SUPPORT FOR THEORY CENTER Gov. George Pataki has made a major CORNELL commitment to the center's federal supercomputing proposal.

HUMANITARIAN SERVICE MEDAL Physicist and former Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov is honored by the American Physical Society. Volume 27 Number 32 May 2, 1996

Good neighbors Saleh recommended to be dean ofadmissions and financial aid Provost Don M. today in admissions and financial aid Randel has announced policy, and he has the leadership qualities he is recommending needed to advance us in these key areas. the appointment of Equally important, he has demonstrated a Donald A. Saleh as strong commitment to the financial and dean of admission'S educational well-being of our students." and financial aid. As dean of admissions and financial Saleh, whose ap­ aid Saleh is responsible for the coordina­ pointment will be pre­ tion of all undergraduate admissions ef­ sented for approval at Saleh forts, for the oversight of undergraduate the May meetingofthe financial aid programs and for policies board of trustees, has been acting dean of affecting these areas. admissionsand fi nancial aid sinceJul y 1994. "I am excited about the opportunity to He succeeded former Dean Susan H. serve Cornell as its dean ofadmissions and Murphy, who was named vice president for financial aid," Saleh said. "As one of the student and academic services. nation's premier institutions, Cornell at­ "I am very pleased to announce this tracts and enrolls some of the best students key appointment to my senior manage­ in the country. My role is to help maintain ment team," Randel said. "Don Saleh and improve the strong position that we brings to this position a wealth ofexperi­ currently enjoy in the admissions market­ ence, including 14 years of service to place and to ensure that our financial aid Cornell. Be has a strong background in programs support our enrollment and re- the issues we in higher education face Continued on page 8 Taylor appointed associate provost Winnie F. Taylor, professor of law at with Winnie Taylor's Cornell since 1990, has been appointed as­ legal expertise, lead­ sociate provost, President Hunter Rawlings ership in a broad spec­ and Provost Don M. Randel have announced. trum of underrepre­ In her new post, Taylor will assume sentation issues and duties and responsibilities of Joycelyn R. demonstrated vision Hart, associate vice president for human for pluralism in aca­ relations, who is retiring from university deme as well as em­ service on June 30. Hart had deferred her ployment," Rawlings retirement at Rawlings' request during the Taylor said. "I would also period of administrative transition. like to extend my ap­ Taylor will lead the Cornell Office of preciation to Joycelyn Hart for postponing Equal Opportunity and Office of Human her retirement and for her fine and dedi­ Relations and serve as the university's chief cated service to Cornell in a variety of affirmative action officer. As associate pro­ positions since 1970." vost, she also will work on issues that affect Randel said, "Winnie Taylor's legal Robert Barker/University Photography academic personnel and programs. background is especially suited to the StUdents, from left: Mike Zulla '97, David Koeppel '98 and Mike Intravaia Rawlings, with the support of Randel, new associate provost position because '96, from Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, help pick up litter on College will recommend the appointment to the of the growing legal responsibility asso­ Avenue during the 11th annual Good Neighbor Day in Collegetown on Executive Committee of the board of trust­ ciated with the human relations post. We April 27. The cleanup effort is sponsored by the Interfratemity and ees at its meeting in Ithaca on May 24. will build and emphasize faculty leader­ Panhellenic councils, with support from the community. "I am very pleased that we were able to ship in establishing a good human rela- find among our ter,ured faculty a person Continued on page 8 Rawlings tells students to cherish the research opportunities at Cornell By Larry Bernard education had been 30 years ago at a small liberal arts college with no graduate programs and only 450 students. Undergraduate students who do research enhance their "There simply were not the opportunities that Cornell COllege experience, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings told has to offer. Haverford offered 30 majors. Cornell offers undergraduate researchers last week. that many in the College of Arts and Sciences alone. There "Ifstudents - and that's a big question - ifstudents take are many more faculty members here ... major research advantage of the resources at Cornell, then they can have resources and major research libraries of over 5 million much richer and deeper experiences than Ihad at Haverford," volumes ... and a faculty in general that comprises leading the president said in an address titled "What I Didn't Learn scholars in every discipline." in College." At Haverford, he continued, the student research experi­ Rawlings, who earned a bachelor's degree from Haverford ence comprised doing laboratory experiments in which the College in Pennsylvania in 1966, spoke at a plenary session of faculty already knew the outcome. At many colleges, Cornell's Undergraduate Research Forum in Schwartz Audi­ Rawlings said, "student researchers find themselves verify­ torium, Rockefeller Hall, on April 24. He was joined by ing references or washing out test tubes. Being part of an Jessika Trancik, ajunior in materials science and engineering, integral team simply was not possible." Who also addressed the plenary session after remarks by John He added that "access to frontier research" is another benefit that Cornell affords its undergraduates. "In the end, Hopcroft, dean of the College of Engineering. Frank DiMeo/University Photography The forum, co-chaired by Shefali Gandhi, a junior bio­ .Junior .Jessika Trancik gave a talk entitled "Mate­ some ofyou will have discovered something new. Research chemistry major, and Nikki Holtmeier, a junior chemistry rials Science: Surpassing Traditional Boundaries," for you is not just a laboratory exercise." major, featured more than 150 undergraduate researchers at the Undergraduate Research Forum, April 24. Rawlings said that in addition to the teamwork, first-rate who presented their projects in oral or poster form at librariesand resources and excellentfaculty, there wasanother locations throughout campus, sponsored by the Under­ helped organize the forum. advantage to doing research as a Cornell undergraduate: graduate Research Board. Marilyn Williams, assistant dean Rawlings said that when he read the abstracts ofstudent "You are going to remember what you did in research for academic services in the College of Arts and Sciertces, research, he was struck by how different his undergraduate Continued on page 4 2 May 2,1996 Cornell Chronicle

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Harassment complaints shouldn't go to OEO The Cornell administration should be commended for recognizing that the sexual harassment procedures of the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) are seriously flawed and badly in need of revision. The OEO is the primary campus advocate for minorities and women and their special interests. In addition to this role, they have been assigned the task of investigating complaints brought mainly by their con­ stituency groups. In developing their own procedures for doing so, the OEO be­ stowed upon themselves the functions of investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and, in effect, executioner. The conflicts of interest inherent in such an arrangement are obvious, and the revised procedures make only minor inroads into this assault on fairness and due process. But the root of the problem is assigning these complaints to the OEO in the first place. This is akin to the unthinkable sce­ nario ofappointing the prosecutingattorney to serve also as judge in criminal cases. To appreciate the built-in bias of this arrange­ ment, imagine a criminal court judge who is assigned to preside over the trial of a man accused of raping the judge's daughter. By analogy, the OEO is assigned the role of "judge" in the "trial" of persons accused of sexually harassing the very people whose Division ofRare and Manuscript Collections/Carl A. Krach Library interests they are supposed to represent and Itis. Airplanes wereparkedin Barton Hall in 1918aspart of the UnitedStatesArmy School of Military Aeronautics. defend! If the university is truly interested in eliminating conflicts of interests, it will have to find someone other than the OEO to adjudicate these cases. This "someone else" should be obvi­ ~ ous: the Office of the Judicial Adminis­ Athletics seeks men basketball coach FOruBerstudentis trator. This office has the primary role of AI Walker, head men's basketball coach investigating and adjudicating ALL vio­ tive. Our team is maturing, talented and since 1993, has stepped down from that foundation fellow lations of the Campus Code of Conduct moving in the right direction." position, it was announced Monday by (Policy Notebook for Cornell Commu­ Walker was appointed head coach at Olugbemisola Amusa-Shonubi '91 re­ Charles Moore, director of athletics. nity 1995-96, page 66). It has no built-in Cornell in May 1993. In his three seasons as cently was named a fellow by the Echoing In making the announcement, Moore head coach, his teams compiled an overall constituency groups and should, there­ Green Foundation. The foundation, based said: "Basedon conversations with Coach fore, have no inherent conflicts of inter­ record of27-51 and 12-30 in the Ivy League. in New York City, annually awards seniors Walker over the past few weeks, we have est where complaints are concerned. And This past year, the Big Red men cagers and youngalumni with $15,000 fellowships decided that it's time for a change in the it already has a set ofcodified procedures posted an overall record of 10-16 and were to create and carry out public service pro­ men's basketball program." which would require relatively few revi­ 5-9 in Ivy League competition. grams orprojects. This year, the foundation Walker added, "It's been a difficult per­ sions to ensure reasonable due process. If Moore said that the search for a head coach received 150 applications, from which 22 sonal year. Right now, I need to step away the university is serious about fairness would begin immediately and that a succes­ fellows were selected. from Ithaca and put basketball in perspec- and justice in the handling of sexual ha­ sor would be named as soon as possible. Amusa-Shonubi will use the fellowship rassment cases, it will uproot them from seed money for a multimedia career-explo­ the OEO and transplant them into the ration project for young people between the Office of the Judicial Administrator, ages of11 and 14. The program, called "The where they belong. Curious Adventures of Tara Belle Brad­ BRIEFS ley," acts on three levels: as a serial for both James R. Aist, professor radio and the World Wide Web, and as a Department of Plant Pathology live-action program for a school or commu­ • Willow planting: On April 20 about 20 from 7:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. To express his nity center setting. members of the Cornell student chapter of thanks, President Rawlings will host a re­ The characters in the serial are involved the Soil and Water Conservation Society, in ception for ushers at the Multi-Purpose in story lines that inform young people conjunction with the city of Ithaca Soil and Room ofthe Field House from 4:30 to 6 p.m. about various career and professional op­ Water Conservation District, planted wil­ Tuesday, May 28. Personnel policies re­ portunities and how their school work re­ low cuttings along Six Mile Creek to help garding Commencement state that all em­ lates to these future choices. Young partici­ Henrik N. Dullea, Vice President for University with erosion control. During the day about ployees who volunteer will be granted com­ pants have the opportunity to contribute to Relations 900 feet of cuttings were planted in three plimentary time-offequivalent to theirstan­ the program's stories, produce newsletters Linda Grace-Kobas, Director, Cornell News Service rows along the slope of the stream bank. dard work day. Forms for volunteers are and interact with college students and vari­ Simeon Moss, Editor Specialists from the town planning were on Larry Bernard, Science Editor available from directors and department ous professionals online. Jacquie Powers, Education Editor hand to direct the operation. chairs or by contacting the Commencement Amusa-Shonubi hopes to have "The Cu­ Karen Walters, Editorial Assistant Office at B-13 Day Hall, 255-9541. rious Advenlures of Tara Belle Bradley" Dianna Marsh, Circulation • Summer Session Pennits: Parking program implemented first in a small "New Writers: Blaine P. 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Gov. Pataki commits state support to Theory Center project

By Larry Bernard vital and very significant part of ew York tate' economy. We see this segment as an important growth area and one in ew York Gov. George E. Pataki 'New York state is prepared to provide which, even in times oftight state budget, we mu t invest. has made a major commitment for the major financial support for this new The academic and industrial enterprise ofourstate provide state to share in the purchase of the project led by the Theory Center.' some of the most demanding con umer of high-perfor­ next generation ofsupercomputers and mance computing. At the same time, ew York produces to provide increased operating sup­ - Gov. George Pataki, the world's most powerful system ." port for the Cornell Theory Center. in a letter to Neal Lane, director The governor also wrote that Cornell's partner hip With of the National Science Foundation The commitment is part of a package IBM was a key aspect ofstatesupport, citing it a "oneofthe Cornell has proposed to the National Pataki single best examples of what is possible when our colleges Science Foundation (NSF) for desig- and universities work closely with private industry." nation as one of the national sites for supercomputing. Malvin H. Kalos, director of the 1 heory Center, aid: "I The state would contribute $15 million toward IBM's the National Science Foundation. The NSF is transforming am immensely pleased with the governor's uppor!. It next generation of supercomputers, as well as $6 million its supercomputer centers program into a Partnerships for validates the importance ofthe Theory Center to ew York over five years in operating expenses, ifthe federal govern­ Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) initiative. state: through our partnership with IBM, through collabora­ ment retains the Theory Center as one of its national The Theory Center is responding to PACI by leading a tions with other industries large and mall, and not lea t, supercomputing centers, the governor said. proposal for a strong alliance of academic institutions and through the support of academic research." "New York state is prepared to provide major financial govern~ent laboratories. Several of the Theory Center's The request for the governor's support came from Pre i- support for this new project led by the Theory Center," partners are in New York state. dent Hunter Rawlings. Henrik Dullea, Cornell vice Pataki wrote in an April 16 letter to Neal Lane, director of Pataki wrote: "Information industries in all forms are a Continued on page 4

Dialogue and demonstration Rawlings adds comments on policy proposal The following statement was given to the Cornell community Wednesday, April24, by President Hunter Rawlings. As the Chroniclewenttopress, cOfH'ersations contin­ ued between the president and concerned students and faculty. Rawlings stressed that he will present only the broad goals and principles ofhis hous­ ing plan - not detailed program directions ­ to the board oftrust­ ees for action at its May meeting.

