex, active environ. animals. Some computer work (preliminary Perform maint Sc custodial care of bldgs. & analysts ol data generated in ELISA assays). ing for alumn; • acctng. & payroll essential. Exc. verbal & written Knowl of WP computers. Med. typing. grounds in immediate vicinity ot assigned area Req.: BS or equiv. Min. 3 yrs, exp, in alumni eommun. skills necessary. Word processing & Minimum Biweekly Salary: $400.67 Req.: BS BA in bio., agric. or equiv. Lab Mon.-Thur., 7:30a.m. 4 p.m.; Fri.. 7:30 a.m. 3 exp.. knowl. of cell culture desir. Knowl. ol affairs or related area Exc oial written inter - personal computer skills helpful Prior supervi- p.m. per./comm. skills. Fxp. working with volunteers sory exp. helpful. Send cover letter & resume to OFFICE ASST., GRI8 (C3I05) Aits & computers useful. AppK by 10 15. Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Able to operate a Minimum Biweeklv Salary: $495.35 & public desir. Hamiliar with micro-computers Cynthia Smithbower b\ 10 2. Sciences-re post variety of heav\ power equip., lift 50 lbs. & climb desii. Send cover letter & resume to Cynthia Provide clerical support to Oftc. of Records & an X ft. ladder Basic reading & writing skills. Smithbowei bv 10 9. Fmpioyees should include APPLICATIONS PROG RAMMER /ANA- Scheduling. Data entry; answer student tacul- RES. EQUIP. TECH.. GR22 (T37OI) Nuclear Dailv contact with students. Studies an empi' i application. LYST I (PT36O4) Compute) t\ stall's questions. Schedule students into Minimum hourly rate: $5.14 Work as member of prop courses & maintain academic records; i\pe. Design, construct, assemble & maintain exper- maintain & develop batch n pro- Other duties as assigned. imental apparatus as&OC. with accelerator facility. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSOC. (PA37OK) Or I.HAD CUSTODI \V SO 17 (G37O5) Unions & Assume resp. for specific projects. Provide crea- for Environmental Research grams. Write production procedures & JCI . Req. H.S. dip. or equiv. Some college course- Activities-Noyes Ctrl ndowed Diagnose & solve production problems. work desir. Able to enter & retrieve data from tive assistance to scientists in solving problems. Fiscal officer for Center & its programs., incl. Maintain total hou.sekeeping program ol Noyes Req.: AAS in mech., elec. or electronic tech. acctg., budgeting, grants Req.: BS or equiv. with computer related computer or willingness to learn. Fxc. org. Sc Ctr. Coord, room set-ups & clean-ups I ram courses. Knowl. ot applications for interactive interper. & comm. (written oral) skills. Abie to or equiv. exp. Apply by 10 23. analyses, computer system. set priorities & work in complex, active environ. custodians & inventory supplies. Mon.-1-ri., 7:30 Minimum Biweeklv Salary; $556.14 ment incl. renovations. admin systems Si. database concepts desir. Some a.m. 4:15 p.m.; shift subject to change. 10 Req.: BS busn. or related major, MS prel exp with machine arch., prgrmng. lang. (PL. I, Minimum Biweeklv Salary: $444.37 month position. Knowl. ot CU acctg., grants & contiacts admin . NATURAL, COBO1 ) & system utility pro- Req.: H.S dip. or equiv. 2 yrs. exp. in custo- personnel & admin, procedures 11 grams D; i ei letter & resume to Judi SECRETARY, GRI8 (C37I3) Theoretical & dial maint. req. Valid NYS class drivers lie. req. lory) highly desir. Familiar with daiaha.se mgmt. Deane by 10 Applied Mechanics Strong comm. & interper. skills essential. Supv. Part-Time helpful. Strong org. skills. Send cover letter & Provide reeept. sec. support for mam offc. exp. desir. • resume to Cynthia Smithbower by 10 9. fmpioy- PHARMACIST HI (PT3606) Vet Medical 1 ype letters, proposals, manuscripts, exams, etc.. Minimum hourly rate: $5.42 ees should send an employee transfer application. leaching Hosp. handle mail. Resp. for operation of pharmacies ot College Req. H.S. dip. or equiv. incl. course in math SHORT ORDER COOK, SOI8 (G3709)1 of Vet. Med.: procurement, storage & use ol (Algebra) desir. Min. I 3 yrs. exp. Fxc. comm. AREA SUPERVISOR II (PT37OI) Operations Dining-F.ndowed Nl RSE AIDE (RELIEF) controlled subs?, skills, Able to work well with a variety of people. Prepare & serve food directly to customers Provide night week-end coverage at student Research & industrial Engr. Req.: BS in pharmacy, N^ Knowl. of IBM PC & WP. Tech. typing desir. Oversee operations of computing environment Heav\ typing. from short order area. Shift subject to change. infirmary. Should have either training or exp. in eligible lor NYS lie Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. 