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ILR School will establish institute to study conflict resolution
By Darryl Geddes nouncement, applauded the formation of cated to "hands-on" engagement in conflict "The School of Industrial and Labor the institute, saying that he had "very high prevention and resolution throughout con Relations is exactly the school at Cornell to Cornell, with support from the newly cre expectations"for its work and thatofPERC. temporary society and to stimulating take the lead in establishing an institute for ated Foundation for Prevention and Early Cornell President Hunter Rawlings also thoughtful public discourse on the theory prevention and resolution of all types of Resolution of Conflict (pERq, plans to es has endorsed the institution's creation. and practice ofdispute prevention and reso conflicts," Kheel said. "The School of In tablish an institute at the School of Industrial "The new institute will enable Cornell lution. Theodore W. Kheel, PERC's presi dustrial and Labor Relations has now en and Labor Relations for the study ofconflict University and the School of Industrial and dent, has served as a mediator or arbitrator in joyed 50 years ofinten e experience coping resolution. The institute, to be located on Labor Relations to bring their commitment thousands of disputes. PERC co-chairmen with labor-management disputes under the campus, is expected to open in August. to public service and applied research to a areThomasDonahue, former presidentofthe procedures ofthe National Labor Relations Cornell and PERC made the joint an new level," he said. AFL-CIO, and William L Lurie, formerpresi Act. That law is a model statute on the nouncement on Monday at the National Under this strategic alliance, PERC will dent ofThe Business Roundtable. techniques and procedures of conflict pre Press Club in Washington, D.C. entrust key research and instructional re Kheel '35, LLB '37, said that PERC vention and resolution. They can be applied Secretary ofLabor Robert B. Reich, who sponsibilities to the new Cornell institute. would benefit immeasurably from its strate with equal force to all types of disputes. attended the reception following the an- PERC, a non-profit institution, is dedi- gic alliance with Cornell. Continued on page 4
Flags of many colors Cornell will lead state consortium on transportation By Larry Bernard Cornell researchers in civil and environmental engineering and other disciplines are helping ew York state address a broad range oftransportation problems, from how to promote car pooling and optimizing highway mainte nance management to how to get trains and freight trucks on coor dinated schedules, and a host of Meyburg other issues related to making transportation more efficient, safe and less costly. The effort will make research results from universi ties and national laboratories and other institutions avail able to the New York State Department of Transporta tion. The three-year contract has an anticipated budget of $1 million per year. "This is a win-win situation," said Arnim Meyburg, professor and chair of Cornell's School of Civil and Envi ronmental Engineering, who leads the effort. "New York state gets access to problem-solving skills in a very short time, and we can introduce practical issues into the aca demiccommunity, providingopportunitiesfor us to educate Adriana Rovers/University Photography students using real-world problems. YSDOT is looking at Kicking off this month's Intemational Festival on campus was a flag.painting event in the Big Red the academic community as a think-tank for solving prob Bam, April 4. Deddy Supriady, right, a Ph.D. student in regional science, and his children, Decky, lems in the transportation area." center, Dwiky and Dyane, center rear, help paint the Indonesian flag on an international banner. TheTransportation Infrastructure Research Consortium, Continued on page 2 Three undergraduates win Goldwater Scholarships for science and math
By Simeon Moss is 'true'; computer He also credits Cornell with allowing science, which tells him the freedom to form his own course of Three Cornell students have won 1996 us what is actually study in the College Scholar program. "The Goldwater Scholarships for their achieve ~ feasible; and linguis broad scope and high quality of the univer ments in science and mathematics. .: •...•..• ':. tics, which tells us sity has enabled me to study all the facets of The undergraduates are: Jessika Trancik howthehumanmind my interests effectively," he said. '97, a materials science and engineering fits into the picture. Klein is proficient in French, Spanish major in the College ofEngineering; Robert ;'.' .~~ : f My program asacol and Italian. His activities include being a Kleinberg '97, a mathematics major in the lege scholar com math support center tutor, a Shito-Ryu ka College of Arts and Sciences; and Daniel I .. bines areas of inter- rate teacher and president of the Shito-Ryu Klein '98, a college scholar, also in t~ Klein Trancik Kleinberg action among these Karate Club, and an orientation counselor. College of Arts and Sciences. three disciplines in He said he plans to earn a Ph.D. in a field, or The national Goldwater Scholarship pro The Cornell students are among 264 an attempt to study what is behind it all. It is, fields, related to his principal interests and gram was established in 1986, in the name of Goldwater Scholarship winners nation in essence, the study of the patterns that then teach and do re earch at a university. former Arizona Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, to wide, chosen from a pool of 1,200 sopho pervade and define reality." Robert Kleinberg is agraduate ofIroquois honor students who have demonstrated out mores and juniors nominated by their He credits his academic succes to being Central High School in Elma, NY., where standing potential for and commitment to colleges and universities. raised by his mother to love learning, the he was valedictorian. His interests in math careers in mathematics, the natural sciences Daniel Klein is a graduate of Mount teachers who took the time and effort to are still very general, he aid, and he hasn't and some fields ofengineering. Each scholar Lebanon (Pa.) High School, near Pittsburgh. encourage him and enhance his abilities, yet specialized in a single field, although the ship provides winners a maximum of$7,000 Describing his Cornell studies, the sopho and his involvement since he was 8 in mar area of math in which he has taken the most per yearfor tuition, fees, books, and room and more said: "I have a fundamental beliefthat tial arts - karate in particular. "(Karate) has courses is topology. "But last year," board, with sophomores receiving two years to understand how reality works, we need to given me a confidence that has carried over Kleinberg said, "my research was in col- ofsupport and juniors one year. understand mathematics, which tells us what into the rest of my life," Klein said. Comillued 011 page 6 2 April 11, 1996 Cornell Chronicle
BRIEFS Watch your step
• Barton incident: A stabbing incident in Barton Hall on April 3 led to the arrest of an Ithaca youth. Tran Linh Van, 17, of Ithaca was arre ted in Barton by Cornell Police shortly after the tabbing occurred at 7:40 p.m. during an argument over a basket ball game, police report. The victim, Lun Quach, 21, of Ithaca suffered wound to his upper body and wa taken to Cayuga Medi cal Center; he was released from the hospi tal the next day. Cornell Police charged Van with second degree as ault, a felony. He wa arraigned in Ithaca City Court on April 3 and released from Tompkins County Jail on April 4.
• Economics teaching fund: The Hatfield Fund to Enhance Undergraduate Economic Education is seeking proposals in support offaculty members who propo e innovative ways ofstrengthening the teach ingofeconomicsto undergraduate students. The guidelines for projects are intentionally broad, to encourage innovative proposals that would enhance traditional classroom in truction in economics for undergraduate tudent . Proposals are invited that will 1) encouragethe use oftechnology in theclass room, 2) promotechange in the pedagogy of Robert Barker/University Photography economics education, 3) create case studies During the first annual Intercollegiate and Adult Ballroom Dance Competition in the Field House on March 30, for examination of the major issues facing one of four judges, Rebecca Francoeur-Breeden from Columbia, Md., eyes the competitors. The Comell A·Team our economic system, 4) bring real-world took second and third place in the respective American style and intemational style intercollegiate team matches during the competition. In the individual couples competition, graduate student Horst Severini won the authorities as classroom speakers and semi Bolero, Intermediate Slow Foxtrot and Tango, Intermediate Viennese Waltz and Advanced Waltz Quickstep. And nar leader ,and/or5) offeractual field expe undergraduates Michael Voiles and Sarah Boscoe won the Lindy Hop competition. riencesdesigned to expose participatingstu dents and faculty to the complexities of economic decision-making. This year, the Hatfield Committee has approximately $25,000 to distribute to faculty-initiated projects. The committee is particularly inter Career Services director receives Kauffman Award ested in proposals that stretch across the uni ThomasC. Devlin, The Kauffman Award, established in the association that will take NACE into the versity, creatingconnectionsamongthe many the executive director 1992, was bestowed on Devlin at the NACE next century and beyond. The entire com avenues through which economics education of career services at annual meeting last summer in Orlando, mittee nominated him for the Kauffman is offered. Proposals need not be longer than Cornell since 1978, Fla., and announced in the fall issue of the Award, specifically noting his leadership three or four pages and should include a has received the 1995 Journal of Career Planning & Employ style, group process skills, flexibility, opti detailed projectionofexpenses. Proposalsare Warren E. Kauffman ment. The award is NACE's highest honor. mism and enduring patience." due to the office of Susan Murphy, vice Award for outstand Devlin is a longtime member of NACE, Devlin is the founder ofthe Cornell Uni president for student and academic services, ing service to the Na most recently serving as co-chair of its Re versity College Relations and Recruiting no later than April 30. tional Association of gional/CPCRelationsTask Force, which was Institute and one of three founders of the Colleges and Employ- Devlin responsible for redesigning the organization. University Network, which brings career • Language classes: The Japan ers (NACE). In a letter announcing Devlin's award to services directors at the nation's larger uni America Society of the Ithaca Area offers The Bethlehem, Pa.-based membership David Yeh, Cornell assi tant vice president versities together once a year. He has ap Japane e and English classes to adults and organization (formerly known as the College for student and academic services, NACE peared on the NBC Nightly News and the children throughout the year. Classes are Placement Council) represents professionals ExecutiveDirectorMichael R. Forrest wrote, Today show to discuss Cornell's career ser small to provide maximum student-teacher involved in the career planning and employ "Asthe co-chair ofthe Regional/CPC Rela vice, which blends advanced technology interaction, and teachers are well-quali ment ofcollege students and graduates. tions Task Force, he provided a vision for with personalized career advising. fied. Spring session will begin the week of April 22. Classes will meet twice a weekfor five weeksoroncea week for 10 weeks. For information, contact The Japan America Transportation consortium continued from page] Society at 266-0721, P.O. Box4012, Ithaca, .Y.14852. led by Cornell, will address critical issues and trains is absolutely essential," Meyburg identified by DOT by going to the institu said. "You have to coordinate trucki ng with tion that has that particular area ofexpertise, 'This is a win·win situation. the railroads and othertransportation modes. said Meyburg, who is principal investigator New York state gets access Freight vehicles have to be available when for the project. Administrator ofthe consor the trains pull in, or the commodities can't to problem·solving skills in a tium isJohn Mbwana, Ph.D., visiting scien be transported. Then the roads have to be tist in civirand environmentm engineering. very short time, and we can clear - no congestion - for the trucks to get Henrik . Dullea, Vice President for University Mark Turnquist, professor ofcivil and envi introduce practical issues into through. And people still have to get to Relation ronmental engineering, also played a key the academic community .