PIECE OF THE PUZZLE? A clue to SIDS in humans may come from a similar disorder in puppies, CORNEL researchers find.
ARCHITECTURAL SALUTE Noted scholar and emeritus architecture Professor Colin Rowe will be honored with a Festschrift in April.
Volume 27 Number27 President recommends new campus residential housing policy By Jacquie Powers residential communities that contribute to an intellectually engaged and socially responsible campus environment," President Hunter Rawlings is recommending a compre 'Our residential communities should according to the report Rawlings is presenting to the board. hensive campus residential housing policy designed to provide supportive intellectual, cultural, The recommendation also is being distributed to various reinforce the broad educational mission ofthe university by social and personal environments so that campus groups and is available electronically at
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ILR programs continued from page 1 knowledge across a wide spectrum offields efforts, especially in the area of public sector to those able to put that knowledge to use in bargaining law and policy. theirown lives and for the benefit ofsociety_ ILR faculty were involved in the devel The School of Industrial and Labor Re opment ofthe Taylor Law in 1966-67. Their lations helps fulfill CornelI's land-grant subsequent research on the law's effective mission for industry just as Cornell Coop ness has led to policy improvements in New erative Extension does for agriculture and York state and beyond. related fields. And theschool'salumni and faculty con In every part of the state, ILR works, tinue to serve as neutral arbitrators and through its extension division, to bring mediators for the Public Employment Rela knowledge to the people and, in the process, tions Board (PERB). Faculty members have it gainsvaluable insights from the real world also provided advice to the New York State that inform its teaching and its research. Department of Labor on issues such as un Here in Albany, ILR extension offers many employment insurance, workforce devel joint labor-management programs - an area opment and job retraining programs. of interest that is growing statewide and is Programs ofthis sort, aimed at helping the now the largestcomponentofILRextension's state and the nation in the quest for a produc programming in terms of registrants. tive economy and an equitable society, are More than 14,000 people enrolled in la very much a part ofwhat Cornell is all about. bor-managementtrainingprogramsstatewide We are, first and foremost, a service last year - more than 4,000 of them in the institution. Like other high-quality univer Albany area. Formembersofminoritygroups, sities, we serve our students with excellent for recent immigrants and for many others, academic programs and enriching experi ILR's extension programs provide the rungs ences that will equip them to assume posi on the economic ladder to help them become tions of leadership. We serve the public supervisors and managers, union stewards, Robert Barker/University Photography through research across the whole spectrum President Hunter Rawlings, right, speaks with New York State Sen. .lames offields-from the most rigorous ofthe hard officials and presidents. These extension pro d. Lack (R·C·2nd), left. and ILR School Dean David Lipsky at a luncheon in grams provide a gateway to positions of re Albany March 19. Lack, deputy majority whip of the State Senate, earlier sciences to the more ambiguous, but equalIy sponsibility in American life and a way to had been a panelist in a discussion titled "The Workplace of the Future: important, inquiries into why people be achieve the American dream. Changing Federal Responsibilities and Their Effect on New York." The have as they do. Cornell's commitment to a statewide event was sponsored by ILR School's Albany alumni chapter in commemo· But to an extent that is unique among mission is expressed in other ways - and ration of the school's 50th anniversary. New York state's universities - 'we also here again ILR is playing a major role. provide direct service to the state of New Its Program for Employment and Work ment shared decision-making in school dis Yet another example is the school's In York and the people who choose to make it place Systems (PEWS), for example, has tricts throughout the state, including stitute for Industry Studies, which works their workplace and their home. been a major force in economic development Binghamton and Chenango Forks. with both laborand management in specific A state-wide mission, rooted in service. in the state. PEWS provides information and Similarly, the school's Chemical Hazard industries to help parties reach a common is fundamental to the School of Industrial consulting services to private and public sec Information Program (CHIP) provides sci understanding of the challenges and prob and Labor Relations and its extension divi tor organizations - including companies and entific and technical expertise to help busi lems that need to be addressed. sion; it is also fundamental to Cornell their unions. It applies the latest principles of ness and labor prevent occupational injury Another expression ofCornell's commit In a rapidly changing workplace and in a work organization to improve productivity and illness by solving problems in the work ment to a statewide mission is its involvement rapidly changing society, Cornell'sstatewide and service as well as product quality. environment - thereby reducing costs to in public policy creation- and here again ILR mission of public service is a precious re In addition, PEWS has helped imple- employers and risks to employees. has been at the forefront of the university's source for everyone in the state ofNew York.
Residential housing policy continued from page 1 for academic achievement." struction of at least one new facility. to participate in the program review process as well. They Key elements of the proposal include construction of a • New space should be designed to allow faculty to live also should be encouraged to develop their own goals and new residential facility; expanded faculty participation in in residence, attract both freshmen and upperclassmen, principles to guide their participation in and contribution residential programs; periodic review of those programs; a provide appropriate community space for programmingand toward the educational mission of the university. They gradual shift to more upper-class participation in campus academic activities and be structured so that residents feel should participate in the faculty programs offered to the housing; a phased-in limitation on freshmen living in pro part ofsmaller communities within a larger residence hall. other residential communities. gram and theme houses; and at least a five-year moratorium Residence hall fees should not be the sole source offinanc • The university should recognize that individual stu on new program and theme houses. ing for this additional space. dents have different interests and different needs, and Cornell houses approximately 5,800 ofits 12,900 under • The existing stock of on-campus housing should be these differences should be accommodated in the range graduates in single-sex and co-educational residences and improved so that it, too, can better support the goals and of housing choices to the extent practicable. It is also in 10 program houses organized around specific themes. principles of residential communities. Particular attention important to ensure that students, especially freshmen. Fraternities and sororities house approximately 1,800 stu should be directed toward modifications that would allow are given the widest possible exposure to the full range dents, and cooperatives another 300. Freshmen are guaran more faculty to be in residence; that would attract a mix of of intellectual, cultural and social opportunities on cam teed housing on campus, and virtually all choose that students to each residence; and would provide increased pus. To facilitate that exposure, freshmen should be option; upperclassmen and transfers are accommodated as space for quiet study in the residence halls. encouraged to live on campus (and guaranteed that space is available. • Residential faculty programs should grow. Each resi option) and should select a residential community that The new policy sets forth six principles that will guide dence that houses more than 200 students should have a would give them the broadest introduction to the univer the university overthenextfive toseven years as it redesigns faculty-in-residence. New funds to support the faculty sity. Sophomores should be encouraged to remain on its residential communities. Those principles include: programs should be identified to reduce their impact on campus (and would be guaranteed that option as well) in • On-campus housing should beguaranteed to freshmen, housing fees. program houses, single-sex orco-educational residences. sophomores and transfer students. • The First Year Experience program should be offered cooperatives and fraternities and sororities to strengthen • Residential communitiesshould include sufficient num through the residential communities, linking small groups of their association with the campus community. The uni bers ofupperclassmen to serve as mentors to newer students new students from at least two different residences with a versity also should seek to increase the number of jun and to help provide a sense ofcontinuity for the community. faculty fellow and a student and staffadviser. The goal ofthe iors and seniors in campus-affiliated housing. • Residential communities should be small enough to First Year Experience should be to introduce new students to • Fraternities and sororities should continue their de create a supportive environment and appealing enough valuesofthe university, includingacademic and personal self ferred rush and house students after their freshman year. to attract more upper-division students than currently confidence, intellectual passion, community and service. Over the next several years, this should become the policy live on campus. Through the First Year Experience, students also should be for the program houses as well. As program houses foclls • Residents should serveas active participants in the design introduced to the history~ traditions and policies of Cornell. their attention on upperclassmen in the years ahead, fresh and creation of programs offered through the residential The program should beinitiated in the fall of1996 with a small man participation in them should be phased out and occur communities and play an active role in their governance. number of entering freshmen. The Office of the Dean of only as a rare exception. • Faculty should be actively engaged in the life of the Students should coordinate the First Year Experience and • The university should sponsor a campuswide housing residential community, both as faculty-in-residence and as offer it in cooperation with Campus Life. fair that would introduce current students to the full range of faculty fellows. • All residences should create programs to support the residential alternatives, including on-campus and off-cam • Cornell should continue to provide undergraduates a fundamental goals and principles outlined above. pus housing, before they need to make their living arrange broad range ofhousingalternatives, includingcooperatives, • More programs should be offered through Noyes and ments for the coming year. fraternities and sororities, program houses and single-sex Robert Purcell Community Centers. These centers should • In the immediate years ahead, priority should be given and co-educational residence halls. The exercise of indi be a focus for social and intellectual activity for the residents to the creation of at least one new residence, the improve vidual choice should remain an important principle. The who live near them in addition to serving as dining halls. ment ofcurrent ones and the implementation of programs university, however, has a particularly important interest in Students representing each residence hall, and perhaps (including the First Year Experience) to link students and assuring that freshmen have the widest possible exposure to cooperatives and Greek houses in the area, should serve as faculty within and across residential communities. To the full range of intellectual and social opportunities avail a programming board for the community center to design allow attention to be focused on these goals and programs. able, and it should design its housing options for these and deliver programs. new theme orprogram houses will not beconsidered during students accordingly. Upperclassmen should be encour • Campus Life should participate in the program review this time. aged to remain in university-affiliated housing. When room processthat is being introduced across campus. The purpose "Weconsider it absolutely critical to build links between assignments are made, attempts should be made to match ofthe review would be to determine how the programs and students' academic and residential lives," Murphy said. roommates who have compatible living habits. policies within all the existing residential communities "We hope these links will serve to foster a greater sense of The recommendations include the following actions to contribute to the fundamental goal and basic principles community on campus as well as to help promote our accomplish the long-term goal for residential communities stated above and to develop a plan to implement changes broader educational mission - to prepare our students to and fulfill the basic principles outlined above: when necessary. succeed and lead in an ever-changing and increasingl:. • On-campus housing should be expanded, with con- • Fraternities, sororities and cooperativesshou Id be asked diverse world community." 