6 I 2 months related a medical setting. Fri. & Sat. nights, 11:30 incl. mgmt. & maim, of hardware & software. resume, salary hktor) & I Minimum BivveekK Salary. $444.37 Prepare & maintain ed. software. exp. Kamiliar with short order equip. Able to p.m. 8:00 a.m. Call 273 1179 East Hill Plaza Deane by 10/15 prepare a variety ol short preparation foods tor further info, Req.: MS pref in OK or IE. 3 5 yrs. related SECRETARY, GRI8 (C37I5) Plant Breeding exp. Exp. in toftwax under pressure Good customer relations skills. ASST. COST ANALYST (PA36I3) 1 rtdowed & Biometrv Minimum hourly rate: $5.71 STAFF NURSE (RELIEF) of innovative eorafH tech. manuscripts, course materials & development of adm nling Provide nursing care at student infirmarv foi Resp. for several kev cost analyses; endowed corresp. for faculty in biometrics unit using word MATERIAL HANDLER, SOI9 (G3704) I ni- 3rd shift on week-ends. Must be NYS registered. ware. Supv. exp . preparation ol docui sor; answer phone; run photocopier & for systems A letter & indirect cost calculation, ra versity Press-Endowed Fri. & Sat. nights. 11:30 p.m. 8:00 a.m. Call accessory instruction, empin. process orders foi publications; will use Exxon & resume to Judi I N Receive & warehouse all books published bv 273 1179, East Hill Plaza, for further info. P Si, document IBM PC based sv stems & Mac. computers. dept. lill & ship orders; operate computerized iheets. Perform variance analyses to ex- Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Mm. ! 3 yrs. exp t SI'S & I 1'S postage machine & electronic OFFICE ASST., GR17 (C3709) NYSSILR- APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMER II (f'l plain changes in rales Si assist in projection ol Exc. typing exp. WP desir. Able to work inde- scale; operate forktifts; load & unload trucks; put Oflc. of Student Srvcs. 3707) Vegetable Crops pend. Med. typing. stock in 18 ft. high bulk racks; handle cash Si Provide sec. reeept. support in large student Provide broad support for dept faculty, stafl • • • Minimum Biweekly Salary: $443.13 checks for deposit; purchase supplies. Mon.-Fn.. srvc olic. Answer phones, make appts.; greet &grad. students in compel cal anal- w i men 10 a.m. 6:30 p.m., shift subject to change. visitors & refer to appropriate offes.; type cor- ysis of research data & othei general support, comm. skills. Familiar with IBM PC & Lotus SECRETARY/RECEPTIONIST, GRI8
Scientist uses salt crystals in new lasers From precisely grown crystals of table salt, a Cornell engineer has developed a new laser whose infrared light can be used to study the nature of materials used in computer chips and light-wave communications. Clifford Pollock, an associate professor of electrical engineering, discovered the basis for his laser two years ago and has developed it to the point where it will be offered as a commercial product by Burleigh Instruments in Rochester. N.Y. According to Pollock, the sodium chloride salt crystal laser is the most powerful and stable in a family of such devices called "color-center lasers." The basis of their operation is the fact that crystals of certain salts including fluorides and chlorides of sodium and potassium can be created with precise defects that cause them to produce infrared laser light when illuminated with another laser that emits optical-wavelength light. Color-center lasers are unique among the large variety of lasers, including those that Claude Levet use gases, organic dyes and semiconductor Engineer Clifford Pollock examines crystals of salt used as the basis for his "color center laser." To his left is the chamber in which materials as the medium for producing laser a laser crystal is illuminated with visible laser light to produce the infrared color center laser light. light. Currently, only color-center lasers produce powerful continuous beams of find immediate use as a diagnostic device measuring the light transmission. Pollock missiles, he added. With further infrared light that can be tuned over a wide probing materials to test their physical said. improvement, the device also might prove range of wavelengths. properties. For instance, engineers can study However, the laser eventually also might useful in laser communications from earth The color-center laser's properties of the nature of optical-fiber material by find use in medicine as a tunable laser to outer space and in remote sensing for tunable infrared wavelengths, stability and shining infrared laser light of different scalpel and in the military as the basis for detecting atmospheric pollution. high output means that the new laser will wavelengths through a sample and devices to confuse infrared detectors on — Dennis Meredith