During the past everal weeks, I have had many productive RaWlings conversation. and ex­ changes concerning the administration's proposals for residen­ tial communities. These exchanges have given many of us an opportunity to focus in some detail on the fundamental objectives to be served by campus housing and the degree to which those objectives are pres­ ently realized. While widespread support has been ex­ pressed for the goals and broad principles identified in my March 15 memorandum to Cornellians were actively engaged in discussions the Board ofTrustees, the question of long­ and demonstrations during the past week over the proposed campus residential housing policy. Presi· term opportunities for freshmen to live in dent Hunter Rawlings and Vice President for Student program houses has become a lightning rod and Academic Services Susan Murphyheld a series of for commentary. Much of this commentary meetings with involved students and faculty through. has been constructive and well-articulated, out the week. Controversy has centered around a including many statements opposed to the recommendation that freshmen be phased out of particular course of direction that I have living in campus program houses overthe next five to suggested. Some ofthat commentary, how­ seven years. Gary Okihiro, right, directorof the Asian American Program, is interviewed by Newscenter 7 ever, has been misinformed, and I would reporter Chris Velardi at a faculty rally in Ho Plaza on like to use this opportunity to clarify our April 24. A coalition of student groups organized intentions and to provide additional details. another rally in front of Day Hall, above, on April 25. One of the most troubling developments Approximately 400 students marched and gathered in the recent discussion has been the wide­ in front of the building to hear speakers, inclUding spread assertion that our recommendations activist AI Sharpton who was invited by the Comell chapter of the NAACP, address issues relating to the are nothing but a subterfuge for the "real" programhouses,racism, diversityandstudentchoice. plan, which is alleged to have as its goal the Frank DiMeo/University Photography eventual elimination of the ethnically re­ lated program houses such as Ujamaa, Akwe:kon, and the Latino/a Living Center. I have repeatedly emphasized that such is not the case, and speculation to the contrary does not make it so. Some students and Student wins Sibley Fellowship from Phi Beta Kappa colleagues have looked at the question of gender roles may have contributed to the our residential communities policy as pri­ By Jill Goetz annually since 1939 to women ages 25 to 35 who hold a doctorate or have fulfilled all development and appeal of non-conformist marily a racial orgroup identity issue; I have Judith Surkis, a requirements for the doctorate except the and fascist thought in the interwar years." sought to consider it as primarily an educa­ graduatestudent in the dissertation. Recipients, who need not be Such research could provide much­ tional issue, though clearly one with racial Department of His­ affiliated with Cornell or Phi Beta Kappa, needed context for better understanding the or group implications. tory, has received a receive a $10,000 stipend to conduct original rise of fascism during the interwar period, It is my beliefthat new tudents arriving at Mary Isabel Sibley research in Greece or France. said Surkis' adviser, Dominick LaCapra, Comell should have an experience that dem­ Fellowship from Phi Surkis will spend the upcoming year cn the Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Stud­ onstrates that they are entering an academic Beta Kappa, the Paris, conducting archival research related ies and director of the Society for the Hu­ community, first and foremo !. I am deeply nation's oldest and Sur'ds to her dissertation topic, "Virile Politics in manities at Cornell. concerned with the quality ofthe intellectual, most respected academic honorary society. Interwar France." "Oneofher special interests is the role of social and cultural experiences for fre hmen Thefellowship wasestablishedby afonner "I'm trying to look at the ways in which gender in the culture of illiberalism of the here at Cornell. There are certainly many Cornell graduate student, Isabelle Stone, who genderrelations were destabiIized in France interwar period," LaCaprasaid."It'san area excellent opportunities for Cornell freshmen received a Ph.D. in Greek history and lan­ after the First World War," Surkis said. "1 in which people have started to work re­ in all these dimensions, but I am convinced guage in 1908 and named the award in honor am particularly interested in how the per­ cently, but it's still an area in which much that working together we can make them ofher mother. The fellowship has been given ception of a postwar crisis in traditional more needs to be done." Continued on page 10 4 May 2,1996 Cornell Chronicle

Student reunites three generations of his Vietnamese family - on film

By Jill Goetz In Vietnam there is a saying: A house with male relativesfrom three generations-grand­ father, father and son - is a lucky house. Trac Minh Vu, a Vietnamese-Ameri­ can from Beaverton, Ore., in a dual-de­ gree program in theater and fine arts at Cornell, has witnessed such a fortuitous reunion within his own family. Not in reality, but in video. Vu has created an experimental video, Nha Ba Nguoi (The House ofThree) , which contains footage from a trip he made to Vietnam with his mother during winter break. The I8-day journey marked the first time he had been in the country since emi­ grating to America as an infant with his parents in 1975. The highlight was meeting his 87-year-old grandfather. Vu's father, Vu Huy Tu (who, unlike his son, follows the Vietnamese practice of using his surname first), could not accom­ pany his wife and son on this excursion. But by combining images from the trip with those from an earlier one his father had taken, Vu has brought himself, his father and his grandfather together in an illusory "house of three." Adriana Rovers/University Photography He recently screened the video at Above, Trac Minh Vu, a junior theater and fine arts major, works on his experimental video, Nha Sa Nguo; (The House Cornell's Undergraduate Research Forum, of Three}; an image of his grandfather appears on·screen. Below, in a family photograph taken during Vu's visit to Ho an annual showcase that is sponsored by the Chi Minh City during winter break, Vu, center, stands behind his grandfather; his mother is to his right holding a child. university's Undergraduate Research Board. Vu currently is seeking funds to exciting moment of the trip: when Vu met expand his IS-minute video into an hour­ his ailing grandfather, Vu Van Vong, at his long production. home outside of Ho Chi Minh City. In the video's first vignette, Vu sits on a "Part of me was frozen in terror," Vu chair in an empty room, viewing footage of recalled. "It was very scary to meet this his father and grandfather in Vietnam. By person I'd been hearing about my whole standing up in front of the projector, Vu life. I wanted to say something brilliant. imposes his own shadowed image upon the But all I said was, 'Grandfather, I've one on-screen. come home.,,, In another segment he portrays the pas­ Speaking in a reedy voice in the tonal sage of time by presenting a series of nega­ cadence of his native Vietnamese, Vu's tives from family snapshots taken at very grandfather expressed his joy in meeting his different times and locales, and faded news­ grandson and reuniting with his daughter­ paper clippings recounting the family's in-law this way: emigration from Saigon. "I believed there would never be a day Many of Vu's experiences in Vietnam when father and son would be reunited, but are not captured in the video: Like the already Tu has returned to visit me, and time he stopped at a roadside stand to buy today, mother and son Trac have also re­ 28 pineapples for his cousins. Or the turned.... Every day, I thought, father and pilgrimage he made with his mother, a son are scattered everywhere with no hope devout Catholic, to the statue of the Vir­ ofmeeting. Butwe have met, a true gift only gin Mary where she used to pray daily God could give ... and for this special when she was pregnant with him. Or the occasion to meet my grandson Trac, I am visit to Bao Loc, where he discovered very grateful." that the room he was born in had been Vu had a hard time leaving his grandfa­ converted to a pigsty. Or the scene in the ther, knowing he might never see him again. Saigon airport at journey's end, when "On our last day, as we were pulling security officials tried (but failed) to con­ away from the house, he pulled himself up for me to leave." "Going to Vietnam was sort oflike meet­ fiscate one of his videos. from his chairand with his cane walked over Vu said he only recently became inter­ ing, face-to-face, a part of me that I hadn't But Nha BaNguoi does capture the most to the gate," Vu recalled. "It was very tough ested in his Vietnamese heritage. ever allowed to surface," he said.

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more than what you learned in your other end of her freshman year at Cornell. In her which she worked toward developing a experiences,"she told the audience. "Part of classes. It's yours. It's your personal con­ talk, titled "Materials Science: Surpassing new technique for tempering ceramics, what makes Cornell so internationally rec­ tribution. You are going to retain it. You Traditional Boundaries," she showed im­ making them more resistant to fracture. ognized is the discovery that happens here. will have acquired knowledge and experi­ ages of unconventional applications of ma­ With the ability to withstand high tempera­ It's easy, as an undergraduate, to miss this. enced the excitementofcreatingsomething terials from a recent exhibit at the Museum tures, such a material may be useful in a Having a role in research has given me an new ... Many of you will feel 'Eureka, I of Modern Art in New York City. new generation of jet engines. That work, appreciation of the pure intellectual power found it!' and it wasn't even what you were "One common goal of all research in which Trancik did as a sophomore with of this place." looking for." materials science is to physically surpass graduate student Ersan Ustundag, led to her Trancik has presented her findings at a Finally, the president reminded the stu­ traditional boundaries by either invent­ most recent research on new ways to pro­ professional scientific conference - the dents that such opportunities are rare at ing a new material or modifying the prop­ cess thin metal-ceramic films for magnetic American Ceramics Society meeting in Se­ universities. "This is the exception, not the erties of an existing one," Trancik told storage devices. She also showed some of attle in November. And she was part of a rule. Take advantage of it." the audience. those results, taken from an electron micro­ nine-member Cornell contingent to present Trancik has been doing research in mate­ Trancik is co-author on several scien­ scope and X-ray diffraction equipment in research at the 10th annual National Confer­ rials science and engineering underthe guid­ tific papers and is co-inventoron two patent Cornell's Materials Science Center. ence for Undergraduate Research in ance of Professor Stephen Sass since the applications. She described one project, in "!feel that I've grown quite a bit from my Asheville, N.C., April 18-20.