•.' work. It's a problem of enormous magni Linda Grace-Koba , Director, Cornell ews Service role in putting the consortium together. tude, particularly because of the peaking Sim on Mo ,Editor - Arnim Meyburg Larry Bernard, Science Editor Other members of the consortium are: phenomenon, known as 'rush hour.'" Jacquie Powers, Education Editor Brookhaven National Laboratory, Calspan One simple solution to urban peak-pe Karen Walters, Editorial Assistant - University at Buffalo Research Center, riod congestion: just double the number of Dianna Marsh, Circulation City University of New York, New York all the hardware and software that support vehicle occupants, from an average of1.1 to Writers: Blaine P. Friedlander Jr., Darryl Geddes, Jill Goetz, Susan Lang, Roger Segelken and University, Polytechnic University and the our ability to move people and commodities two, in commuting cars. "If you increase Bill Steele. State University of New York campuses at safely, efficiently and reliably around the vehicle occupancy from 1.1 to two, the Published 42 times a year, the Cornell Chronicle Stony Brook, Buffalo, Maritime College state. That can include how to prevent cor average number of occupants in vehicles is distributed free of charge on campus to Cornell and at the Rockefeller Institute. rosion ofbridges, what kind of road surface during peak demand periods, you would University faculty, student and staffby the Univer- The consortium will address six major treatment should be applied and how to have little congestion," Meyburg said. "It's ity ews Service. areas: engineering, operations, public trans make trains run on time." just a simple policy and behavior matter. Add....s: 840 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca, NY 14850 portation and planning, management and Transportation operations include such But how do you achieve the required change Phone: (607) 255-4206 finance, public policy, and human resources. items as intelligent transportation sys in behavior?" Fall: (607) 257-6397 E-mail: [email protected] In addition to expertise in the College of tems, automatic toll collection devices Aseparate NYSDOTstudy in Syracuseby Web site: hllp://www.news.comell.edu Engineering and the School of Civil and and driver information systems. "For ex Meyburgand Linda Nozick, Cornell assistant Environmental Engineering, Cornell will Man Subscriptions: ample, manual toll collection on toll fa professor of civil and environmental engi $20 per year. Make checks payable to the Cornell tap experts in the School of Industrial and cilities, such as bridges, tunnels and roads, neering, will determine just that: How to get Chronicle and send to Village Green, 840 Hanshaw Labor Relations, Agricultural and Biologi reduces the performance of these facili people to use HOV (high occupancy vehicle) Road, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850. Second-Class Postage cal Engineering, City and Regional Plan ties to levels substantially below their lanes during peak periods. "We have to iden Rates paid at Ithaca, N.Y. POSTMASTER: Send ning and in Economics. design capacity. New technology and re tify areas of congestion and superimpose al address changes to the Cornell Chronicle (ISSN "At the engineering end, we will address 0747-4628), Cornell University, 840 Hanshaw Road, vised operatingstrategiescan address that ternative ways of operating. The goal is to Ithaca, .Y. 14850. all the infrastructure aspects that are rel problem," Meyburg said. develop techniques to transfer to urban areas evant to accommodate people, commodi Another area ofoperations research: how Copyright Notice: all over the country. The question is, how do Permi ion is granted to excerpt or reprint any ties and vehicles," Meyburg said. "That to use the existing infrastructure to run the we deal with efficiency, includingenergy and material originated in the Cornell Chronicle. could be roads, airports, bridges, bicycle transportation system more efficiently. environmental impact, when we're not going paths orcanals. We will provide insight into "Efficient schedul ing of vehicles, fleets to build more highways?" Cornell Chronicle April 11, 1996 3
Study to assess state workers'compensation managed care program
By Darryl Geddes conclusive evidence as to the merits or disadvantages of tern used by the U.S. Census Bureau and CBS News for such a system." their surveys, noted data manager Yasamin DiCiccio. A Cornell study may have the last word on whether a The three-year $870,000 study, funded by the state and The CATI system, according to DiCiccio, ensures accu reform ofNew York workers' compensation program would conducted by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, racy ofdata, reduces possibility for human error and allow save money and ensure quality medical care. will assess the pilot program by examining workers' com for faster data analysis than the traditional paper-and-pencil A state pilot program in western New York requires pensation claims-level data on medical procedures, medical method ofadministering phone interview .The CATI facil employees of participating companies who are injured at and indemnity payments and return to work; firm-level data ity is located in 253 Ives Hall. Telephone interviews are work, and therefore eligible for workers' compensation, to on workplace safety; and interviews with injured workers conducted by Cornell students under the supervision of seek medical care from a managed care organization rather about their satisfaction with medical treatment and their facility supervisor Lisa Horn. Senior Research A. ociate than from their family physicians. The experimental pro ability to work. Study results are not expected until the Tim Schmidle, also a member of the research team, has gram will test whether a major overhaul of New York's summer of 1997. responsibility for developing and maintaining contacts with workers' compensation program would affect the quality of Participating in the pilot program and the Cornell study state officials and for identifying and monitoring statutory, care while enabling insurance companies to reduce premi are employees at three Rochester-area employers, the larg regulatory and other workers' compensation developments. ums, which have been accused by some of contributing to est ofwhich is Wegrnans Food Markets, and five Rochester "The fact that the Legislature wrote the School of Indus the migration of business from the state. area managed care organizations: Parkridge Health Con trial and Labor Relations into the pilot program legislation "Most people believe the state's workers' compensation nections, Strong Memorial Hospital, Healthworks, is an excellent example of how the school fulfills its statu managed care program will save money, but there is not CompMedand CompChoice. Employers added to the state's tory mandate to provide research that helps the state," said much evidence - detailed medical information and cost pilot program also will be surveyed. In addition, the study Robert Smith, co-principal investigator and associate dean information - to see if that's really the case," said Ronald will poll employees not covered under the workers' com of academic affairs at the ILR School. Seeber, the study's co-principal investigator and associate pensation managed care pilot. The Cornell study, however, could have an impact far dean and director of extension of the School of Industrial The employee interviews are being conducted by Com beyond New York's borders, as at least 25 other states have and Labor Relations. "Hopefully, this study will provide puter-Assisted-Telephone-Interview (CATI), the same sys- enacted workers' compensation managed care legislation. AAUWhonors From East Hill to Capitol Hill CUprogram In•••englneenng Cornell's Women's Programs in Engi neering has been named as a1996 Progress in Equity Award winner by the New York State Division ofthe American Association of University Women. Also honored were programsat the State University of New York at Potsdam and Marymount Manhattan College. Awards will be presented at the AAUW convention in Syracuse this weekend. Women's Programs in Engineering, di rected by Michele D. Fish, was cited by AAUW for "imaginative and successful ini tiatives to recruit and retain undergraduate women to the study of engineering - one of the most male dominated of all the major professions." Applauded were the program's efforts, including: the Freshman Engineering Seminar for Women; tutoring and mentoring programs; workshopson Sexism in the Class room; the Career Planning Seminar for Women in Engineering; and the creation ofa video called "She'sthe Engineer: How to Use Science and Math to Solve Problems," which encourages high school girls who love sci ence and math to consider engineering. The AAUW is a national organization that promotes education and equity for women. More than 200 AAUW members Charles HarringtonlUniversity Photography from across New York are expected to at Shane C. Lidman '98 takes a picture of Rebecca Fran Gellert '98 In the lobby of Willard Straight Hall on April 3, as part of a student.organlzed effort to send leUe" and photos to Congress to oppose cuts In financial aid and tend the convention at the Hotel Syracuse, other hlgheMHIucatlon programs. April 12-14. Nationwide, 150,000 women and men are members of AAUW. Ex-politician Douglas Wilder critiques this year's political season to do with issues, and neither does playing By Simeon Moss the piano." No longer a politician, Douglas Wilder, • "Pat Buchanan (is) still running around former governor ofVirginia, has a lot to say talking about having people fixed in his these days about politicians. cross hairs - lock and load. Lock and load The nation'sfirst elected African-Ameri and shoot wh07" can governor, a 1992candidate for the Demo And Wilderspent a considerable amount cratic nomination for president and a 1994 of time talking about the possibility of a independent candidate for the U.S. Senate, Colin Powell candidacy. Wilder spoke before an audience of about "Dole would do well to ask Colin 90 in Uris Hall Auditorium April 2. Often Powell to run (for vice president)," he sarcasticand sometimes passionate, he took said. "And I think Colin Powell would be on a range of legislative and social topics smart to say 'yeh.'" but always came back to politics. The reason, Wilder said, is that Dole Earlier in the day, Wilder gave a news might only want to serve one term. "And conference in the Statler Hotel and made one (Dole)won'tlook any younger in four years." thing clear - his own political career is over. Talking about race, destiny and timing Asked ifhe would run again for governor, in relation to Powell's candidacy, Wilder Wilder said he only plans to "run for cover." said, "Let's not kid ourselves, it's a fact of "I will not run for another elected of Frank DiMeo/University Photography life in America, you always have to have fice," he said, "and I almost rule out serving FormerVirginia Gov. Douglas Wilderholds a news conference In the Yale Room entry levels for minority candidates to move in any governmental capacity." of the Statler Hotel on April 2. up - whether be they women, Jews, Ital But he had plenty to say about this year's ians, Irish. They always have to have a job presidential campaign. State of the Union speech "pitiful." On other candidates, he observed: at a lower level before they run to the top Although the polls now show President "It's like he was listening to another • "Steve Forbes is like a June bug. You level. If (Powell is) interested in being Clinton far ahead, Wilder discounted their speaker," Wilder said of Dole's TV per see the lights in June, but you don't see them president - and I think he is - this is the significance. "It's going to be a very close formance. "Why didn't he just give Bill in July and August." time. It doesn't last forever." election," he said. Clinton credit for having sounded just • "Lamar Alexander- he's in a red shirt, Wilder's appearance was sponsored by HecalledBobDole'sresponsetoClinton's like the RepUblicans?" playing the piano. The red shirt has nothing the Cornell Univer ity Program Board. 4 April 11, 1996 Cornell Chronicle