ILR PreSS Continued from page 1 Executive to tell how workers aided Xerox A Xerox Corp. executive will tell a Cor- tory Action Research to Enhance Competi- nell audience how his company brought an tiveness" (PARTEC). end to declining world sales by seeking Now being organized, the program will mother and great-grandmother into the cot- Crystal Lee Sutton, the woman on whom advice on cost problems from its union involve studies and recommendations on ton mills, daily turning down thousands of the movie "Norma Rae" was based, is one leaders and workers. competitiveness by corporate officials, stu- cuffs on little girls' socks to meet her pro- of the people interviewed in the book. dents and university experts in engineering, duction quotas. Nicholas Argona, Xerox's manager of Cannon will present the convocation at employment involvement and recognition, management, labor relations, planning and Pay was low and daily production quotas Sage Chapel at 11 a.m. on Oct. 4. Cannon will speak at a seminar at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. other fields. were high. Her grandmother had started and Byerly will read from the book and I in room G 08 in Uris Hall. He is based Davydd J. Greenwood, director of Cor- work in the mill when about 12 years old autograph copies at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 5 in in Xerox's corporate headquarters in Stam- nell's Center for International Studies, is and spent her entire adult life there. When the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, 318 ford, Conn. chair of the program's steering committee. she retired, she was earning only $4 an North Albany St., Ithaca. "In the early 1980s, Argona played the hour. Byerly will speak on "History as a Source leading role for management in developing When Byerly started in the mill, she was of Critical Consciousness" at 7:30 p.m. on the Xerox employee involvement program," Blast injures student unable to turn down socks fast enough to Oct. 6 in Anabel Taylor Auditorium, and a spokesman for the seminar said. A physics graduate student was injured meet the daily minimum quota. The mill Cannon will speak on "Black Women's "This program went far beyond conven- Sept. 22 when a chemical she was handling provided no training, and she learned to Literature as Wisdom Literature" in the tional employee discussion groups to involve in Baker Laboratory exploded. She was work faster only by observing how a more Africana Studies and Research Center at union leaders and workers in intensive anal- treated for glass cuts to her forearms and senior employee turned down socks. All 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 7. ysis of Xerox's costs and competitiveness hands at Tompkins Community Hospital. workers faced a health hazard from brea- Cannon now teaches ethics at the Epis- problems. The explosion occurred shortly after 3 thing cotton dust. copal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. "It was an important element in the p.m. in B 16 of the chemistry laboratory Their visit is sponsored by the Africana company's business strategy that halted the while the student was performing a routine Studies and Research Center, Cornell 'Norma Rae's story told decline in its worldwide market share for disposal operation on a small quantity of United Religious Work, Cornell Women's Byerly won a scholarship to a small copiers and greatly strengthened the com- bromoacetylene, a gas that can spontane- Studies, Department of Rural Sociology, Appalachian college and, in 1979, after pany's competitive position." ously ignite when exposed to air. Greater Ithaca Activities Center, ILR Press, graduating, joined the staff of a scholarly The seminar was organized by a new Martin Luther King Foundation, the New An investigation is underway to deter- journal in Cambridge, Mass. In Cambridge, Cornell program designed to conduct York State School of Industrial and Labor mine whether air accidentally entered a Byerly, who is white, met Cannon, whose research by scholars, industrialists and busi- Relations, Smedley's Bookshop and the vacuum system that was involved in the mother was one of the first black women ness executives into ways to increase U.S. Society for the Humanities. disposal operation, according to Harry R. hired for production worK at the same mill competitive advantages in world trade. Snyder Jr., laboratory safety manager for where Byerly worked. — Albert E. Kqff I he program has been named "Participa- the Chemistry Department.
Job Opportunities
COOK. SOI8(G3302, G33O3 2 position!) Res- DRAFTER. GR20 (G3401) CLEARS lege students in learning ctr. related activities: TECHNICIAN (13605) Agriculture & Life DATA COLLECTOR (C3403) Nutritl Science idence Life-Endowed Resp. for cartographic & printing functions in strong comm. skills req. Send cover letter & Sciences Evaluate nutri. & health effects of home- Clean, prepare & cook food tor Univ.-owned area of remote sensing, resource inventory analy- resume to Cynthia Smithbower by 10 9. Assist in conduct of research on aquatic delivered meals program on elderly. Data col- fraternity. Clean alt food prep, areas, cooking sis activities. Maintain air photo lib. 20 hrs. wk. plants, soils & water quality. Mng. plant-nutrient lected in NYC until mid-Oct. Would be in NYC areas & assisl in keeping storerooms & refrigera- until 8 23 88; added hrs. possible after 6 solution cultures & measurements of oxygen 3 4 days, wk. Through Oct. 87. tors sanitary. Aid student steward in menu- months; continuation contingent upon funding. content of nutrient solutions in greenhouse & Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Exp. in community planning & food purchases as needed. P-T; 20 Req.: BS in natural resources, landscape arch., lab. Take stream samples & process for analysis nutrition programs pref. Out of town travel hrs. wk. geography, related fields, or equiv. exp. 2 3 yrs. Temporary & assist with separation of species of aquatic expenses will be covered + hourly wage. Call Req.. H.S. dip. or equiv. I 3 yrs. cook exp. tech. work exp. in graphic &/or cartography. plants. Req. skills incl. formal trng. in analytical Laurie Worsell at 255 7044. Able to follow recipes accurately, operate stand- Knowl. of standard cartographic convention. chem. & exp. in lab work. 15 30 hrs./wk., flexi- ard tood prep. & cooking equip. Exp. in large Kamiliar with printing machines helpful. Exc. ble. Contact Dr. DR. Bouldin, Agronomy ANIMAL TECHNICIAN, GR 18 (G33IO) Lab quantity prep, essential. Good org. skills. Able to verbal written comm. skills. Apply at East Hill Dept., 920 Bradfield Hall, 255 1731. Animal Services work with little supv. pref. Apply at East Hill Pla/a Staffing Office. Mon.-Thur., 9 a.m.-noon. Experienced & skilled individuals specifically Provide weekend care of lab animals (care, Pla/a Staffing office, Mon.-Thur., 9 a.m.-noon. Minimum full-time equivalent: $495.35 interested in temporary clerical/secretarial work SEARCHER, GR18 (C36O5) ILR-Catherwood feed, water, exercise); general cleaning & main- Minimum hourly rate: $5.71 can contact Lauren Worsell (255 7044). Library tenance of cages & pens. Maintain II).. breeding TECHNICIAN. GR21 (T3705) Ecology & Resp. for searching bibliographic records in & inventory records. OFFICE ASST., GRI8 (C2702) Ornithology- Systematics card catalog, RUN & NUC, incl. records for Req: H.S. dip. or equiv. Previous animal han- re post Prepare fossil fish specimens using a variety of TECHNICIAN. GRI8 (T3704) Ornithology donated collections; verify holdings & condition dling exp. in an instit. environ, desir. NYS driv- Provide general admin., offc. & sec. support mech. & chem. techniques. Collect morphologi- Edit & incorporate field tape recordings of of titles in lib.; RUN input, bibliographic typing. er's lie. & able to lift 100 lbs. Pre-employment for Libr. of Natural Sounds. Oversee purchases; cal data & data entry into computer. Oversee animal sounds into collection of Libr. of Natural Other duties as assigned. P-T, temp, until physical req. Apply at East Hill Plaza Staffing answer phones; type & file corresp.; maintain general maim. & org. of lab. Possibility of pho- Sounds. Prepare & enter into a computerized 12/23/87. Office, Mon.-Thur., 9 a.m.-noon inventory. Hrs. to be arranged. tography, biolog. illustration & data analysis. information storage & retrieval system, catalog Req.: AAS 2 yrs. college of equiv. Lt. typing. Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Busn. or sec. school Mon.-Fri., 20 hrs. wk. data for recordings in Lib. May lead to regular Knowl. of bibliographic verification systems & desir. Knowl. of WP & computers essential, data- Req.; BS in bio., geology or related discipline. position depending upon future funding. 