Pataki supports Theory Center continued from page 3

president for university relations, worked gram for New York state,"Dulleatold Natoli. form the state's congressional delegation ating support would increase to about $1.2 with James G. Natoli, director of state op­ "Not only will it bring more than $100 about the need for continued support of the million annually over five years. erations in the governor's office. In a meet­ million in federal funding over the next five Theory Center. The Theory Center is one of four high­ ing last fall put together by Dullea, Cornell years if we are successful, it also will con­ New York currently funds $800,000 per performancecomputingand communications representatives met with Natoli and Geoff tinue to be of strategic importance for our year in operating costs to the Theory Center centers supported by the National Science Flynn, the governor's senior program asso­ corporate partners." He added that almost through the New York State Urban Devel­ Foundation. Activities of the center are also ciate for education, and Robert M. half the users of Theory Center resources opment Corp., and in 1992 it funded $12.3 funded by New York state, the Advanced Greenberg, IBM vice president of develop­ are in New York state. million toward the purchase of IBM's SP Research Projects Agency, the National Cen­ ment, PowerParallel Systems, to discuss the Dullea said that in addition to the supercomputers - consisting of512 proces­ ter for Research Resources at the National importance of state support. governor's support, staff in the governor's sors that can run in parallel. Under the new Institutes of Health, IBM and other members "This is an extraordinarily important pro- Washington, D.C., office would help in- plan that the governor endorses, state oper- of its Corporate Partnership Program. Cornell Chronicle May 2, 1996. 5

Yuri Orlov wins humanitarian service medal

By Larry Bernard monitor Soviet adherence to the 1975 Helsinki human rights accords. He had been at the Moscow Institute of Yuri F. Orlov, Cornell physicist, has won the 1995 Theoretical and Experimental Physicsbut wasfired in 1956, Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service from the Ameri­ marking the start ofhis political and human rights activities. can Physical Society (APS). Orlov did physics research until 1972 at the Yerevan The medal, established in 1994, recognizes the hu­ Physics Institute in Armenia, where he designed a particle manitarian aspects of physics and physicists and con­ accelerator, and then the Institute ofTerrestrial Magnetism sists of a medal and certificate. Orlov will receive the and Dissemination of Radio Waves in Moscow until 1973. award at the APS meeting Saturday, May 4, in India­ He wrote scientific filmstrips and did freelance work until napolis. He also will present a paper at the meeting, his arrest in 1977. scheduled for 3:45 p.m. COT Friday, May 3, during a Freed from exile in Siberia in 1986, he was stripped ofhis session on Physics and Society. Soviet citizenship and deported to the United States as part Orlov earned the award, according to the citation, "For of the deal in which U.S. journalist Nicolas Daniloff was uniting his love of physics with an intense dedication to exchanged for a Soviet spy. Orlov came to Cornell in international human rights; for his public espousal ofopen­ December 1986. ness and freedom in the face of severe personal conse­ A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sci­ quences; for co-founding the Moscow chapter of Amnesty ences, OrJov studies particle accelerator design, beam inter­ International and founding the first Helsinki Watch group; action analysis and quantum mechanics. He has authored for helping establish Helsinki groups elsewhere in the more than 70 research papers, numerous articles on human Soviet Union; for hisoutspokensupportofAndrei Sakharov; rights, and an autobiography, Dangerous Thoughts (1991). and for his continuing work for democratic principles in The APS is an organization of more than 41,000 physi­ former-USSR countries, in China and in Bosnia. Yuri cists worldwide. Since its formation in 1899, it has been Orlov's commitment and accomplishments have inspired a dedicated to the advancement and diffusion of the knowl­ generation of fighters for freedom worldwide." edge of physics. The APS publishes some of the world's Orlov, 71, is a senior scientist in Cornell's Laboratory of leading physics research journals: the Physical Review NuclearStudies in the Physics Department. A former Soviet series, Physical Review Letters and Reviews of Modern dissident who was interned in labor camps for almost 10 Physics. It also organizes scientific meetings where new Robert Barker/Un;"ersity Photography years, he founded the Helsinki Watch Group in 1976 to results are reported and discussed. Physicist Yuri Orlov po..s in his Newman Lab office.

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader tightens screws on corporate crime

By Jill Goetz The good news: After more than three 'Mr. Dole and Mr. Clinton decades fighting corporate abuse and call­ won't talk about corporate ing for corporate accountability, Ralph crime, fraucl and abuse; Nader hasn't lost any of his zeal. they won't talk about The bad news: His message hasn't lost corporate welfare. The only any of its relevance. In a rousing two-and-a-half-hour thing that's going to stop evening lecture at Bailey Hall on April the corporate takeover of 23, and at an earlier news conference, our govemment is the the nation's premier consumer advo­ arousal of civic action.' cate expounded his theory that "big business is on a collision course with - Ralph Nader American democracy." "Corporations were never designed to dominate and dismantle our democracy," Nader said. "But that is exactly what Nader did not exclude the nation's they'redoingat the present time. Law and research universities from his list of part­ order for corporations is long overdue." ners in corporate crime. Much ofthe blame, said the founder of "The problem is that universities are Public Citizen and the CenterforStudy of not upholding their responsibility to be Responsive Law, rests with politicians independent sources of knowledge," he and their "cash-register politics." said. Too many faculty are under contract "Companies are pouring huge to research and business concerns, he amounts of money into political cam­ said. "The universities are being paigns at all levels that corrupt the 'corporatized.' They're not sufficiently political process," he said. "And none independent of special interests a his­ of the candidates at any level are mak­ tory designed them to be." ing corporate accountability -law and ader reserved his harshest criti­ order for corporations - a major issue cism for the tobacco companies, call­ in their campaigns." ing for a surtax on tobacco profits that On the contrary, he said: they endorse would be used to finance anti-smoking subsidies for the nation's most irrespon­ clinics and a ban on all tobacco adver­ sible industries, from tobacco to timber. tising. "I don't think it's a free speech "The corporate welfare budget com­ issue," he said. "It's commercial adver­ ing out of Washington is double that of tising of a product that has been shown the public welfare budget, Nader said, again and again to be deadly." "and we're worried about a $300 monthly For all of his protestations, Nader's check to welfare mothers." message at Cornell was one not of de­ Nader recently allowed his name to be spair but of "rebuilding democracy." placed on the ballot in Green Party presi­ He urged students to take advantage of dential primaries in California, Maineand "I he . tat1cl the academic and extracurricular re­ New Mexico (New York may be next). sources at their disposal. "When you He said he doesn't harbor serious inten­ leave college, are you going to have tions of being the nation's next chief ex­ Robert Barker/University Photography your own newspapers?" he asked. "Ra­ ecutive but hopes that by being in the race Ralph Nader answers questions during a press conference at the Statler dio stations? Bulletin boards? Orga­ he can "broaden the agenda." Hotel on April 23, before his evening lecture at Bailey Hall. r.ize yourselves now, in ways that can "Mr. Dole and Mr. Clinton won't develop your civic skiIls." talk about corporate crime, fraud and history books is just how cautious ourfore­ ecutives destroying publ icly owned wood­ Nader praised the efforts of the stu­ abuse; they won't talk about corporate fathers were about the rise of corporate lands, pesticide companies shipping dent-based public interest research welfare," Nader said. "The only thing power," he said. They'd perceived the banned products overseas, speculators groups (PIRGS), which he also founded. that's going to stop the corporate take­ Hudson's Bay and East India companies taking over savings and loan institutions Cornell's student assembly recently over of our government is the arousal as instruments of imperial power, he ex­ bound to fail - get off scot-free. voted in favor of a measure that could of civic action." plained, and put limits on company char­ "Between 1990 and 2020, the savings lead to formation ofa New York PlRG Like a college professor, a stack of ters. But as the economy grew stronger, and loan bailout will cost the American on campus. books by his side (they're now on reserve such safeguards began to fail. taxpayer a halfa trillion dollars in principal As a candidate, Nader said he hopes in the Cornell Library), the Princeton and Today, he said, Americans decry wel­ and interest," he said. "That'sa diversion of "toencourage young people to get into the Harvard university graduate began his fare fraud and build new prisons to house taxpayer dollars that could have created a political process." lesson to nearly 600 people in Bailey Hall drug dealers, while the most dangerous huge number of jobs for rebuilding our "The most important skill of all is with a bit of American history. criminals - manufacturers of faulty in­ public works, like mass tran it, drinking practicing democracy," he said. "It's a "What many of us do not learn in our trauterine and heart devices, timber ex- water purification and schools." great problem-solver." 6 May 2,1996 Cornell Chronicle

New book offers Honoring Colin Rowe 'best practices' for virtual offices

By Susan Lang Digitize mail and paper files so employ­ ees can read them from anywhere, put all furniture on wheels to encourage a team environmentand provide alcohol swabsand cleaning services to keep shared phones and desks germ-free. These are but a few of the "best alterna­ tive office practices" gleaned from more than 25 innovative companies and summa­ rized in the new book Managing the Rein­ vented Workplace (International Develop­ ment Research Council, 1996) by Cornell professors and organizational ecologists William Sims and Franklin Becker, with Michael Joroff of the Massachusetts Insti­ tute ofTechnology. "Scores of alternative workplace strate­ gies are being used around the world, and we wanted to know what these leading-edge or­ ganizationsare finding most successful," said Sims, who with Becker directs the Interna­ tional WorkplaceStudiesProgram at Cornell, an international research consortium com­ posed of 17 leading companies in the United States, Europe, England and Japan. Robert Barker/University Photography Steven Peterson '65, left, a partner at Peterson Littenberg Architects in New York City, stands at the podium To identify these "best practices," the with Colin Rowe, the Andrew Dickson White Professor of ArChitecture Emeritus, during a presentation April 27 researchers conducted surveys and in-depth in Schwartz Auditorium of ROCkefeller Hall. Rowe, one of architecture's most influential scholars and interviews with professionals in companies commentators, was being honored with a three-day Festschrift. Peterson, one of Rowe's former students, experienced in implementing alternative presented Rowe with a copy of a map of Ancient Rome that the two had discovered years earlier in a New York workplace arrangements; these companies City book shop. included AT&T, GTE, Sprint, NYNEX, Pacific Bell, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Ernst & Young, Delta Consulting, Arthur Andersen, General Elec­ tric, DuPont, Shell, Amoco Oil, American Express and others. Olmos inspires listeners during Saturday workshop The authors combined their findings with By Aldl Salim Roper '97 theirown experiences and knowledge gained from almost 75 years ofcombined experience Actor-filmmaker Edward James Olmos in consulting and research. Full of practical performed to a small but appreciative audi­ tips and suggestions, specific case examples, ence April 27 in the McManus Lounge of photographs, graphics, boxes and lists, the Hollister Hall. book is intended for those charged with the But he wasn't acting; he was speaking ongoing management and maintenance of from the heart to students taking part in the alternative workplace arrangements. weekend's conference on Mexican-Ameri­ The book's chapters focus on managing can art and culture. Titled "A Celebration of five alternative workplace strategies: team Chicana/o Cultural Productions: Utilizing environments, non-territorial offices, home­ Art as a Tool for Empowerment," the three­ based telecommuting, telework centers and day conferencewas sponsored by the Cornell the virtual office. The authors raise specific chapterofMovimiento Estudiantil Chicano issues that come up in the new workplace, de Azthin. summarize how specific companies have The man known for starring in the movie successfully coped with the issue, and then Stand andDeliver and the TV show Miami offer general strategies. Vice and for directing American Me, pre­ Most chapters in Managing the Rein­ sented an intimate afternoon workshop in vented Workplace include sectionsoncreat­ Hollister Hall before giving his evening ing a climate for success, reconfiguring the lecture in Statler Hall Auditorium. workplace, learning to work in new ways During the workshop, Olmos urged lis­ and lessons for facility managers. Topics teners to conceptualize the balance between include supplies, furniture and equipment integrity and compromise. About 50 stu­ planning, security, training, marketing, cof­ dents, faculty and staff members attended fee breaks, filing and housekeeping. his hour-and-a-half-Iong interactive talk, The book follows up on to two previous which challenged participants to think criti­ books: Reinventing the Workplace (1995) cally about their dreams, goals, aspirations by Becker and Joroff and Tool Kit: Rein­ and about the true value ofart in society. venting the Workplace (1995) by Becker, "We [as a society] have relegated art the Joroff and Kristin Quinn. These books fourth toe ofthe foot on the left side,"Olmos Charles Harrington/University Photography Actor-filmmaker Edward James Olmos gestures during a workshop in Hollister mapped the change process and provided said. "I need it badly, but I need my back­ Hall on April 27. Olmos' workshop and evening lecture in Bailey Hall were part techniques for reshaping the workplace. bone even more. Butart is the backbone," he of the weekend conference "A Celebration of ChicanaJo Cultural Productions: "There is good evidence that these argued, speaking of art's historical value. Utilizing Art as a Tool for Empowerment." workplace strategies improve employee "Wewould have nothing without art. That's performance, employee satisfaction and why they call them artifacts - without them sonal factors that need to be considered as to customer satisfaction while reducing of­ we would not have known anything." how you live your life," she said, "and money fice costs substantially," said Sims, who In addition to stressing the value ofall art 'Sense may add up to dollars, shouldn't be your greatest commitment." chairs the Department ofDesign and En­ forms, Olmos also advised listeners to put but dollars will never add up Theconference'sweekend activities also vironmental Analysis in the College of money lower on their lists of personal val­ to sense.' included a number ofother workshops, one Human Ecology. ues. Because of his own priorities and per­ featuring award-winning writers Benjamin These innovations also allow companies sonal convictions, he said he had turned - Edward James Olmos Alire Saenz and Jose Antonio Burciaga, and to attract and keep high-quality employees, down, already, more money than he would dance performances by Ballet Folklorico which saves millions of dollars since the ever make in his lifetime. Mexicano. About 180 people attended the cost of replacing and training a high-qual­ "Once you make money the top of the conference, according to organizers. ity, high-performance employee can be as list, and you go for that dollar, you see that until understanding is doctored. Not "The conference was a success, and I've high as $100,000. you need to. Then after you get that, you bachelor's, not master's, but doctorate. Get heard a lot of great comments from people "Studies show that more than 60 percent need 100. And then you need 1,000. And the information. Get the most out of your who attended," said Jennifer Estep '96, con­ of American companies are using some then a million, and a billion. You always education. Get a million dollars worth of fer~nce chairfor the Movimiento Estudiantil form ofalternative office strategies, and this need more, and it never ends," said Olmos. debt on your brain." Chicano de Aztl