Noted corporate-turnaround artist argues the 'leaner-meaner' case By Darryl Geddes Corporate philanthropy is wrong, super star CEOs deserve every dollar they earn, out-sourcing is here to stay and human re source managers better run for their lives. Offended yet? We're just getting started. Meet Albert J. Dunlap, the former Scott Paper CEO whose much publicized turn around of the ailing tissue maker has dominated the business pages for the past two years. Dunlap, who met last week with students at the Law School and the Johnson Graduate School of Management, has been called just aboutevery name in the book by fans and foes alike. There's "Chainsaw AI," "Rambo in Pinstripes" and the "Turnaround Wizard." Newsweek put Dunlap's picture on its cover, along with those ofseveral otherCEOs, under the headline "Corporate Killers." In his 20-month tenure at Scott, Dunlap orchestrated a restructuring plan that took Scott stock to new heights: it,rose 225 per cent, adding nearly $6.5 billion in market value to the company. Thecompany'sprofit possibilities were so attractive that Kim Adriana Rovers/University Photography berly-Clark Corp., another big paper prod Albert J. Dunlap speaks to law students in Myron Taylor Hall on April 3 while being filmed for NBC TV's "Dateline." ucts maker, bought Scott. Delighted Scott shareholders approved the $9.4 billion been set for the segment.) law professor who served with Dunlap on a sense," Bierman said. "If a corporation re merger last December. The issue that gets Dunlap the most ex national commission examiningcompensa ceives no direct or indirect benefit from a The merger reaped big dividends for cited is that ofcorporategovernance, which, tion for directors. "I think this form of charity, then I think Mr. Dunlap's view is Dunlap: He was given nearly $100 million in hisview, should give shareholders greater compensation for directors is part of AI well taken." in salary, bonus, stockgains and otherperks, responsibility in corporate affairs. Dunlap's message to make boards more Dunlapoffered his opinions on a rangeof including one of the most lucrative non A CEO's responsibility, Dunlap says, is responsible to the shareholders." issues during his 45-minute question-and compete agreements ever written in Ameri to the shareholders, for it's the shareholders Making the corporations more respon answer session with students: can business, which prohibits him from who invest in the company. "Shareholders sive to shareholder interest also figures into On out-sourcing: "Out-sourcing is here working for a competitor for five years. But don't get anything if the company fails. You Dunlap's view on corporate philanthropy. to stay. A company should do only what it Dunlap's restructuring of Scott had a cost. cannotgenerateshareholdervalue ifyou don't "Shareholders didn't give you the money to does best. If someone can do a task better, Philadelphia lost the company headquarters hire the best CEOs and employees." give away," Dunlap said. "I don't believe such as payroll, benefits, then farm it out." to Boca Raton, Fla., and more than 11,000 Dunlap is critical of boards of directors anyone has the right to give away someone Human resource managers: "Human re employees lost their jobs. who fail to fire CEOswhen company profits else's money." source people are in danger. Avoid them at "There's a lot of pain out there. Hell, I sag, putting stockholders' investments at Harold Bierman, the Nicholas H. Noyes all cost. They need to get benefit programs know that," Dunlap told a group of busi stake. "We'rebeginning to see some boards Professor ofBusiness Administration at the that make sense and get rid of these f1avor ness-suited law students here on April 3. come under attack by stockholders for their Johnson School, said Dunlap's take on cor of-the-month programs." Dunlap has said that without his restructur failure to address problems," he said. porate philanthropy has valid ancestry, for it Executive compensation: "A superstar ing ofScott Paper many more people would To make members of the board more is a view taken by Nobel Prize-winning CEO should be paid the same as superstars have lost their jobs. responsible for corporate performance, economist Milton Friedman. But, Bierman in other areas get paid, such as the arts and In his remarks before the Cornell Feder Dunlap required the nine outside members notes, corporations may have good cause in sports. I don't hear anybody complaining alist Society, Dunlap offered candid opin ofScott's 11-member board to be compen supporting local organizations. "Ifthe pres about their salaries." ions on almost anything. His answers are sated solely in company stock. ence of a theater in the corporation's com Dunlap has been touring college cam sound bites, all the more appropriate with a "By making boards of directors have a munity is important in making the commu puses across the country, addressing these camera crew from NBC's news magazine financial stake in the company, you signifi nity an attractive place to live and therefore issues and others. But one suspects it won't be program "Dateline" on campus recording cantly enhance their desire to help the com easierto hire people, then supporting an arts too long before he's back in the boardroom. his every word and move. (No air date has pany prosper," said Charles Elson, Cornell organization might make good business "I've retired four times and I hate it," he said. Mergers, takeovers breed workplace violence, Cornell group says
By Darryl Geddes Newton, Mass. Highlights include skills-building work "As in litigation, anointing one party the winner or shops and a performance of "Unless There's Blood," a formally assigning blame rarely resolves the underlying Changes in the workplace continue to breed a climate of drama about stress and violence in the workplace. Key conflict, which continues to fester," she said. "Although hostility and fear that is turning the workplace into a presenters include Richard M. Reilly, senior vice president arbitration may dispose ofthe surface issues, the underlying domestic battleground. But crisis management experts have of the American Arbitration Association; Craig Cornish, causes ofan outburst oract ofinsubordination typically are found a new way to diffuse the hostility: They are using author of Workplace Rights ofPrivacy and Dignity; and not addressed." dispute resolution for violence prevention. Susan and Mark Braverman, principals of Crisis Manage Denenberg suggests that a successful dispute resolution Tia Schneider Denenberg, arbitrator, mediator and prin ment Group and Workplace Solutions Project. The confer attempts to "find new information, achieve better mutual cipal in Workplace Solutions, a project ofCornell's School ence is sponsored by the American Arbitration Association understanding and elicit beneficial emotional expression of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), reports in the and the Workplace Solutions Project at Cornell. and engagement." January-March 1996 issue of Dispute Resolution Journal An essential step in preventing workplace violence is "The process seeks to restore the harmony ofa relation that competitive pressures, loss ofautonomy and changing making the transformation from a "crisis-prone" workplace ship - such as sharing a workbench - that must continue work force demographics are being recognized more and to a "crisis-prepared" organization. A crisis-prepared orga after the dispute," she said. more as factors contributing to workplace violence. nization, she states, reports and analyzes signs ofdistress at The Workplace Solutions Project at the ILR School "Ubiquitous threats ofmergers, takeovers and midlife an early stage; cultivates a sense of mutual interest among seeks to use mediation and collaborative problem-solving 'career crash' feed anxieties that may elicit hostility," all parties in responding to incipient strains; develops and in helping to alleviate a climate of fear, prevent critical Denenberg noted. "The long-term consequences ofsuch disseminates a policy for dealing with potential and actual incidents and facilitate emergency planning. The project insecurity may be overwhelming psychological stress crises; and encourages a climate in which employees can will provide training in communication and dispute-resolu and even trauma, leading to hostility and outbursts or communicate freely their distress to management, and man tion skills, teach problem-solvingas ajob skill, develop risk bizarre behavior." agement accepts responsibility to act. assessment, prevention and intervention strategies. The Denenberg and co-authors of the article will discuss Dispute resolution is the one approach to resolving project, with headquarters at the ILR extension office at 16 workplace violence and offer solutions at a conference workplace conflicts that adequately addresses the emotions E. 34th St. in New York City, is supported by a grant from April 18 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. at the Marriott Hotel in of the situation, Denenberg claims. the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Conflict resolution continued from page 1
Only the issues, personalities and circum interested in implementing conflict resolu institute, combined with ILR School's ex man Resource Studies; the Institute of Col stances vary..' tion programs and design courses on conflict isting resources and the support and exper lective Bargaining; the Institute for Labor The Cornell institute eventually will focus resolution to be offered by the School of tise of PERC, also will shape the discus Market Policies; and the Smithers Institute on all areas of conflict resolution, including Industrial and Labor Relations. sion, study, development and application for Alcohol-Related Workplace Studies. those relating to commercial and real estate David B. Lipsky, dean ofthe ILR School, of successful conflict prevention and reso These centers have created new alli transactions, the environment, communities, said the institute will be an incubator for lution techniques outside the workplace." ances between ILR School faculty and cor health care, civil rights and what has come to influential research on issues of interest to The new institute brings to five the num porations, unions, government agencies, be referred to as alternative dispute resolu all parties. "Everyworkplace- school, plant, ber of research centers at the ILR School law firms, associations and foundations. tion. The institute will conduct research on office, hospital or store - can benefit from devoted to examining and solving today's Research projects funded by the centers' issues related to conflict resolution, develop a better understanding of conflict preven key workplace and labor issues. The other members enable faculty and students to educational programs for various institutions tion and resolution," Lipsky said. "This centers are: the Center for Advanced Hu- study theories and practices on-site. Cornell Chronicle April 11, 1996 5
CORNELL RESEARCH
Unexpected development produces sweet, mild - and pink - onion By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr.