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CORNELL RESEARCH Clue to SillS in humans may come from disorder in puppies By Roger Segelken When their veterinarian said Shasta could die within the year, the Hoffmans were devastated and they faced a tough decision. Should they give up the 6-month-old German shep herd for research into a canine disorder that may parallel some forms of human Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)? Or should they let their own kids enjoy the seemingly healthy puppy while she lived? "Itwas really hard," recalls Robyn Hoffman ofAntioch, Calif. "Shasta was our 'baby.' We had just taken her to the vet clinic to be spayed. She seemed fine. Then they called and said that when they gave Shasta anesthesia, they found an irregular heartbeat." Cardiac arrhythmias in sleeping dogs are pointing to one possible cause ofSIDS in humans. Researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell have found that some German shepherds have an inherited abnormality that predisposes them to sudden death at an early age. Hearts in German shepherds with this abnormality function normally during their waking hours. The dogs run,jump and fetch with the best ofthem. Only when they lie down and go into REM (rapid eye movement) sleep do the potentially fatal arrhythmias - including the wildly racing heart beats called tachycardia - begin. Some young dogs never awake. In a provocative similarity to human SIDS, other dogs "outgrow" the risk of death. "Just as with babies who succumb to SIDS, routine postmortem examinationsdo not reveal acause ofdeath," said N. Sydney MOise, D.V.M. A veterinary cardiologist and associate professor ofclinical sciences, MOise heads the Cornell dog study, with funding from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. "We hear reports from German shepherd owners and breeders across the U.S., as well as Great Britain, Adriana Rovers/University Photography Veterinary cardiologist N. Sydney Moise reviews canine pedigree charts. Atop the computer monitor Italy and France," she said. "Some are losing one pup Is Elmo, a German shepherd puppy that Inherited a potentially fatal heart condition. in a litter; in other litters, they all die between 4 and 8 months of age." So MOise asked breeders of German shepherds to Nor are German shepherds the model that parallels donate siblings ofdogs that died suddenly in their sleep, human SIDS, the veterinary cardiologist emphasized. and she started tracing pedigrees. She deliberately bred 'Dogs are like people. Their nerves to SIDS is a catch-all term for many of the unexplained, dogs with the inherited predisposition for the abnormal the heart are not complete at birth. But unexpected infant deaths, she said, and how many deaths are heart-related is not clear. ity. That concentrated the genes - although the research the nerves should contiJlue growing to ers still don't know which genes are responsible - and "However, these dogs give us an opportunity to look pedigree chartsofinbred dogs with inherited arrhythmias the heart during the weeks and months at a couple of hypotheses, including the effect ofabnor began to look like family trees of old European royalty after birth. The sudden death dogs mal innervation to the heart," MOise said, pointing to with hemophilia. and even those that survive - never scintigraphy images. That's how a puppy named after a snow-capped seem to develop a normal nervous Back in California, the Hoffmans were getting differ ent pictures. Photographs of Shasta and her puppies, mountain became Shasta Science Dog. system. We're not sure whether this Is "Brian Maloney, one of the veterinarians at the romping with veterinary students who exercise the dogs, a problem with the heart or with the clinic where Shasta was supposed to be spayed, had arrived regularly in the mail. MOise and her colleagues been an intern at Cornell, and he said he recognized development of the nervous system.' began publishing their findings about German shepherd the arrhythmias," Robyn Hoffman said. With the - N. Sydney Moise arrhythmias in journals for human cardiology, physiol Hoffmans' permission, Shasta was fitted with a por ogy and pediatric medicine. table, 24-hour-a-day heart monitor. One day's read They also reported to the animal care professions, ing was enough for MOise. asking veterinarians to be alert for the inherited abnor "Her ECG (electrocardiogram) was perfectly nor affected animals had abnormal sympathetic nerve mality and recommending that breeders keep known mal when she was awake and excited and happy," the innervation to the heart. Collaborating researchers at carriers out of the gene pool. One ultimate goal is to Cornell veterinary researcher said. "When she went to the University ofCalifornia at San Francisco (UCSF) identify the genes responsible for the disorder, MOise sleep, the arrhythmias started. I knew this dog was confirmed the Cornell veterinarians' hypothesis of said. Genetic screening could keep the sudden death going to die unless .. ." uneven distribution of nerve fibers. problem from spreading through the dog population. Cornell requested Shasta's participation in the SIDS Drs. Michael Dae and Randall Lee produced im And gene studies may help the investigation of sudden related research. The dog would be fitted with an im ages of the heart with MIBG (metaiodobenzyl death in humans. planted defibrillator to control her racing heart. And she guanidine) scintigraphy that showed the incomplete "But first we have to focus on the mechanisms ofthis would have puppies of her own. The Hoffmans thought nervous innervation. Dr. Phillip Ursell, also at UCSF, disorder," MOise said, "and we still have a lot to learn." long and hard, Robyn Hoffman said, and finally decided: corroborated the paucity of nerves, using special Shasta had been at Cornell about 18 months when "Ifthere was some way ourdog or her puppies could save stains of the hearts of dogs that died. The affected something like a miracle occurred. Her sleeping a life, then we had an obligation." dogs' heart muscles - which should be as full of arrhythmias simply stopped. The veterinarians checked Shasta was flown from San Francisco to Ithaca. Her nerves as Los Angeles is crammed with freeways again and again and it was true: Her 2-year-old heart was defibrillatorwas implanted by James A. Flanders, D.V.M., look more like road maps of the Yukon. beating normally, asleep or awake, without aid of the with assistance from Eric Fain, M.D., a physician/com Another important finding at Cornell was the discov defibrillator. The Cornell researchers now know that puter specialist from Ventritex Inc., the Sunnydale, Ca ery of abnormal electrical activity in individual heart some of the arrhythmia-affected dogs "outgrow" the lif., manufacturer of the complex device. With Fain's fibers taken from dogs that had died. The relationship problem. Their normal autonomic nervous system still is programming assistance, the defibrillatorworked. Shasta between abnormal electrical activity and lack ofinnerva not complete, but apparently they find other ways to became, from all outward appearances, a normal German tion is understudy in co aboration with Robert F. Gilmour adjust to this deficiency. shepherd: healthy, vigorous and fertile. And she was Jr., Ph.D., Cornell associate professor of physiology So Shasta Science Dog could go home. finally getting a good night's sleep. specializing in electrophysiology of cardiac tissue. Shasta "fit in" as if she'd never been gone, caring Not so, though, for Moi'se and her assistants. They "Dogs are like people. Their nerves to the heart are lovingly for the Hoffman kids (three by now) and often spend their nights watching over newborn pup not complete at birth," MOise explained. "But the nerves running like a marathoner with Jake and the gang. pies to make sure not a single one is lost. Canine should continue growing to the heart during the weeks Robyn Hoffman said she's never seen a dogso protec mothers, especially first-timers with large litters, may and months after birth. The sudden death dogs - and tive of children. unknowingly roll over and crush the tiny pups, MOise even those that survive - never seem to develop a normal Before the Cornell veterinarians put Shasta on the said, and every animal in the Cornell project is pre nervous system. We're not sure whether this is a prob plane to California, they gave her a little thank-you for cious. Some of Shasta's pups inherited the abnormal lem with the heart or with the development of the her contributions to science. She finally got that long ity. In addition to the dangerous arrhythmias, the nervous system." awaited spaying procedure. 6 March 28, 1996 Cornell Chronicle
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By Jill Goetz The Cornell International Students Pro gramming Board is having a party, and everyone's invited. April 4 through April 20, students will host an "International Festival" celebrating Cornell's cultural diversity. Currently, that diver ity translates to 2,609 international tudents (13 percent of the tudent body) and morethan 80 international student clubs, ranging from the Af rican Students Asso ciation to Young Italy. Thisyear'sfestival has the theme "The Global Mosaic" and will include an inter national exhibition, food tasting, flag painting and global Anyaoku soccer tournament. A highlight will be a public lecture by Chief Emeka Anyaoku, secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations, on Thursday, April 4, at 8 p.m. in Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. Anyaoku became secretary-general in 1990 and is serving a second term as leader of the London-based Commonwealth, an Charles Harrington/University Photography Dennis Mogil, Digital Print Shop associate, describes his shop's services to customers at the Cornell Business intergovernmental organization promoting Services Showcase, held on March 20 in the Field House. The print shop is one of eight units under the Cornell peace, economic growth and sustainability Business Services umbrella. The first annual showcase offered live demonstrations, refreshments, speakers ofnatural resources throughout the world. It and an opportunity for visitors to browse through information offered at each unit's booth. repre ents 53 former British colonies, or about a quarter of the world's population. (The United States is not a member.) Anyaoku, a native ofNigeria, held several po ition in the igerian government in the early 1960 afterthat countrygained indepen Experts on India's economy to speak at workshop dence. Hi previous po ts with the Common By Jill Goetz Parikh is director of the