CORNELL RESEARCH

Report: 90 percent ofN.\: crop producers use some form ofIPM

By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. New York State Department of Agricul­ ture and Markets, in that annual report. "It It may not be a household concept, but continues to offer a proactive educational integrated pest management (IPM) is the approach to the issues surrounding pesti­ talk of the farm. About 90 percent of the cide use related to health and environ­ state's growers or producers use at least mental concerns," one form of IPM, while hundreds of the Some of the 1995 IPM projects were: state's growers rely completely on these • IPM for grain corn production, New practices, according to the recently released York IPM research showed that crop rota­ New York State Integrated Pest Manage­ tion could eliminate the need for certain ment Program's 1996 Annual Report. insecticides, that moldboard tillage prac­ "Agriculture isn't the same as it was 10 tices could reduce the need for herbicide years ago," said James P. Tette, director of use by up to 60 percent, and that these the program, which is based at Cornell. practices increase grower profitability. "Producers understand IPM and biological • The use ofbees to control a strawberry control, and they want to incorporate these disease, Honeybees and bumblebees are practices into their production systems." being used to successfully carry the benefi­ Integrated pest management is the cial fungus Trichoderma harzianum to multistrategy approach agriculturists em­ control botrytiscinerea, commonly known ploy to reduce pesticide use, while obtain­ as gray mold on strawberries. ing high yields in the orchards and fields. • Controllingonion maggots. For more Tactics include crop rotation, the use of than two decades, researchers and onion natural/biological control methods, pest­ growers in New York have been waging a resistant plant varieties, biopesticides, and winning battle with the onion maggot. pest attractants and repellents. The onion market value is worth between This year's annual report features $50 and $75 million, and it costs the IPM's "Ten Benefits for New Yorkers," average grower between $2,500 and which include more businesses and jobs, $3,000 an acre to plant the onions. By better application technology, improved using proven IPM strategies, such as ro­ food quality and reduced loss, as well as tating onion crops with sudan grasses and more judicious pesticide use. planting genetically pest-resistant onion Examples oflPMsuccessabound. Last varieties, researchers have significantly year, in Orange County, 49 onion produc­ reduced the need for pesticides. ers participated in a disease-forecasting • Controlling European corn borer in project developed by the lPM program. sweetcorn. Sweetcorn in New York faces Those growers made 39 percent fewer threats from many problems, including fungicide applications than growers who pests like the European corn borer, the fall did not use disease forecasting, according army worm and the corn earworm. Over to the annual report. Photo by Kevin Callan the past 13 years, Cornell researchers have Wegman's collaborated with the IPM program in 1995 to teach sweet com Many squash, melon, cucumber and growers how to practice integrated pest management, then marketed the developed methods for reducing com­ pumpkin growers in New York who fol­ crop in a store near Rochester. Two key players in the project were Abby mercial pesticide use by as much as 65 lowed lPM protocols last year saved an Seaman, left, area IPM extention specialist, and Curt Petzoldt, vegetable percent and saving the New York corn average ofthree insecticide applications in 'PM coordinator. growers as much as $500,000 annually, the season. • Using IPM methods on potatoes, This "Consumers have changed in the past ated $837,000 for IPM last year, bringing five IPM projects were funded in the state plant is susceptibleto avariety ofproblems, 10 years, too," Tette said. "They still want the state funding to $7.9 million over the last year, extending to producers in 33 including the Colorado potato beetle and blemish-free fruits and vegetables, but past decade. IPM researchers also have counties, according to the annual report. late blight, which is the fungus responsible they also seek a food supply that has fewer attracted more than $800,000 in federal "As the New York state IPM program for the Irish potato famine, Researchers synthetic pesticides. I think we have ex­ funds, New York growers have contrib­ matures, it continues to stimulate New have found crop rotation and trench traps ceeded their expectations ofthis program uted more than $2 million over the past York'seconomy with the creationofjobs, reduce the incidence of the beetle. IPM by reducing pesticide use and bringing decade, while in 1995 dairy and field increased business opportunities and the strategists work closely with extension alternatives to our producers," crops farmers paid $500,000 for regional leveraging of non-state funds," said agentsand researchersto pinpointoutbreaks The New York Legislature appropri- and private IPM scouting services. Forty- Donald R. Davidsen, commissionerofthe of potentially devastating late blight. Orientation-on-demand thin films pave way for new materials

By Larry Bernard be used as an advanced adhesive, as barrier membranes in food or medicine, or as protective coatings - a layer Cornell scientists have come up with a novel way to between materials, for instance. manipulate liquid crystal molecules so they self-as­ "Our goal was to create a molecular system where semble in a desired direction into a robust network, one could not only align the components in external making them useful as a new material for a variety of fields to form networks, but also selectively control applications in the computer, medical, automotive and and lock-in the direction of alignment by network aerospace industries. formation," the researchers write in the Science pa­ The researchers have shown they can build a network Liquidcrystal molecules(cigar-shaped)aresand­ per. "Such materials would possess physical and of liquid crystal molecules that are linked together while wiched between electrodes that apply an elec­ chemical properties that are very different along each aligned in an electric field. The field makes them lie tric field, making molecule. stand up, lett, or lie orientation, and one could conceive of using photo­ parallel or perpendicular, depending on the AC fre­ flat, right. The molecules are bonded together chemistry, for example, to form films with order and quency, so they orient on-demand. into a network. Such a process for creating orientation set in specified regions," "These are wonderful molecules. When you apply the orientation-on-demand thin films for new materi­ Another advantage of this technique is that the als was developed by Cornell .cientist•• electric field and crosslink them, you get controllable network is robust - the network ensures that the properties, so that it is possible to tailor these materials to molecules remain in the orientation and the bonds possess specific optical, electronic and mechanical prop­ new way of processing the materials. Cornell Research remain strong-and can be used at temperatures above erties," said Christopher K. Ober, professor of materials Foundation has applied for a patent on the technology, 100 degrees centigrade, science and engineering who led the work. Liquid crystal molecules - like those in everyday The scientists used X-ray diffraction from the Cornell The research, reported in the journal Science (April watches or telephone displays, optical filters or data High Energy Synchrotron Source to observe the orienta­ 11, 1996), was done by Ober; Hilmar Koerner, a storage - are self-assembling. Like tiny bricks, the mol­ tion-on-demand thin films in real time. The high flux X­ postdoctoral associate; Atsushi Shiota, a student now ecules line up and assemble themselves into a wall. With ray beam allowed them to monitor the curing process at Japan Synthetic Rubber; and Timothy J. Bunning, an ACelectricfield from 10 hertz to 10,000 hertz applied, (network formation), alignment of the molecules and to former postdoctoral researcher in Ober's lab now at these "bricks" - cigar-shaped, actually - can be made to simultaneously adjust the electrical field. Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. Their work was lie flat or stand up on demand, just by changing the The researchers say the achievement is just a begin­ funded by the Electronic Packaging AlJiance at Cornell frequency of the field, When heated, or cured, the m'1l­ ning step in a long process. (an industry-university partnership), the National ecules form bonds to create a network, The curing c '" Said Koerner, "We have shown it is possible. Now Science Foundation and the Wright Laboratory for take anywhere from five minutes to an hour, dependi 19 we have to make it on a bigger scale to show it is Laser Hardened Materials. on the intended result. practical. We will next produce large films with dif­ The team came up with not only new materials, but a Called liquid crystal thermosets, such materials could ferent orientations." 8 May 2,1996 Cornell Chronicle