A Cornell researcher crossed three va 'Before onions were dome.. rieties ofyellow onion trying to find a line ticated, they were probably ofhigher-yielding plants but instead came pink. Maybe previous up with something unexpected. While he shed tears, they were tears of societies bred them to be joy: The researcher, Thomas W. Walters, yellow and white because had stumbled on to a sweet, pink onion. they preferred those But, let's not mince words: The New colors. ... The fresh mar York Sweet Blush variety is still in the ket for onions, such as commercial breeding process, said hamburgers, salsas and Walters, the Cornell plant breeder who discovered the onion by chance, and it is salads, is where the New not yet ready for grocers' shelves. York Sweet Blush has The onion will be tested in only small potential.' plots throughout New York this year. - Thomas W. Walters Walters hopes to begin working with seed companies interested in distribut ing seeds and seedlings as early as next season. For large-scale production of case, the missing links for the enzyme onion seed, male sterile versions of chain were provided by the threecomple onion breeding lines are needed to make mentary breeding lines. Thus, when the hybrid seeds that are uniform and more large onions were crossed, the resulting disease-resistant, as well as able to gen variety took back what likely was its erate higher yields. original color: pink. Toward that end, Walters was trying The complementary factor is regarded to make a male sterile breeding line of as a nuisance in most onion growing large, mild-sweet onions. By crossing a circles, particularly in the small, yellow large, sweet yellow onion with a male cooking-onion market, which is prevalent sterile cross from the Cornell and the in New York. U.S. Department ofAgriculture- MSU "The fresh market for onions, such as 8]55-B and MSU-57]8-A - he inad hamburgers, salsas and salads, is where vertently found the pink variation. His the New York Sweet Blush has poten work is sponsored by the New York tial," Walters said. Onion Growers and by a consortium of The New York Sweet Blush is notice seed companies that supports vegetable ably sweeter and more mild than many of breeding at Cornell. its cousins. As a comparison, the New Pink is probably a primitive trait in York Sweet Blush registers more sugar, onions. "Before onions were domesti but less pyruvate - the substance that cated, they were probably pink," said makes it pungent- than the popular Kelsae Walters. "Maybe previous societies bred Sweet Giant. them to be yellow and white because they "Very few onions are as mild as the preferred those colors." This was the Kelsae Sweet Giant, and I've never seen "complementary factor" of onion breed anythingas unique as the New York Sweet ing - the pigment's enzymatic chain was Blush. It's a real boon to the consumer, broken at one time, perhaps thousands of Adriana Rovers/University Photography becausewhen you see that pink blush, you years ago by prehistoric plant breeders Thomas W. Walters, a plant breeder in fruit and vegetable science, smells know you're going to get a nice, mild selecting unpigmented onions. In this the mild aroma of a pink onion that he developed. onion," Walters said. Facing worldwide problems, a second GREAN revolution is planned By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. have gathered an ad hoc coalition ofabout 20 universities to promote the GREAN initiative with scientists around Ranking as one of the world's greatest scientific and 'Countries that we the world. social achievements, the Green Revolution saved mil once thought of as "Countries that we once thought ofas developing are lions from starvation in the] 960s and '70s. Now, faced developing are really our global partners," Coffman said. "With with increasing population growth, environmental deg partnering countries, there are tremendous scientific really our global radation and problems of hunger, Cornell scientists be resources out there. But many good scientists are lan lieve the future is bleak. partners. With guishing, lacking the resources and the collaborators to Scientists are hoping to gather $100 million over the partnering coun be truly effective." next five years for an international program, "Global tries, there are Technologies that were barely a blip two decades Research on the Environmental and Agricultural Nexus tremendous scien ago facilitate global collaborative research today, (GREAN) for the 21st Century." This initiative - a new tific resources out potentially reducing research redundancy. Thus, re GREAN revolution - is the outcome ofthe Taskforce on there. But many good scientists are search money would go further, playing on the Research Innovation for Productivity and Sustainability, strengths of all the partners. an international group led by Cornell and the University languishing, lacking the resources and If adopted, the proposed GREAN organization will of Florida. the collaborators to be truly effective" consist of agriculture research specialty areas, such as It plans to deploy American and international scien - Ronnie Coffman soils, water, forests, as well as biodiversity and climate tists on long-term agricultural research projects aimed at change. The initiative is hoping to obtain support from solving this planet's most pressing problems. the U.S. Dep~rtment of Agriculture, USAID, the World Environmental questions and growing population pro Bank, the United Nations Development Program, the vide unrelenting strain on natural resources. "With the in rural areas. Experts predict that by 2050, the Earth Food and Agricultural Organization, the Consultative large numbers of people, the pressures of survival are will need to support 4.3 billion more people, 95 Group on International Agricultural Research and from encroaching on every part of the world," said Ronnie percent of whom will be living in what are now regional development banks. Coffman, Cornell associate dean ofthe College ofAgri developing countries. Most of the agriculturists involved in GREAN culture and Life Sciences, a member ofthe task force that "The first Green Revolution increased real income realize that allowing just the United States to feed the produced the report and co-chair of the committee that and improved nutrition for the poor, enhanced produc world would be wrong. Most idled farmland in the drafted the proposal. tivity, increased global trade and preserved large ex industrialized world is of marginal agricultural value, With a large portion ofthe world population under age panses of land unsuited for cultivation from deforesta according to the GREAN proposal. To be good global 15, Coffman said, finite resources combined with young, tion," according to the report, which was funded by the citizens, the industrialized nations must help the de growing populations present a dilemma: Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. "The U.S. was am veloping countries use their own land more effec Demand for food in developing countries will ply rewarded for the Green Revolution. They helped tively, since many of the poorer nations would not be more than double by the year 2025 and triple by 2050, transform countries once dependent upon U.S. food into able to pay for imports anyway. Increasing agricul according to the report. Globally, 1.3 billion people large and growing markets for American products." tural productivity means increased income and food live in poverty now, with 75 percent of those located Scientists from Cornell and the University of Florida security for all. 6 April 11 , 1996 Cornell Chronicle
EastAvenue bus shelters harness the sun Users ofthe bus shelters on East Avenue will finally see the light. New solar-pow ered lights have been installed in the shel ters near Goldwin Smith and Rockefeller halls. Waiting bus passengers can push a button to activate the lights, which will stay on for six minutes. The lights take advantage ofsolar power - even on Ithaca's cloudy days - by gather ing the sun's energy using a photovoltaic system and storing it in a battery for use when the sun is not shining. The average run time, ifthe lights were on constantly, would be five to six hours in the winter, and up to ten hours during the summer months. "Ifthis technology is as successful as we anticipate, it could have further applications for other sites," said CU Transit Inc. Man ager Marc Whitney. "We will definitely consider this type of lighting for any new shelters that we install, especially those in remote areas." Photovoltaic systems are well suited to locations where accessing a power supply is either not feasible or expensive. Costs for installing the lights in both shelters was less Adriana Rovers/University Photography than it would have cost to bring a traditional Seniors Stephan Patemot, left, and Todd Krizelman pose at the College Avenue offices of their company, WebGenesis, with a screen full of their Web pages. powersupply line to just one ofthe shelters. The average life span of the photovoltaic modules is 20-30 years, and the batteries need to be replaced every four years. A student-created company is the talk ofthe Web "We estimate it will cost the university only $45 dollars a year, per shelter, for By Jonathan Lawrence '98 City, WebGenesis' Internet pages have fea battery maintenance and replacement light tured ads from such companies as bulbs," said Whitney. They gotstarted way back in 1994, in the 'We've proven that you can Attachmate, Excite, Apple Computer, Photocomm, the company that sup "pre-Netscape days," before the Internet buy a few Macs and have a Sportsline, Intel and DejaNews. They have took off as a commercial enterprise. It was been able to rely on corporate advertising plied the lights, has a large line of solar site.' powered products that include parking then that Cornell students Todd Krizelman for their entire revenue and can, therefore, and Stephan Paternot, armed with only a - Todd Krizelman '96 offer their services free of charge for their lot lights, water pumps and components CEO of WebGenesis to set up other applications that could be modem and a Macintosh computer in many users. used by the university. Krizelman'sdorm room, first experimented In order to maintain the busy schedule of with what would grow, a year later, into the being both Cornell students and entrepre largest Macintosh World Wide Web site in of where in the world they may be. neurs, the two have had to work 18-hour the world. WebGenesis' new software has improved days while being enrolled in sometimes as Scholars continuedfrom page 1 That Web site, called "The Globe" this on-line conferencing medium by add few as two courses per semester. (www.theglobe.com). is entirely designed ing certain ways to personalize the on-screen "We pretty much decided to throw laboration with a computer science profes and administered by Krizelman, Paternot environment. Users choose a name and an away our personal and social lives," joked sor, focusing on problems in graph theory, and the n~w 17-member staff oftheir com icon to represent themselves in their "chat Krizelman. with applications to computer network de pany, WebGenesis (www.webgenesis.com), room," and they can also post graphs or Flying back and forth to conferences in sign." This semester, his research is in the at its offices at 409 College Ave. charts during the course of their dialogue. California, and sometimes gettingoffa plane area ofgroup theory. The idea began two years ago, when then This graphic addition, in the words of one to take a biology prelim only to reboard an Kleinberg said he has a hard time ex sophomores Krizelman, a biological sciences enthusiastic user, "brings your eye swiftly hour later, Krizelman and Paternot, now plaining to people exactly why he chose major, and Paternot, a computer science ma to the comments you sought amidst a con seniors, have "crammed five to 10 years of mathematics as a concentration. "In truth, I jor, were struck by the marketing possibilities stantlychanging page." The resu It is an eye business experience into one year," as feel as if I never had to make a choice," he ofthe growing Internet and began working on catching arrangement of vividly colored, Paternot puts it. They will both graduate on said. "Math is so central to my way of a Web page that one day would attract big high-quality graphic images. time in May, they say, but not without some thinking about things that it always seemed advertisers. Having met as high school stu Other software offered exclusively by sacrifice - "our hairlines and ulcers," said natural for my studies to focus on math." dents during the Cornell Summer Session in WebGenesis includes a "Genesis Regis Krizelman dryly. The junior said he's pleased with the 1991, Paternot and Krizelman were reunited tration" system, for the purpose of regis Nearly all of the company's 17 com academic environment Cornell has provided during their freshman year. Though Paternot tering users in any given institutional puter programmers and graphic designers him. "My classes have been challenging, had experience in computer science classes computer system. are recent Cornell graduates, whose aver and I am grateful to have found professors and Krizelman's background "came mainly "This is the first user registration and age age is 22. who responded so enthusiastically to my from hacking," as he put it, the two knew that authentication program available for the "We are able to filter offpeople from the interest in doing research. At the same time, they loved computers and that they worked Macintosh," boasted Krizelman. "It has Computer Science Department before they Cornell provides an inexhaustible array of well together. unlimited user names and password storage graduate," says Krizelman. The University opportunities for exploring my other inter After having raised an initial $15,000 capability," he added. Career Center, for example, has faxed ests outside of mathematics," he said. over their winter break in 1994 from private Also available on their home page is resumes of graduating computer scientists Mter graduation, Kleinberg wants to go investors to buy some basic computer hard "Genesis Surveys," a program that can sup to WebGenesis. to graduate school and pursue a Ph.D. in ware, they purchased an Apple Internet port up to 10 different surveys, quizzes or "We are also able to go to the Cornell mathematics and eventually become a math Server system and set about programming questionnaires at the same time and compute Theory Center and the Computer Science professor, he said. software that would be both useful and statistical analysis immediately. This pro Department and ask, 'Who's your best JessikaTrancik, who recently was named entertaining for use(S of their Web site. gram is useful for institutions that are looking student,'" Krizelman added. WebGenesis, to the USA Today newspaper All USA From the seminal idea in the fall of 1994, to gather data on-line from any body ofcom say jts directors, pays competitively for College Academic team, is a graduate of about five months elapsed beforeThe Globe puter users. Other services on The Globe Ithaca - and for students. They are thus Ithaca High School. In herstudiesat Cornell, debuted on April 1, 1995. include personals, c1assifieds and computer able to attract a constant flow of fresh she has pursued research on metal-ceramic "There was no way that we wanted our games - all free ofcharge to visitors. young minds and retain their low-key composites and on thin films for magnetic service to compete with Prodigy Inc. or The Apple corporation has taken an inter "company culture." data storage, has two patent applications America Online Inc. We wanted to combine est in the success of the students' enterprise, Indeed, much of their precocious suc one for a technique featured in Business cool graphics, advertising, an emphasis on as being proof of the reliability of Apple cess can be attributed to the laid-back yet Week, Inside R+D, Technical Insight and interactivity and build some sort ofentertain Internet Servers to maintain a high volume of diligent ambiance of their Collegetown of New Scientist - and has completed 10 tech ment destination resort on the World Wide users without "traffic problems" or "down fices. Staff meetings at WebGenesis are nical papers and presentations. Web;' said Paternot, WebGenesis president. time" - the business hours lost when a server held daily, as opposed to weekly, and the The junior credits her diverse experi Without spending a penny on advertis crashes. Apple has sponsored Paternot and bosses always treat for pizza when work ences while growing up -living in Sweden ing for their site, Krizelman and Paternot Krizelman's attendance at Internet confer goes later than expected. and in Italy and learning to deal with many relied on word ofmouth to spread the news. ences in California, and WebGenesis also is Future plans for the company include a different environments, cultures and situa After just one month of telling their friends featured in Apple's advertising as the largest move of business headquarters to New tions - as a primary factor in her develop and sending out e-mail messages, the two Mac site in the world. York City and continued coaxing of big ment as a student. She is fluent in Swedish attracted an impressive 44,000 visitors to "We've proven that you can buy a few time advertisers to their popular Web site. and is a member of Cornell's ski team and WebGenesis' pages. Macs and have a site," said CEO Krizelman. This has been a whirlwind period oftime for women's tennis team. The most popular feature of their site, Most Web sites have traditionally been run the two seniors: The Globe celebrated its Trancik said she would like to combine which now claims nearly 150,000 users per off of less user-friendly hardware, like one-year on-line anniversary on April 1. her interests in engineering with her inter month, is an on-line chat forum in which Sparks stations, he said. "Todd and I just stand back sometimes ests in humanities, linguistics and design in users can engage in a real-time conversation As a member of DoubleClick, the com and think to ourselves, 'How did we get a future career. from their respective keyboards, regardless puteradvertising agency based in New York here?'" said Paternol. Cornell Chronicle April 11, 1996 7
Prof's involvement helps build bridges between students and faculty
By Julia Bonney Locksley Edmondson, professor of Africana studies, has worked, studied and taught all over the world: the Caribbean (he Was born in Jamaica), Great Britain, Canada, Africa and the United States. As he has moved from country to country and com munity to community, he has appreciated and assimilated many aspects ofthe cultures in which he has resided. Now, as the facuity-in-residence at the Townhouse Community, this genial and outgoing professor is an ambassador for his Current home, Cornell, where he has taught for 16 years. His apartment is a meeting place where students and faculty from di verse cultures, fields of study and dispar ate interests come together. People whose paths might not ordinarily cross in Cornell's large community meet in Locksley Edmondson's apartment. Edmondson is an international "archi tect," building bridges between Cornell stu dents and faculty and between different student constituencies. They might come togetherat the Townhouse Community Cen ter for an evening of Philippine or Carib bean music and dance, or gather in the Edmondsons' living room to view a vintage movie. Or the invitation may simply read: "You are cordially invited to join meand my family for brunch." "The value of the faculty-in-residence program for students comes from knowing that a professor is part of their community and is interacting with them in a less hierar chical basis than the classroom represents," Adriana Rovers/University Photography Edmondson observes. Professor Locksley Edmondson, center rear, and his daughter, Alisha, center front, entertain fellow residents at their ''To know that the professor is genuinely Townhouse Community apartment, from left, Nancy Pau '98, Agnes Galvez '97 and Sheldon Watts '97. interested in being part of their community communicates a positive message about important part ofhuman interaction that can who was tired of studying and in need of a programs. Edmondson is a strong propo Cornell and helps to create a basis for mu be lost in a large bureaucracy." Last semes good laugh, calling late one night. "I loaned nent of that idea. tual interaction that is fundamental to hu ter he and two students made a trip to the her a Danny Kaye movie. She loved it." "If a faculty member can contribute in man relations. Students meet me, and CorningGlass Museum,just to see the sights Edmondson lives in the heart of North any way to making a Cornell student's ex through me, they meet other faculty and of the Southern Tier of the state. Campus with his two children, II-year-old perience more diversified, or can help stu students. It benefits us all." A man of wide-ranging interests, Magnus and Alisha, 9. He says they are dents relate in a more relaxed way to the Not all of the events planned by Edmondson directs the Africana Studies thriving in the campus environment and academic, intellectual side of things by Edmondson (often with the aid of Campus and Research Center and is an international have formed many friendships. "It has helped making them feel more a part ofthe commu Life staff or his many colleagues) are large political scientist. He is also a self-pro their maturity; they are extremely comfort nity - that is a compelling reason to become Or elaborate, by any means. Sometimes he claimed "travel maniac" and avid collector able in an adult environment." involved in this program," he says. "Not to just walks around and knocksonTownhouse of vintage movies - Alfred Hitchcock and President Hunter Rawlings recently re mention, I have found this personally re doors. "I did that this fall and a student Humphrey Bogart being particular favor leased a proposal for residence life that warding. Some ofmy own life expectations invited me in for a glass ofhot cider. Wejust ites. His video collection is available for recommends more faculty be involved in have been beautifully transformed by the talked and got to know each other. This is an loan to his neighbors. He recalls a student the faculty-in-residence and faculty fellows faculty-in-residence experience."