Indira Gandhi political science at Northeastern University. wealth included assi tant director of interna Institute of Development Research, who will give a talk titled "Mixed Blessings: tional affairs, director, assistant secretary Ever since India implemented sweeping Bombay. He has served on the prime Foreign Capital Inflows and Democracy in general and deputy secretary-general. economic reforms in 1991, investors and minister's Economic Advisory Council, as 'Emerging Markets,'" from 5:45 to 6:30 p.m. Hi accomplishments include coordinat journalists, as well as scholars and stu president of the Indian Econometric Soci Saturday will feature two sessions. The ing the drafting of the Southern Africa Ac dents, have been keeping a close watch on ety and as professor of economics at the morning session, titled "The Indian cord, which helped end apartheid, and radi its progress. This weekend, Cornell will Indian Statistical Institute. Last year he was Economy: Five Years After the Crisis," wi II cally restructuring the Commonwealth. He host a workshop devoted to India's emerg a consultant to the prime minister on the be chaired by Cornell's Erik Thorbecke, the ha! erved on the International Board ofthe ing economy and featuring some of the controversial ENRON electric power plant, H. Edward Babcock Professor of Econom United World Colleges and as a trustee of people who are most familiar with it. which was canceled in August. ics and Food Economics, and will include the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. "Indian National Economic Policy in an "Dr. Parikh is one of the most distin Parikh, Purnendu Chatterjee, manager of During his two-day visit to Cornell, EraofGlobal Reform: An Assessment" wjll guished economists currently working in The Quantum Fund; Karen Parker, a profes Anyaoku is scheduled to meet with interna be held March 29-30 in Room 401 of War India,"saidTapan Mitra, professorand chair sorin Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School: tional student groupsand visit Cornell's Insti ren Hall. Free and open to the public, the of Cornell's economics department. and Nirvikar Singh, professorofeconomics tute for African Development, Einaudi Cen workshop is being organized by Cornell's Also on Friday, Atul Kohli, professor at the University ofCaliforniaat Santa Cruz. ter for International Studies and Institute for South Asia Program with the co-sponsor ofpolitics in the Woodrow Wilson School In an afternoon panel titled" ational EC("l Food, Agriculture and Development. ship of several departments and programs. of Public and International Affairs at nomic Policy orLiberalized Market Regimes: Other event at the Cornell International including the Mario Einaudi Center for In Princeton University, will give a lecture A False Choice?" speakers will include Fe. tival will include: ternational Studies and department ofEco from 4:45 to 5:30 p.m. titled "Political Prabhat Patnaik, a professor at the Centre tilf • Thursday, April 4: Flag painting, 3:30 nomics and of City and Regional Planning. Obstacles to Economic Progress In India: EconomicStudiesand Planningat Jawaharl:d 5:30 p.m., Big Red Bam 'This worl(shop will provide an aca The Current Reforms." Nehru l:niver. ity in e\\ Dehli; Amiy:! • aturd}, April 6: Global. ccer tour demic forum at which cholars from differ Kohli, a former member of the Interna Bagchi, a profes r at the Centre for Studir n m nt, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Alumni Fields ent di. ciplines, including political science, tional Peace and Security Committee ot the on Social ciences at the Univer. it) of onday, pril ,,: International Exhibi economic and social anthropology - as Social Science Research (',Qundl, is the Calcutta; and Ajlt Singh, a professor ofecn t! n. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.. Willard traight Hall well as from the bu ine s communi!) -can current president ofthe program committee nomics at Cambridge University. FoliO' ing emorial Room share recent interpretations of the wide of the American Political cienc Associa that session \ ill be a panel trom 4:30 t06 p.m. • Thur day, pril 11: Dance debut, ranging economic reforms that characterize tion and a member of the Asia S ciety's featuring chola~ from Cornell as \\ ell n 10:30 p.m., tatler Auditorium contemporary India,"said Shelley Feldman, advisor) council. He IS the author of De from Syracuse niver It) and Hohart anJ • aturda}, April 13: Global occer tour director of the South Asia Program. mocracy and Discontent: India' Growing William Smith Colleges. n ment, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Alumni Fields On Friday, March 29, Kirit S. Parikh will Crisis ofGOl'emability and The State lind Both Parikh and Kohli are Visiting • Friday, April 19: Food tasting. 7-8:30 give a lecture titled "India's Po\\-er Needs Poverty in India: The Politics ofReform. Cornell as University Lecturers. a progr.1I1l p.m., One World Room, Anabel TaylorHall and the Role of U.S. Firms" from 2 to 3 p.m. Friday'sfinal speaker will be Leslie Elliott that brings the world's foremost scholar. III • Saturda}, April 20: Symposium on in in Room D of Goldwin Smith Hall. Armijo, a professor in the department of campus. (See related story below.) ternatIOnal development, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Warren Hall, Room 45. 1 hroughout the festival, Cornell Cinema will screen international films, and Cornell Scholar will speak about war and peace on Monday Dining will feature international menus in the dining halls. By Jill Goetz leading scholars of ancient Greek history. comparisons of the ways in which each (If Teck Hean Wong, International Students he is also oneofthe great studentsofwarand the two World Wars came to an end, of the Programming Board pre -ident. said Cornell Donald Kagan, a peace," said Barry Strauss, Cornell profes peace that was concluded in each case an.1 tudent. have organized international festi guest scholar at the sorofhistory and classics and director ofthe the ways in which each peace was enforced. val for approximately the past 25 years. Woodrow Wilson In Peace Studies Program, which is co-spon with the purpose of discerning how each (,f "We recognize that the relationship be ternational Center for soring Kagan's visit with the departmentsof these elements doe - or does not contribute tween national and international students at Scholars and the Classics and of History. to a lasting peace. Cornell is still not as strong as it should be; Hillhouse Professorof "He has done pioneering work in com Kagan taught in Cornell's history de \\-e hope that this festival will strengthen History and Classics K parative history, work of lasting impor partment from 1960 to 1969. that relationship," he said. at Yale University, agan tance," Strauss said. "Few historians can The University Lectures were begun at For further information about the Inter will give a University Lecture on Monday, match the breadth of his vision or the depth Cornell at the turn ofthiscentury by Goldwin national Fe tival, visit the programming April 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell ofhis knowledge on topics ranging from the Smith to bring the world's foremost schol board's home pageon the World Wide Web Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. Peloponnesian War to the two World Wars ars to campus. This semester's final Univer at
Study: Rice-based diet may be healthier than wheat-based diet
By Susan Lang A diet based on wheat foods, such as pasta, bread and cereal, may be contributing to this nation's soaring rates of diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, high choles terol and coronary heart disease, according to a new Cornell study. On the other hand, rice-based diets, and to a lesser extent fish and green vegetables, appear to lower the level of blood values associated with the risk of these diseases. These findings, published in the January 1996 issue of the American J oumal of Clinical Nutrition, come from the Cornell China-Oxford Project on Nutrition, Health and Environment, a massive survey across the far reaches of China that investigates more diseases and dietary characteristics than any other study to date. In 3,250Chinesewomen living in widely dispersed rural counties, the researchers examined the relationship of various foods with a specific set of biochemical blood tests that have been shown to be commonly linked with diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and coronary heart disease- other wise collectively known as the "insulin re sistance syndrome." "We found that the pattern ofblood bio chemistries ofpeople in the northern part of China who eat a predominantly wheat-based diet resemble those in people with insulin Adriana Rovers/Universiry Photography resistance," said Jeffrey Gates, a research Jeffrey Gates, research associate in nutritional sciences, poses at Greenstar Cooperative Market with bags of brown associate in Cornell's Division of Nutri rice. Research that Gatescollaborated on seemstoshowthatrice-based dietslowerthelevel ofblood values associated tional Sciences; he collaborated with T. with the risk of various disorders, while wheat-based diets increase those risks. Colin Campbell, the Cornell biochemist and director ofthe China project, Banoo Parpia, ably good indicatorofinsulin resistance. Low counties consistently had low HDL levels, researchers have found that some rice vari a research associate in nutritional sciences, levels of SHBG are consistently linked to high triglycerides and low SHBG, all sug eties havehigheramylosecontentthan wheat and Chen Junshi ofthe Chinese Academy of high levels of insulin in the body. Sustained gestive ofinsulin resistance. Evidently, rice does; some rices, on the other hand, have Preventive Medicine in Beijing. high levels of insulin are, in tum, associated and wheat can have significantly different comparable levels. This pattern includes higher insulin, with the development ofthe chronic diseases effects on the important biochemical pa "Several recent studies have shown higher triglycerides, and lower sex hor mentioned above. rameters we measured." Interestingly, both that starches with higher amylose content mone binding globulin (a measure of insu The Cornell researchers, therefore, the rice and wheat consumed in these Chi slow down glucose ab orption and thus lin resistance). looked at SHBG, triglycerides, cholesterol, nese regions are semi-refined. reduce the insulin response of the meal," 'TheChinese women in the south, on the insulin, testosterone, glucose and 21 differ Gates stressed, however, that while rice Gates added. other hand, eat a rice-based diet and have a ent food groups. Factors commonly associ and wheat appear to make the biggest impact "Clearly, the effects of wheat or rice on pattern of blood values that would be con ated with insulin resistance, such as meat on SHBG and insulin, certain other foods in insulin response must not be i alated from sidered low risk," Gates added. consumption, smoking and weight were the Chinese meal also have an important the important influence ofother dietary and In the past coupleofdecades, many studies controlled for in the analysis. effect on SHBG and insulin changes in the lifestyle factors such as fat and exercise. have pointed to insulin as being a common "Though other foods such as fish and blood, and thus ultimately, on those diseases However, this study lends support to the factor linking such diverse disorders as high green vegetables were associated with associated with insulin resistance. idea that certain starches may play an im blood pressure, diabetes and coronary heart changes in blood parameters studied, the Gates speculates that "the differing ef portant role in the development of insulin disease. Recent research also has discovered strong effects of rice and wheat on SHBG fectsofwheat and rice on SHBG and insulin resistance and thus increase an individual's that sex hormone bindingglobulin (SHBG), a were remarkable and unexpected," Gates may be due to the difference in amylose risk for diabetes, hypertension and coronary relatively unknown blood protein, is a reason- said. "Women in the northern, wheat-eating content, a particular kind of starch." Other artery disease."