Study: Anti-glare filters reduce computer-related eye problems

By Susan Lang Optical glass glare filters on computer 'It leads me to conclude that if monitor can dramatically reduce health there is screen glare, using an and vision problems related to computer optical glass glare filter is one glare and help boost productivity in full­ of the most effective things time computer users, according to a new you can do to improve the Cornell study. After using a glass anti-glare filter, the visual environment tor people percentage of daily or weekly problems working on computers.' related to lethargy/tiredness, tired eyes, - Alan Hedge, director of the Human trouble focusing eyes, itching/watery eyes Factors Laboratory at Cornell and dry eyes was halfwhat they were before filter use for people who use computermoni­ tors all day at work, said ergonomist Alan Hedge, professor of design and environ­ problems before filter use; less than one­ mental analysis and director of the Human third reported problems after given a filter. Factors Laboratory at Cornell. • 89 percent said that the filters improved Also, 80 percent of users reported that the quality of the screen image by enhanc­ the filters made it easier to read theirscreens, ing sharpness, contrast, color and bright­ and more than halfsaid that the filters helped ness; 81 percent reported that the filter made their productivity. it easier to read the screen; and 73 percent "I was very surprised how well the filters said text was clearer. worked in this study," said Hedge, who • 34 percent said there was less screen believes this is the first field study of com­ flicker with the filter. puter monitor filters. "Seeing such large • the percentage of workers reporting differences in an ergonomic intervention is symptoms of lethargy/tiredness went from very unusual. It leads me to conclude that if 78 percent before filter use to 36 percent there is screen glare, using an optical glass after filter use; tired eyes from 86 percent to glare filter isoneofthe most effective things 40 percent; trouble focusing eyes from 60 you can do to improve the visual environ­ percent to 33 percent; itching/watering eyes ment for people working on computers." from 50 percent to 28 percent; dry eyesfrom With Daniel McCrobie, a corporate er­ 52 percent to 24 percent; and headaches gonomist at Honeywell Inc. in Phoenix, from 53 percent to 32 percent. Ariz., and Cornell graduate student Simone "Keeping the filter clean and free from Corbett, Hedge set out to determine whether fingerprints that blurthescreen was the great­ a good quality anti-glare filter actually ben­ est problem reported by users," Hedge said. efits workers. To find out, they surveyed 194 Glare on computer screens is caused by full-time computerworkers in eight buildings light through windows, overhead lighting, at Honeywell. An initial survey asked about desk lamps, white paper near the screen and lighting and screen glare problems; a second even bulletin boards and white clothing. survey queried the same workers one month Other researchers have reported that two­ Adriana Rovers/University Photography after two-thirds received a glass anti-glare, thirds ofcomputerworkers sufferfrom tired Alan Hedge, professor of design and environmental analysis and directorofthe anti-static screen filter. The final survey was eyes and 75 percent from eyestrain. ADA Human Factors Laboratory, poses with a computer monitor, halt of which is covered by a glass anti-glare filter. conducted one month after the remaining members report treating more than 8 million third also received glare filters. cases of work-related eyestrain from com­ In the study, monitor size, brand and puter use each year. Hedge suspects that the ings on each side of the glass and are tribute to any air quality problems or de­ screen background/text colors varied; all filters also would benefit casual and part­ designed to meet ADA specifications. grade the filter coatings. These proposed the filters had the same optically coated time computer users who suffer from eye The filters used in the study also were standards are under review. glass that met specifications set by the strain and other related problems. electrically grounded and minimized elec­ Next, Hedge, who teaches courses in American Optometric Association (ADA) To cut down on glare, computer work­ trostatic shocks to workers andsignificantly human factors, ergonomics-anthropo­ for glare reduction. ers in the past had to choose from among reduced dust accumulation on the screen, metries, the ambient environment and en­ "Overall, worker reactions were ex­ plastic, polarizing or micromesh filters, Hedge reported. The filters were donated by vironmental analysis in applied ergo­ tremely positive to the filters, and the vast yet no field studies ever evaluated the SoftView Computer Products. nomic methods, plans to compare the majority of workers said they liked using effectiveness of these different types of Recently, Hedge and McCrobie served effectiveness ofvarious optical glass anti­ them," Hedge wrote in a new report issued filters, and many computer workers still on the committee that has revised the ANSI/ glare filters, because filters vary in how by the Human Factors Laboratory. The find­ complained ofvisual problems. Now, new HFS 100 standard for computer work envi­ much light they transmit and how they ings will be presented to the Human Factors types of optically coated glass for filters ronments, which included recommendations affect color value. and ErgonomicsSociety conference in Phila­ have been developed, and these are sold for optically coated glass anti-glare filters, More information on the Human Factors delphia in September. by several companies. These filters, which for the Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory and its research is available on The researchers found: generally cost less than $100, have at Society. They also recommend the use of the World Wide Web at .

Saleh recommended as dean continued from page] Taylor appointment continued from page 1 tention goals. Cornell has a very talented and professional • Working with the development office to continue tions cI imate on campus." staff in the admissions and financial aid offices. Their the very successful fund-raising efforts that support In her new post, Randel added, Taylor will report efforts have been highly successful in recent years, and I student financial aid. "Our alumni have become very directly to the president and work closely with the look forward to this opportunity to lead their efforts in the aware of the importance of financial aid in maintaining provost, executive staff, deans, administrators, staffand years ahead." the high quality of our student body. They have re­ students. She will advise on emerging issues of plural­ Saleh said that as dean he would like to increase the sponded with great support, and we need to build on that ism among faculty, staff and students, and work with number of qualified minority students that Cornell en­ strong relationship." them to study human relations issues and develop and rolls each year. "This is clearly the most important and • Maintaining the high level of interest and support that implement approaches toward the university's vision most challenging of our goals," he said. "We need to we receive from our alumni in our admissions efforts. for pluralism. make significant increases in our enrollment of African Saleh received a bachelorofscience degree in chemistry Taylor has served as a consultant on equal employment American and American Indian students. We already education from the State University College at Buffalo in opportunity and equal credit opportunity laws to such have made measurable progress in increasing the num­ 1973 and a master's degree in student personnel services in groups as the Federal Reserve Board, the Credit Union ber of Hispanic students we enroll each year. There is higher education from Kent State in 1976. National Association and the American Bankers Associa­ still need for improvement in this area, but we are clearly He taught seventh, eighth and ninth grade science in tion since 1978. She directed the Southeast Regional Coun­ headed in the right direction." Buffalo for two years before joining the financial aid office sel on Legal Education Opportunities (CLEO) Program Saleh listed a number ofothergoals and priorities for the at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. during the summer of 1984; that year she was appointed to coming months, including: He left Bowling Green in 1982 as associate director of the Sexual Harassment Task Force at the University of • Emphasizing the customer service orientation of the financial aid and student employment to join Cornell as Florida at Gainesville, where she was a faculty member staff. "This is an historic strength of the division, but we deputy director offinancial aid. He was appointed director from 1979 to 1990, appointed full professor in 1984. need to continue to improve. The service expectations of offinancial aid and student employment in 1985 and acting Taylor served in 1990 as a member of the Visiting prospective and current students change with changes in dean of admissions and financial aid in July 1994. Committee examining affirmative action at Cornell. She technology. We need to be sure that our expectations of Saleh also has assumed a position of leadership nation­ joined the Cornell faculty as professor of law in July 1990 ourselves meet our customers' expectations." ally among financial aid administrators. He currently is and was elected to the Faculty Council of Representatives • Increasing the number of qualified transfer students serving as vice chair and chair-elect, College Scholarship in 1992. who apply and subsequently enroll each year. Serv•.::e Assembly, 1995-97. He also is chair ofthe Financial A native ofShreveport, La., Taylor is a 1972 graduate of • Focusing attention on the role of financial aid in the Aid Standards & Services Advisory Committee, 1993-96. Grambling State University with a major in political sci­ retention ofstudents. "Ourgoal is to not lose any student due Most recently he served as national representative to the ence. She earned her J.D. in 1975 from the State University to a financial problem that we have caused or that we can College Scholarship Service Council, 1992-95, amongother of New York School of Law at Buffalo and LL.M. from the assist with." professional affil iations. University of Wisconsin School of Law in 1979. Cornell Chronicle May 2,1996

Moen: Life paths were diverse for women in Cornell classes '53-'63 By Unda Grace-Kobas Five years after graduation, about half the women were that a large number returned to school at some point. "Itgave full-time homemakers, 31 percent were exclusively career them the flexibility to deal with adversity and to change their Models ofalternative pathways women, 7 percent combined jobsand home, and the remain­ lives when neces ary." exemplified in the lives ofCornell der put themselves in a "neither" category. Of the job A majority - 64 percent - of the Cornell alumnae de­ women who graduated in the de­ holders, about 41 percent were teachers, 27percent in health scribed themselves as "very satisfied" with their lives; 68 cade between 1953 and 1963 will services, 11 percent in business and 11 percent in a "cleri­ percent are still "very healthy." Most of them volunteer for become more common even for cal" category that included executive assistant positions. community service, and up to 90 percent regularly vote. men as the workplace changes and By 1995, the range ofroles had changed: 14 percent were The diverse patterns seen in the lives of this group will the population ages, sociologist exclusively homemakers, 45 percent were exclusively career increasingly become the norm for both men and women, Phyllis Moen told agroupofalum- women, 12percent combined homeand career, and 27 percent Moen predicted. nae April 26. Moen described themselves as "neither," which Moen concluded "lobs are created as if everyone had a full-time home­ There was no traditional life could refer to active volunteers or retired persons. maker at home," she said. As there is less security in the pattern shared by this group ofCornell women, now in their "Women who graduated in the 1950s and '60s are workplace and more people change jobs, and even careers, 50s and early 60s, Moen found in a survey of about 5,800 pioneers not only for women but for men," Moen said. several times in their lives, new patterns will evolve for men, alumnae that drew in almost 800 responses. "There's a real sense of not being able to guess what future women and the workplace. "I saw the meaning of diversity," she commented at her choices would be." Moen expressed concern about the expectations of her presentation to the President's Council of Cornell Women Men and children were primary forces directingwomen's current students. "My young students think they can do (r'CCW). "No two women followed the same life course." lives, Moen said, commenting that she found many survey everything,"shesaid. "They don't realize there are tradeoffs. Moen, director ofthe Bronfenbrenner Life Course Cen­ respon es "very moving and meaningful" in what women I fear they will be disappointed." ter in the College ofHuman Ecology, presented an analysis revealed about their lives. Other turning points came with There is still a sense ofexpanding opportunities among of the choices made by women university graduates who the deaths of parents or with health issues. the women of the classes of 1953-63, Moen said. Looking reached young adulthood before the feminist movement "In almost every response, Cornell was a turning point to the millennium, about 20 percent see themselves tackling got under way. that shaped the lives of these women," Moen said, adding new careers, either paid or volunteer. PCCW members hear about hot campus Issues•