'Lifelines' reunion-conference entertains alumnae at Cornell Club More than 100 Cornell alumnae, by Orlando and now a reunion feature for classes '53-'63, from as far as Califor a number of classes. nia converged on the Cornell Club in As the third '58 breakfast forum ended New York City, March 29 and 30, for a in June '93, Anita Miller agreed to head a unique reunion forum that focused on committee for a larger event. Subsequent common concerns of their generation planning, supported by '58 co-presidents and adapting to the dramatic social Carol Boeckle Welch and Betty Anne changes since graduation. Steer Merritt, came to include women of Forum invitations, mailed by organiz the classes five years before and after ers from the Class of '58 to nearly 5,800 1958 - those friends Cornellians rarely alumnae, included a survey of life out see at regular five-year reunions. comes vs. expectations during campus The forum planning group did its years, and a request for "lifelines," - ma own fundraising. Corporate and indi jorchanges, turning points and likely next vidual sponsors' whose contributions steps as an outline ofone's life history. To helped make the event a reality include: date, more than 760 surveys and hundreds Avon LifeDesigns of New York City, of lifelines have been received. Deloitte & Touche LLP of Boston; Lord "I've studied women's lives for many Abbett & Co. Investment Management years and have never been as moved as of New York; The Old Chatham by the lifelines and surveys from you," Sheepherding Co. Inn of Old Chatham, said keynote speaker Phyllis Moen, di Elsie Popkin '58 N.Y.-owned by Nancy Williams Clark rector of the College of Human Participants at the recent Lifelines forum at the Cornell Club in New York '62 and Tom Clark '63; Virginia Ecology's Bronfenbrenner Life Course City are, from left to right, Ruby Senie '57, Madeline Noveck '58, Alison Jolly Lindseth '56, Nancy Schlegel Meinig Center, who originally requested the '58, facilitator Jan Nickerson '72, Barbara Orlando '58, Phyllis Moen, the '62 and Ellen Adelson, Almeda Church lifelines. "I'm incredibly impressed by Lifelines keynote speaker, and Anita Miller '58, who was forum co-chair Riley, Jean Kelly Rolles, Harriett with Orlando. the response." Noting how the research Auerbach Peters, Carol Welch and an showed Cornell women adapting to his Other forum speakers were Dr. Dale Princeton. Jan Nickerson '72, president anonymous donor, all '58. toric social changes from the 1950s to Rogers Marshall '59, president of ofthe Prosperity CollaborativeofBoston, A number ofwomen who came cited the 1980s, Moen, the Ferris Family Pro Wheaton College; Dr. Ruby Tomberg served as facilitator. the Lifelines Forum as the first alum fessor of Life Course Studies, observed: Senie '57, a leading breast cancer re Co-chairs ofthe Lifelines Forum from nae event they had participated in since "In the '70s and '80s, women's goal searchernow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering the Classof'58 areAnita Podell Millerof graduation from Cornell. Many ex was to be more like men. In the '90s, I Cancer Center in New York; Madeline Albuquerque, N.M., and BarbaraBuehrig pressed enthusiasm for the overall pro see women and men becoming more Isaacs Noveck '58, president of Novos Orlando of New York City. The idea gram, meeting together with members like women, stepping out of lockstep Planning Associates financial planners of grew out of women's breakfast forums of concurrent classes and the idea of and cobbling together whatever works New York, and Dr. Alison Bishop Jolly started by '58 women at their 25th re similar events, perhaps in other regions for successful lives." '58, a noted primatologist currently at union in 1983, subsequently continued of the country. 8 April 11, 1996 Cornell Chronicle
Faculty Fellows proposals sought The world view The Faculty Fellows in Service Program was initiated by the President's Fund for Educational Initiatives and is supported by the vice president for tudent and academic affairs. It provides a vehicle for faculty and tudents to work together to provide com munity service. The program's goals are: • To encourage more faculty members to become involved in community service ac tivities, and to work directly with students in doing so; • To involve more students, primarily un dergraduates, in a ervice activity outside of the classroom to enrich their education; and • Through these efforts, to strengthen Cornell's commitment to service at the lo cal, state, national and international levels. Applicants can request funding for the sum mer or fall terms for up to $2,000. A project must be designed to address a need identified by the community to be served, and it must produce an outcome of benefit to the community group for whom the service is provided. Faculty and stu dent cannot displace a paid employee in the community. All applicants with faculty tatus are eligible, whether in teaching or re earch positions. Projects must involve undergraduates, but a small number of Charles Harrington/University Photography graduate students may be included. All Chief Emeka Anyaoku, secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations, lectures to a David L. Call Alumni Auditorium audience on April 4. Inhistalk, "The Commonwealth and the Challenge of Divisive Pluralism," Anyaoku students must work under the close super discussed explosive intemal problems that arise from cultural and racial divisions within countries. And pointing vision of a faculty member. out the examples of genocide in the former Yugoslavia and the racial divide revealed by the Simpson trial in the Participation is open to all Cornell stu United States, he warned that the dangers of such divisions are not confined to struggling Third World countries. dents independent of financial need. All proposals are reviewed by a committee of faculty members representing the under graduate colleges of the university. The deadline for summer 1996 pro Celebration-lecture marks Royal Academy induction for Greenwood posals is June 3. Awards will be made by June 10. The deadline for fall 1996 pro Colleagues will honor Professor of An Mario Einaudi Centerfor International Stud Styles in the Narrative of Selfhood." posals is July 1. Awards will be made by thropology Davydd J. Greenwood on the ies and the Institute for European Studies, A reception follows the talk in 215 July 15. occasion ofhis induction to the Spanish Royal follows Greenwood's Royal Academy elec McGraw Hall. To obtain more information on the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences tion, which recognized his 30 years of an A member of the Cornell faculty since guidelines for proposal or to submit pro with a special lecture and celebration Friday, thropological study of the Basque people. 1970, Greenwood is the Goldwin Smith po als, contact Ruth Bounous, Human April 12, at 3:30 p.m:in 165 McGraw Hall. Harvard University ProfessorofAnthro Professor ofAnthropology in the College of Service Studies Department, 186 MVR, The celebration, which is co-sponsored pology Michael Herzfeld will deliver a lec Arts and Sciences and a former director of 255-2503,
Undergraduate trustee wants to provide a link for students
By Aldl SaUm Roper '97 to and represent the student body on their level. Julie Chon believes in breaking down "Some representatives are distant. I barriers to open communication between plan to be out there with the students. the student body and its representatives, Even though there are some students I'm and she says she'll do just about anything sure I don't agree with, I'm not out to to achieve that goal. attack them but let them know they can Chon '98, a government major, be talk to me," she said. came the new undergraduate student One of Chon's main concerns will be elected trustee after voting results were helping to lobby, with assistance from the announced March 11. Her term begins university's government affairs office, officially on July 1. against government cuts to student-aid "I'm going to try to work with every funding. She said she feels this is a large body as best I can and make myselfavail issue that connects students at Cornell, able as a representative ofall students," who sometimes feel separated from the Chon said. rest ofsociety, with the outside world. On Chon'sresponsibilities during her two campu and off, Chon said, there is a great year term as a trustee will include keep deal of concern and lot of opposition to ing informal contact with the student body, the proposed cuts. maintaining a student trustee e-mail ac And besidesadvocatingfor educational count, giving bimonthly reports in the access, Chon said she would like to de Cornell Daily Sun and participating in fend all Cornell program houses, espe two ofnine trustee committees. Her pref cially for freshmen. erences are the Alumni Affairs and De Academically, Chon said she is most velopment, and Land Grant and Statutory interested in U.S. government cour es College Affairs committees. but enjoys a whole range ofcourses out The Cornell Board ofTrustees has 42 side this concentration, such as philoso members, two ofwhom arestudent-elected phy and anthropology. undergraduates. Trustees do much of the "Cornell students are very diverse, ra board's work in the separate committees, cially, geographically and academically. where proposals are made for items to be This, I believe, is one ofCornell's greatest placed on the full board's agenda. The assets. That is why I think the program board meets and votes four times a year, houses are so important. People should be the most recent meeting taking place on able to express themselves and get to know campus March 28 and 29, when Chon was as many others as possible," Chon said. introduced as a new member. Cornell A Red Bank, N.J., native who gradu currently is the only Ivy League school in ated from Freehold Township High which student-elected trustees have full School, Chon said she wants to run for board-of-trustees voting privileges. public office after college orcontinue her "It is important for each of us as trust education in graduate or law school. ees to go out to people and represent their "I can't really see myself doing any views," Chon said. "Don't assume that thingotherthan being politically involved the trustees will agree all the time. If we with my community," Chon said. had the same views, it would be a sign that Although she is enjoying her Cornell somebody is not being represented. Adriana Rovers/University Photography experience, Chon said there are things "Having student trustees on the board Julie Chon '98. Art. and Science•• recently elected to the Comell Board of that she would like to see changed here to opens up the other board members' eyes to Tru.t.... po". In front of Balch Hall. make the experience better. real campusstudent issues," she continued. "I would like to see students taken "Some trustees only come to campus for more seriously by the administration and the meetings. Cornell '54 is a different have each side show the other more re place than Cornell '96. It is crucial for 'People say Comell student. are apathetic. but there are a lot spect. We need to have morecommunica these seats to be on the board - without of student groups and organizations. I think the problem is tion across the board - a lot of students them, (the other trustees) would not know directing the activism. Active students can get involved in the don't even know who theiradministrators are," she said. what the students concerns are," she said. process through links between alumni. staff and faculty.' Chon will be working with the other "People say Cornell students are apa undergraduate-student elected trustees, -Julie Chon thetic, but there are a lot of student Karin Klapper '96-whose position Chon groups and organizations. 1 think the will take in July - and Kety Esquivel '97 problem is directing the activism," she - who has another year on the board - on ever, Chon emphasizes that her closest views, even though this has been her first said. "Active students can get involved issues students raise in forums such as contact should be with students, not experience with student elections. in the process through links between Student Assembly meetings, which just with student government. "I see a lot of frustration among the alumni, staff and faculty." Chon attends regularly. She said her Chon said campus activities, such as entire student body not being adequately Chon describes those links as essen· interaction with the Student Assembly living in a French language house, in addressed at the student governance level, tial, and she hopes she can provide one of has been casual up to this point, but she volvement in political organizations and from the uncomfortableness people feel those vital links for students. will publicly address the body when participation in a theater group, have given with their representatives," she said. "I just hope 1 can do a good job," her trustee term begins officially. How- her access to a broad range of student Chon said she is determined to listen Chon said.
No-interest state loan is helping everyone on campus see the light through the New York State Power Author By Larry Bernard ity and will be paid back over the next five Cornell has received an $890,940 inter years. It saves Cornell about $150,000 in est-free loan from New York to help refur interest over that time. bish and replace lighting with energy-effi The lighting program, a $3 million effort, cient bulbs and fixtures across campus. already hassaved3,275 kilowatts, or $680,000 The five-year program, which began in per year, at today's energy costs. New York 199] and should be completed next month, State Electric & Gas Corp. (NYSEG) also is already is saving enough electricity to ser contributing to the program. vice a small town of 4,000 people, Cornell Electricians already have replaced, re energy engineers said. furbished orredone lighting in 46 buildings, "We're getting better lighting with a including dormitories - a total of 40,000 little over half the electricity we were using fixtures that have been either replaced or before," said Jeffrey Price, program man refurbished. About 40 temporary electri ager in the Planning, Design and Construc cians from as far away as Watertown are tion unit. "The lighting is uniformly better helping get the job done, Price said. and energy efficient throughout campus. "Our electricians have worked, in some This is certainly comparable to the best cases, day and night, so as not to interfere energy conservation projects anywhere in with activities in the buildings," Price said. Frank DiMeo'Unh'ersity Photography the country .~' The project manager is Dann Braid, elec Patty Siegard. left. and Mike Cron. electrician. with Facilities and Campus The state loan, announced last week by trical shop foreman is Jake Benninger and Services. change fixtures in Olin Library as part of a project to refurbish and State Sen. James L. Seward (R-50th),comes the crew chief is Glenn Cotterill. replace lighting with energy-efficient bulbs and fixture. aero•• campu•. 10 April 11 , 1996 Cornell Chronicle
African,American Sundays, 5:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Union. Historian F.E. Peters will discuss Baha'i Faith 12 Fridays, 7 p.m., firesides with speakers, open Jesus and Muhammad in lecture discussion and refreshments. Meet at the Balch Archway; held in Unit 4 lounge at Balch Hall. theme of recent cover stories in Time, Olin Foundation Lecture Sunday morning prayers and breakfast, 7 a.m. By Jill Goetz "Why We Need a National Conversation on Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report). "/" Race: Lani Guinier, University of Pennsylvania Catholic Arguably the two ~I···.··';'.'" .•;.~.. ~'.".".'."'.'" It's a subject few know betterthan Peters, Law School, April 11, 7:30 p.m., Statler Hall Weekend Masses: Saturday, 5 p.m.; Sunday, most importantfigures ...... who since 1969 has held ajoint appointment Auditorium. 10 a.m., noon and 5 p.m., Anabel Taylor Audito -,_ in history will be the in NYU's history and Near Eastern lan rium. Daily Masses: Monday-Friday, 12:20 p.m., . •...;••... ,it1J.,.• guages and literatures departments with sec Pe ce Studies Anabel Taylor Chapel. Sacrament of Reconcilia topic of a lecture on !*'-'"'l' ...... ~~ . "Apes From Venus: Bonobos and Human So tion, Saturday, 3:30 p.m., G-22AnabeITaylor Hall. Thursday, April 18, ondary appointments in the Hebrew and cial Evolution: Frans de Waal, Emory University, given by noted histo ..!" ~..1 Judaic Studies Department and Program in April 12, 3:30 p.m., 132 Rockefeller Hall. Christian Science rian Francis E. Peters Religious Studies. Testimony meetings sharing healing through at 4:30 p.m. in Room Peters Outside academe, he has served as chair Public Affairs, Institute for prayer and discussion every Thursday at 7 p.m., "The Breakup ofCanada: Will Quebec Separat Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. For more o of Goldwin Smith Hall. man ofthe Social Science Research Council ists Finally Succeed?" Edward Goldenberg, senior information see
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Latin American Studies "Una Experiencia de la Gestion Urbana en Baseball (8-12, 2·2 Ivy) Caracas," Francisco Cesto, Simon Bolivar Univer April 13, at Brown (2) sity, seminar in Spanish with English translation, April 14, at Yale (2) April 16, 12:15 p.m., 153 Uris Hall. April 16, at Penn State (2) The diamondmen split six games last week Materials Science & Engineering and tasted their first Ivy league action. On Satur "Materials and Mechanics Considerations for day, Dartmouth came to Hoy Field and captured Flip Chip Organic Packaging," William Chen, IBM, the first game 7-6. In the nightcap, the Red April 11, 4:30 p.m., 140 Bard Hall. rebounded for an 11-5 triumph. On Friday, the Red opened Ivy league play by entertaining Microbiology Harvard. In the first game, the Crimson reigned "Host-Parasite Interaction," Mercio Pereira, with a 3-1 victory. In the second contest, the Big Tufts New England Medical Center, April 12, 12: 15 Red won 6-4. Earlier in the week on TueSday, p.m., Boyce Thompson Auditorium. Ithaca College came to Hoy Field for the Mayor's "Recombinant Ictalurid Herpesvirus 1: A Vac Trophy twin bill and the two teams split, with the cine Vector and Model for Fish-Herpesvirus Interac Red taking the opener 4-3, and I.C. taking the tions," Larry Hanson, Mississippi State University, second game 12-3. April 15, 12:15 p.m., Boyce Thompson Auditorium.
Natural Resources "Opposing Predation Pressure and Induced The 30th annual Veterinary Open House is scheduled for April 13 from 10 a.m. Vertical Response in Daphnia," Howard Riessen, to 4 p.m. at the College of Veterinary Medicine. Animals of all kinds and the Buffalo State College, April 11, 3:30 p.m., 304 latest medical technologies will be on display. For information, call 253-3700. Fernow Hall.
Neurobiology & Behavior "Imaging Neural Activity With Single Cell Reso lution in Escaping Zebrafish," Joseph Fetcho, ant Growers Movement,· Kevin Healey, at 7:30 p.m. and April 21 at 2 p.m. in the Black Box SUNY Stony Brook, April 18, 12:30 p.m., A106 InterAmerican Foundation, April 11, 12:30 p.m., Theatre at the Center for Theatre Arts. $2. Corson Hall. 401 Warren Hall. "Recovery of Cultural Resources for Rural Veterinary Players Nutritional Sciences Development in Bolivia," Kevin Healy, The Veterinary Players will present The Baker's InterAmerican Foundation, April 12, 12:15 p.m., "Acculturation and Diet in Korean-Americans," Wife on Friday and saturday, April 12 and 13, at 8 115 Tjaden Hall. Soo-Kyung lee, nutritional sciences, April 15, p.m. and Sunday, April 14 at 5 p.m. in James Law "legal, Illegal or Temporary Immigrants: Glo 12:20 p.m., 339 MVR Hall. Auditorium at the Vet College. A donation of $5 per bal Systems and Gatekeeping," Bryant Lindsay "High Dietary Retinoic Acid Inhibits Tumor Pro person is requested. Tickets are available at the lowell, April 17, noon, 32 Warren Hall. motion and Malignant Conversion in a Two-Stage student services office in Schurman Hall or at the Skin Carcinogenesis Protocol Using 7, 12 door. Reservations can be made at 253-3700. dimethylbenz[ajanthracene as the Initiator and SCience & Technology Studies Mezerein as the Tumor Promoter in Female ·Constructing a Public for Science: Populariza SENCAR Mice," Gisele Bernstein, nutritional sci tion in 19th Century France,·Bernadette Bensaude ences, April 16, 12:20 p.m., 100 Savage Hall. Vincent, Universite Paris X. April 15, 4:30 p.m., "Zinc Supplementation in Young Children With 609 Clark Hall. Acute Diarrhea in India," Sarah Talbott and Usa Studdert, nutritional sciences, April 17, 12:20p.m., Soil, Crop & Atmospheric SCiences 100 Savage Hall. ·FactorsAffecting Protozoan Predation ofBac Equestrian (0-0) "In Vitro Study of Ornithine Decarboxylase teria Clogging sand Columns," Paul Deleo, soil, April 20, Zone Championships at Port Jervis, Translational RegUlation: Background and crop & atmospheric sciences, April 16, '3:30 p.m., N.Y. Method," Chyh-Uang Chern, nutritional sciences, 135 Emerson Hall. Book Signings Sophomore Carrie Wood (Cincinnati, Ohio) April 17, 3:30 p.m., 200 savage Hall. o lesbian comedian and author Yvonne Zipter finished second in theOpen Equitation OverFences South Asia Program will beatthecampus StoreApril 13from2t03p.m. at the regional tournament last Saturday ~t Operations Research & Industrial "Profiles of Participatory Programs: Visual to sign copies ofher books, The Patience ofMetal, Cazenovia. With the top four in each event qual, Engineering Motion Media in Indian Development," David DiamondsArea Dyke'S BestFriendand Ransack fying for the next level, Wood will compete at the "So You Want to Start a Toy Company· or Booker, graduate student in communication, April ing the Closet. zone championships in two weeks. Wood was • On April 18, the Public Service Center is "Learning Fast About Manufacturing in China," 15,12:15 p.m., G-08 Uris Hall. declared the Reserve Champion in her event. sponsoring a lecture at 3:30 p.m. by Dr. David Richard Rothkopf, chairman, learningCurveToys, sadker, who co-authored with his wife the book, April 11 ,4:30 p.m., 155 Olin Hall. Statistics Men's Golf ·Multilevel Hierarchical Regression Models in Failing atFairness: HowAmerica's Schools Cheat April 13, at Yale Invitational Girls. Before and after the lecture, the Campus Ornithology Health Services and Outcomes Research," April 16, at Colgate Constantine Gatsonis, Brown University, April 17, Store will be selling copies of the book in the "saving Surinam Rainforests and Protecting auditorium of the Biotechnology Building. He will the World's Ozone," Peter Kaestner, Office of 3:30 p.m., 100 Caldwell Hall. Men's Lacrosse (3-4,1·1 Ivy) be signing copies at approximately 5 p.m. ECOlogy and Terrestrial Conservation, U.S. State April 13, Dartmouth, 1 p.m. o On April 18 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the campus Department, April 15, 7:30 p.m., Fuertes.Room, Sustainable Agriculture & Food April 16, Hobart, 7 p.m. Store, Professors James McConkey, A. R. Ammons lab of Ornithology. Systems The men's lacrosse team tallied seven times in TBA, April 17, 4 p.m., 401 Warren Hall. For info, and Kenneth McClane, together with local authors the final period en route to a 15-9 win over Mary Diane Ackerman and Paul West, will be signing Peace Studies Program contact Dean Hively at 255-3066 or land, Baltimore County, Saturday afternoon at copies of The Anatomy ofMemory: An Anthology. "Peacemaking Among Primates," Frans de
"Cold Fever," 9:45 p.m. "Bravehearf' (1995), directed by Mel Gibson, with Gibson and Sophie Marceau, 10:15p.m., Uris.
Saturday. 4/13 "Braveheart," 7 p.m., Uris. "Cold Fever," 7:15 p.m. "September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill" Johnson Art Museum (1995), directed by Larry Weinstein, with Lou Reed, Chemistry The Herbert F. Johnson Museum ofArt, on the Teresa Stratas and PJ Harvey, 9:30 p.m. Debye Lectures: Theodore Geballe of Stanford corner of University and Central avenues, is open "12 Monkeys," 10:45 p.m., Uris. University will give the Debye Lectures: "Supercon· Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. ductivity - From an Exotic Frontier to Mainstream Admission is free. Telephone: 255-6464. Sunday. 4/14 Interdisciplinary Science and Emerging Technol· • "Playfulness and Fashion: Inro From the "12 Monkeys," 4:30 p.m. ogy," April 11, 11 :15 a.m., 119 Baker, and "Itinerant Weston Collection," through May 12. "September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill," Ferromagnetism in the Perovskite Structures of Ru • "For the Enjoyment of Art: The Lockhart Col 7:15 p.m. and Mn," April 12, 11 :15 a.m., 119 Baker. lection," through May 12. "An Autumn Afternoon" (1962), directed by Blomquist Lectures: John Baldeschwieler of • "Still Time: Photographs by Sally Mann," Yosujiro Ozu, presented by Pentangle, 7:30 p.m., the California Institute of Technology will give the through May 26. Uris, free. Blomquist Lectures: "New Approaches to Cancer ·"A Life Well Lived: Fantasy Coffins of Kane Diagnosis and Therapy," April 17, 4:40 p.m., 119 Quaye," through June 16. Monday. 4/15 Baker Lab, and "Visualizing the World of AtomS "The Color of Fear," presented by the South and Molecules With Scanning Probe Microscopy,' Comell Design League Fashion Show Asia Association for Political and Academic Aware April 18, 4:40 p.m., 119 Baker. Apparel designs by Amy Melissa Steinberg, ness, 2:15 p.m. Kristin Boekhoff; runway design by Abigail "EI Bruto" (1952), directed by Luis Bunuel, 7 CUSLAR Brueggeman, and others, April 13, 5 and 8 p.m., p.m. "Alternative Development in Nicaragua,' Barton Hall. "The Tempest" (1979), directed by Derek Estebana Mendoza and Ligia Briones, rural activo Jarman, with Heathcote Williams and Toyah Wilcox, ists from Nicaragua, April 13, 7 p.m., The Burt! Design and Environment Analysis 9 p.m. House, 227 N. Willard Way, Ithaca. Call 255-7293 Interior and architectural work by Robin for info. Guenther, AlA, and her firm, Architecture + Furni Tuesday, 4/16 ture, through April 12, E:-124 MVR Hall. "Broadcasts by lV Pale," presented by the English Bosnia Coordinating Committee, 4:30 p.m., free. On April 15 at 2:55 p.m. in Hollis Cornell Kroch Library Exhibition Room 2B "Blue" (1993), directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall, novelist Paul "Invention and Enterprise: Ezra Cornell, a 19th with Juliette Binoche and Benoit Regent, 7: 15 p.m. West will speak as part ofthe "Mind and Memory' Century Life," curated by Elaine Engst, university "Nitrate Kisses" directed by Barbara Hammer, lecture series. archivist, through June 9. 7:30 p.m., CTA Film Forum. "12 Monkeys," 9:30 p.m. European Studies, Institute for Tjaden Gallery (M·F, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) "War and Peace in Bosnia: The Way the West All items for the Chronicle Calendar should Wednesday. 4/17 Won - and Lost," Enver Halilovic, University of be submitted (typewritten, double spaced) by • Paintings by Megan Lipke, through April 13. campus mail, U.S. mail orin person to Chronicle • Paintings by Guillermo Hinojosa-Canales, "Pather Panchali" (1954), directed by Satyajit Tuzla, April 12, 12:15 p.m., 153 Uris Hall. Calendar, Cornell ews Service, Village Green, April 13-20. Ray, with Kanu Banerji and Karuna Banerji, 7 p.m. 840 Hanshaw Road. "Blue," 9:30 p.m. Hotel School oticesshould besent to arrive 10daysprior Veterinary Medical Center Joseph Ferry, executive director of Bethesda to publication and should include the name and Paintings by Corinne T. Kenney, DVM '62, are Thursday, 4/18 Project in Philadelphia, will speak April 16 at 2:30 telephone numberofa person who can be called on display in the center's gallery through June 9. "Suddenly Last Summer" (1959), directed by p.m. in 190 Statler Hall, as partofthe"Housing and if there are questions. Joseph Mankiewicz, with Elizabeth Taylor, Feeding the Homeless" speakers series. otices should also include the subheading Willard Straight Hall Art Gallery (9 Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift, 7 p.m. ofthe calendar in which the item should appear. a.m. to 10:30 p.m.) "Pather Panchali," 9:30 p.m. Landscape Architecture • Sculpture by Sandra Taro, through April 12. Artist Patricia Johanson will speak April 17 at • Paintings, photographs and photo collage by 4:30 p.m. in Hollis Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Patricia Chu, April 15-26. Smith Hall as part of the "Ecology and the De signed Landscape" series.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Coalition Lesbian comedienne and author Yvonne Zipter will give a comedy show April 13 at 8 p.m. in the Willard Straight Hall International Lounge. Comell Intemational Folkdancers • Move to Caldwell: The Graduate School Open to the Cornell community and general offices will move from Sage Hall to Caldwell Hall. LGB Resource Office public, all events are free unless noted otherwise. Anticipated moving dates are: LBG Families Speakers Series: "Local Fami· No partners are necessary. For information, call Films listed are sponsored by Cornell Cinema Records Office, Thesis Adviser, Admissions lies Speak Out on Their Relationship to Public Edilia at 387-6547 or Marguerite at 539-7335 or unless otherwise noted and are open to the public. Office, and Fellowships and Financial Aid Office Schools and the Legal System," April 18, 7:30 send e-mail to David at
Wharton will give Messenger Lecture on U.S. politics and foreign policy rience and extraordinary leadership abili· By Jill Goetz cellor of SUNY and Negotiations in 1991. More recently, in (1978-87). 1993, he was President Clinton's deputy ties have equipped him with a clear-eyed Clifton R. Wharton Jr., a former deputy In the foreign secretary of state. understanding ofthe pressing problems ofa ecretary of state, chancellor of the State policy arena, he has Wharton received the Joseph C. Wil post-Cold War world," said Ralph Christy. Univerityof ew York ystem and chair held appointmentsun son Award for achievement and promise Cornell professorofagricultural economics man of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity der six U.S. presi in international affairs in 1977 and the and a longtime friend of Wharton's, whom Association and the College Retirement Eq dents. He served on President's Award on World Hunger in he metas a Michigan State University gradu uities Fund (TIAA-CREF), will give the the Presidential Task 1983. He holds a master's degree in inter ate student. Messenger Lecture on Thursday, April 18, at Force on Agriculture national affairs from Johns Hopkins Uni "He knows that many of these problems 4:30 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Audi Wharton in Vietnam in 1966, versity, master's and doctoral degrees in are rooted in poverty, social inequality, mal torium of Kennedy Hall. on the Department of economics from the University of Chi nutrition and environmental degradation," The title of the free and open lecture is State's Advisory Panel on East Asia and the cago and no less than 56 honorary degrees Chris~y added, "and that a foreign policy thai "Presidential Politics and Foreign Policy: Pacific from 1966 to 1969, on Gov. Nelson from a host of other universities. does not address these problems will nol Diminishing America's Global Stature." A. Rockefeller's Presidential Mission to As a trustee, his name has graced the likely be successful." As one who has served at the highest Latin America in 1969 and on President masthead of such institutions as the The Messenger Lectures were establi hed levels of international diplomacy, business Carter's Commission onWorld Hungerfrom Rockefeller Foundation, Equitable Life, in 1924 by a gift from Hiram Messenger. and higher education, Wharton can address 1978 to 1980. Time, Public Broadcasting System and Fed who graduated from Cornell in 1880, and are the topic from a rare array of perspectives. He was chairman ofthe board for Interna eral Reserve Bank. He is a current trustee of designed to raise the moral standards of From 1987 to 1993, he was chairman and tional Food and Agricultural Development the Overseas Development Council, SUNY political, business and social life. Wharton's chief executive officer of TIAA-CREF, the ofthe U.S. State Department's AID program Rockefeller InstituteofGovernment, Ameri visit is being co-sponsored by the Depart world's largest pension fund (whose current from 1976 to 1983, co-chairman ofthe state can Assembly, Winrock International and ment of Agricultural, Resource and Mana' CEO i Cornell trusteeThomas W. Jones '69). department's Commission on Security and Clark Foundation. He also is a member of gerial Economics, the Cornell International Earlier, Wharton was president ofMichi Economic Assistance in 1983 and a member TIAA-CREF's Board of Overseers. Institute for Food, Agriculture and Develop' gan State University (1970-78) and chan- ofthe Advisory Commission onTrade Policy "Dr. Wharton's vast foreign policy expe- ment, and the South Asia Program.