N.Y. onion growers can use Cornell-tested product in [PM pestfight insecticide that are u. ed on a continuou bast ." Forthis By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. reason, the re earchers believe that they needed a new The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has 'By providing the growers with safe, type of compound - uch as Tngard - that the onion granted a one-year approval for a novel plant protectant new control tactics, Com II r search maggot hJ not been exposed to in the pa t, and It mu t that has been tested al Cornell as a ecd coaling for indir ctly assists others s well since be u cd in concert ith other pr en c ntrol trategie. Significant agricultural el:on mle. are at take a onions. This new treatment promi s to help save I e.... this is a tremendously important crop York's onion crop, providing that it can gain full ap the onion maggot make inroads toward pe Ilclde to the state, it has many he Ithful proval for use heyond 19Q6. reo i tance in ew York and ther tate, according to ew York onion grower may use Trigard on onion qualities for consumer ,and it means the re earchers. eed this growing season to combat the onion maggot. a lot to the local economie .' In thi ca e, the onion eed i coated ith Tri ard and orne other ingredient at the eed hou e and thu be according to integrated pest management expert. at - Charles J. Eckenrode Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Stalion in Geneva. come a tiny round pellet. In thi ay, mall amount of "We can't afford to lose the onion crop here in e.... material are appl ied inavery preci e ay to the eed coat York foranumberofreasons,"said CharlesJ. Eckenrode, rather than in bands into Ihe. oil at planting. Three eed Cornell professor of entomology and researcher at the ticides used to curb the onion maggot populations also companie. have permis ion 10 make the eed pellels: experiment station. "By providing the growers with safe, significantly reduced the numbers of beneficial insects Asgrow, of Gonzales, Calif.; Incotec, of alina, Calif.; new control tactics, Cornell research indirectly assists that eat onion maggot eggs and larvae in the field. and Seed Dynamic, of Salinas, Calif. others as well since this is a tremendously important crop "Trigard is especially active against certain life Eckenrode explained that the re earch on the u e of to the state, it has-many healthful qualities for consumers, stages of flies and their relatives, but only has weak cryomazine started about five years ago on mall field and it means a lot to the local economies." activity against many other unrelated insect groups," plots. Because Trigard was belOg used in other part of At 12,000 acres, onion ranks as one of New York's he said. Research also found that cyromazine, the the country on other vegetable , the re earcher knew rna t valuable crops, with an annual value of between active ingredient in Trigard, haws no mutagenic or there would be minimal residue in the oil, particularly $50 and $75 million statewide. Grown in a highly or teratogenic activity in any laboratory tests. In fact, since such small amounts were being u cd. ganic, peat type of soil - known as muck - the average Eckenrode said that it is relatively safe to warm "The first year oftesting, we knew we had omething onion grower invests $2,500 to $3,000 into each acre blooded animals, while other onion field pesticides and that it was likely to payofffor the onion growers later before the onions are harvested. So, losing the battle with have a higher level of toxicity. on," Eckenrode said. "UsingTrigard on onions is a very the onion maggot, witli other pests or even to adverse Cyromazine is not new to the agricultural market. The effective IPM strategy. With IPM, you try to reduce weather spells doom for growers. product is currently used to control the leafminer on pesticides and make the pesticides you do use more Using Trigard, provided by Ciba Plant Protection, of celery and lettuce in Florida, Texas and Arizona. It is also effective. Trigard is excellent IPM new. since it reduces Greensboro, N.C., would help New York's onion grow used to control houseflies in commercial poultry houses the onion maggot planting time toxicant per acre by 87 ers in their Integrated Pest Management program, since in New York and other states. percent. It is also more selective than older soil insecti it fits in with the principals of multi-strategy approaches "Onions are one ofthe toughest things to grow," said cides, since it allows more beneficial insects and other more than some earlier efforts where there has been an Thomas W. Walters, Cornell research associate in fruit life forms to survive, thus we gain more assistance from over-reliance on pesticides. and vegetable science. "And onion maggots in New York them in the battle to contain this serious onion pest. For example, Eckenrode said that some earlier insec- have had a long history of developing resistance to That's IPM to me." 8 March 28, 1996 Cornell Chronicle
'Town meetings' detail plans for Students receive Fuerst Awards CIT restructuring About 200 staffers from Cornell Infor mation Technologies heard details of a re structuring plan for CIT at two "town meet ings" last week. Vice President H. David Lambert, who announced the restructuring at town meet ings shortly after his appointment last sum mer, said that CIT has formed three new divisions to better serve Cornell. Directors of two of three major new units, Ann Stunden, who has charge ofacademic tech nology and technology services, and Helen Mohrman, who heads administrative sys tems and distributed technologies, outlined some of their objectives at the meetings. Lambert is serving as interim director of the third unit, network and computing systems, until the earch for a director is completed. "We have a fabulous group of people who have created one of the best informa tion technology structures ofany university in the country," Lambert said at Friday's session. "We are so far ahead of where so many people are in so many areas, it is amazing. But we also have places where there is work to be done. There are a new set of challenges out in front of us, reflecting who we are, what we have to accomplish and how we organize ourselves to do it. It Charles Harringtoll/Unil'ersity Photography happens alI the time out there in the world, Five Cornell Library student employees have been given Fuerst Outstanding Library Student Worker Awards for maybe not so often in a university." "exceptional performance, leadership and library service to the campus." The $500 awards were made possible CIT Human Resources ManagerJudith by William F. Fuerst Jr. '39. Above are the winners and the benefactor, front row from left: Lisa Sasaki '97, Fuerst; Hart described a series of steps between and back row from left: L1asmin Orsini-Fuentes '96, Stephen Davis '96, Madeline George '96 and Janice Yang '96. now and the target date for complete implementation of the new format, June 30. She said that in the first phase, those staffers expected to perform essentially the same work they do nOw will be iden Students test financial models with supercomputer tified. Others who will be taking on new assignments will be invited to attend By Faith Short model, programming the computer, collect code development time," said Gal Berko07, workshops to determine what new roles ing the data and analyzing the results." president of BEAM Technologies. at CIT might be a good match for their Training for Wall Street used to mean an The experience is part of Cornell's new PDESolve is a high-level language thn! skills and interests. MBA degree in finance and a smattering of Financial Engineering program, developed solves partial differential equations and de Lambert acknowledged that the re computer courses. Not anymore. jointly by the Johnson School and the Col fines geometry, boundary conditions an.1 structuring could result in fewer total At Cornell, finance and engineering stu lege of Engineering. More than 35 MBA discretization methods. "We expect that the positions within CIT, but said that he dents are putting financial models and ap and master's of engineering students are use of PDESolve by Cornell's financi:d believes that all staffers who have stayed plications to the test on IBM's largest participating. "We expect this course to engineering students will demonstrate its abreast of developments in their fields supercomputer, the 512-node Scalable RS/ expose Cornell students not only to one of value as a modeling tool for pricing and are likely to find a valued and valuable 6000 POWERparallel (SP) Systems at the the most robust computing systems in the hedging exotic securities," Berkooz said. position in the new CIT. The organiza Cornell Theory Center (CTC). world, but to the latest advancements in "CTC is interested in helping to better tion is committed to retraining to bring Students are experiencing the rigors of software," said David C. Heath, the Merrill prepare Cornell students for the busine';<; employees up to speed on new functions applying financial models to real-world Lynch Professor of Financial Engineering. world while testing new software and as they undertake. problems in a new course called Applied Working in teams, applied financial en sessing the value of parallelizing financial Hart promised "as open and honest a Financial Engineering. "Studentsaren'tjust gineering students tackle multiple projects. codes for speed-up," explained Peter M. process as possible" during the transition hearing about hedging and trading strate Oneteam, for example, is testing PDESo)ve, Siegel, director ofthe Theory Center's Cor and urged staffers to participate fully in the gies, they're testing them," explained Rob a new software tool from a Cornell spin-off porate Partnership Program. "We're eager process. "Be. a little patient and a little ert A. Jarrow, the Ronald P. and Susan E. company called BEAM Technologies Inc. to keep the financial industry of New York trustful," she counseled, "because we don't Lynch Professor of Investment Manage "PDESolve could be used by finance state at the forefront ofalgorithmic develop know exactly what is coming out at the ment at the Johnson Graduate School of industry professionals to solve derivative ment as well as numerically intensive and other end yet." Management. "That means formulating the valuations problems with considerably less data-intensive computing."