By Jonathan Laurence '98 "For us, Vietnam and drugs on campus were the issues of the day - this was a time when women were still forced to live on campus," said loan G. Wexler '68, the moderator of an April 26 "mini town meeting" that opened a three-day conference of the President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW). "More important than my story, ofcourse, is yours," Wexler told a Statler Amphitheater audience composed ofstudent leaders, a five­ person student panel and council members. PCCW was establ ished in 1990 as an advisory council to Cornell's president, with the mission of advancing the in­ volvement and leadership of women stu­ dents, faculty, staff and alumnae both on campus and in constituent groups. Wexler invited students at the town meet­ ing to inform the alumnae about the impor­ Frank DiMeo/University Photography tant campus issues of the day. Student panel members Lynn Cirigliano and Anne Crum respond to questions during an April 26 "mini town meeting" in Panelists discussed their activities and the Statler Amphitheater, hosted by the President'. Council of Cornell Women. interests, which ranged from peer coun­ seling and undergraduate research to pub­ they supported the administration's attempt eluding a wide range of faculty specialists. who works in the EARS peer counseling lic service. Prompted by questions from to broaden the freshman experience. "I feel that things have gotten better, but service run out of Gannett Health Center. alumnae, many of the student leaders Council members also showed an inter­ we're facing a time of student apathy," she But Talwar noted that part of her role at joined in a lively discussion of a variety est in issues relevant to the status ofwomen said. "We've been very lucky to have the Gannett included fielding callsfrom women of campus topics. on campus. "Are you continuing to deal support of Vice President Susan Murphy." who had experienced sexual harassment Council members asked students to help with problems related to discrimination?" Murphy, acouncil member who received from peers on campus. clarify the current controversy surrounding Wexlerasked. Panel member Anne Crum, a her B.A. at Cornell in 1973 and her Ph.D. Other issues raised included professor the administration's proposed housing seniorin the Arts College, replied she hadn't here in 1994, was in the audience. The other accessibility, class size, the ratio ofwomen policy and its effect on program houses. experienced any sexism in the classroom. studentpanel members included Alex Wong, to men in the Engineering College, the re­ This topic fueled as much debate among the lessica Cattelino, a senior in the College Lynn Cirigliano and lason Francis. cent publicationofthe first Cornell Women's students in the Statler Amphitheater as it Scholar program, spoke about the campus At one point, Wexler asked the students Handbook (sponsored by the PCCW) and has amongstudents in dormitories and class­ climate for gay, lesbian and bisexual students. to asse s the prevalence of sexual harass­ future prospects for female graduates. rooms over the past few weeks. Some said "Cornell is a pretty good place to be for ment at Cornell. "Certainly the number of women who the proposal would threaten the existence these students," she said, "but far from per­ "I haven't felt any different than a man go on to professional and graduate school of program houses, which they claimed fect." On the plus side, she cited excellent sitting next to me in the classroom," said has increased dramatically," Wexler noted, help attract them to Cornell. Others said resources available for "queer studies," in- Sonia Talwar, a junior in the ILR School "and I think that says something." Lipsky speaks at public leadership forum on education and the economy involve representatives of industry and government work­ By Stephen Philip Johnson productivity by $86 billion in 1987 and will lower it by $200 ing with teachers and administrators to design new models billion in the year 2010. Reforming the nation's schools which better match the nation's employment needs. • Vocational education is in poor shape - secondary was the topic of the Public Leader­ Lipsky reported there were some signs ofsuccess in the vocational education enrollments are dropping. ship Forum for academics and indus­ nation's schools: • "Special needs" students are an increasing proportion try representatives held April 15 at • Overall math and science achievement scores are at a of the vocational student population. Baruch College in New York City. 20-year high. • Less than 50 percent of those graduating from voca­ David B. Lipsky, dean of the • The number of high school students taking core aca­ tional programs find jobs that use the occupational skills School of Industrial and Labor Re­ demic courses has tripled since 1983. they have been taught. lations, contributed to the forum, Lipsky • The drop-out rate for 16- to 24-year-olds has declined Lipsky said that students who do not plan to go to college which included representatives from AT&T, American by 21 percent in the past decade. - 20 mill ion 16- to 24-year-olds - are ofgreat concern. The Express, Document Express, Chase Manhattan Bank, However, Lipsky said, although we may have "turned major problem is that the United States is the only industrial Syracuse University, the New York City Partnership and the corner," more attention needs to be focused by industry country that doesn't have a system of externally graded Erie County BOCES. on school problems. competency exams geared to the secondary school curricu­ The session's sponsor was U.S. Rep. Charles Schumer • He quoted a study by lohn Bishop, associate professor lum, he said. In other countries, students' performances on (D-N.Y.), who hosted the event with Rudolph Crew, chan­ in the School ofIndustrial and Labor Relations, that showed standard competency exams are signals u ed by employers cellor of the New York City schools, and Ann Reynolds, high school graduates in 1980 were about 1-1/4 grade level and colleges. chancellor of the City University of New York. equivalents behind high school graduates in 1967 in math, This Public Leadership Forum was the second in a series In his opening comments, Schumer said creative ap­ science, history and English. This decline in academic of discussions designed to share ideas on future directions proaches to problems of public education will have to achievement, according to Bishop, lowered the nation's for issues facing the nation. 10 May 2,1996 Cornell Chronicle

Political Forum debate shows diverse views on affirmative action

By Dennis Shin '96 Forits fourth annual Civil Rights Symposium, the Cornell Political Forum offered a panel of university faculty mem­ bers and administrators debating the heated question, "Do We Still Need Affirmative Action?" Joycelyn Hart. associate vice president for human re­ sources, moderated the event on April 24 in Room D of Goldwin Smith Hall. She began by reminding the panel and the audience of the university's position in support of affirmative action - a commitment reasserted in a policy statement by President Hunter Rawlings in the fall, soon after he took office. "In analyzing how the system adapts to increasingly demographically diverse populations," Hart said, "we have stressed inclusiveness, not exclusion." The first panelist to speak, Ronald Ehrenberg, the Irving M.lves Professoroflndustrial and Labor Relations and vice president for academic programs, planning and budgeting, drew mainly from his personal experiences and his back­ ground as a Jew to demonstrate the continued need for affirmative action programs. He noted that over the past 50 years, Jews in the United States have made considerable advances in overcoming discrimination in educational institutions. Six out of eight Ivy League universities in recent years have had Jewish Adriana Rovers/University Photography presidents, Ehrenbergsaid, implying that the same achieve­ Samantha Pickett '98 poses a question to the panel during the Cornell Political Forum's fourth annual Civil ments could be attained by other minority groups. Rights Symposium on April 24, titled "Do We Still Need Affirmative Action?" Robert L. Harris, associate professor ofAfricana studies, also drew on personal experience in describing himselfas a of American people in being opposed to affirmative action. than without it in this particular context," Stein concluded. beneficiary of affirmative action - but he added that the Referring to the recent Hopwood case in which a rejected Mary Webber '58, who directs the Center for Religion, experience ofbeing an African American has been distinct white applicant won a suit against the University of Texas Ethics and Social Policy (CRESP), urged the audience to from that ofother minority groups. Law School for reverse discrimination, Rabkin said that the look at the past in order to understand the present. "My parents could not change their name" to hide their courts are "catching up" to unfair affirmative action pro­ "We need to only look at American history to see how ethnic identities, Harris said. "They could score the highest grams that demonstrate "explicit racial preferences." these inequities have been produced," she said. "I come test scores, they could speak perfect English and it did not "Cases in which totally different standards are appl ied to from the beliefthat every created being is ofequal value ... make a difference." minority applicants from those applied to whites are typical, so why does a white student have more ofa right to a space Harris cited statistics that demonstrate continued not the exception," Rabkin argued. at Cornell?" underrepresentation ofAfrican Americans in the nation's As a result, Rabkin said, the system fosters a "shameless In general, the panelists, with the exception of Rabkin, top professions. He attributed this partly to the use of cynicism" that emphasizes group differences rather than favored the continued practice of affirmative action, at least such "false predictors" ofsuccess as the GRE, LSATand individual merit. in some cases. Stein and Ehrenberg, however, also ex­ MCATexams. Peter Stein, dean of faculty and professor of physics and pressed reservations and at times supported, 'in principle, "In this country, we had 350 years ofexclusion," Harris nuclearstudies, began by saying he agreed with the essence of Rabkin's view. added. "How can we expect to overcome that in less than Rabkin'sargument. However, in the particularcaseofCornell 's Noting that the speakers recognized valid points on both one generation?" admissions process, he explained, the university is in the sides of the debate, Brian Finch '96, president ofevents for Jeremy Rabkin, associate professor of government, business ofgrabbing its "market share" oftomorrow's future the Cornell Political Forum, said: "There's more common opened by saying, although he represented the minority leaders, so it needs a broad and diverse training ground. ground than people realize on this issue, so I think good view on the panel, he believed he represented the majority "I think we're a lot better off with [affirmative action] things come from discussions like this."

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better. Cornell faculty need to be heavily and the potential for additional such facili­ and tangible means of recognizing faculty - Prici ng and cost factors affecting hous- engaged with these students, and not only in ties. It is precisely on these and related who devote time and energy to participating ing choice the formal classroom. The quality of our matters that I believe the dialogue needs to in the residential and first year experiences. - Recruitment and retention academic advising for all freshmen also re­ continuethrough the remainderofthespring • We will state that we are committed to - Housing assignment quires significant improvement. semester and beyond. maintaining the program houses as strong - Faculty involvement, both in-residence The quality ofthe on-campus residential To help this discussion proceed, Iwant to units amongourresidential communities dur­ and as fellows experience available for ourfreshmen must delineate a number of modifications to the ing the period of transition and beyond. We - Community center programming be a top priority, especially since most March 15 document's program directions value the contributions our existing program - Facilities, new and upgraded students presently live on campus for only that I believe are appropriate at this point. houses make to the campus at-large and to the - Staff assignment and training that freshman year. It is clear to me that a • The new policy concerning freshmen residential alternatjves for our students. We • Similarly, we will involve faculty, difference ofview exists on this campus as will not go into effect until we have imple­ have no intention of eliminating program staffand students in the design and imple­ to whether the most effective way to secure mented a planfor improving all our residen­ houses as a result of these proposals. mentation of the first year experience these objectives for our freshmen is to per­ tial communities. This will include, but not • We will work with members of the pro­ which will be piloted in the fall of 1996. mit them to live in affinity or interest group­ be limited to, expansion of the number of gram houses and their broader communities While defining a set of shared experi­ ings immediately upon their arrival. As I rooms on campus, implementation of pro­ to help them prepare for the planned changes ences for our new students, this program indicated in my March memorandum to the grams to attract upperclass students to cam­ so that they will thrive as residential units and is designed to introduce students to the Board of Trustees and in conversations pus, active engagement of faculty in the cultural and academiccentersoncethechanges critical issues they will face as members with many different constituencies in the residential communities, creation ofsmaller are made to have sophomores, juniors and ofan intellectual community, to help them intervening weeks, I am not persuaded that communities within the residences, estab­ seniors as their residents. in their transition to Cornell and to ex­ this is the best alternative. I recognize, lishment ofa more supportive campus envi­ • We will state that freshmen may plore the diversity ofexperiences we have however, that it is imperative that we exam­ ronment, particularly on west campus, and a choose to associate with program houses at Cornell. ine this matter together in the "1onths and redesign of the pricing models for on-cam­ as active participants even while they are • Many issues related to fraternities and years ahead as we shape the details of pus housing to achieve these objectives. not living there and will facilitate their sororities are distinct from those related to programs and funding allocations required • We will work with the undergraduate opportunity to become aware of program the discussion of program houses. We rec­ to achieve our agreed upon principles. colleges and other offices across the campus house offerings. ognize that they are substantially different As I have already mentioned, I have to ensure that all freshmen are sufficiently • We will promptly begin to develop the in the type of experience they provide to been pleased by the support that has been supported academically and personally to process to design the implementation plan students, and they will be addressed sepa­ expressed by the campus community for enable them to be successful in their first year. for the proposed changes in our residential rately as the process moves forward. the goals and broad principles that will • We will conduct a number ofstudies to communities. We will involve as full mem­ • During the time in which there is a define the policy we ask the board to ap­ develop a data base to inform the program­ bers of that process faculty, staff and stu­ moratorium on new theme or program prove. This is important, for it is only those ming decisions that will flow from our pro­ dents from across the campus, including houses, we will work with the Student As­ goals and principles that I am recommend­ posed plan. Someofthe studies identified so members of the Student Assembly, Faculty sembly and Faculty Senate to develop a ing to the board for their action. It is true far include factors influencing upperclass Senate and members drawn from and by the policy to govern the introduction of such that in also identifying an array of program students' decisions about housing; com­ communities directly affected by the resi­ units when the moratorium is lifted. directions that would flow over the next parative housing prices; the impact of resi­ dential plan. At present, we envision the In addition to these specific references to five to seven years as a result of the adop­ dential alternatives on students' decisions appointment of an overall Steering Com­ program directions related to residential tion of these objectives and principles, we to enroll at Cornell; and the impact ofthose mittee to direct the work of several task communities, we will restate both our con­ have raised for many members ofthe com­ alternatives on the academic performance teams whose assignments would include tinued commitment to diversify the munity questions involving the limitation and retention ofstudents. but not be limited to: university's faculty and staff and our com­ of choice in the freshman year, the future • We will work with the college deans - Attracting upperclassmen to stay on mitment to the recruitment, enrollment and viability of the existing program houses and senior administration to identify visible campus retention of a diverse student body. Cornell Chronicle May 2. 1996 1.1