9 tools, accuracy & ability to handle detail req. base mgml. & spread sheet systems desir. Good Exp. with fine crafts, dental work, cabinet mak- months. Knowl. of French, German or Spanish desir. interper. & comm. (written & phone) skills. Able ing or other such delicate work helpful. Some Req.: AAS or equiv. in biology or related Send cover letter & resume to Michele Draiss, Academic to set priorites & work in a complex, active knowl. of computers & or stats, helpful. Send field. Some exp. in operation of studio audio 235 Olin Library. environ. Accuracy & attention to detail nee. cover letter & resume to Judi Deane by 10 16. equip, pref. Strong tech. aptitude. Audio theory, Minimum full-time equivalent: $526.14 ornithology, or electronics knowl. helpful. Good APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMER/ANA- ANIMAL HEALTH TECH., GR20 (G37O7, org. skills. Send cover letter & resume to Judi LYST II (PT36I2) Controller's/Accounting Deane by 10 16 G3708) Vet. Med. Teaching Hosp. STUDENT DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST Under general supv., provide interactive sys- Assist with emergency & surgical procedures. (PA3705) Learning Skills Center tems; applications prgrmng. / analysis support for COMPUTERIZED DATABASE MtiMT. Manufacture, compound, dispense & administer Help develop & offer programs designed to TECHNICAL WRITER (T3606) Theory Center various financial systems. Assist in insuring effec- LIBRARIAN (A370I) University Libraries prescriptions. Eves. & weekends 24 hrs. improve students' academic success; design & Produce user & system documentation for a tive use of computer resources. Full-time, 3 Send cover letter, resume & list of 3 references Req.: Animal Health Tech. lie. or eligible for teach workshops on learning strategies, incl. CU-developed operating system for a highly months. to Michele Draiss. Acting Personnel Director. lie, A AS pref. Exp. working with large animals, note-taking, time-mgmt., exam prep.; I-on I parallel computer. Req. an aptitude for writing Req.: BA or equiv. related computer courses. 201-C Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca. handling & restraining. Basic knowl. of emer- consultations with students as needed; engage in tech. material; exp. in tech. writing &/or 2 3 yrs. exp. in prgrmng. application & systems, NY 14853 5301 by 10/15; however, they will be gency Si surgical procedures. Apply at East Hill out-reach efforts lor programs. 9 month appt. 20 prgrmng Hrs. flexible, salary commensurate ADABAS & BATCH, VM/CMS interaction, accepted until position is filled. Plara Staffing Office: Mon.-Thur., 9 a.m.-noon. hrs/ wk. with exp. Part or full-time temp, position (3 4 mainframe, IBM & Microcomputers, assembler, Prc-employment physical req. Req.: BA/BS; MS pref. in Reading, or Stu- months). Send cover letter & resume to Judi JCL. Good interper. org. & comm. skills. Send Minimum full-time equivalent: $495.35 dent Personnel Admin. Exp. working with col- Deane. cover letter & resume to Judi Deane by 10/9. 8 October 1, 1987
Immunotoxicology symposium set
Some 200 doctors, lawyers, scientists and guishes between 'self and 'non-self,'" members of the news media will examine between substances that belong in the nor- SPORTS the problems and issues of an emerging mal, healthy body and those that do not. science on Oct. 15 and 16 in a Cornell "And there are real questions about what Upcoming sports symposium, "Immunotoxicology: From Lab constitutes significant immune depression," to Law." he continued. "Exposure to a compound Friday-Monday, 10/2-10/5 Women's Volleyball, at Colgate, 6 Beginning at 8:15 a.m. on Oct. 15 in the may have some measurable effect on the p.m. Women's Tennis Easterns at Trenton body, but is it serious enough to warrant Women's Varsity Field Hockey, Ithaca Sheraton Inn and Conference Cen- ter, the symposium will cover the latest find concern?" Rochester, 7:30 p.m, Friday, 10/2 in the science of immunotoxicology, health- Information often spotty Women's Cross Country, Cortland, risk communication to the public and ings In the meantime — while a new science 4:30 p.m. Thursday, 10/8 the legal aspects of immunotoxicology. Golf ECAC Qualifying, at Colgate struggles with its unknowns — an anxious Men's Cross Country, Marist and "Immunotoxicology is the study of the Cortland, 5 p.m. Women's Tennis, Colgate, at 4 p.m. public awaits, Dietert said. "People want to impact of environmental compounds that know if they are going to be in any jeo- Men's Varsity Soccer, Adelphi, at modulate the immune system from its nor- 7:30 p.m. pardy — today or years in the future — mal state, either by depressing the body's from exposure to a compound. So do ability to fight disease or making it hyper- employers. Lawyers involved in court cases Saturday, 10/3 sensitive to particular substances," explained Women's Varsity Field Hockey, Yale, Last week's scores have to deal with the available scientific Rodney Dietert, chairman of the sympo- information, which often is spotty and not at '10 a.m. IX-X Overall record to date] sium organizing committee. always clear-cut enough for the law." Women's Varsity Soccer, at Yale, at 11 a.m. Men's Cross Country [3—3] A million kinds of antibodies The symposium is sponsored by two Men's Jr. Varsity Soccer, at Monroe Cornell 25 Harvard 33 Dietert, an associate professor of immu- Cornell-based programs, the Institute for CC, at I p.m. Cornell 22 Columbia 39 nogenetics, said the last 15 years have pro- Comparative and Environmental Toxicol- Ltwt. Football, Princeton, at 3 p.m. Penn 21 Cornell 40 duced "an explosion of information" about ogy (ICET) and the Environmental Law Varsity Football, Lafayette, at 7:30 the immune system, which acts throughout and Policy Program. Women's Cross Country [2-1] n m the body as a filter to encounter and ana- Dietert will open the symposium with a jj.ni. Cornell 15, Rutgers 48 lyze foreign compounds of all kinds. "For talk on "The Basis of Immune Protection Sunday, 10/4 Cornell 25, St. Joseph's 36 instance, we now know there are more than Against Disease." a million kinds of antibodies" produced by Women's Varsity Soccer, at Connec- Harvard 16, Cornell 47 The keynote speaker at the symposium's the body to fight potentially dangerous for- banquet on Oct. 15 will be Thomas J. ticut, noon Men's Varsity Soccer [1-3], Ivy eign compounds called antigens, he noted. Slaga, director of the University of Texas League [0-2] Yet, many uncertainties remain, the System Cancer Center, on "Carcinogenesis: Monday, 10/5 Princeton 4, Cornell 0 scientist said. "We are only beginning to Past, Present and Future." Golf, Norstar Invitational at Roches- understand how the immune system distin- — Roger Segelken ter (Oak Hill) Women's Varsity Soccer [3-1), Ivy Women's Jr. Varsity Field Hockey. League [1-0] Lafayette Cornell 4. Columbia 0 Women's Varsity Field Hockey, New technology-transfer calendar under way Women's Volleyball 5th at Massachu- Lafayette, at 3:30 p.m. With the first edition a "best seller," final president for research. setts Invitational (6-5] Jr. Varsity Football, at Rochester, preparations are underway for the 1988 He noted that requests for more details 4:30 p.m. Golf 5th at Cornell Invitational version of "Connecting with Cornell," the on Cornell activities came from around the Women's Varsity Field Hockey [0-4] calendar of events that lists opportunities world as a result of the first "Connecting Tuesday, 10/6 for interaction with the universiuy. with Cornell" and a fall 1987 update, which Boston University 1, Cornell 0 Women's Tennis, at Binghamton, at More than 6.000 copies of the 1987 was published last summer. 3:30 p.m. Varsity Football [1-1], Ivy League "'Connecting with Cornell" were distributed Included in each calendar is a coupon for Men's Varsitv Soccer, at Syracuse. 7 |I-0| to interested persons in business, industry, requesting further information on events, technologies that are available for licensing, p.m. Colgate 27, Cornell 3 the news media, government agencies and other universities. the Cornell Faculty Research Interests Wednesday, 10/7 Ltwt. Football 11 —01 This calendar of events open to the public Database, the Cornell Tradition Summer Men's Jr. Varsity Soccer, at Hobart, Cornell 12, Army 7 is published by the Office of the Vice Job Network and other opportunities. President for Research and Advanced Calendar events are arranged both at 3:30 p.m. Freshman Football [1-0] Women's Varsity Soccer, at Hart- Studies to enhance the activities of the chronologically and by subjects that include wick, 4 p.m. Cornell 23, Ithaca College 13 Technology Transfer Committee of the humanities and social sciences, physical Cornell University Council. sciences and engineering, environmental and The deadline for new items for the 1988 biological sciences, agriculture, medicine and calendar, which will be distributed in health and management December, has been extended to Oct. 15. Unlike 1987. no update is planned for the "This publication brings to the .attention calendar in fall 1988, and all listings for of our corporate and sponsor audiences the the coming year should be submitted by many conferences, symposia, workshops, Oct. 15. Morat/ said. To obtain forms for distinguished lecture series, and other listing events, additional copies of the opportunities for technology transfer and calendar and further information, phone interaction with Cornell, on or off campus," 255 8607. explained Joseph M. Ballantyne, vice Roger M'getketi
Haiti Continued from page I
Doc," fled into exile in France, ending 29 the opposition is ready,' and 1 think that years of dictatorial rule by him and his was an ominous statement broadcast to the lather, "Papa Doc." A military-dominated nation," Edmondson said. National Governing Council was organized "Many Haitians believe that the army to rule temporarily, and an 86-page consti- wants to abort the elections, and we learned tution was written which mandated national that progressive elements in Haiti want elections to return Haiti to democracy. nothing to do with the elections because The constituion overwhelmingly was they don't believe they will be honest." approved in a national referendum in Presidential candidates regroup March. It calls for installation of a freely- The educator said that most of the presi- Three of the Astronomy Department's finest are feted last Monday at a surprise recep- elected president in February next year. dential candidates were in exile during the tion in the new addition to the Space Sciences Building. From left are Edwin Salpeter, "But in June, the council dissolved a mil- Duvalier era. "They returned after Baby George Peter and Tor Hagfors. Salpeter was recognized for winning the Catherine itant trade union and sought to preempt a Doc fled and now they have to establish Wolfe Bruce Medal; Peter for 40 years of service to Cornell; and Hagfors for receiving their relevancy to Haiti," Edmondson said. the van der Pol Gold Medal. constitutional mandate selecting independent overseers of the election. This was followed "But Duvalierism has not been eradicated by a wave of massive protests, and 100 pea- because many people remain who benefited sants were massacred in one incident and during his harsh rule." several hundred other people were killed," He listed six serious candidates for presi- Edmondson said. dent, including a former World Bank offi- After the riots, the Council backed off cial, a former professor in Venezuela and from its efforts to abort the elections, he the West Indies and a landowner who said. claimed his father defeated Papa Doc at the Edmondson, a political scientist who polls in the 1950s. teaches in the Africana Studies and Edmondson said fear still stalks the Research Center, is a citizen of Jamaica, streets of Port-au-Prince, the capital. The where he was born. One of his specialties is dreaded Tontons Macoutes formally were the English-speaking nations of the eliminated as secret police when Baby Doc Caribbean. fled the country but they are resurging, he The mission, organizeded by the Carib- said. bean Conference of Churches, met in Haiti "One day, a politician offered me a ride with Provisional President Lt. Gen. Henri back to my hotel in his jeep," Edmondson Namphy, several presidential candidates, the said. "1 noticed a gun in his belt, and he heads of the chamber of commerce and the answered my question by,saying he had Communist party, church leaders, human been shot at a few days earlier. 1 decided to rights activists, peasants, workers, union walk." New York State Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets Donald G. Butcher checks leaders, foreign diplomats and others Edmondson described his experiences in an apple for pest damage during a recent visit to the Agricultural Experiment Station at including an expert on voodooism. Haiti at a lecture arranged by Le Club Hai- Geneva. Also shown, from left, are David Call, dean of the College of Agriculture and "The provisional president told us in a tien, which is comprised of some 25 Haitian Life Sciences, Jan Nyrop, assistant professor of entomology, and Harvey Rseissig, asso- meeting which was televised nationally, 'We students at Cornell and chaired by Myrka ciate professor of entomology. are ready for elections but 1 don't know if Maignan. — Albert E. Kaff