Ifyou receive chain e-mail at Cornell- please don't propagate it Chain mail - you know the kind - it Employee Essentials for Windows ware site-licenses in effect. usually contains phrases like "pass this University Human Resource Services CIT has created a software site-license on," "forward - do not delete," "don't (uIlRS) and Cornell Information Tech Web site to provide information to the break the chain," "this has been around @ornell.edU nologies (CIT) released Employee Essen campus. CIT has made an initial effort to the world 20times." Withso many people tials for Windows in February 1996. This gather together information about all of on-line, the electronic environment is a Bear Access service, which looks and the site-licenses on campus, regardless of perfect place for chain e-mail to flourish. functions exactly like the Macintosh ver which organization or department pur However, chain e-mail not only clogs up referral to the judicial administrator for sion, allows faculty and staffto view their chased them. the computing networks, but sending it disciplinary action. benefit coverage and tax withholding sta You can reach the software site-licens and forwarding it to others is a violation Ifyou get chain e-mail from someone tus. It also gives all employees (faculty, ing Websiteat
By Jill Goetz Guinier, a gradu Her many civil rights-related posts have Since then, when not teaching at Penn, ate of Radcliffe included serving as special assistant to the she has made frequent public appearances University of Pennsylvania Law School College and Yale chiefofthe Civil Rights Division from 1977 on college campuses and in the news media Professor Lani Guinier, whose nomination Law School who has to 1981 and as assistant counsel for the and has written a book, The Tyranny ofthe by President Clinton for the nation's top served on the Uni NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Repre civil-rights post was derailed following al versity of Pennsyl Fund from 1981 to 1988. sentative Democracy. legations by conservative members ofCon vania faculty since When Clinton, a former Yale classmate Guinier's Olin Lecture is being spon gress and the media that she had a radical 1988, is the daugh who attended Guinier's wedding in 1986, sored by the Graduate School and the Olin agenda and favored quotas, will deliver the ter of a Jewish nominated her to head the Justice Fellows. The Olin Fellowship program was Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation mother and a black Department's civil rights division in 1993 established by the Spencer T. and Ann W. Lecture on Thursday, April 11 , at 7:30 p.m. Quinier father, who was him- under Janet Reno '60, conservative con Olin Foundation in 1986 as part of a $30 in the Statler Hall Auditorium. self a pioneering gressmen and commentators quickly inter million, 20-year commitment to support Titled "Why We Need a National Con civil rights leader. In articles for the Washing preted her law review articles as reflecting graduate education. Each year since, from versation on Race," the lecture is free and ton Post and New York Times magazines, a "breathtakingly radical," even "unconsti four to eight outstanding first-year graduate open to the public. Tickets, which are re Guinier has saidshewasalways acutely aware tutional" position and labeled her a "quota students have been named Olin Fellows at quired for the lecture, will be available be ofthe nation's racial and ethnic divisions, but queen." Her rapid withdrawal from the Cornell, and one distinguished guest has ginning April 1 at Willard Straight Ticket that her parents taught her, early on, the ways nomination without a hearing (she calls it been brought to campus to give the Olin Office, Sage Graduate Center and the Infor in which race "both matters and doesn't mat her "dis-appointment") sparked consider Lecture. Last year, that guest was prima mation and Referral Center in Day Hall. ter in a person's life." able controversy. tologist Jane Goodall.
Festschrift will honor architecture scholar at Cornell April 26-28
By Darryl Geddes Colin Rowe, one of architecture's most influential scholars and one of its leading commentators, will be honored with a Festschrift April 26-28 on campus. Rowe, the Andrew Dickson White Professor of Ar chitecture Emeritus, taught at Cornell from 1962 to 1990. He will speak April 28 at 10:30 a.m. in Schwartz Audi torium, Rockefeller Hall. The Festschrift, an academic tribute reserved for noted faculty, will attract scholars and practitioners from across the United States and Great Britain and feature four major addresses, a panel discussion and eight papers delivered by Rowe's former students and colleagues. Many of the activities will examine the teaching of architecture education and urban design, issues ofimpor tance to Rowe. The four addresses, which will be held in Schwartz Auditorium, will be given by: • George Baird, professor of architecture in the Harvard Graduate School of Design, April 26 at 4:45 p.m., on "Opposition." Valerie Bennett • Peter Eisenman '55, principal of Eisenman Ar Colin Rowe, the Andrew Dickson White Professor of Architecture Emeritus, taught at Com II from chitects in New York, April 26 at 8 p.m., "Figuring 1962 to 1990. He will speak April 28 at 10:30 a.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, during the Ground." a Festschrift in his honor. • Robert Maxwell, professor emeritus in the Depart ment of Architecture, Princeton University, April 27 at the University of Pennsylvania; Jerry Wells, Cornell this country." 1:45 p.m., "The Animated Archive." professor of architecture; and Judy Wolin '68, chair Rowe's early essays in theArchitecturalReviewwere • Henry Millon, dean of the Center for Advanced of the Department ofArchitecture at the Rhode Island the first to relate modern architecture to architecture of Studies in Visual Arts, National Gallery ofArt, Wash School of Design. the past. In subsequent scholarly pieces on cubism and ington, D.C., April 27 at 8:30 p.m., "Colin Rowe: Rowe, who taught at Cornell in four different decades, modern architecture he further developed his theories, Early Works." received one of architecture's highest honors last year and is the author of several books, including, Collage A panel discussion, "On Architectural Education," when he wasawarded the Royal Gold Medal ofArchitec City (MIT Press, 1978), which shifted the focus from will be held April 27 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in ture by Queen Elizabeth and the Royal Institute ofBritish individual buildings to whole cities; The Mathematics of Schwartz Auditorium. Participants include: Judy Architects (RIBA). The medal cited Rowe as the "most the Ideal Villa andOther Essays (MIT Press, 1976); The DiMaio '75, professor ofarchitecture at Yale Univer significant architectural teacher ofthe second halfofthe Architecture ofGood Intentions (Academy, 1994); and sity; Anthony Eardley, dean of the School of Archi 20th century" and "one of Modern Architecture's most As I Was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Es tecture at the University of Toronto; Lee Hodgden, consistent and inspired critics." says (MIT Press, 1996). Cornell professor of architecture; Robert Maxwell, The British-born architect and scholar was saluted in TheFestschrift is oneofmany activities to be held this professor emeritus in the Department ofArchitecture, 1983 for his "contribution to the development of archi year in celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Col Princeton University; Werner Seligmann '55, former tectural theory in our time" with election as an honorary lege of Architecture, Art and Planning. dean of Syracuse University College of Architecture; fellow of the RIBA. Two years earlier, Rowe was For further information, contact Gail Kolbe in the John Shaw, Cornell professor of architecture; Robert awarded a special medal by the American Institute of College of Architecture, Art, and Planning's Public Slutzky, professor of the Department of Fine Arts at Architects for his "seminal influence on architecture in Affairs Office at 255-6808.