Christian Science Steve Vogel, North Carolina State University, May Testimony meetings sharing healing through 6,12:20 p.m., 404 Plant Sciences Building. prayer and discussion every Thursday at 7 p.m., Astronomer to L~l[~~~~ Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. For more Fnlit & Vegetable Science _..g.,2 information see . Learning for Youth," Marcia Eames-Sheavly, fruit & vegetable science, May 2, 4 p.m., 404 Plant Episcopal (Anglican) Science Building. Sundays, worship and Eucharist, 9:30 a.m., Bethe Lecture Anabel Taylor Chapel. Genetic. & Development ·Making a Difference: The Asymmetric Divi­ Margaret J. Geller, an astronomer at the Friends (Quakers) sion ofGermline Stem Cells in Drosophila," Haifan Harvard-Smithsonian Centerfor Astrophys­ Sundays, 11 a.m., meeting for worship in the Lin, Duke University Medical School, May 6, 4 ics, will deliverthe Bethe Lectures at Cornell Edwards Room ofAnabel Taylor Hall. Discussions p.m., large seminar room, Biotechnology Building. the week of May 6. most weeks at 9:50 a.m., 314 Anabel Taylor Hall. Geller will give a free public lecture on Department of Music Immunology • May 3.8:15 p.m., Barnes Hall: The Cornell Jewish "Hematopoietic Stem Cell and T Cell Matura­ Tuesday. May 7, at 8 Gamelan Ensemble presents an evening of Indo­ Morning Minyan at Young Israel, 106 West tion: Irving Weissman, Stanford University, May p.m. Her talk, "So nesian arts featuring thefamous Javanese Shadow Ave., call 272-5810. 2,12:15 p.m., Boyce Thompson Auditorium. Many Galaxies ... So Puppet Theater and Javanese Dance, accompa­ Friday Services: Conservative: 6 p.m., Founders LittleTime,"will be in nied by a complete ensemble of gongs, drums, Room, Anabel Taylor Hall; Reform: 6 p.m., ATH Intemational Studies in Planning Schwartz Auditorium, bronze and wood xylophones, and vocalists. Chapel; Orthodox: call for time, 272-5810, Young "Whose PopUlation Problem Is it Anyway? • May 4, 8:15 p.m., Bailey Hall: The Cornell Israel. Population and the Global Economy," Radhika Rockefeller Hall, and Symphony Orchestra will present its final concert Saturday Services: Orthodox: 9:15a.m., One Balakrishnan, Wagner College, May 3, 12:15 p.m., it will include a state­ of the year, featuring the music of William Walton World Room, ATH. Egalitarian Minyan, 9:45 a.m., 115 Tjaden Hall. of-the-artgraphicvoy­ and Franz Schubert. Walton's Viola Concerto and Founders Room, ATH. . Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C major will be age through the nearby Microbiology universe. Geller has performed. Korean Church "HIV Antiviral Responses and Long-Term Sur­ • May 5, 2 p.m., Bailey Hall: Enthusiasts of Sundays, 1 p.m., chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall. vival: Jay Levy, University of California at San Geller produced a film of the band music will have the opportunity to hear a Francisco, May 3, 12:15 p.m., Boyce Thompson same name that depicts the way a scientific program bythe Cornell UniversitySymphonic Band Latter-day saint. (Mormon) Auditorium. group works. She will describe the u e of and Chamber Winds, including a tuba ensemble Sunday services: Cornell Student Branch, 9 "Role of Superantigens in Mouse Mammary very large telescopes to explore the distant playing Scott Joplin's Strenuous Rag. Works to be a.m., Ithaca ward, 1 p.m. For directions or trans­ Tumor Virus Transmissiorl and Pathogenesis," performed include Grainger's Over the Hills and portation, call 272-4520, 257-6835 or 257-1334. Tatyana Golovkina, University of Pennsylvania, universe in an effort to understand the ori­ FarAway,Sousa'sRidersfortheRagandWagner's May 7,12:15 p.m., Boyce Thompson Auditorium. gins of patterns in the universe. Elsa's Processionto the cathedralfrom Lohengrin. Muslim Geller also will give a physics collo­ • May 5, 8:15 p.m., Barnes Hall: Cornell stu­ Friday Juma' prayer, 1:15 p.m., One World Neurobiology & Behavior dents including two solo pianists, twovocalists and quium on the large-scale structure of the Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Daily Zuhr, Asr, Maghreb "Pushing the Optical Limits ofthe Human Eye," universe on Monday, May 6, and an astro­ a choral ensemble of 21 will present a mixed and Isha' prayers at 218 Anabel Taylor Hall. David Williams, University of Rochester, May 2, recital. Works to be performed include Haydn's 12:30 p.m., A106 Corson Hall. physics colloquium on cosmology on Sonatain C major, Hob. XVI: 50, ChristopherTye's Orthodox Christian (Ea.tern Orthodox) "A Warp in the SUbspace Continuum: The Wednesday, May 8. Her visit is sponsored Missa Euge Bone, Liszt's Consolations I and /1/ Sundays, Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m., St. Representation of Time in the Bat Auditory Mid­ by the Physics Department and the College and the concert etude Gnomenreigen, and Catherine's Greek Orthodox Church, 120 W. Sen­ brain," Bill O'Neil, University of Rochester Medical of Arts and Sciences. Bernstein's La Bonne Cuisine. eca St., 273-6884. School, May 9,12:30 p.m., A106 Corson Hall. • May 6, 8:15 p.m., 301 Lincoln Hall: MIDI Professor of astronomy at Harvard Uni­ Madness XXI, student projects for Macintosh and Protestant Cooperative Ministry Omithology versity and a seniorscientist at the Centerfor synthesizer. Sundays, 11 a.m., chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall. "The Value of Nature," Thomas Eisner, neuro­ Astrophysics, Geller has been mapping the • May 6, 8:15 p.m., Barnes Hall: The Ithaca biology & behavior, May 6, 7:30 p.m., Fuertes Wind Quintet from Ithaca College will present a nearby universe for the past 15 years and has Sri Satya sai Baba Room, Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods produced the most extensive pictures yet. program of Steven Stucky's Serenade for Wind Sundays, 10:30 a.m., 319 N. Tioga St. For Road. Quintet, Dana Wilson's Mirrors and Curtis Curtis­ details call 273-4261 or 533-7172. A member of the National Academy of Smith's Piano and Wind sextet. Peace Studies Sciences and American Academy of Arts Zen Buddhi.t "How Soldiers Know: The Epistemology of and Sciences, Geller was a recipient of a African Student.' A.sociation Tuesdays, 5p.m.;Thursdays, 6:45p.m., chapel, Military Doctrine," Jennie Kiesling, USMA West The African Students' Association and the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1990. Anabel Taylor Hall. Point, May 2,12:15 p:m., G-D8 Uris Hall. Durland Alternatives Ubrary present an African With John Huchra, she shared the American music concert featuring Samite of Uganda and his Plant Biology Association for the Advancement ofScience band Friday, May 3, 8 p.m., Biotechnology Build­ "Alternative Patterns of Embryonic Regenera­ Newcomb-Cleveland Award. ing. The concert and dance benefit the West tion in Tissue Cultures of Brassica napus," Philip Africa-IthacaUbraryPartnership Projectand CASA Geller, at Harvard since 1977. earned a Ammirato, Barnard College, May 3, 11:15 a.m., and is a celebration ofthe release ofSamite's third doctorate in 1975 from Princeton University 404 Plant Sciences Building. . recording. A donation of $10 is requested. Tickets and an undergraduate degree from the Uni­ are available at the Durland Alternatives Library, Psychology versity of California at Berkeley in 1970. Logos Bookstore, Rebop Records and Toko Im­ "Teaching the Old Dogs New Tricks: Hormon­ The Bethe Lecture Series. established by ports in the Dewitt Mall. For more information call ally Mediated Plasticity in an Aging Neuromuscu­ 255-6486. the Physics Department and the College of Agricultural, Re.ource & Managerial lar System," Dale Sengelaub, Indiana University, Arts and Sciences, honors Hans A. Bethe. Economics May 3, 3:30 p.m., 202 Uris Hall. Bound for Glory Cornell professoremeritusofphysics. whose "Foreign Production by U.S. Food Processing May 5: Tamarack will perform live in the Cafe in Firms: A Transaction Cost Approach," James description of the nuclear processes power­ Anabel Taylor Hall at 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. Hagen, University of Illinois, May 2, 9 a.m., 401 ing the sun earned him a Nobel Prize in Admission isfree and children arewelcome. Bound Warren Hall. for Gloryis broadcast Sundaysfrom 8to 11 p.m. on physics in 1967. The lectures have been WVBR-FM, 93.5 and 105.5. given annually since 1977. Anthropology "The Charisma of Saints and the Cult of Relics and Amulets: Stanley Tambiah, Harvard Univer­ sity, May 3, 3:30 p.m., 215 McGraw Hall.

Astronomy & Space Science. Theatre Art. "Results From the NASA Galileo Spacecraft at Anton Chekhov's TheSeagullwill be performed Jupiter,· Joe Burns, Peter Gierasch, Peter Thomas in the Centerfor Theatre Arts' Proscenium Theatre and Joe Veverka, astronomy & space sciences, oMay 2-4 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $6 for students and May 2,4:30 p.m., 105 Space Sciences BUilding. seniors and $8 for the general public. For more Creative Writing Program information, call the CTA box office at 254-ARTS. Ba.eball (14-24, 6·10 Ivy) Biochemistry The second-year M.FA students in the Cre­ May 3, Princeton (2), noon "Extracellular Matrix Signaling in Morphogen­ ative Writing Program will give a graduation read­ May 5, at Princeton (2), noon ing May 8 at 7 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium of esis, Tissue Specific Gene Expression and Apoptosis," Zena Werb, UCSF, May 3, 4 p.m., Goldwin Smith Hall. A reception will follow. Read­ Men'. Ltwt. Crew (4-2) large seminar room, Biotechnology Building. ers are Angela Bommarito, Michael Chen, Daniel May 4, at Dartmouth Donaghy, Nancy Kok, Linda Myers, Nina Revoyr, Ellen Samuels and Jake York. For more informa­ Bioengineering Women'. Crew (5-2) tion, contact Ellen Samuels at 277-5264 or "Engineering the Discovery and Analysis of May 4, at Dartmouth [email protected]. New Drugs,· Douglas Clark, University of Califor­ nia at Berkeley, May 3,12:20 p.m., 155 Olin Hall. Men'. Lacro••e (3-9, 1-4 Ivy) Alcoholic. Anonymou. May 4, at Michigan State, noon Biogeochemistry Meetings are open to the public and will be held "A History of Changing Nutrient Inputs and Monday through Friday at 12:15 p.m. and Satur­ Wom...•• Softball (17.16, 3-7 Ivy) Productivity in Narragansett Bay," Scott Nixon, day evenings at 5 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Hall. For May 3, at Ithaca College University of Rhode Island, May 3,4 p.m., A106 more information call 273-1541. May 4, Canisius (2), noon Corson Hall. Intemational Student. and Scholars May 5, Princeton, noon Office Chemi.try Men'. Tenni. (4-14, 0·7 EITA) See the Graduate Bulletin listing for informa­ "Extracting Signals From Noise - Stochastic May 3, at Dartmouth, 2 p.m. Sage Chapel Excitation in Solid State NMR: David zax, chem­ tion about the office moving to Caldwell Hall. May 4, at Harvard, noon A student sermon will be given May 5 at 11 a. m. istry, May 2,11 :15 a.m., 119 Baker. in Sage Chapel. Ithaca Area Toa.tma.ters Women'. Tenni. (12-2, 5-2 Ivy) Improve your public speaking. This month, t~e Cooperative Extension Forum May 3-5, NCAA Eastern Regional Qualifier at Toastmasters meets May 2,16 and 23 at 7 p.m. In African-American "Healthy Communities: Healthy Children, A Syracuse Room A-1 BOCES. Forinformation, call 277-0513. Sundays, 5:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Union. Model for Agent-FaCUlty Collaboration," Elvira Conde, Carol Devine, Tracy Farrell, Patricia Uen·. Outdoor Track (2-2) LGB Resource Office Baha'i Faith Thonney, Jennifer Wilkins and Linda Robbins, May 4-5, Heptagonals at Yale LGB faculty/staff Sunday brunch: May 5, 10:30 Fridays, 7 p.m., firesides with speakers, open May 6, 8:30 a.m., 401 Warren Hall. a.m., call 254-4987 for location. For information on discussion and refreshments. Meet at the Balch Women'. Outdoor Track (4-1) events sponsored by the LGB Resource Office, Archway; held in Unit 4 lounge at Balch Hall. Ecology & Sy.tematic. May 4-5, Heptagonals at Yale send e-mail to [email protected] or access the Sunday morning prayers and breakfast, 7 a.m. "The Ecology of Spittlebugs in Neotropical Pastures," Daniel Peck, entomology, May 8, 4 Web site at http://LGBRO.comell.edu Catholic p.m., A106 Corson Hall. Stre•• Bu.ters Weekend Masses: Saturday, 5 p.m.; Sunday, Sports Hot Line "Releasing Tension BUildup in Muscles," an 10 a.m., noon and 5 p.m., Anabel Taylor Audito­ Floriculture & Omamental The Big Red Hot Line, 255-2385, is open 24 introduction to the benefits of massage, May 3, 4 rium. Daily Masses: Monday-Friday, 12:20 p.m., Horticulture hours and has scores of all men's and women's p.m., McManus Lounge, Hollister Hall. Open to all Anabel Taylor Chapel. Sacrament of Reconcilia­ "The Mechanics ofWind Stress in Arboriculture,· Cornell students, faculty and staff. varsity events and previews ofupcoming games. tion, Saturday, 3:30 p.m., G-22 Anabel Taylor Hall. 12 May 2,1996 Cornell Chronicle