Ethiopian filmmaker will attend campus screenings Salem Mekuria, an Ethiopian indepen dents. Forticket information, contact Cornell "Deluge" is a personal video essay on dent filmmaker, will attend the screening of Cinema at 255-3522. history, conflict, loss and reconciliation. Told three of her films in Willard Straight The "Sidet: Forced Exile" is an hour-long through first person narrative, the story ex ater on campus, April 4 and 5. Mekuria's documentary about three Ethiopian/Eritean plores the loss ofhistory and with it, personal visit is sponsored by the Africana Studies women refugees in the Sudan. Comingfrom and national identity. It is a memorial to a and Research Center and Cornell Cinema. different backgrounds, they experience ex brother who disappeared in 1978 and a best Mekuria, a professor in the art depart ile differently, revealing their unique friend who was executed in 1979. The docu ment at Wellesley College, is an acclaimed strengthsand weaknesses as they struggle to mentary centers on Ethiopia's 17 years of filmmaker whose works have become land cope with a precarious existence in a poor turmoil, from the deposition ofHaile Selassie marks in documentary filmmaking within and frequently hostile land. Mekuria says to the collapse of military leader Mengistu the independent African cinema movement. "Sidet"uncovers thestory theWestern media Haile Mariam's Marxist regime. Mekuria's"As I Remember It: A Portrait fails to report: the story of a people who Event co-sponsors are the Department of of Dorothy West" will be shown April 4, at "remain buried under the busy rhetoric of Art, the Cornell Council for the Arts, Gen 5:30 p.m., admission is free. "Sidet: Forced disaster and relief." der and Global Change, the Herbert F. Exile" and "Deluge" will be shown April 5 The documentary, shot in 1990, has won Johnson Museum of Art, the Institute for at 7 p.m., at which time the filmmaker will numerous awards, including a Silver Apple African Development, the Rose Gold en The parents of a Red Terror victim discuss her films and answerquestions from at the 1993 National Educational Film and Fund, and the Women Studies and Peace talk to filmmaker Salem Mekuria in the audience. Tickets are $4.50; $4 for stu- Video Festival. Studies programs. the 1995 documentary "Deluge." 10 March 28, 1996 Cornell Chronicle
hesives," Jeff Koberstein, University of Connecti Music Department festival features cut, March 28, 4:30 p.m., 140 Bard Hall. Natural R.sourc.s "Biochronology: A Piscine Analogue of Den French composer Olivier Messiaen drochronology," George Spangler, University of Minnesota, March 28, 3:30 p.m., 304 Fernow Hall. The Department of Music will highlight by University Organist Annette Richards. TBA, David Schindler, University ofEdmonton, the works of French composer Olivier Selections include LeBanquetCeleste and La Alberta, April 4, 3:30 p.m., 304 Fernow Hall. Messiaen (1908-1992) during three perfor Nativite du Seigneur. The Cornell University mances, April 2, 5 and 8. All concerts are Chorus and the Ithaca College Chamber Or Nutritional Sci.nc.s "B-carotene Absorption and Cleavage in Rats free and and are open to the public. chestra, under the direction of Ithaca College Is Affected by the Vitamin A Concentration of the Messiaen was an influential composer Professor Grant Cooper, will perform Diet," Diane Dong, nutritional sciences, April 2, and organist whose works were extremely Messiaen's Trois Petites Liturgies de la 12:20 p.m., 100 savage Hall. Departm.nt of Music personal and often influenced by Roman Presence Divine. The program also features "Growth Hormone Stimulates Galactopoiesis o March 30, 8:15 p.m., Barnes Hall: Festival Catholic mysticism, as in his 1955 composi Francis Poulenc's Litanies La vierge noire, to in Healthy Lactating Women," Vanessa Annibali, Chamber Orchestra. New works by doctoral can a nutritional sciences, April 3, 12:20 p.m., 100 Sav didates Steven Burke, SallyLambandJohn Rogers. tion The Ascension. Others, such as the be performed by Richards and the university age Hall. • March 30, 8:15 p.m., sageChapel: After Eight: Turangalila symphony (1949), are based on chorus under the direction of Scott Tucker. "Acappellaand entertainment."Admission charged. oriental music orbird song, as in his Catalog Internationally recognized soprano Omithology o March 31, 8:15 p.m., Barnes Hall: Student ofBirds (1959). Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Cornell soprano Judith "Rarest ofthe Rare: A Questfor the Short-tailed recital by Margaret Milman, horn. The April 2 performance, which is set for Kellockand oneofKellock's voice students, Albatross," Diane Ackerman, April 1, 7:30 p.m.. • April 1, 8:15p.m., Barnes Hall: Studentrecital Fuertes Room, Lab of Ornithology. by Brian chu, baritone. Works by Faure, Martin, 8:15 p.m. in Barnes Hall, will feature soprano Nancy Jang, will close the Messiaen Ravel, Beethoven and Barber. Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen, performed series April 8 at 8:15 p.m. in Barnes Hall, Physiology & Anatomy o April 2, 5 and 8, 8:15 p.m., Barnes Hall and on piano by Xak Bjerken, a Cornell lecturer, with a selection of works for voice and TBA, Michael Appleby, April 2, 4 p.m., LH III sage Chapel: See story, Page 10. and Karl Paulnack, associate professor at piano. Kellock opens the concert with pia Veterinary Research Tower. Com.1I Conc.rt Commission Ithaca College; and Quatuorpour la Fin du nist Xak Bjerken in a performance ofChants Plant Biology On Sunday, March 31, at8p.m., in Bailey Hall, Temps, performed by Bjerken, Ellen Jewett de Terre et de CieL. Jang will be accompa "Sensing Environmental Change: Photosys legendary jazz artists Ellis and Branford Marsalis on violin, Elizabeth Simkin on cello and nied by Blaise Bryski in a reading of Trois tems II Excitation Pressure and Redox Signaling," will perform. Tickets are on sale at the Willard Richard Faria on clarinet. Also on the pro Melodies. Bryn-Julson, whose recordings Norman Huner, University of Western Ontario, Straight ticket office, Ithaca Guitar Works and gram is Witold Lutoslawski's Subito for are heard on the RCA, Decca and Deutsche March 29, 11 :15 a.m., 404 Plant Sciences. through Ticketmaster. Studenttickets are $14 and $16; general tickets are $18 and $20. violin and piano. Grammophon labels, will close the festival Plant Br.eding The program for April 5, which begins at with a performance of Poemes pour Mi. "Molecular Cytogenetics of Tomato," Jie Xu, Seth Kaufman Conc.rt 8:15 p.m. in Sage Chapel, opens with a group Bryn-Julson's Cornell appearance is spon plant breeding, April 2, 12:20 p.m., 135 Emerson. Seth Kaufman '94 will give a solo piano concert of five Messiaen pieces for organ performed sored by the Cornell Council for the Arts. April4at8:15p.m. in Barnes Hall. Featured pieces Plant Pathology included Elysian Fields, Along Prytania and other "Population Structure of dsRNA Viruses in the compositions that will be part of a forthcoming Chestnut Blight Fungus," Tobin Peever, plant pa album. Tickets are available atthe Willard Straight Episcopal (Anglican) Appli.d Math.matics thology, Ithaca, April 2, 3 p.m., A133 Barton labo- Hall ticket office and at the door. ratory, Geneva. ' Sundays, worship and Eucharist, 9:30 a.m., "listening to Dynamical Systems," Ami "Unusual Membrane Lipids in Phytophthora Anabel Taylor Chapel. Radunskaya, Pomona College, March 29, 3 p.m., Bound for Glory infestans and Their Possible Role in Fungal Physi 310 Rhodes Hall. March 31: Cosy Sheriden, a rising star on the Friends (Quakers) ology and Phytopathogenesis," Robert Moreau, national contemporary acoustic scene, will per USDA, Philadelphia, April 3, 12:20 p.m., 404 Plant Sundays, 11 a.m., meeting for worship in the Astronomy & Spac. Sciences form live in the Cafe in Anabel Taylor Hall at 8:30, Sciences. 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. Admission is free. Bound for Edwards Room ofAnabel Taylor Hall. Discussions "The Multiphase Interstellar Medium," Chris Glory is broadcast Sundays from 8 to 11 p.m. on most weeks at 9:50 a.m., 314 Anabel Taylor Hall. McKee, University ofCalifornia at Berkeley, March Russian Literature WVBR-FM, 93.5 and 105.5. 