Rest in peace and beauty

All items for the Chronicle Calendar should be ubmitted (typewritten, double spaced) by Adriana Rovers/University Photography campus mail, U.S. mail orin person to Chronicle Chemistry Department staffmembers, from left, Don Brown, Linda Fields and Colleen Murphy visit the .Johnson Museum Calendar, Cornell News Service, Village Green, of Art's exhibit,"A Life Well Lived: Fantasy Coffins of Ghana by Kane Quaye," on April 16. The collection of 12 coffins 840 Hanshaw Road. shows some of the diversity and artistic renderings that are part of the Ghanaian funeral tradition. The exhibition runs otices should be sent to arrive IOdays prior to publication and should include the name and through .June 16. telephone number ofa person who can be called if there are questions. otices should also include the subheading ofthe calendar in which the item should appear. through May 4. Tuesday, 517 • Ph.D. recognition event: The ceremony to • B.FA Thesis Shows, May 4-24 "Much Ado About Nothing," 7:p.m. honor Ph.D. recipients will be held in Barton Hall at "The Shining," 9:45 p.m. 5 p.m., Saturday, May 25. Family, friends and Veterinary Medical Center faculty advisers are invited; reception will follow. Paintings by Corinne T. Kenney, DVM '62, are Wednesday, 5/8 Candidates who participate must wear a cap and on display in the center's gallery through June 9. "The World ofApu" (1959), directed by Satyajit gown and must register in Barton Hall between Ray, with Soumitra Chatterjee and Sarmila Tagore, 3:45 and 4:15 p.m. before the ceremony. Willard Straight Hall Art Gallery (9 7p.m. • Travel: Conference Travel Grant Applica­ a.m. to 10:30 p.m.) "The Usual Suspects" (1995), directed by Bryan tions are due at the Graduate Fellowship and Annual ceramics studio showand sale, through Singer, with Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollack and Financial Aid Office, Caldwell Hall, by June 1 for May 3. Stephen Baldwin, 9:30 p.m. July conferences Application forms are available Department of Theatre Arts at graduate field offices. Grants for transportation The spring dance concert, a compilation of Thursday, 5/9 are awarded to registered graduate students in­ original faculty and student choreography, will be "Nico Icon· (1995), directed by Susanne vited to present papers. held May2-4at7:30p.m mtheClassof'56 Dance Ofteringer, 7:30 p.m. • Volunteer: Volunteer as a graduate adviser Theatre. Admission is $3. "The Usual Suspects," 9:25 p.m. for Graduate Orientation Week, Aug. 21-31. Inter­ ested graduate and professional students should ComeII Intemational Folkdancers contact Victoria Blodgett, manager of the Big Red Open to the Cornell community and general Barn Grad Center (254-4723 [email protected]) public, all events are free unless noted otherwise. 1m or Sarah Bigham, graduate assistant (255-1123 or Beginners are welcome; no partners are neces­ [email protected]). sary. For information, call Edilia at 387-6547 or Films listed are sponsored by Cornell Cinema Marguerite at539-7335 orsend e-mail to David at unless otherwise noted and are open to the public. . All films are $4.50 ($4 tor students and children May 5, Spring World Ball, 7 to 10:30 p.m., under 12), except tor Tuesday night Cinema Off­ tentatively scheduled for the Memorial Room of Center at the Center for Theatre Arts ($2) and Willard Straight Hall. Saturday or Sunday matinees ($3.50). Films are • Move to Caldwell: The Graduate School heldin Willard Straight Theatre exceptwhere noted. offices will move from Sage Hall to Caldwell Hall. Israeli Folkdancing Anticipated moving dates are. Thursdays, 8 p.m., Edwards Room, Anabel Cornell Cinema is accepting co-sponsorship Records Office, Thesis Adviser, Admissions Taylor Hall. For information, call 255-4227. proposals for the fall semester from student orga­ Office, aAd Fellowships and Financial Aid Office­ nizations and faCUlty. For more information or an May 3 to 5. Physics application, contact Cornell Cinema at 255-3522, Deans' offices and Publications and Statistics Bethe Lectures Margaret Geller ofthe Harvard­ 104 Willard Straight Hall. Deadline for proposals is Office - May 14. Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will present May 7. • Closed for move: The Graduate School of­ the following, all in Schwartz Auditorium of fices will be dosed on Friday, May 3, because ofthe Rockefeller Hall: a physics colloquium, "The Thursday, 5/2 move (see exception for thesis adviser). Phone and Stickman, the Great Wall and the Hectospec: ·Two Friends· (1986), directed by Jane Cam­ e-mail service also will not be available on May 3. Large-Scale Structure in the Universe," May 6, pion, 7:30 p.m. On Monday, May6, limited services will beavailable 4:30 p.m.; a public lecture, "So Many Galaxies ... "Broken Arrow" (1996), directed by John Woo, in Caldwell Hall. On Tuesday, May 14, the Deans' So Little Time," May 7,8 p.m.; and an astrophysics with JohnTravolta, Christian Slater and Samantha Officesand Publications and Statistics Office will be COllOQuium, "Groups, Clusters and Cosmology," .Johnson Art Museum Mathis, 9:30 p.m. dosed. We apologize for the inconvenience. May 8, 4:30 p.rn. The Herbert F. Johnson Museum ofArt, on the • 1550 moves: The International Students and corner ofUniversity and Central avenues, is open Friday, 5/3 Scholars Office will move from Barnes Hall to Society for the Humanities Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. "From the Journals of Jean Seberg" (1995), Caldwell Hall with the following schedule: May 2: Psychoanalytic Forum: Admtssion is free. Telephone: 255-6464. directed by Mark Rappaport, with Mary Beth Hurt, The office and phone lines will be open in Barnes "The Origins of Sexual Identity in the Case of • ·Playfulness and Fashion: Inro From the 7pm. Hall with minimal staff. Immediateneeds will be met, Female Homosexuality," Joyce McDougall, psy­ Weston Collection," through May 12. "Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the '60s but routine matters will be handled after May 6. May choanalyst, May2. 4:30 p.m., Guerlac Room, A.D. • "For the Enjoyment of Art: The Lockhart Col­ in Brussels" (1993), directed by Chantal Akerman, 3: Closed to walk-in clients. Phone lines are open to White House. lection," through May 12. 7 p.m., CTA Film Forum, free. meet urgent needs. May 6: ISSO opens in B50 A discussion of the Psychoanalytic Forum pre­ • "Still Time: Photographs by Sally Mann," "Much Ado About Nothing," directed by Ken­ Caldwell. Full service resumes. Phone numbers for sentations will be held May 3, 10 a.m., A.D. White through May 26. neth Branagh, with Emma Thompson, Michael office and staff members will remain the same. House. ·"A Life Well Lived: Fantasy Coffins of Ghana Keaton and Keanu Reeves, 7 p.m., Uris. • Thesis Adviser: The thesis adviser will be by Kane Quaye," through June 16. "Two Friends," 9:30 p.m. available for walk-in student appointments on Fri­ South Asia Program • Art for Lunch: Thursday Noontime Gallery "Broken Arrow," 9:45 p.m. and midnight, Uris. day, May 3, from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1'30 to "Subjugated Peoples, Social Rage and Moder­ Talks: On May 2, Carol DeNatale, registrar, will 3:30 p.m. in the lounge of Sage Hall. On Monday, nity: The Case of Dalits in India," D.R. Nagaraja, offer a "Behind the Scenes" tour, starting at noon. Saturday, 5/4 May 6, the thesis adviser will be available in 192 Centre for Kannada Studies, Bangalore Univer­ • Sunday Afternoon Artbreaks: Luke Colavito, "Broken Arrow," 7:20 p.m., Uris. Caldwell Hall. sity, May 2,12:15 p.m., 153 Uris Hall. museum docent, will present "The Wright Stuff: A "Two Friends," 7:45 p.m. • May degree: All reqUirements for a May de­ Personal Exploration of the Architecture of Frank "From the Journals of Jean Seberg," 9:45 p.m. gree must be completed by May 17, including Theory Center Uoyd Wright" May 5 at 2 p.m. "Much Ado About Nothing," 9:45 p.m., Uris. submitting the dissertation/thesis to the Graduate "Monte Carlo Computation of Eigenvalues of "The Shining" (1980), directed by Stanley School. Professional master's candidates should Stochastic Matrices: The Dynamic Exponent ofthe Hartell Gallery (M·F 8 a.m.·5 p.m.) Kubrick, with Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall, check with their field regarding earlier deadlines. Two-Dimensional Ising Model," M. Peter Nightin­ Architecture Final & Graduate Reviews, May midnight. • Commencement: Commencement is on Sun­ gale, University of Rhode Island, May 7, 2:30 p.m., 2-10. day, May 26. Commencement information pack­ 310 Rhodes Hall. Sunday, 515 ets have been mailed to all recipients of August Kroch Library Exhibition Room 2B "From the Journals of Jean Seberg," 4:30 p.m. 1995 and January 1996 degrees. Candidates for Women's Studies "Invention and Enterprise: Ezra Cornell, a 19th­ May 1996 degrees: professional master's degree "Trusting 'First' and 'Second' Selves: Reflec­ Century Life," curated by Elaine Engst, university Monday, 5/6 candidates may obtain packets in graduate field tions on Annette Baier and Virginia Woolf," Jenni­ archivist, through June 9. "Hiroshima mon Amour" (1959), directed by offices; MA, M.S. and Ph.D degree candidates fer Whiting, Society for the Humanities, May 3, Alain Resnais, with Emmanuelle Riva and Eikji may pick up packets at the Graduate School 3:30 p.m., 280 Ives Hall. Tjaden Gallery (M·F, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) Okada, 7:15 p.m. information desk, firstfloor, Caldwell Hall (or Sage • Paintings by Shane Savage-Rumbaugh, "Much Ado About Nothing," 9:15 p.m. Hall until May 2). Continued on page 11