28,4:30 p.m., 105 Space Sciences BUilding. J.wish "The Fugue in Two Parts in Stalinist Russia: On Symbolism of Musical Terms in Pasternak's Po Morning Minyan at Young Israel, 106 West Bioch.mistry etry," Boris Katz, Mussorgsky College ofMusic, St. Ave., call 272-5810. "Function Consequences of Transmembrane Petersburg, March 29, 3:30 p.m., 277 Goldwin For information on Friday and Saturday ser Signaling Initiated By Aggregation of Cell Surface Smith Hall. vices, call 255-4227. Receptors," Henry Metzger, National Institutes of Health, March 29, 4 p.m., large conference room, Science & Technology Studies Korean Church Biotechnology Building. "Trace Amounts: Cancer, the Environment and Sundays, 1 p.m., chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall. Bioengineering Human Rights," Sandra Steingraber, University of Illinois, Chicago, April 1, 4:30 p.m., 609 Clark Hall. Latt.....day Saints (Mormon) "Technology for Managing Respiratory Fail Asian American Studi.s Program Sunday services: Cornell Student Branch, 9 ure," William W. Frayer, Cornell University Medical SHARE: Diversity Network a.m., Ithaca ward, 1 p.m. For directions or trans Center, March 29, 12:20 p.m., 155 Olin Hall. Novelist Fae Myenne Ng will read from her "Historical Diversity in the United States: Pros portation, call 272-4520, 257-6835 or 257-1334. work March 28from 4:30t06 p.m. intheA.D. White pects for Today and Beyond," Valerie Haye~, Biogeochemistry House. A reception will follow. director of Cornell's Office of Equal Opportunity, "Using Physiological and Molecular Microbiol Muslim March 28, 12:15 p.m., Founders Room, Anabel Friday Juma' prayer, 1:15 p.m., One World ogyto Understand the Biogeochemistry ofOrganic Creative Writing Taylor Hall. John Brehm, visiting professor of English, will Room, AnabelTaylorHall. DailyZuhr, Asr, Maghreb Environmental Pollutants," Eugene Madsen, mi give a poetryreading Apri14at4:30 p.m. in the A.D. and Isha' prayers at218 Anabel Taylor Hall. crobiology, March 29; 4 p.m., A106 Corson Hall. Sociology Joint Colloquia S.ri.s White House. His poems have appeared in Poetry, "The Ethic of Responsibility, Environmentalism Chemistry NewEngland Review, Prairie Schooner, aswell as Orthodox Christian and Property Rights: The Social Basis of Activism "The Chemistry of Polar Ozone Depletion," many other literary journals. Sundays, Matins at 8:45 a.m., Divine Liturgy at in the New York City Watershed," Max Pfeffer, 10 a.m., St. Catherine's Greek Orthodox Church, Mario Molina, Massachusetts Institute of Technol rural sociology, with J. Mayone Stycos, March 29. ogy, April 4, 4:40 p.m., 200 Baker. Durland Alt.mativ.s Library 120 W. Seneca St., 273-6884. 3 p.m., Faculty Commons, MVR Hall. sandra Steingraber will read from her work Cognitiv. Studi.s March 31, 7:30 p.m., in the Founders Room, Prot.stant Cooperative Ministry Soil, Crop & Atmospheric Scienc.s Sundays, 11 a.m., chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall. Andy Clark from Washington University will Anabel TaylorHall. She is the author ofa collection "Comparative Effectiveness of Wood Ash, Hy give two seminars: "Computation and Represen of poetry, Post-Diagnosis, and of the forthcoming drated Lime and Ground Calcitic Lime in Amelio· tation: Two Players in Search ofa Role," March 28, non-fiction book Rachel's Daughters: Women, Sri Satya Sai Baba rating Soil Acidity," Gerald Kimbi, soil, crop & 8 p.m., 164 Goldwin Smith Hall; and "What Does cancer and the Environment. Sundays, 10:30 a.m., 319 N. Tioga St. For atmospheric sciences, April 2, 3:30 p.m., 135 Embodiment Mean for Cognitive Science?" March details call 273-4261 or 533·7172. Emerson Hall. 29, 3:30 p.m., 202 Uris Hall. Z.n Buddhist Sustainabl. Agricultur. & Food Ecology & Syst.matics Tuesdays, 5 p.m.; Thursdays, 6:45 p.m., chapel, Syst.ms "Dynamics ofAdaption and Divergence During Anabel Taylor Hall. "Linking Consumers and Institutions With the 10,000 Generations ofExperimental Evolution With Local Food System: Selected Collaborative E. coli," Richard Lenski, Michigan State University, Projects," Jennifer Wilkins, nutritional sciences, April 1, 4 p.m., A106 Corson Hall. rnMJ-----m~__ April 3, 4 p.m., 401 Warren Hall. For info, contact Electrical Engineering Dean Hively, 255-3066 or
Top gymnast finds balance in her sport and in life
By Michael Jason Lee With an array of academic accolades in ing its annual symposium on March 28 from 8:30 tandem with her considerable athletic mmrt~ ~_r~n1~_ a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in G-01 Biotechnology Building. achievements, Karin Weismann has become Topics include: improving your sequence results, template preparation and automated microsatellite one of the elite performers, both inside and analysis. For more information, call 257-4857. outside of the gymnasium, for the Cornell amassed a career-high score of36.10 in the women's gymnastics team. all-around competition. By improving her South Asia Program The senior biology major is a member of all-around score by over three full points "Indian National Economic Policy in an Era of two honorsocieties, afixture on thedean's list, from her first meet ofthe season, Weismann Global Reform: An Assessment: see story on Page 6. an Academic All-American and the recipient achieved her preseason goal of 36, or an of the Richie Moran Award, given to a stu average of9.0, in each of the four events. Women's Studies Program dent-athlete who personifiesexcellence in ath Weismann has pinpointed the keys to A panel discussion on "Gender and Consumer letics, scholarship and ambassadorship. her success. Culture in the United States: Recent Work by Through her accomplishments, Weis "Self-discipline, self-motivation and at Graduate Students in the History Department" will be held March 29 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the ILR mann has established herself as a paragon titude are very important. I think 1 have a FaCUlty Lounge, Ives Hall. Featured will be: "Add for other athletes to emulate. strong self-discipline which gets me to go Women and Stir? New Recipes From Old Ingredi "Karin is the perfect role model for student into the gym and gets me to keep a posi ents: Jacqueline Hattan; "Keeping Up With the athletes at Cornell," head gymnastics coach tive attitude," she said. "Even when I'm in Mrs. Joneses," Susan Matt; and "Hats Are Pretty Much ofa Nuisance After All: The Construction of Paul Beckwith said. "She'severythingacoach pain, I feel like there is more that I can do Women's Citizenship in the 1920s,· Liette Gidlow. could want in an athlete. We couldn't ask for to get better. anything more out of anyone." "Gymnastics is very important to me," After spending her first two collegiate Weismann added. "I want to be so good at years in the swimming program, Weismann gymnastics that it ju t drives me to keep Karin Weismann decided to compete for the gymnastics squad going and to work harder." her junior year. "I came back and worked my whole jun Weismann had utilized her leadership Assistant gymnastics coach Melanie Hall ior year, and 1 really didn't feel like I was role to instill team unity, a fundamental step said Weismann's change was influenced by strong again until the end of the season in in the squad's rebuilding process that was the reinstatement ofthe gymnastics program March," said the co-captain from Norwich, lacking last season. Book Sale to varsity status (the program had been cut N.Y. "It takes a lot to get the body back into "My goal thi year as a team captain is to The Durland Alternatives Library fourth annual the previous year) and her love for the sport. shape and get the timing back, so it just has make the team much stronger by having book sale will be going on in the library, 127Anabel "Karin was out of gymnastics for sev to do with doing a lot of gymnastics." everyone support each other and be united," Taylor Hall, March 31-April7. Subjects cover holis eral years after high school," Hall said. Beckwith remarked that Weismann'stre she said. "We're going through a transition, tic health, progressive politics, world religions and much more. Library hours are Monday-Friday, "When they brought the team back, she mendous work ethic was a primary determi but I think it's important to build traditions 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. and loved gymnastics so much that she came nant in her successful transition. and a base for the team, and from there it can Sunday, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Proceeds will go to the back to it and worked extremely hard to "There are people in every sport who grow stronger as far as performance." West Africa-Ithaca Library Partnership Project. get where she is today." work hard and then there are people who Beckwith recognizes the positive influ Ca1l25~6486 for information. Weismann was a standout gymnast at really work hard," he said. "Karin is never ence Weismann has had on her teammates. Cooperative Extension Sale Milford Area Senior High School, garnering quite satisfied, she always wants to go that "She is absolutely the cheerleader of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins Boston Globe All-Star laurels three times extra mile ... she just wants it real bad." team, as well as our best competitor," he County will hold a horse equipment, clothing and and winning the state championship in the Weismann has steadily improved her said. "She'salways picking someone else up tack sale March 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the floor exercise during her senior year. scores in all four events this season and has when they are down, cheering them on. extension office, 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca. Con signments will be accepted from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday Unfortunately, the unique demands of subsequently solidified her spot as the team's She's just a born leader." and 9 to 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Ten percent of the gymnastics prevented herfrom simply shak top all-around performer. Regardless ofher performance the remain proceeds will support the horse barn at 4-H Acres. ing offher extended absence and picking up Earlier this year, she recorded a personal der of the season, it is obvious that Karin For info, contact Susan McCutcheon, 272-4468. where she had left off in high school at be~t score of9.22 on the balance beam and a Weismann will always finish as a champion. Comell Intemational Festival Cornell. Weismann was forced to redevelop 9.1 mark on the uneven bars, the highest Rag painting, April 4, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Big Red her muscle strength, acute timing and over judgment by a Big Red gymnast this season. Michael Jason Lee is a senior at Ithaca Barn. all abilities through long hours of practice. At the Ithaca Invitational, Weismann College.
Comell Railroad Historical Society Finger Lakes Model Train and Circus Show, March 30-31,10 a.m. to 5 p.m., New York State Armory, NYS Route 13 at Hanshaw Road. Admis sion: Adults $3; kids 6-12, $2; family rate, $7. For more information call Tom Trencansky, days 255 5352, evenings 844-4767.
CUSLAR Benefit 5-4 on the trip. The Red split a doubleheader points at the Irvine Invitational last Saturday in A benefit for CUSLAR will be held March 31 at Baseball (1·8, 0-0 Ivy) against Bucknell before posting a 3-2 mark at the Irvine, Calif. Junior Jeff Nason (Couer d'Alene, 11 a.m. at Moosewood Restaurant. Suggested March 28, Cortland, 3 p.m. Radford Tournament over the weekend. Idaho) helped lead the men bywinningthesteeple donation, $10-$20.Tickets are available at March 30, at Colgate (2) chase in 9:14.73 and senior Charles Shimooka Moosewood, Bead Store Cafe, Mundo Gitano, the March 31, Colgate (2) (Escondido, Calif.) tied for first place in the pole Alternatives Library and by calling 255-7293. The Big Red finished up a tough road trip to the Men's Tennis (4-7, 0-1 EITA) West Coast by losing a doubleheader on Saturday April 5, Pennsylvania, 2 p.m. vault (15-7). Intemet Workshop at San Francisco State 16-1 and 7-3. In the middle April 6, Columbia, noon The men's tennis team traveled to Florida last Women's Outdoor Track (0-0) An advanced internet workshop will be held ofthe week, the Red lost three times to the Univer week to compete against Central Connecticut, April 6, at Penn Invitational April 3 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Uris Library sity of Pacific 25-4,18-7 and 23-13. Stetson, Webber, Florida Southern, Western A1a- The Big Red women won the Irvine Invitational Computer Lab. This is part two of the two-part bama, and Central Florida. Thetrip began with a 5- last Saturday with 130.5 points. Cornell was led by sequence. For information caJI255-4144 or e-mail Golf (0·1) 1 victory over Central Connecticut at Orange Lake sophomore Ellen White (Ann Arbor, Mich.), who
30 through May 26. • Art for Lunch: Thursday Noontime Gallery Talks: On March 28 at noon, Masako Watanabe, assistant curator ofAsian art, will give a talk on the exhibition "Playfulness and Fashion: Inro From the Western Collection.· • SundayAfternoon Artbreaks: On March 31 at 2 p.m., docent Leonora Georgeolou will present "Reading Art, Speaking Art: A Visual Recipe: • Brand X Musical Theatre will be presented March 31 from 3 to 4 p.m. at the museum.
Design and Environmental Analysis Interior and architectural work by Robin Guenther, AlA, and her firm, Architecture + Furni ture, April 1-12, E124 MVR Hall,
Hartell Gallery (M-F, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) Paintings by Jerome Walford, through March 30.
Tjaden Gallery (M"F, 8 a.m" to 5 p.m.) • M.F.A. exhibition: sculpture by Mark Gaertner; prints by Emily Trespas, through March 30. • Work by students of Professor Norman Daly'S "Color, Form and Space· class, March 30-April 6.
Willard Straight Art Gallery (9 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.) Chinese brush paintings by Jenny Chuang, through March 29.
All items for the Chronicle Calendar should be submitted (typewritten, double spaced) by campus mail, U.S. mail orin person to Chronicle Films listed are sponsored by Cornell Cinema Calendar, Cornell NewsService, Village Green, unless otherwise noted and are open to the public. Michel CornIe 840 Hanshaw Road. All films are $4.50 ($4 for students and children The Cornell Concert Commission brings legendary jazz artists ~ranford and Notices should be sent to arrive 10 daysprior under 12), except for Tuesday night Cinema 00 Ellis Marsalis to Bailey Hall on March 31 at 8 p.m. For ticket information, call Center at the Center for Theatre Arts ($2) and to publication and should include the name and the concert commission office at 255-7231. telephone numberofa person who can be called Saturday or Sunday matinees ($3.50). Films are if there are questions. heldin Willard Straight Theatre exceptwhere noted. Notices should also include the subheading ofthe calendar in which the item should appear. Thursday, 3/28 "Water and Power" (1989), directed by Pat Records Office, Thesis Adviser, Admissions tices Between Foundations and Futures,· Christian O'Neill, 7:30 p.m. Office, and Fellowships and Financial Aid Office Jouhaud, Centre de Recherches Historiques, April "Blue in the Face· (1995), directed by Wayne May 3to 5. 3, 4:30 p.m., Guerlac Room, A.D. White House. Wang and Paul Auster, with Harvey Keitel, Jim Deans' offices and Publications and Statistics Jarmusch and Roseanne, 9 p.m. Office - May 14-24. Hotel School • May 3: Closed for move: The Graduate Robert Egger, director of D.C. Central Kitchen, Friday, 3/29 School offices will be closed on Friday, May 3, will speak as part ofthe series in the Housing and "Carrington" (1995), directed by Christopher because of the move (see exception for thesis Feeding the Homeless course, April 2, 2:30 p.m., Hampton, with Jonathan Pryce and Emma Th adviser). Phone and e-mail service also will not be 190 Statler Hall. ompson, 7:15 p.m. available on May 3. On Monday, May 6, limited Ballroom Dance Club "City on Fire· (1987), directed by Ringo Lam, services will be available in Caldwell Hall. We Intemational Students Programming • Friday, March 29, Blossom Ball, Memorial with Ko Chow, 7:15 p.m. &midnight, Uris. apologize for the inconvenience. Board Room, Willard StraightHall, free beginner's lesson "Blue in the Face," 9:45 p.m., Uris. • Thesis Adviser: The thesis adviser will be Chief Emeka Anyaoku, secretary-general of from 7 to 8 p.m.; dancing will be held 8 p.m. to "Wild Reeds· (1994), directed by Andrea available for walk-in student appointments on Fri the Commonwealth of Nations, will lecture as part midnight. Student members: $3, Student/Adult Techine, with Elodie Bouchez and Gael Morel, day, May 3, from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1:30 to ofthe Cornell International Festival, April 4, 8 p.m.. members: $5, Adults: $7. 9:45 p.m. 3:30 p.m. in the lounge of Sage Hall. On Monday, Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. • Saturday, March 30, Intercollegiate and Adult May 6, the thesis adviser will be available in Dance Competition in the Field House. Competi Saturday, 3/30 Caldwell Hall. Landscape Architecture tiveeventsstartat8:30a.m., with American Smooth "The Sorrow and the Pity" (1971), directed by • Lani Guinierlecture: The annual Spencer T. On April 3 at 6:30 p.m. in A106 Corson Hall. and International Standard events before noon. Marcel Ophuls, 1:30 p.m., free. and Ann W. Olin Foundation Lecture will be given Tom Shueler, executive director of the Center for After lunch, the American Rhythm and Interna "Wild Reeds," 7:15 p.m. by Lani Guinier on Thursday, April 11 ,7:30 p.m., Wetlands Preservation, will speak as part of the tional Latin events begin. The evening session.will "Blue in the Face," 7:15 p.m., Uris. Statler Hall Auditorium. Admission is free, but "Ecology and the Designed Landscape" series. start at 7 p.m. The competition is open to specta "City on Fire," 9:30 p.m. &midnight, Uris. tickets are required. Tickets are available at the tors. Tickets will be for sale at the door. "Carrington," 9:45 p.m. Willard Straight ticket office; the Information and Southeast Asia Program • Sunday, March 31 ,threeballroom dancework Referral Center, Day Hall; the Graduate School "New Ideas on Forestry Management in Indo shops in the MemoriaJ Room. Sunday, 3/31 information desk; and at the door. nesia:'Local and Government Participation," Larry For more information about all activities, con "Blue in the Face," 4:30 p.m. • Incometax seminars for intemational stu Fisher, Ph.D. candidate, natural resources, March tact Tom Smulders at 266-0502 or via e-mail at "Wild Reeds," 7:15 p.m. dents: A representative from the Internal Rev 28, 12:15 p.m., Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave.