HIDDEN IN THE EARTH Some toxic chemicals buried in soil may become less hazardous over time, researcher says.
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Harry Wu's talk focuses on abuses By Dennis Shin '96 Lee Teng-hui," Wu joked at a press conference before his Nov. 5 lecture. Lee's visit had heightened tensions between Harry Wu must have felt a sense ofirony comingto speak the United States and China, and Wu said his captors at Cornell this past weekend. Besides haring his personal referred to the impact that visit had on his situation. account of Chinese human rights abuses to an overflow Wu made international headlines when Chinese officials crowd in David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, the noted stopped him at a border crossing on June 19, charged him activist also pointed out the relationship between his recent with passing state secrets and placed him in a detention ordeal and a more controversial visit to Cornell this summer. facility for more than nine weeks. He had been attempting Wu was arrested in June while trying to enter the to the enter the country to secretly film, as he had in the past, People's Republic of China, three days after China's am human rights abuses. Finally sentenced to 15 years in bassador to Washington left the United States in protest prison, Wu instead was expelled from China on Aug. 24 Over Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui's visit to Cornell after much American diplomatic negotiation and pressure. for Reunion Weekend, June 8-10. Wu reminded his audience, however, that it wasn't his Franlc DiMeo/Umversity Photography Dur~ng his Nov. 5 press conference, HarryWu holds up "MaybeCornell has to invite me here because [I deserve] first experience as a prisoner in China. a picture of a Catholic priest he says was kept 'for to be paid back for the problem they caused me by inviting Continued on page 2 years in forced detention by the Chinese govemrnent. NASA to test survivability of apples in space By Roger Segelken NASA space shuttles have carried aloft all sorts of university memorabilia - from microchips and bumper tickers to Ezra Cornell's wedding socks- that were mean ingful mainly to astronaut-alumni and Cornellians on the ground. Sometime next year, if all goes well. a shuttle will transport items ofpotential value to space travelers who crave a crisp, juicy taste ofthe home planet: Cornell-grown apples. The experiment to test the survivability of apples in a space-travel environment came.about because a university scientist, who IS now the dean of freshmen in the College of Arts and Sciences, entered a contest 10 years ago in hope of winning "a really neat telescope." "I would have been happy with the sec ond prize," John J. Chiment said ofthe 1985 Popular Mechanics magazine conte t to design a NASA "Getaway Special" experi ment to fly, all expenses paid, aboard a Robert Barlcer/UnH'ersity Photography spaceshuttle. Chiment, a paleobiologist who Taking in the Ithaca Farmers' Market on Oct. 28 are, from left: Duncan Hilchey, agricultural development specialist with the Farming Altematives Program; Gilbert Gillespie Jr., senior research associate in rural worked as a high school science teacher and sociology; and Tom Lyson, professor of rural sociology and director of the Fanning Altematives Program. an editor in the Mathematical Sciences In stitute and Cornell Plantations before as suming his current post in the College of Arts and Sciences, wasa researcher at Boyce Farmers' markets help grow rural economic health Thompson Institute at the time. Most Get away Specials were being sold, for a fee, to By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. dors reported an increased customerbase and direct feedback from customers. corporations for research-and-development Farmers' markets are serving as inex 'Though they are not a •.• About 64 percent said their volume of experiments in the shuttles' microgravity environment. The contest was a chance to pensive business incubators that hatch panacea, farmer's markets sales increased, while 65 percent said acquire several thousand dollars worth of home-grown jobs and breed significant, could be an important that the e markets provided a stable fa cility for product sales. Eighty-one per space in space, however briefly. new economic wealth in rural areas, component of comprehen. Cornell researchers have found. cent of the vendors reported that the Together with Scott H. Wetthaufer, an "Most research and popular press ar sive, local economic ability to test-market new products at otherenvironmental biology researcherat the ticlesabout farmers' markets have focused development strategy.' their farmers' markets was beneficial. on-campus institute, Chiment designed an experiment to measure levels of a stress on consumers' and communities' pointsof - Thomas Lyson "Our survey showed that 86 percent view," said Duncan Hilchey, agricultural ofthe vendors either did not have a busi indicatorchemical calledglutathione in plants development specialist with Cornell's ness before they started selling at a farm - sprouting soybeans, in particular. The two Farming Alternatives Program and lead ers' market orthey had started on asmall proposed a self-contained growth chamber investigatorofthe project. "Littleattention tives Program. Hilchey's co-authors in scalebusine s at their residence," HiIchey about the size of a small garbage can with has been paid to the vendors themselves. clude Thomas A. Lyson, professor of said. "Likely, they did not have the capi soybean seeds in soil-filled pots. Computer Until now, we have known very little about rural sociology and director ofthe Farm tal to open a retail outlet or they per controlled timers were to tum on water and their background, enterprise strategies or ing Alternatives Program, and Gilbert ceived they had few other marketing op lights during the shuttle flight and landing, their plans for the future." W. Gillespie Jr., senior research associ tions available." and even "smother" certain sprouting plants The study, "Farmers' Markets and ate in rural sociology. Is the money made at farmers' market with a silica gel drying agent. Rural Economic Development: Entre Their data clearly show that farmers' significant? Yes, for most vendors. Al The contest judges loved the idea. So preneurship, Business Incubation andJob markets provide a rich entrepreneurial most 66 percent of the vendors' farmers' Chiment didn't get his telescope; he got a Creation in the Northeast," was pub environment for starting new busi nesses. market income made a moderate contribu- mission. lished in July by the Farming Alterna- Almost 70 percent of the surveyed ven- Continued on page 4 However, between the contest entry and the announcement ofthe contest winner, the Continued on page 4 2 November 9,1995 Cornell Chronicle
BRIEFS Having a little talk
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• Comell Press awards: The follow ing awards have been won by Cornell Uni verity Pres' over the past several months: • The ational Museum of Art, mith nian In titution.awardedtheCharles C. Idredge Prize for Distinguished Schol ar hip in American Art to Empire of the Eye: LandscapeRepresentation andAmeri Adriana Rovers/University Photography can Cultural Politics, 1825-1875, by An Elizabeth Rawlings joined husband President Hunter Rawlings in a visit to the University Cooperative Nursery gela Miller. School Nov. 2. Above, Mrs. Rawlings talks in French with Ehouarn Champenois. Ehouarn's father, Yann, isa visiting • The Modern Language Association scientist in the Department of Food Science at Geneva and Agricultural and Biological Engineering on campus. awarded the 1994ScagJionePrize for French and Francophone Studies to Janet Beizerfor Velllri/oquized Bodies: Narratives ofHys teria in Nineteelllh-Cefllury France. • The 1995 Book Award, sponsored by Harry Wu continued from page 1 the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Hi torical Association, was given to Yuri "This is the second time 1have regained "Some people ask me what am 1fighting dent Programming Board, Wu's visit at Iezkine for ArcticMirrors: Russia andthe my freedom. This time was after only 66 for," Wu said. "My answer is very simple. 1 tracted diverse questions and comments. mall Peoples ofthe North. days. The first time was after 19 years," he wish one day that laogai will appear in the One Chinesestudentspokeoutagainst Wu's • Portraits ill Steel, by Milton Rogovin said during an emotionally charged speech. English dictionary... 1hope that China will efforts to expose human-rights abuses, stat and Michael Frisch, was cho en as the re As a recently naturalized U.S. citizen, Wu some day have a laogai museum...We have ing that Wu's tactics employed the same cipient ofthe first Oral History A ociation said his American status restrained Chinese to remember these things and then China deception for which he criticized the Chi Book Award. police from physically abusing him after his can have a new future." nese government. • Alisa Klaus was awarded the 1994 Gil June arrest. He had no such protection as a In the middle of his presentation, he Wu responded by arguing that communist bert Chinard Prize, given by the Society for Chinese national in 1960, however, when he showed twodocumentary videos. Frequently China's survival depends on systematically French Historical Studies for her book Ev was sent to a prison camp as a university laughing in disbelief, the audience viewed a lying to its people and the world. Applauding ery Child a Lioll: The Origins ofMaternal student for subversivebehavior. Livingfor 19 segment from 60 Minutes that demonstrated Wu with a standing ovation, a majority ofthe alld Illfam Health Policyill the UnitedStates years underthe forced laborsystem known as how Wu and CBS journalist Ed Bradley audience seemed to support his views. and France, 1890-1920. laogai(education through labor), Wu claimed went undercover in 1991 to expose the Chi "I felt the question and answer period • The Old Sturbridge Village Book Prize he experienced first-hand the abuses of the nese policy of secretly exporting forced was the best part because he really seemed Committee presented a Special Recogni Chinese communist regime. labor products to the United States. to speak from the heart," said Kristen Wolfe tion Award to Contraception and Abortioll "I hope that President Clinton becomesthe Followingthat, a BBCproduction focused '98. "I read his autobiography and I wish he ill Nilleteellth-Cefllury America, by Janet first leader in the world to publicly denounce on the disturbing correlation between the would have spoken more about the first 20 Farrell Brodie. Chinese laogai," he told his audience. growing number of death sentences handed years in order to give people a clearer pic • Radical Realism: Direct Kllowing in Describing his release in 1979 and his down in China and the growing number of ture of what he really went through. His Sciellce alld Philosophy, by Edward Pols, arrival six years later in the United States as organs extracted from executed prisoners for recent detention was nothing like that." won the 1995 John Findlay Award from the a visiting scholar, Wu recounted his re apparently unethical medical transplants. Although Wu's answers, at times, spe Metaphysical Society of America. awakeningto freedom, but added, "Icouldn't "These are the so-called 'state secrets' 1 cifically addressed fellow Chinese country turn my back to my homeland. I couldn't revealed and were used as evidence of my men, his message found supporters among forget about my former inmates." crime in my trial and verdict," Wu said. "I other groups. He returned to China in 1991 with a film have lost many years of freedom, but I ... "As an African-American, I found his crew to secretly document evidence of hu will not be defeated. Today, I bear witness words inspiring. The struggle for human man rights abuses and to raise international to the ugly truth of Chinese communism." rights is something most minorities can re awareness about the Chinese laogai. Sponsored by Cornell'sThird World Stu- late to," said Roxanne Ryan '98.
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Researcher: Time may reduce impact oftoxic compounds in soil By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. been termed 'aging.'" believe the soil containing some compounds may not be as His research, "How Toxic Are Toxic Chemicals in Soils," hazardous as once thought." Some toxic chemicals buried in soil may not be as was published in the current issue ofthe American Chemical Researchers studied which chemicals dissipated at what hazardous as once thought because their toxicity decreases Society's journal Environmental Science & Technology. rates. Compounds such as DDT become less available to over time, according to a Cornell scientist. Soil scientists have long examined what happens when microbesovertime. Alexanderbelievesthat microbial activity During the long time many toxic organic chemicals chemicals - such as chlorinated hydrocarbons once widely then contributes to a compound's effective disappearance. remain in soil, some seem to slowly become hidden within used as insecticides - get into the soil. Alexander and his "Even with singlecompounds, the times and percentages the soil structure. In this hidden form, they are less available colleagues began looking into the behavior of organic of chemicals that become unavailable may vary greatly," to living organisms, according to Martin Alexander, the pollutants in soil about four years ago, examining why and Alexandersaid. "A relationship to soil type or climate is not Liberty Hyde Bailey professor of soil science. how some of these toxic compounds became hidden and evident from the available data, but a systematic study was The result: some soil may be less hazardous than origi unavailable in the soil. never conducted to establish such a relationship. nally believed. The problem is monitoring such chemicals. Scientists ''These investigations show that some abiotic processes "Assessments of the hazards from those sites have not were puzzled by why bioremediation of some chemicals make organic compounds less readily available to microor taken into account the slow processes that may take place slowed and possibly stopped when microbes responsible for ganisms and probably to animals and plants as well," he said. and possibly reduce the impact of toxic compounds depos the bioremediation were still present in the soil. What Thus, the aging of compounds may naturally reduce ited in the soil, particularly those compounds which do not process could account for this strange behavior? toxicity problems. "The very fact that the organic com leach out to contaminate underlying aquifers," Alexander "From day zero, many compounds are broken down by pounds in Superfund and most hazardous waste sites have said. "In recent years, evidence has accum'ulated that the microbes," Alexander said. "Then in time the chemical is been in the contaminated soils for long periods of time availability of certain organic compounds changes as the hidden and becomes unavailable within the soil structure emphasizes the need for assessing the significance ofaging compounds reside in soil for some time - a process that has where it may no longer present a problem. That's why we to toxicity," Alexander said. Speaker tells ofinfiltrating President meets with emeritus profs neo-Nazi sects By Gaston Ceron '96 The neo-Nazi movement in Germany isn't just beer-drinking "skinheads," as many in Germany believe, said Yaron Svoray. The movement is broader, deeper and potentially more dangerous, he argued Sunday. Svoray should know, because the Israeli journalist spent nine months, undercover, infiltrating the neo-Nazi movement. His lecture, titled "In Hitler's' Shadow: Neo-Nazis in the 1990s," drew a packed house at Statler Auditorium on Nov. 5 Svoray said his interest in infiltrating the neo-Nazi movement began when he was introduced to the leader of a small band of neo-Nazisoperatingon the France-Germany border. The son of Holocaust survivors and an Israeli war veteran, Svoray said he was intrigued and repelled by what the neo Nazis told and showed him. That encounter led him to contact the Simon Wiesenthal Center in California, which helped him or ganize his undercover investigation. Posing as the editor of an American far right-wing magazine, Svoray said he was able to infiltrate several neo-Nazi groups Adriana Ro\'erslUniversity Photography On Oct. 31 at the Moakley House, President Hunter Rawlings spoke at the fall gathering of the Association of and was eventually accepted as one ofthem, Comell Emeritus Professors. After themeeting, above, Rawlings speaks with FrankSaul, left, emeritus prof.ssor by claiming he was representing rich Ameri in the architecture department, while E. Scott Maynes, emeritus professor in human ecology, stands by. can arch-conservatives interested in donat ing to neo-Nazi organizations. He was able, he said, to penetrate the upper echelons of the movement and meet its leaders, and also make secret recordings and photographs. During that time, Svoray said he wit ILR's NYC office wins $100,000 grant for project nessed many acts of brutality and sense reduction problems that face New York effectiveness oforganizations in the private less violence by members of the move By Darryl Gedde City hospitals. sector. There were 119 original applicants ment. He told the audience how, early on, The School of Industrial and Labor Re Potentially 52 hospitals, 18,500 patient and a total of $1.3 million was awarded. In he was invited to a gathering by some neo beds and over 40,000 health care workers past years most awards have been given to Nazis who gained great pleasure from lations extension office in New York City has been awarded a $100,000 grant from could be affected by this joint labor-man industrial and manufacturing plants and re watching a videotape of a young girl being the Federal Mediation and Conciliation agement project which has the support of gional projects. Cornell's proposal was one raped and murdered. Service to work with the League of Volun both labor and management. oftwo health-care grants awarded this year. During his time undercover, Svoray said tary Hospitals and 1199 National Health This grant is one of 18 awarded this year The project was developed by Peter he also had a few dangerously close calls. and Human Service Union in developing a by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Lazes, director of Programs for Economic On one occasion, he was introduced to an systematicjoint labor-management process Service (FMCS), a unit of the U.S. govern Transitions, an education, research and or ex-Gestapo memberwho suddenly, and pub to restructure and improve patient care in ment that provides support grants to labor ganizational change unit in Cornell's New licly, accused him ofbeingJewish, and held light ofthe current reimbursement and cost management groups to help improve the York City office. a gun to his head. Eventually, Svoray became so sickened by the inhumanity ofthe movement, he ended his undercover investigation, he said. But he quickly went public with his findings. His research was compiled into a best-selling Karel Husa wins Czech Republic's highest honor book and was made into an HBO movie. the Award of Merit by Czech Republic invasion of Czechoslovakia, had been But even though his findings brought Composer President Vaclav Havel Oct. 28 at a banned by the communist government. personal recognition, Svoray said he is dis Karel Husa, the Prague Castle ceremony. The presenta Other noteworthy compositions in appointed with the inaction by the German Kappa Alpha Pro tion coincided with the celebration of a cludeConcertoforOrchestra (1986),com government. He has met with high-ranking fessor of Music national holiday marking the 50th anni missioned by the ew York Philharmonic German officials and even testified before Emeritus, has been versary of the end of World War II. and Zubin Mehta; the Concerto for Trum the U.S. Congress, he said, but little ha honored with the Husa is best-known for his Pulitzer pet and Orchestra, commissioned by the been done. Czech Republic's winning piece and for Music for Prague, Chicago Symphony for Adolph Herseth Svoray's appearance was sponsored by highest civilian 1968,which has received more than 7,000 and ir Georg Solti; and a Concerto for Cornell Hillel, the University Program recognition, the Husa performances worldwide. In February Violin and Orche\tra, commissioned by Board and the International Students Pro State Medal Award 1990, Husa conducted the Music for Mehta for the ew York Philharmonic' gramming Board. of Merit, Fir t Class. Prague, 1968 for its first performance concertmaster, Glen Dicterow. Following the lecture, Svoray attended a The Czechoslovakian-born Husa, who ever in Prague. The piece, written in Hu abeganteachingatCornellin 1954 candlelight vigil held outside Willard won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize in music for response to the Soviet and Warsaw Pact and was named profe soremeritu in 1992. Straight Hall in memory of slain Israeli String Quartet No.3, was pre ented with Pnme Minister Yitzhak Rabin. 4 November 9, 1995 Cornell Chronicle We must understand, universities are our responsibility B 'illiam H. Danforth atrophied from disuse. Most institutions are should permeate the institutional culture, in working to remedy this situation, and one cluding at a minimum, freedom of explora E" en in our skeptical technology-driven COMMENTARY hears terms borrowed from business, such tion and expression, commitment to excel era. Unlvcr itie are monuments to thc hope as "restructuring," "downsizing" and "pri lence in scholar 'hip and teaching, and toler that through education and deeper under oritizing." Such effortscan yield results, but ance for differences. Promotion of such val tanding \', e can creatc bettcr livcs for our sources. Increased knowledge holds no less success in the long run will depend less on ues requires time, effort and devotion. . c'" c and our children. In this rc pcct they promise, but science and scholarship are these strategies than on the foresight, com Some in busine's foresee a work force re, like the great Gothic cathedral, sym expensive, the rewards are often long de mitment and will of faculty and staff. with loose, and even temporary, ties to orga boL ofthc a.'pirations ofan age. Thosc ofus layed, and other societal needs press on The duty of presidents, chancellors and nizations. Universities springfrom a different who work in thcse national treasures have a policy-makers. When nutrients are in short deans to promote the well-being of their culture. Faculty are citizens of their institu responsibility to understand the requircmcnts supply, an institution (like any livingorgan institutions is clear, but in recent decades, tions as well as employees, citizens who of a changing environment and to act so as ism) must gather thcm more effectively, many faculty, especially scientists, have deserve the loyalty of the institution even as to k ep universities alive and well. survive on less, or pursue both strategies given their primary loyalty to disciplines the institution asks for theirs. After World War II, the modern research simultaneously. and to national and international profes Whether universities adapt successfully univer ity evolved as a new institutional The hunting and gathering skills of uni sional groups. This tendency is not new, but to the present environment will, in my view, 'p cie. The environment was favorable; versities are already highly developed, for it has been magnified by the focus on out depend on whether individual faculty mem education had proved its worth, and policy during the long growth period, success de side resources and on an international repu bers correctly read the needs of the era and maker wanted knowledgeable, technically pended on an increasing supply of financial tation as a criterion for tenure. take personal responsibility for the success . killed citizens. Familie were willing to resources. Today, university presidents and If it was ever true that faculty members' of their institutions. I can think of nothing acrifice to educate their children. Scicn faculty, as well as officers of associations pursuit of individual interests automatically more important or rewarding than to help titic opportunitie abounded, and Ameri representing them, ply the halls ofCongress created a great university, it is certainly not so preserve our research universities for the can had faith that science (based largely in and state legislatures and work closely with now. Rather, the loosening of institutional next generations, so that they may continue the univerities) would produce a steady executivebranches. Ever-largerfundraising ties has become a major risk, for today's to represent the highest aspirations of the upply of boon. upport for re earch uni campaigns are successfully executed, tu succe' ful university requires effective inter American people. "critic flowed generously from federal itions rise, and grant requests become more nal operations aimed at agreed-upon goals. and tate go ernments, foundation, corpo elaborate. Further improvement is possible, Because faculty do the essential work of William H. Dall[orth is chairman o[ the ration and public-spirited citizens. Bud but large gains are unlikely. teaching and research, their participation and board o[Washingtoll University in St. Louis. gct grew and program multiplied. On the other hand, the skills universities leadership are key. Also, faculty must em This piece waspublishedas WI editorialill the Today, opportunities are outrunning re- need to do well with limited resources have body and serve as guardiansofthe values that Sept. 22, 1995, issue o[Science.
Apples in space COlitillued from page 1
Challenger disaster happened, setting back the key to preservation lies in slowing the all phases of the space shuttle program. It fruits' rate of respiration, Creasy said. wasn't until this year that ASA notified Once back on Earth, the apples won't go Chiment: Get your Getaway Special ready. into the lunch box. Rather, they will un In the meantime, editors at the science dergo chemical analysis by gas chromatog magazine had apparently forgotten their raphy, as the students look for signs of decade-old obligation. but some insistent deterioration in the fruit. One compound prompting from Chiment got the magazine they will test for is glutathione, the stress back on board. And university-government indicator that was the basis of the original paperwork had become more complex over soybean proposal. the ar, 0 all the necessary documents Glutathione, whether it occurs in plants \', re prepared by Amy Henderson-Harr, a or animals, is good to have because it "mops grant and contracts officer in Cornell's up" superoxide radicals and other second Office of ponsored Programs. ary metabolite products of metabolism, Th e, penmcntwon't be prouts in pace Chiment explained. But whether the apples anymore. Chiment 'aid, because ASA will still taste good at the end of their jour changed the rules. in the wake of the Chal ney - that's another question. lenger eplosion, to encourage "passive" For pomology students, the project will experiments without lots of moving parts. involve several trips to Kennedy Space Flight Whereas another university's experiment Center to have their experimental package had booted a volleyball-sized satellite into "certified" by NASA at each stage of its . pace, Cornell's apple study will be "high development. And they can expect to see tech at the micro level" in the design of their names listed as authors on published pia tic films and membranes, with all the papers about the experiment's findings. fruit-preserving atmospheres preloaded into The toughest decision may be selecting the appropriate containers. the type of apples for the experiment. Cer Another difference is that the apple ex tainly, they will be New York state-grown periment will be largelytudent-based. said apples, and hopefully, varieties that Cornell Leroy L. Creasy, professor of fruit and veg scientists had a hand in developing. One etable science. whose tudents will try to candidate is the Empire apple, although the adapt exiting technologies for long-term ultimate choice will dependon which apples torage and intercontinental hippingoffruit arc ready for picking at the time the experi to the pecial requirements of 'pace travel. ment is sealed and turned over to ASA. "The tudents will design our container "Everybody wants to sec a favorite apple in to tit inside a ASA capsule. We have to space," Creasy said, adding that the students protect the apple against the G-forces of may include several varieties in order to take-off, the lack of atmosphere in space compare their qualities. and the intense heat or cold." Creasy said. These probably won't be the very first noting that the experiments travel in an apples in space, Chiment noted. Astronauts in unpressurized section of the shuttle that the past have managed to bring along an may be alternately open to the blazing rays occasional piece of fresh fruit in the pressur Adriana RoverslUllil'crsitv Photography of the sun or the dark cold of space. ized section ofthe shuttle. However, this will Some participants in the space shuttle apple-experiment project gather for the These latest bits of Comelliana won't be be the first test ofa system that could preserve signing of the NASA contract. They are, clockwise from bottom left: Amy under the stewardship of the university's as large quantitiesoffresh fruit duringthe months Henderson-Harr, grants and contracts officer in Cornell's Office of Sponsored tronaut-alums. The apples will he on their required for an extended mission. Programs; John Chiment, Arts and Sciences dean of freshmen and winner of the PopularSciencecontest thatmadetheproject possible; CalebTorrice'98, Jessica own, their fate depending on how much "The apple is a wonderfully prepackaged, Peck '96 and Jennifer Halsey '97, all in Ag and Life SCiences; Mark Ramos, USDA Cornell scientists and students have learned healthful food," Chiment said. "And they're Agricultural Research Services; Cheryl Dollard'96 and EmilyPeck '97, also in ALS; about post-harvest physiology. Besides keep much cheaper than the super-processed stuff Leroy Creasy, professor of fruit and vegetable science; Chris Watkins, associate ing the apples from turning into applesauce, the astronauts have been eating." professor of fruit and vegetable science; and Jean Struzinsky '96 in ALS.
Farmers' markets continued[rom page I
tion to their household finances. Thirty percent ofthe full-time nity," Gillespie said. "Because they provide low-cost, start for everyone, and these markets alone will not revitalize a growers and about 10 percent of all vendors reported that the up opportunities, markets are particularly helpful to com l!entral business district. Not all promising businesses will in ome was "crucial" to their household finances. munities undergoing severe economic dislocation. It cre be successful in a farmers' market, and many vendors arc Theurvey showed that farmers' markets eased transition ates further economic opportunities for rural residents." not aware of the business incubation process. into regularemployment for public-assistancerecipients. About Solid business skills develop from selling vegetables, "Though they are not an economic development pana g percentofthe vendorssaid that farmers' market participation fruits, crafts and processed food. As an incubator, about 50 cea," Lyson said, "farmer's markets could be considered an reduced their need for food stamps, unemployment benetits percent of the vendors learned improved merchandising important component of comprehensive, local economic and othergovernment programs. lt also provided an opportu techniques and 58 percent said they gained self-confidence development strategy." nity to work - tirst-hand - with their own business. in starting a business. Copies of the report may be ordered from Cornell Uni "Farmers' markets can recirculate local dollars and re But, the study provided some cautionary information. versity Resource Center, 7-8 Business and Technology capture some of the money that formerly left the commu- The report showed that working in a farmers' market is not Park, Ithaca, NY 14850. Phone (607) 255-2090. Price: $4. Cornell Chronicle November 9, 1995 5
Rhodes receives KerrAward from Berkeley Frank H.T. Rhodes, Cornell president emeritus and professor of geological sci ences, has been awarded the Clark Kerr Award by the Academic Senate of the Uni versity of California at Berkeley. The award, pre ~. '~.'.',. . ., sented Oct. 17, is .. '.:'.. given to individuals .- . "considered to have - made an extraordi nary and distin ~f guished contribution to the advancement of Rhodes higher education." It has been awarded from time to time since 1968. It was given to Rhodes on the occa sion of the 75th anniversary of the Aca demic Senate at Berkeley. In a talk accepting the award, "Faculty Governance and the Modern Research Uni versity," Rhodes told the audience that there are "four simple affirmations we need to make to the public if they are to understand the role that our research universities play." Adriana Rovers/University Photography Those affirmations, he said, are: scholar Agyei Tyehimba, a first year grad student, speaks at a symposium titled "The Million Man March and aeyond." ship is a public trust; service is a societal obligation; teaching is a moral vocation; and community is the means by which Million Man March impact addressed at symposium academia can fulfill those obligations. "These are tough times for higher educa By Darryl Geddes notion that black people can mobilize but tion," Rhodes said, after outlining the attacks not organize. It challenged the nature of on universities in Congress, the media and in AfricanastudiesProfessorJamesTurner 'This was more than a white supremacy and called us to task to books over the past few years. "So I have a called the recent Million Man March in momentary event. It is a be our own liberators." plea. I make the plea to you ... to become Washington, D.C., "adefining experience defining experience in Henderson acknowledged that she at responsible for our universities and their in modern black history." modem black history.' tended the march with mixed feelings, well-being ... help us nationwide to per Turner's comments came during a since women were uninvited. But while suade your faculty colleagues to take owner roundtable discussion entitled "The Mil - James Turner shesaid shestill questions the reasons for ship of the well-being of the university." lion Man March and Beyond" at the excluding women, she applauded the Africana Studies and Research Center event for what it accomplished. "We Nov. 1. The overflow audience in the don't need a million women march," she center's Hoyt Fuller Lounge heard vary lic to be held in the capitaL" He said the noted. "It's time to reunite." Degree program ing perspectives on the march from other sociological magnitude of the event was Muendane said his presence at the speakers, including graduate students deeper than some had perceived. Million Man March recalled his Agyei Tyehimba and Frances Hender "This was more than a momentary struggles for freedom in South Africa, in real estate son, Southside Community Center Ex event," Turner said. "It is a defining which sent him on a march from Soweto ecutive DirectorJackie Melton-Scott and experience in modem black history." to Johannesburg. starts in 1996 South Africa native and Ithaca resident Tyehimba said the march challenged Melton-Scott, whose Southside Com Eddie Muendane. All but Melton-Scott the assumptions that white people make munity Center was a premarch meeting By Darryl Geddes attended the march. ofthe black community. "They think we place for many participants and the site Turner said the Oct. 16 march, which, are undisciplined, that we can't meet in of"DayofAbsence" eventson the day of Cornell is accepting applications for a according to some estimates attracted] .2 mass without violence," he said. "We the march, said the gathering touched on graduate degree program in real estate that million people, was the "largest political disproved them. We are a complex and the importance of black institutions and enrolls its first class in August 1996. Stu demonstration in the history of the repub- sophisticated people. It disproved the their place in the community. dents will be able to earn the master of professional studies in real estate degree, following two years of full-time study. "In the industry and at the university you Students: March had spiritual and political resonance hear people discussing the need for future By Simeon Moss and its message. which joined a march by children on practitioners in real estate to be trained in "The Unity Hour was one of the first their way to the Southside center for the management and analytical skills specific Cornell student partICIpants in the signs for me," said Donald X. Doane, an activities coordinated by Allard. to the field," said Robert H. Abrams, a major Million Man March - both those who electrical engineering major. Soon, Doane "It was a broad-based, community industry figure who is the first director of traveled to Washington, D.C., and those was helping organize buses and getting effort," Glover said. Cornell's Program in Real Estate. A senior involved in parallel efforts in Ithaca information to students at othercampuses. But for those who went to D.C. - four lecturerin Cornell'sDepartmentofCity and say the day's events had spiritual as well Ken Glover, residence hall director at buses left from the Southside center alone Regional Planning, he remains a consultant as social and political resonance. Ujamaa Residential College, was im - the day had special significance. to the New York City firm of Colliers ABR And, they maintain, much of that pressed by the level of community in Leslie Alexander, a fourth year Ph.D. (formerly Abrams Benisch Riker Inc.), resonance was missed by those who got volvement leading up to the march. student in history and Africana studies, which he co-founded. their news from the mainstream media. "People in the community had started said she didn't understand the real reason The curriculum breaks significant new "Somethingtransforming happened," movingon it early, and the students were sheattendedthe march, until shewasthere. ground by drawing 13 required core courses said grad student Scott Ngozi-Brown, of following the community," he said. "It wasn't until I was sitting on the from five different colleges at Cornell and the march'simpact onthe African-Ameri A Women's Convention was orga lawn,behind the Washington Monument, then allowingstudentsthe flexibility to fash can community. nized at Ujamaa for the day ofthe march, listening to Mr. Farakhan's speech that I ion a specialty with seven electives. In late September, Ngozi-Brown led and people from Cornell, Ithaca College knew," she said. "We have a comprehensive program," a Cornell Africana Students Association and the Ithaca community participated in Louis Farakhan - the controversial said Jack Corgel, professor of real estate at colloquium on the march, and later he its workshops. Nation of Islam minister who was an the School of Hotel Administration and attended the Oct. 16 gathering with hun "Women at the conference were often organizational force behind the gather director of graduate studies for the field in dreds of others from the upstate area. glued to the television (watching the ing - was telling the crowd that each real estate. "It will providestudents with the Activities such as the September march)," said junior Wendy Allard, lo person there, was there for a reason, opportunity to learn the fundamentals and colloquium helped bring the march and cal-action chairofthe NAACP. "Women Alexander remembered. advanced concepts. With that knowledge its message into focus, participants said, were reluctant to go to their workshops "He said that each one of us was and their own interests, they can forge a Copies ofa mission statement written because they wanted to feel the spirit of representing our ancestors," she said. career in virtually any aspect of the field." by the march's national organizers were the march," she said. "And it was at that moment, I felt a chill Cornell's master of professional studies distributed at the colloquium, and a broad Allard herself spent most of the day go up through my spine and out through in real estate provides a foundation in real range of questions were raised and ad coordinatingeducational activitiesforchil my head, because I realized I wasthere to estate finance and investment, economics, dressed, Ngozi-Brown said. "But the dren participatingin DayofAbsenceevents represent my family and to represent the market analysis, real estate law, regulation bottom line was, it was resolved among at the Southside Community Center. spirit of my father who passed away and construction planning. Core courses everyone there that it was an important Other local activities included: a about a year and a half ago. I was repre will be taught by faculty members from the event," he said. candlelight vigil by membersofCornell's senting the spirit of all who came before School ofHotel Administration, theJohnson Earlier in September, a weekly "unity Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity chapter, and me," she said. "For people who were Graduate School of Management, the Col hour" discussion at Ujamaa Residential a march by members of Ithaca College's there in D.C., there was a level of spiri lege of Architecture, Art and Planning, the College also centered around the march Afro-Latin Society to the Commons, tual connection that you could feel." College ofHuman Ecology and the College of Engineering. 6 November 9, 1995 Cornell Chronicle
Thanksgiving meal at Cornell All Saints Day celebration includes shrine Prepamtions are underway for this year's Thanksgi ing Feast on the Cornell campus. All member. {fthe Cornell community are im Ited to attend this traditional American meal on Thur.day, 0.23, from noon until 3 p.m. in Trillium in Kennedy Hall. The feat feature. n eten ive buffet including turkey, egetarian entrees, 'quash, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, breads, pies. ci der and a host ofother items. Following the meal, guests may relax at an informal get together in the Big Red Barn Graduate and Profe sional Center\\ ith dessert, games and b \ erage. by the fire. Ticket prices for ad \ ance ale are 7 for adults and $4 for children. 6-12. At the door, prices will be 9.50 for adult and 5.65 for children. 6 12. Children under 5 will eat for free. Ticket are available at the following locations: Maplewood Park, Hasbrouck, chuyler House, Hughes Hall service cen ters and GCAs; International LivingCenter; International tudents and Scholars Office, Barne Hall; Big Red Barn Graduate and Profe, sional tudent Center (tickets avail able only after 2: 15 p.m.); Intensive English Program; International tudents Program ming Board; Public ervlce Center; and Dean of tudent Office. Planner' also are seeking volunteers to Adriana Rovers/Universtly Photography greet and eat diners. If you are interested in Maria Ayon and her son, Arturo .Jr., examine a shrine at the All Saints Day celebration at Anabel Taylor Hall Nov. 2. Maria's husband, Arturo, is a graduate student in nuclear science. The shrine in the Commons Coffeehouse is volunteering, in exchange for a complimen a tribute to indigenous Indians in Chiapas, Mexico, who have been killed during that region's 22·month·old uprising. tary meal, call the Office of Graduate Stu dent Life at 255-1123. Cornell Institute for Public Affairs has new director and stronger program The next generation of governmental leaders ha a widespread, but dispersed, policy-related interests on cam and assess their consequences. trengthened program at Cornell to prepare them for careers pus, Schuler explained. Two of the courses will be taught CIPA utilizes resources throughout the university. in public 'ervice. each semester, and they will be taught by faculty members "Cornell's extraordinary depth of resources including, but The Cornellintitute for Public Affairs (CIPA) has a new with diverse areas of expertise. not confined to, science and technology, health services director, four new core courses taught by four new core Schuler is teaching public political economy this semes administration, agricultural policy, nutrition and interna faculty members and a record number of new students. ter. The course will emphasize the application of economic tional development, environmental studies, peace studies, "We are preparing people to make sensible things hap concepts and methods in the identification, formulation, labor relations, city and regional planning and ethics in pen in a complex, n:Jultifaceted society. The objective is to administration and evaluation of public policy. public life provide a diverse base for the study of public accomplish this by integrating the institute into the larger Arch Dotson, professoremeritusofgovernment and former affairs," Schuler said. The resources of the Cornell Law uni ersity community, relying largely on existing resources. chair of the department, is teaching administration, politics School and the Johnson Graduate School of Management e are not training bureaucrats," said Richard Schuler, new and public affairs, which covers political and administrative also are valuable assets, he said. director of the program. processe ,and institutions and their interrelationships. "The job of CIPA is to weave through these specialties Schuler, Cornell professor of economics and of civil and Dave Lewis, professor ofcity and regional planning and and increasesynergy through complementary courses, sym environmental engineering, and eniorfellow in the Centerfor also director of the Institute for African Development is posia, research projects, and outreach, since the implemen the Environment, takes the lead role at the universitywide teaching quantitative techniques for policy analysis and tation of public policy is placing theory into practice," institute that offers a two-year graduate professional program program management this semester. The course includes Schuler said. leading to a master's degree in public administration. hands-on practice with informal management techniques. This year ClPA's total enrollment has grown to 58 and Its mis ion is to develop professionals who can be Steve Caldwell, associate professor ofsociology with includes fellows from Latin America, Asia and Europe, as effective, ethical and creative leaders in government and in a policy focus on health, welfare, pension and other well as from throughout the United States, many of whom the private sector's interface with government. CIPA em social safety-net programs, will teach social policy next have already served in important public positions. For phasize the interactions between public and private inter semester. The course wi II incorporate the study of ana example, this fall's class includes former legislative direc e. ts for the benefit of all sectors of society, Schuler said. lytic methods, especially the use of statistics and simu tor to U.S. Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.) and a former vice e\\ this year are four courses that offer a focus for the lation models to study the structure of public programs minister of education and culture from Uruguay. oted African-American author Cadets meet the colonel to speak on race and class Nov. 13
By Darryl Geddes "The Cornell community will benefit intellectually and culturally from exposure William Julius Wilson, author of The to his analysis in the equalities of opportu Truly Disadmlllaged: The Illller City, The nity associated with Vndere/a s alld The Puhlic (University of race and class," Moen Chicago Press, 1(87), \\ill speak on the continued. "Professor topic "Power, Racism and Privilege" ov. Wilson's work exem 13 at 4:30 p.m. in Room D of Goldwin pi ifies the approach of mith Hall. The presentation, sponsored by the Bronfenhrenner the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, is Li fe Course Center by free and open to the pUblic. applying rigorous sci Wils m.the Lucy Flower University Pro entific approach to fessor of )ciology and Publ ic Policy at the Wilson pressing social issues ni\ ersity of Chicago, i. currently an A.D. on the policy agenda." White Professor-at-Large at Cornell. He Wi Ison is the author ofnumerous hooks willbeoncampusfrom ov.13to 17,and and articles, including Power, Racism he \\ ill speak with students and faculty from alld Pril'ilege: Race Relatiolls in Theo across the campus. retical alld Sociohistorical Perspectives "Professor Wilson's hooks arc modern (Macmillan, 1973) and The Declilling Robert Barker/Untversity Photography classic works that have completely changed Significallce ofRace: Blacks alld Chang The 520th detachment of Air Force ROTC at Cornell had its Fall Dining the sociological debate ahout why African illg Americall IIl,stiluliolls (University of In celebration Oct. 27. at the Statler Hotel. Above, cadets, lett to right, Americans arc so disadvantaged in Ameri Chicago Press, 1978). He is a familiar .James Tettero '98, .John Luminati '98, PhilipRoberts '98, Cyrus Behdwar can society," said Phyllis Moen, the Ferris name to readers of The New York Times '97 and Gilbert Besana '97, far right, talk with the night's guest speaker, Family Professor of Life Course Studies in Book Review for his critical commentary Col. .John Chapman, second from right. Chapman is a decorated Air Force command pilot and the commander ofthe Joint Services Survival the College of Human Ecology. "His works on books relating to race. Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) Agency at Ft. Belvoir, Va. arc both theoretically driven and have had Wilson waselecteda fellowoftheAmeri \\ idespread influence in the policy arena. can Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988. Cornell Chronicle November 9, 1995 7 Early Childhood Program embraces expanded initiatives By Susan Lang Trained Cornell students and Head Start professionals periodically visit the homes of disadvantaged 4-year-olds, giving the families free children's books and suggest ing parent-child activities to go with them. This model program, under the auspices of the recently revamped Cornell Early Childhood Program (CECP) in the College of Human Ecology, not only enhances the literacy and parentingskillsoffamilies with young children but also gives families-at risk emotional support and early access to community resources, when needed, while enriching undergraduate and graduate edu cation and promoting research. "It's a perfect example of integrating applied research with extension, teaching and service to the community," said Moncrieff Cochran, Cornell professor of human development and family studies, who became executive director of the CECP on Oct. 1, 1994. A demonstration nursery school program since 1925, CECP has been transformed into an all-new expanded program, Cochran said. Responding to the growing need for full-day child care as more mothers have entered the labor force, the nursery school has become a year-round, full-day child-care program for about 50 children, serving primarily the Cornell community. And forthe first time, the Adriana RO~'ers!Uniw!rsityPhotography university is subsidizing the program so that Moncrieff Cochran, professor of human development and family studies and executive director of the Cornell Early Childhood Program, talks to children in the program, from left, Brendan Hammond, Ian Trupin and Ian Vanderldein. more lower-income Cornell employees may enroll their preschoolers. Cochran believes CECP is the only dem that advocates and provides technical assis visits, support groups, parent and child care port programs that have a family strengths onstration child-care program in the coun tance to the growing family support move provider education and access to commu orientation. To prevent potential problems, try that is integral to the extension mission ment in the nation. nity resources. The program will serve as a these programs would emphasize parent ofa university and that will emphasize fam The cornerstone of the expanded CECP model for how early education, child care education and parent empowerment. ily supports and early intervention. More program is a $1 million gift from Dianne and family support can be integrated in a • Integrating early education, child care and more research suggests that family sup Baillet Meakem (HumEc '61) and John J. meaningful and effective way. and family support programs and policies. ports and early intervention are crucial to Meakem Jr. (ILR '58, MBA '61) that en The model, family-based infant and tod "We also have a lot to learn from other preventing family stress and dysfunction, dows the position of CECP program direc dler child-care program is just one example countries, particularly those in Africa and child abuse and neglect, and can help break tor, currently held by Elizabeth Stillwell. ofCECP's new research and demonstration Latin America that have made publicchild the cycle offamily violence, teen-age preg While Stillwell directs the child-care pro mission, which Cochran has conceived as care a national priority," said Cochran, nancy, drug and substance abuse, fractured gram, Executive Director Cochran is devel focusing around five themes: early educa the editor of the 1993 book The Interna families and low self-esteem. oping a broad palette ofintegrated research, tion for children in low-income families; tional Handbook ofChild Care Policies "Our very future as one of the world's teaching and extension projects. They are child care; family support; integration of and Programs. He is working on a new greatest democracies depends on how we designed not only to benefit at-risk families early childhood supports; and cross-national book that analyzes U.S. child-care poli respond to these trends in society. Our re with young children but also family child comparison. Each theme will be reflected in cies in light of what has been learned Sponse is to develop model early childhood care providers of infants and toddlers. research, extension and teaching. from these other countries. child-care programs that are positive, pre "Studies show that about one-third of Among its research goals: "During the next five years, CECP will ventive, strengths-oriented,empoweringand family-based child-caresettings, which pro • Exploring how Head Start might fur become the foremost university-based pro community-based and could be adapted and vide about 80 percent of the child care for ther expand, possibly into child-care set gram in this country engaged in expanding adopted nationally," said Cochran, who infants and toddlers, are of unsatisfactory tings and with younger children. the knowledge base about early childhood teaches a course on families and is also on 'growth-harming' quality," Cochran said. • Studying how best to train child-care policies and programs worldwide, and in the board of directors of the Family Re He is designing a program for family-based providers. facilitating exchanges between U.S. schol- source Coalition, a national organization child-care providers that will include home • Pilotingand evaJuatingcommunitysup- Continued on page 8
Low-fat diets can benefit children as well as adults, study finds
By Susan Lang The study was based on the nationally representative sample of2,940 American Children as well as adults can benefit children, ages 2 through 17, from the from low-fat diets, a recent Cornell study Second National Health and Nutrition Ex has found. amination Survey 1976-1980. Believed Children on low-fat diets grow at ex to be the first study to use a nationally actly the same rate and have better vita representative sample to study the effects min and fiber status - but with reduced of low-fat diets among children, its find cholesterol - as children on higher fat ings were presented at the Federation of diets, the study showed. the American Society of xperimental Specifically, the researchers found that Biology in April in Atlanta. the higher the fat intake among children, "Our methods improve upon previous the higher their intake ofcholesterol, pro studies because rather than just analyze tein and total fatty acids - nutrients that nutrient intake, we also looked at growth. Americans tend to overconsume. The If low-fat diets were nutritionally inad lower the fat in the diet, on the other hand, equate, then children consuming such di the greater the intake of iron, vitamin A, ets should exhibit poor growth," said vitamin C, potassium, riboflavin, thiamin Levitsky, who teaches courses in con and phosphorus. cepts and controversies in nutrition and The findings mean that medical associa Adriana ROl'ers!Unh'ersity Photograph) health and in ohesity and the regulation of tions, such as the American Academy of David Levitsky, ComeII professor of nutritional sciences and psychology, body weight. Pediatrics, which have been reluctant to completed a recent study on low-fat diets for children. He is shown here He worked with: former undergradu endorse low-fat diets for children and teens with children in the Maple Tree Room of the Comell Early Childhood ate student Kathleen M.P. Hanson who until more research is conducted, should Program, from left, Eric McLaughlin, Angus Armstrong and Thena Citlin. conducted the analysis, coordinated the consider endorsing low-fat diets for kids, writing of the study and is now a veteri too, said David Levitsky, Cornell professor children, are healthy for children, nutri takes above the RDA for most nutrients. nary student at the University of Califor nutritional sciences and psychology. tionally adequate for growth and pose no "In addition, diets consisting of less niaat Davis; statistician Edward Frongillo; "Despite warnings of deleterious nu nutritional risk," added Levitsky. "Chil than 30 percent of calories from fat have epidemiologist Patricia Cas ana; and nu tritional effects of low-fat diets in chil dren on low-fat diets not only grow well long-term health benefits for children by tritionist Wendy S. Wolfe, all of Cornell. dren, the overwhelming evidence to date, but also tend to consume more nutrient helping to prevent chronic diseases and The researchers defined low fat as less includingotherstudies, suggeststhat low dense diets, meaning that their food tends establ ishing healthful eating habits early," than 30 percent of calories from fat and fat diets, as currently consumed by U.S. to be more nutritious, with nutrient in- Levitsky said. COlllinued on page 8 8 November 9,1995 Cornell Chronicle
.Y: ag industry Return of an 'American Gladiator' thrives despite fewer farms By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. o pite the continuing decline in the num b rof ew York farms and the releaseofland from farm usc, agriculture remains strong as the dollar value of farm production has in creased. Cornell agricultural economists say. "0 creases in farm numbers do not neces sanly portend reduction in farm employment at comparable rates," said Nelson L. Bills, om II professor of agricultural economics. Billsand Richard . Boisvert, Cornell profes lrofagriculturaleconomics, and KevinJack, Cornell graduate research a.'sistant, wrote a r port, "In ome and Employment From ew or griculture," published by the Depart- m ot of gricultural, Resource and Manage nal ·(,;onomics. '·The. e trend. in farmland left idle and I nd comer. ions, combined with continual ref rences in the popular pres to reductions in the number of farm busine ses, help fuel the perception that agriculture might be a failed industry," Bills aid. Frank DiMcoiUnh'crsity Photography But agriculture remains vital to rural Leo Reherman '88 - "Hawk" on TV's "American Gladiators" program - returned to visit his alma mater last area in ew York. The economists found weekend. Reherman and Mitch Lee '89, both fonner football team captains, entertained area youngsters during that the number of farm businesses in New a Comell women's volleyball gameon Nov. 4. Above, Reherman mugs with Kelsey Muka and herbrother, Nathan. York have dwindledfrom more than 100,000 in the 1940s to about 32,000 farms now. Currently, farms are defined as places with sales over $1 ,000. New York has thousands ofpart-time farms, but Bills noted that many Alumna called 'Dr: Ruth ofthe MTV Generation' farms have become larger, and the industry till employs about 64,000 people. By Erika Taylor '95 to parents. Locker's radio show, which was "Rapid productivity increases have been broadcast once a week on WBAI in New reflected in higher production per acre and Sitting on the floor of her Founders Hall York City until she gave it up for her TV per animal unit, as well as in the improve dorm room, Sari Locker '90 had a revelation show, already has shown her ability to at ment in the quality ofmany farm commodi that would change her life. She realized that tract peopleofall ages. Listeners whocalled tie ," he aid. Gains stem primarily from she wanted to teach people about sex. in to the show were often in their 30s and lower unit costs due to the adoption of new At that time she was a sophomore trying 40s, and sometimes over 60, she said. technology, production on a larger scale to to come up with a paper topic- she eventu Locker's savvy with the topic can partly lower unit co ts, improved farm manage ally chose 'The Problem of Adolescent be attributed to her mother, she said. Sex ment and a concentrat:on of production on Girls Who Engage in Sex Before They Are was never a taboo subject even when she higher-quality land, he said. Emotionally Mature." Now Locker is na was a child, and she would often go to her Measured in 1977 dollars, the real value tionally acclaimed as the "Dr. Ruth of the mother forexplanations ofdirty jokesshe'd of ewYorkagricultureshow littlechange MTV Generation." She is also the authorof heard in elementary school. between the late 1960 and the early 1990s. a new book, Mindblowing Sex in the ReaL But when she entered college at 16, The report said that the live tock sector has World: Hot Tips for Doing It in the Age of Locker planned on studying non-human remained constant overthe past quartercen Anxiety (Harper Perennial), and has been animals. As a child, she was captivated tury." ew York dairymen pre ently ship given a cable television show, "Late Date by the mating habits of her pets and read about 7 percent ofthe nation's milk supply, with Sari," which started Nov. 6 and airs genetics textbooks so that she could breed not much different from the share reported Monday through Friday from 12:30 to 1 hamsters with the coloringofpanda bears. 50 years ago," Bills said. a.m. on Lifetime. During high school, she bred birds and The report noted that the value of crops Locker's book is written for members of cocker spaniels. has been creeping higher to about $700 Generation X- the 20-something young Sari Locker '90 "I started at Cornell as an agricultural million in 1992. This is a reflection of pro adults raised on MTV - who she feels have education majorand thought Iwasgoingto go ductivity gains and the increasing im to deal with more complicated issues con enjoy sex by understanding their sexual on TV and teach about animals," she said. portance of higher-valued fruit, vegetable cerning sex than previous generations. The wantsand needsand being informed enough The epiphany in her dormitory changed and horticultural products. 25-year-oldsex educatoralso believes Gen to make good decisions. all ofthaI. She changed her concentration in .. uch productivity gainsdirectly contra eration Xers have been bombarded with Her sex guide contains sections on education from agriculture to psychology. dict the perception that the farming industry conflicting media messages and an overem condom use and sexual health, as well as "I spent the summerbetween sophomore i .on the wane," Bills said. "Today, produc phasis,on the politics of sex. sections on understanding your erotic po and junior year sitting in the stacks of Mann tion of food, feed and other farm commodi "In college, we didn't realize we were tential and discussions on homosexuality, Library reading every journal of sex re tie in the tate annually generates cash caught in this web of politics. It was like a date rape and alternative sex. search," she said. During her fifth semester receipts exceeding $3 billion." reflex," she said, recalling a campus where Locker said her book was largely shaped in college, Locker decided that she wanted abortion, for instance, wasdiscussed mainly by questions she is asked when lecturing to to go out and teach, so she called Ithaca as a political issue. colleges, high schools and singles groups High School and volunteered to be a guest Locker said that she doesn't "want to see across the country. lecturer in health classes.Theschool agreed, Low-fat diet cOfllinued from page 7 college kids aligned with one set of poli Many college students are misinformed aseventually did dozensofother high schools tics," and that the issues behind the political about basic matters of sex, she said, but and colleges across the country. By the adju ted for quantity offood eaten and vari implications need to be addressed. people are generally more informed about spring of her junior year, Locker had pub ables uch as ethnic group, poverty, income "Before we have rallies against date sexual matters now than they were when she lished an article in the Handbook ofSexol ratio, calorie intake and day of the week on rape, we need to make sure that college first started lecturing in 1988. ogy and, after graduating from Cornell, she which the food recall was taken. students have a full understanding of dat The book's appeal extends beyond Gen was accepted into the University of Penn They found that intake of protein, vita ing," she said. eration Xers, however, Locker said, and it is sylvania to gain her master's degree in hu min C, vitamin A, thiamin, riboflavin, nia Locker wants her book to help people something that she would also recommend man sexuality education. cin, phosphorus, potassium iron and linoleic acid were all at or above the RDA for all fat intake groups (broken out into four groups with the high-fat groupobtaining50 percent Childhood continued from page 7 of calories from fat) in preschoolers and school-age children. Teen-agers obtained ars and students and their counterparts in This past summer, for example, CECP sup at the heart of CECP programs and goals." adequate nutrients in all four fat intakegroups Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and ported students through a very competitive Cochran, who joined the Cornell faculty except vitamin A and iron, which were low Oceania," predicted Cochran, whose pro Head Start graduate fellowship and through in 1973, received his B.A. (1964) from in all fat group', and niacin, which was low grams will have a study abroad component summer internships for advanced under Harvard University and M.A. (1969) and in the two lowest fat intake groups. as well. graduates who worked as teaching assis Ph.D. (1973) from the University of Michi Although calcium intake was lowest All these CECP initiatives, which in tants in the child-care program. gan. He is the recipient ofnumerousawards, among the low-fat groups, only the clude outreach and service to the commu "Our quest is to enhance our capacity to including the National Program Develop preschoolers in the lowest fat group con nity, also are closely tied to teaching, rear our young to become healthy, produc ment Award and the 75th Anniversary ~umed levels below the ROA. Cochran stressed. In addition to a three tive members of American society despite Award from Cooperative Extension for his The reearchers tressed that, although course sequence relating to preschool chil the backdropofpoverty and stress that chal film and parent educational materials on the low-fat diet~ are beneficial for children age dren and related courses for undergradu lenge family life today," Cochran said. "We Family Matters Project, a longitudinal, cross 2 and older, low-fat diets are not recom ates, CECP hosts graduate students work believe that can be done through a preven national study Cochran spearheaded in the mended for children under age 2. ing on child-care policies and programs. tive, family strengthening model, which is 1980s directed at strengthening families. Cornell Chronicle November 9, 1995 9
Wettest Oct. in a century ends N.E. drought By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. The Northeast's wettest October in 101 years has ended a drought that had gripped the region since the spring, according to climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell. "It was going to take a serious amount of rain to ease the drought conditions that really took hold of the Northeast this sum mer," said Keith Eggleston, climatologist at the center. "And that's just what we got during October." Thanks in large part to the remnants of Hurricane Opal and a couple of strong, moist cold fronts, October 1995 became the wettest October in more than a century in the Northeast. The region averaged 6.32 inches of rain for the month - nearly twice the October normal. The previous record wettest October was 6.29 inches in 1976. Vermont and New Hampshire also reported their record soggiest October, while it was the second wettest on record in New York and Pennsylvania, and the third wettest in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Bill Warren Wilmington, Del., replaced its October Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala watch with heightened emotion as the Tibetan flag is raised on March 10. National Uprising Day. commemorating the demonstrations of 1959. when the people of Lhasa rallied against record of 7.5 inches of rain established in Chinese rule in Tibet's capital city. October 1902 with the 8.01 inches reported last month. Philadelphia reported 5.99 inches for its fourth wettest October in over 100 years, Eggleston reported. Health educator's book looks at Tibetans in exile Weather stations in parts of central and By Susan Lang India to document the refugee commu eastern Pennsylvania, through northern New nity. Rose, a health educator in Univer Jersey, eastern New York and interior New When the Chinese invaded Tibet in sity Health Services at Cornell, conducted England reported 7 to more than 10 inches 1959, the Dalai Lama and thousands of research for the book in Dharamsala for of rain this month. Extreme southwestern otherTibetans fled to Dharamsala, India, six months in 1990. Shecoordinate sub Pennsylvania through most of West Vir where they have remained. A new book, stanceabuse prevention programs among ginia did not benefit quite as much from the with 160 color photographs and a series Cornell students and has been studying region's plentiful rains: They received less of lively essays, captures the lives, spirit sacred dance and the religious and philo than 4 inches of rain. West Virginia aver and culture ofthese refugees who prevail sophic traditions of various cultures for aged just 3.68 inches, which is 115 percent over the adversities of exile to preserve 25 years. of normal. their ancient Buddhist ways. The book's foreword, by the Dalai Year-to-date precipitation departures Living Tibet: The Dalai Lama in Lama of Tibet, the obel Peace Prize ranged from 5.89 inches below normal in Dharamsala (Snow Lion Publications, Laureate in 1989 and the Bartels World New Jersey (84 percent of normal) to 0.08 $26.95), photographed by Bill Warren Affairs Fellow at Cornell in 1991, con inches above normal in New Hampshire and written by Nanci Hoetzlein Ro e, is cludes: "This illustrated book focusing (100 percent ofnormal). The area-weighted a vibrant photographic investigation into on the life of Tibetans in Dharamsala average for the entire Northeast was 2.96 the rich artistic and cultural heritage of reveals many facets of our life as refu inches below normal, which was 91 percent one of the most successful refugee com gees. I congratulate photographer Bill of normal. munities in history. This unique collabo Warren and author Nanci Hoetzlein Rose The Palmer Drought Severity Index at rative effort covers the arts, children, for their efforts, and trust readers may be the end of October showed considerable inspired to lend their support to our ef monks and nuns, medicine, street life, Bill Warren improvement, but a few places, such as mysticism and the political history of forts to gain a fair hearing for Tibet." eastern Maryland, were still reporting mild Nanci Hoetzlein Rose poses with a Tibetans living in exile. There are exclu Tibetan friend in Dharamsala. Rose and Warren will present a free to moderate drought conditions. Mild sive portrayals of the Dalai Lama and slide show and book-signing on Tues drought also was indicated for central West other important political and spiritual and a concise travel guide. day, ov.14,at7:30p.m.intheFounders Virginia through southwestern Pennsylva figures, including the child lama, Ling Photojournalist Bill Warren traveled Room of Anabel Taylor Hall, as part of nia, in extreme northeastern Pennsylvania, • Rinpoche. The book also contains maps three times to the Himalayas of northern Tibet Week in Ithaca. and extremesoutheastern New York through coastal sections of Connecticut. Moog synthesizer inventor returns to campus to talk about theremins
By Larry Bernard record of familiar music on a synthesizer, that sold over 1 million copies," Moog said. RQbert Moog, best known for co-invent "That was the bigge t surprise of all." ing the synthesizer that bears his name and Moog was on campus Nov. 2 to talk turned a generation on to electronic music, about his latest business, building kits for a recalled how he started building the instru unique electronic instrument called a ments out of a garage in Trumansburg. theremin and other electronic instruments. WhiIe a Cornell graduate student in 1960 Moog was building theremins before he earninga doctorate in applied and engineer invented synthesizers. ing physics (1965), Moog wrote an article Invented by Russian-born Leon Theremin for what is now Electronics World maga in the 1920s, the theremin creates sound zine describing the instrument. simply by having someone move a hand in "I got so many orders, I had to drop out the air over it, never touching the instru of Cornell for several months," he recalled ment. It is perhaps best recognizable in the last week during a rare visit to campus. "It Beach Boys' hit song, Good Vibrations of was just two of us, my wife and I, and we 1966, and in various '50s and '60s science rented a garage and sold 1,000 kits. We did fiction film soundtracks. that for a year or so, and then it became a "The first theremins were made with background activity." vacuum tubes. We're updating theremin But success did not come quickly. "Iwas technology," he said. "The original tone surprised at the first order because I didn't color is what we strive for." Adriana Rovers/University Photography think of it as a business," Moog said. Moog also gave a talk at Willard Straight Robert Moog. inventor of the synthesizer. who earned a doctorate at Comeilin Then came, however, a full-length al Hall beforea showingofthe film ''Theremin: appliedandengineeringphysics In 1965. retumed tocampuslast week. Above, bum that boosted the synthesizers' popular An Electronic Odyssey," about the life of he demonstrates a theremin to students in David Borden's Music 120 class on ity - Switched on Bach. "That was a whole the inventor, who died last year at age 97. Nov. 2. Helping with the demonstration. at lett. ist'";t cia..TA, Stephen Dill '96. 10 November 9, 1995 Cornell Chronicle
versary of the Str~ight. Jodi Kessler will perform day, 10 a.m., noon and 5 p.m., Anabel Taylor folk music Nov. 9. Auditorium. Daily Masses: Monday-Friday, 12:20 • Settie will give a concert Nov. 15 at8 p.m. in p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. Sacrament of Rec the Memorial Room. onciliation, Saturday, 3:30 p.m., G·22 Anabel Taylor Hall. Bound for Glory Nov. 12: Lucy Kaplansky will perform. The Christian Science Durland Altematives Library show runs Sunday nights from 8 to 11, with live Testimony meetings sharing healing through Ithaca Journal photographer Bill Warren and sets at 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. in the Commons prayer and discussion every Thursday at 7 p.m., Animal Science Cornell author Nanci Rose will give a slide presen Coffeehouse of Anabel Taylor Hall. Admission is Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. For more "Integrating Courses in a Learning Continuum tation and talk about their new book, Living Tibet: free and is open to everyone. Kids are welcome, information see
Entomology (.Jugatae) "Augmentation of a Native Parasitoid for Lygus hesperus Management in Strawberries," Andrew Norton, Nov. 9, 4 p.m , A106 Corson Hall. Veterinary College "Weird and Wonderful Effects of Mermithid James Law Lecture Series: "Mothers, Babies Nematodes on Their Insect Hosts," Sarah Vance, and Diseases in Later life," David J.P. Barker, Nov. 16,4 p.m., A106 Corson Hall. University of Southampton, Nov. 9, 4 p.m., Call Alumni AuditOrium, Kennedy Hall. Fruit & Vegetable Science "Carbon Balance in Apple Trees: Crop Load and Leaf Mite Stress Effects," Ana Francisconi, horticultural science, Geneva Agricultural Experi ment Station, Nov. 9, 4 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building. "Finding Funds for Your Programs and Projects," Eric Rosario and Maya Gussak, CALS development office, Nov. 16, 4 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building.
Department of Music Geological Sciences • Nov. 11,8:15 p.m., Barnes Hall: Having cho "New Results From ACCRETE, a Multi sen artists from Cornell, Ithaca and Ithaca College, disciplinary Study of Continental Growth in South John Hsu will conduct this chamber orchestra to eastAlaska and British Columbia," Lincoln Hollister, perform music by Arcangelo Corelli (Concerto Princeton University, Nov. 14, 4:30 p.m., 1120 Grosso in C Minol); Joseph Haydn (Concerto in D Snee Hall. Major and Symphony No. 43 in E-flat Majol) and Luigi Beecherini (Symphony No. 13 in B-flat Ma Hazardous Waste Toxicology 101). The members include violinists Kaoru Ishibashi, The Borodin Trio will perform Nov. 16 in Statler Auditorium. "Multiple Mechanisms of PCB Neurotoxicity," Kenneth Fung, Julie Carson, Jennifer Billing, Errol David Carpenter, SUNY Albany, Nov. 15, 12:20 Laub and Elizabeth Nee; violists Ben Tavenner p.m., 135 Emerson Hall. and Francisco Lopez de Saro; cellists Susan Crisfield and Heidi Gromoll; double bass David Noted chamber music trio performs Nov. 16 Immunology Perry from Syracuse; oboists Sooho Choi and "MHC Class I Molecules, Peptides and Poly David de la Nuez and horn players Daniel Coffman The 1995-95 Cornell Chamber Music The Borodin Trio has appeared in concert morphic TAP Peptide Transporters in the Rat," and Naomi Dushay. Series continues with a performance by the throughout Europe, North and South Geoff ButCher, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, Nov. 10, 12:15p.m., Boyce Thompson Auditorium. • Nov. 12, 4 p.m., Barnes Hall: The second Borodin Trio Thursday, Nov. 16. at 8:15 America, Australia, New Zealand and the student chamber music concert, with Renaissance Middle East to critical acclaim. In addition and contemporary, instrumental and vocal, solo p.m. in Statler Auditorium. Latin American Studies and ensemble music, will be given under the Triomembers.are Rostislav Dubinsky, vio to their performances of the chamber music "Colonization, Violence and Cultural Differences direction of William COWdery. lin, Luba Edlina, piano, and Laszlo Varga, literature, they often appear with orchestras in Uraba, Colombia," Mary Roldan, history, Nov. • Nov. 14, 8:15 p.m., Barnes Hall: Students of cello. The program will include the Piano Trio in Beethoven's TripleConcerLO and in the 14,12:15 p.m., 153 Uris Hall. Xak Bjerken will perform music by Rachmaninoff, by Ludwig Spohr, the Brahms DoubleCofLcerto, most recently un Schubert, Uszt and Schumann. Gp. 124, No.3 Piano Materials Science & Engineering Trio, Gp. 67 by Dmitri Shostakovich and the der the baton of Sir Neville Marriner. "Polymeric Materials Synthesis and Process Statler Series Trio No.1, Gp. 49 by Felix Mendelssohn. Dubinsky now is chairman of the cham ing in Carbon Dioxide," Joseph DeSimone, Uni The Borodin Trio will perform works by Spohr, In the Soviet Union, Dubinsky served as ber music program at Indiana University, versity of North Carolina, Nov. 16,4:30 p.m., 140 Bard Hall. Shostakovich and Mendelssohn on Nov. 16 at first violinist of the distinguished Borodin where Edlina is a professor of piano. All 815 pm in Statler Auditorium. Tickets for the Quartet for years, and his wife, Edlina, three members of the Borodin Trio reside in concert at$12· $20: $10 - $17for students and are 30 Mechanical & Aerospace available at the Lincoln Hall ticket office, open concertized and recorded extensively with Bloomington, Ind. Engineering Monday through Friday, 9 a.m to 1 p.m. VISA that ensemble. In 1976, after emigrating to Tickets forthe concert are $12-$20-$1 0 "Making Sense: Getting the Word Out," M.D. MasterCard and CornellCard are accepted ror the West, they formed the Borodin Trio with $17 for students - and arc available at the Morris, McGraw-Hili Book Co., Nov. 9, 4:30 p.m., Informallon, contact the ticket office at 255·5144 155 Olin Hall. cellist Yuli Turovsky. When Turovsky re Lincoln Hall ticket office. The office is open Willard Straight Hall Program Board signed from the ensemble, Varga, who served Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to I p.m. Olin*Kroch*Uris Libraries "Each Thursday from 8 to 10 pm. in the as principal cellist ofthe New York Philhar VISA MasterCard and CornellCard arc ac An advanced class on the World Wide Web will MemOrial Room, the WSH Program Board is pre monic for eleven years, became the trio's cepted. For more information, contact the be held Nov. 13 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Uris Library sentlng a coffeehouse to celebrate the 70th annl- third member. ticket office at 255-5144. Continued on page 11 Cornell Chronicle November 9, 1995 11
and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) at What's Your Beef at 6:30 p.m. For information or dinner reservations, call Warren Smith at (607) 762-7571.
Instruction Lab. Questions, call 255-4144 or e-mail [email protected].
Ornithology "The Old Song and Dance: Courtship Displays in Tropical Manakins," David McDonald, Univer sity of Florida, Nov. 13,7:30 p.m., Fuertes Room, Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road. Theatre Arts William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure Peace Studies Program will be performed Nov. 16-18, 30 and Dec. 1-2 at "Security Implications of Migration," Sarah 8 p.m., and Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. in the Proscenium Spencer, Institutefor Public Policy Research, Lon Theatre. Tickets are $6 and $8. Call 254-ARTS for don, Nov. 9, 12:15 p.m., G-08 Uris Hall. information. "Adventures of a Poet: Networking for Survival in the Russian Civil War," Barbara Walker, Institute for European Studies, Cornell, Nov. 16, 12:15 p.m., G-08 Uris Hall.
Pharmacology "InsP3 Receptor Down-Regulation," Richard Photo courte,y ofCorne/I Dining Wojcikiewicz, SUNY Syracuse, Nov. 13,4:30p.m., Students in Balch Dining enjoyed the offerings of the Cross Country Gourmet Lecture Hall III, Veterinary Research Tower. Series featuring Longhi's restaurant from Lahaina, Hawaii, in 1988, .bove. Co op dining halls will salute past Cross Country Gourmet f ature rest ur nts Fashion Show Physiology during an "Encore Presentation" Nov. 13 through 17. • "An Inducible Immune System in Plants; Analo The Pakistan Students Association presents gies to the Animal Model," Terry Delaney, plant Pakistan Night fashion show and dinneron Satur pathology, Nov. 14, 4 p.m., G-3 Veterinary Re day, Nov. 11, at 6 p.m. in the One World Room of search Tower. Anabel Taylor Hall. Tickets are $7 in advance, $8 Entrees from featured restaurants served at the door. For tickets contact: Filza ChaUdhry, Plant Biology 253-0074; Omar Khan, 253-2809; Kamila Faruki, "Botanical Illustration: Art, History and Practi 277-1013; Emane Haque, 253-0678; orZulfi Khan, for students at gourmet series Nov. 13 to 17 cal Applications," Benta King, L.H. Bailey Hortorium, 253-8628. Nov. 10, 11:15 a.m., 404 Plant Science Building. By Darryl Geddes with fresh fruit from the Four Seasons Hotel Fine Arts Library Sale in San Francisco; Peanut Butter Pie from Plant Breeding The Fine Arts and Music Libraries will hold a Cornell students will get a taste for el Emeril's in New Orleans; a Pecan Ball from sale of art and music books, printed music and "Oat Interchange Genetics," William Wilson, egant dining Nov. 13 to 17, when the the Grand Hotel in Mackinac Island, Mich. plant breeding, Nov. 14, 12:20p.m., 135 Emerson. sound recordings on Wednesday through Satur day, Nov. 15-18, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in B21 university's dining centers serve up such The Cross Country Gourmet Encore Pre Proven~ale, Plant Pathology lincoln Hall (enter through south driveway en menu items as Rack of Lamb sentation will be served at different dining "Aroma and Function: A New Phytoalexin in trance). The sale will be open to Cornell commu Swordfish Brochette and Supreme of centers each day next week. Monday service Raspberries," Wladek Borejsza-Wysocki, food nity only on Wednesday, Nov. 15. Bring cash or Chicken Josephine. will be at Balch and Risley, Tuesday at Sage, checkbook; credit cards will not be accepted. science & technology, Nov. 14, 3 p.m., A133 The weekJong gounnet's delight, billed as Wednesday at Robert Purcell Union, Thurs Barton Laboratory, Geneva Agricultural Experi "CrossCountry GounnetEncorePresentation day at Jansen's and Friday at Okenshield's. ment Station. Thanksgiving Fe.st "Regulation Cascade ofthe Erwinia amy/ovora All members of the Cornell community are -A Celebration of Culinary Excellence," Students enrolIed in any board plan that in hrpGenes," Zhong-Min Wei, plant pathology, Nov. invited to attend a traditional Thanksgiving meal in brings some of the most popular dishes from cludes dinnermay enjoy one nightofthe CCG 15, 12:20 p.m., 404 Plant Science BUilding. Trillium in Kennedy Hall on Nov. 24 from noon to 3 restaurants across the country to the Cornell at no extra charge. Students not on a dinner p.m. The extensive buffet will feature turkey and all campus. Under the Cross Country Gounnet plan, as well as those not enrol1ed in any co-op Psychology the trimmings and vegetarian entrees. Event plan series, which has been around for almost two plan may indulge in the al1-you-can-eat feast "Responding to Significant Others When They ners areseeking volunteers to greet diners. Those Are Not There: Effects on Memory, Evaluation, interested in volunteering as a Thanksgiving host decades, Cornell'sDiningand Retail Services at a cost 0£$16.50 and $27.50, respectively. Affect and Motivation," Susan Andersen, New in eXchange for a complimentary meal, please call prepares and cooks menu items from selected "We take the utmost care in making sure the Office of Graduate Student Life at 255-1123. York University, Nov. 10,3:30 p.m., 202 Uris Hall. North American restaurants to enhance the the dining experience students and others Following the meal, an informal get-together will diningexperiencesofstudents. Even the table have here reflects the restaurant we're featur South Asia Program be held in the Big Red Barn Graduate and Profes cloths and flower decorations are identical to "Pakistan, Islam and the Politics of Muslim sional Student Center. Tickets ($7 adults, $4 chil ing,"Beachsaid. Such preparations, henoted, Unrest," Mowahid Hussain Shah, attorney, politi dren 6 to 12) are available at the following loca the featured restaurants. require Comel1 chefs and other key kitchen cal analyst, author and former vice president ofthe tions: Maplewood Park, Hasbrouck, Schuyler "During our encore presentation week, staffto visit restaurants to oversee preparation House, Hughes Hall Service Center and GCAs Foreign Correspondents Association ofthe United we're serving up some of the best of the ofthe menu item and to examine what special States, Nov. 13, 12:15 p.m., G-08 Uris Hall. International Living Center; International Students & Scholars Office, Big Red Barn (after 2: 15 p.m.); best," said Peggy Beach, associate director ingredients might need to be ordered. Textiles & Apparel Intensive English Program; International Students of Campus Life. ''The Cross Country Gourmet series is "Development of Modular Integrated Body Ar Programming Board; Public Service Center; Dean Here's what's cooking: Rack of Lamb really a learning experience for both our mor," Susan McKinney, ArthurD. Little Inc., Nov. 9, of Students Office. Tickets also will be available at Proven~ale from the Accomac Inn in staff and students," Beach said. "Our chefs the door ($9.50 adUlts, $5.65 children 6 to 12). 12:20 p.m., 317 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. Wrightsville, Pa.; Tumis, a vegetarian dish and others get to speak with executive chefs "Use of PlasticsfTextiles in Horticulture," David featuring fresh vegetables stir-fried in coco from other restaurants and learn new tech Wolfe, fruit & vegetable science, Nov. 16, 12:20 p.m., 317 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. nut milk and sweet soy sauce, from Yono's niques in food preparation," she said. "Stu in Albany; Entrecote de Boeuf au Poivre dents also are exposed to new foods and a Wildlife Science (strip steak with cracked peppercorns) from different dining experience." "An Adaptive Approach to Waterfowl Harvest the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee; Supreme of A preview meal with full table service is Management in North America," Jim Nichols, ~~rt~ Chicken Josephine from Pierce's 1894 Res offered for students, faculty, staff and their Patuxent Environmental Science Center, Nov. 9, 3:35 p.m., 304 Femow Hall. taurant in Elmira; Swordfish Brochette from guests on Saturday, Nov. 11, from 5:30 to 8 "Avian Nuisance Species: Matching the Solu the Cape Cod Room in Chicago. p.m. The cost of the five-course meal is Home games are. in ALL CAPS. tion to the Problem With Population Modeling," Records are as ofMonday. Dessert specials are: the original Choco $16.50 per person. Wine will be available at Richard Dolbeer, USDA Animal Damage Control, late Decadence from Narsai's in Kensington, an additional price. Reservationsare required Nov. 16,3:35 p.m., 304 Fernow Hall. Men's Cross Country (1"1) Calif.; Hippen Baskets, acookiebasket filled and can be made by calling 255-5555. Nov. 11, IC4A Champs. at Boston
Women's Cross Country (2·0) Nov. 11, ECAC Champs. at Boston American Hospital Association speaker Football (5-3) Nov. 11, COLUMBIA, 1 p.m. gives symposium on cooperation ov. 16
Men's Hockey (0·1) Carolyn C. Roberts, the immediate past at large, small and specialty hospitals, and Biophysics Nov. 10, BROWN, 7:30 p.m. president ofthe American Hospital Associa she writes frequently on health-care topics. "Highlights of Biophysics Research at Cornell," Nov. 11, HARVARD, 7 p.m. tion and the president of the Copley Health Under her guidance, the 54-bed Copley Nov. 15, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., 700 Clark Hall. Topics Systems, will offer a Hospital obtained federal funding to build a Women's Hockey and presenters include: free and open col subsidized apartment complex forelderly and "Hanging by a Thread: The Molecular Basis for Nov. 11, at St. Lawrence, 2 p.m. loquium titled "Coop handicapped residents on the hospital's cam Spider Silk's Strength and Elasticity," Carl Michal, physics; Men's Polo (5-1) eration: The Pathway pus in 1978. She also has been involved in "Laser-pulse Photolysis Investigations of Neu Nov. 10, at Virginia, 8 p.m. to the Future" at 4 p.m. planning an assisted living community com rotransmitter Receptors in the Microsecond Time Nov. 16-19, CORNELL POLO CLASSIC Thursday, Nov. 16, on plex, an elderly daycenterand children's day Range," Li Niu, biochemistry, molecular & cell the sixth floor of the care center, and emergency alert services to biology; Women's Polo (4-0) "Nonlinear Microscopy in Biological Imaging," Nov. 10, at Virginia, 6 p.m. Johnson Museum. elderly residents of rural communities. Chris Xu, applied & engineering physics; and Nov. 11, GARRISON FOREST 8:15 p.m. Sponsored by the Roberts has been a member of the AHA "Tracking Protein Folding Pathways," Bruce Nov. 16-19, CORNELL POLO CLASSIC Sloan Program in Roberts Board ofTrustees since 1990; she is a recipi Church, biochemistry, molecular & cell biology. Health Services Ad- ent of the Health Care Executive of the Year Men's Soccer (14-1·1) ministration and the Cornell Institute for honor by the American Academy of Medical Mechanical Engineering Nov. 12, at Brown, 2 p.m. "The Design, Operation and Maintenance of Public Affairs, the colloquium will be fol Administrators and the Copley Hospital Fos Veterinary Medical Center Biohazard Level Facili Men's Squash lowed by a reception. ter G. McGaw Prize for community service. ties," panel discussion with Dr. Fred Quimby, Wil Nov. 11-12, Ivy Scrimmage at Yale As president and chief executive officer The Sloan Program for Health Services liam Anderson, Robert Lotkowictz and Michael ofCopley Hospital and Copley Health Sys Administration offers 15 to 20 students a Mcintyre, Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m., What's Your Beef Women's Volleyball (18-8) year a master's degree in health administra restaurant. Tour of the center at 5:15 p.m. will Nov. 10-12, Ivy Tourn. at Pennsylvania tems, Inc. of Morrisville, Vt., Robert is leave from Lecture Hall II in the Veterinary Educa known as an innovator and advocate of tion. Of the 800 program graduates, more tion Center Dinner with the Twin Tiers Chapter of Wrestling community collaboration and voluntary gov than one-third occupy chief executive posi the American Society of Healing, Refrigeration Nov. 11, ALUMNI EXHIB. 10 a.m. ernance. She has administrative experience tions in their organizations. 12 November 9, 1995 Cornell Chronicle
exhibit in the lobby of Mann Library. Examples of techniques and publications, highlighted by fruits and vegetables in decoration and art, will be on display through December.
Tjaden Hall Gallery • Paintings by Guillermo Hinojosa-Canales, through Nov. 11 • Paintings by students of Victor Kord's paint ing classes, Nov. 11 through 18.
Willard Straight Hall Art Gallery • Mixed media exhibition by students and staff of WSH, through Nov. 12. • Photographs and clippings celebrating 70th anniversary of WSH, Nov. 13 through Dec. 1.
Films listed are sponsored by Cornell Cinema unless otherwise noted andare open to the public. All films are $4.50 ($4 for students and children Early Chinese pottery is described by Comell's Masako Watanabe, right, to under 12), except for Tuesday night Cinema Off newsman Peter Yung·Teh Hsu of the Chinese Television Network during the Center at the Center for Theatre Arts ($2) and opening reception Oct. 26 of "Masterworks of Chinese Art from ComeII Univer Saturday or Sunday matinees ($3.50). Films are sity,"an exhibition attheTaipei Galleryin NewYork City. Watanabe is assistant heldin Willard StraightTheatre exceptwhere noted. curator of Asian art at the Herbert F. .Johnson Museum of Art. Thursday, 11/9 "The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea" (1995), directed by Laurent Heynemann, with Jeanne Chinese art from CD collection Moreau, 7 p.m. "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (1985), di All items for the Chronicle Calendar should rected by Amy Heckerling, with Sean Penn and be submitted (typewritten, double spaced) by featured in New York gallery Jennifer Jason Leigh, 9:15 p.m. campus mail, U.S. mail orin person to Chronicle Calendar, Cornell NewsService, VillageGreen, Cornell'sChinese art is largely acollection Friday, 11/10 By Larry Bernard 840 Hanshaw Road. started by Martie Young, senior curator and oticesshould be sentlo arrive 10 daysprior "The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea," 7 p.m. to publication and should include the name and "Reservoir Dogs" (1992), directed by Quentin NEW YORK - About 100 aficionados, professor of the history of art. Donors have lelephone numberofa person who can be called Tarantino, with Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth and Steve curators, journalists and friends of Cornell made it one of the nation's best university if there are questions. Buscemi, 7 p.m. and midnight, Uris. attended the openingof"MasterworksofChi based collections of its kind, Robinson said. Notices should also include the subheading "The Postman" (1995), directed by Michael nese Art From Cornell University" at the ofthe calendar in which lhe item should appear. Radford, with Massimo Troisi and Philippe Noiret, Masako Watanabe, assistant curator of 9:15 p.m. Taipei Gallery ofthe Chinese Information and Asian art, described each piece during a "Fast Times at Ridgemont High: 9:30 p.m., Culture Center in New York on Oct. 26. preview for New York media. Peter Hsu, Uris. The exhibition, featuring 97 pieces from correspondent for Chinese Television Net Cornell's renowned Chinese art collection at work in Taipei, filmed the tour for broadcast Saturday, 11/11 "Alice" (1989), directed by Jan Svankmajer, the Herbert F.Johnson MuseumofArt, isopen in Taiwan. Also attending was Po Yin Hsu, with Kristyna Kohoutova, IthaKid Film Fest, 2 p.m. through Dec. 8 at the gallery in the McGraw an art agent and well-known art critic in "The Postman," 7 p.m. Hill Building, ]22] Avenue of the Americas. Taiwan, as well as journalists from World "Reservoir Dogs," 7 p.m. and midnight, Uris. "The exhibit is laid out chronologically Journal and local newspapers. "The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea," 9:30 over4,500 years,"said Franklin W. Robinson, "Cornell alumni tastes are very much Comell Intemational Folkdancers p.m. Open to the Cornellcommunityandthegeneral "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," 9:30 p.m., director ofthe Johnson Museum, who treated reflected in this collection," Watanabe said. public. Allevents are free unless noted. Beginners Uris. the opening reception participants to a talk "Also, Professor Martie Young tries to in are welcome. No partnernecessary. For informa about the collection. corporate teaching material, so Chinese art tion, contact Edilia at 387-6547. Sunday, 11/12 "We're very grateful to the gallery. This at Cornell is a teaching collection." Nov. 12, Maplewood Community Center: "The Postman," 4:30 p.m. is a special exhibit that presents works ofthe Still, "we need paintings and more do Vulpitza (Romanian) taught by Raven, 7:30 p.m.; "Straight Through the Heart" (1984), directed open dancing and requests, 8:30 p.m. by Doris Dorrie, with Beate Jensen and Sepp highest quality, representing a survey ofthe nors," she said. Bierbichler, 7 p.m. history of Chinese art," he said. "The whole In his talk, Robinson described three major Israeli Folkdancing "InvocationfThe Films ofMaya Deren," directed history ofart over4,500 years is represented themes that run through the works: highly Thursdays, 8 p.m., Edwards Room, Anabel by Jo Ann Kaplan/Maya Deren, presented by right here, and in a stunning variety of me sophisticated sense ofdesign; extraordinary Taylor Hall. Pentangle, 7:30 p.m., Uris, free. dia: jade, lacquer, urns, paintings, sculpture, rapport with nature, and respect for tradition Monday, 11/13 ceramics, bronze, wood and stone." and the past. "La Terra Trema" (1948), directed by Luchino Visconti, 6:45 p.m. "The Postman," 10 p.m. submission deadline for a January 1996 degree is Biochemistry, Molecular & Cell Tuesday, 11/14 Jan. 12, 1996. Students should see the Graduate Biology "American Me" (1992), directed by Edward School thesis adviser for approval of the format of Ef Racker Lectureship: Henry Bourne, profes James Olmos, with Olmos, William Forsythe and their thesis/dissertation before submitting the final sor of pharmacology and medicine at the Univer Pepe Serna, 7 p.m. copies to the Graduate School. Office hours are 9 sity of California, San Francisco, will present the .Johnson Art Museum "Surname Viet, Given Name Nam" (1989), a.m. to noon daily; also 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on lecture, "Stories About Biological Signaling," Nov. The HerbertF. Johnson Museum ofArt, on the directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha, 7:30 p.m., CTA Film Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays; walk-in basis 9 at8 p.m. in theJames LawAuditorium, Schurman corner ofUniversity and Centralavenues, is open Forum. only, no appointments. Professional master's de Hall. He also will present a technical talk, "How Do Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. "Aguirre, Wrath of God" (1972), directed by gree candidates should check with their field of Receptors Activate Trimeric G Proteins," Nov. 10 Admission is free. Telephone: 255-6464. WernerHerzog, with Klaus Kinski and Ray Guerra, fices regarding the deadline, as that deadline may at noon in the large conference room of the Bio • "Art in Bloom: Botanical Illustration and the 9:30p.m. be earlier than the Graduate School's. technology Building. Artist's Interpretation: draWings from the perma • Fellowshipsfor 1996-97: Foreign Language nent collection and the Cornell Library, on view Wednesday, 11/15 and Area Studies Fellowships. Applications for Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center through Dec. 31. "Jerico" (1990), directed by Luis Alberto, with 1996-97 will be available at the end of November "The New Urban Poverty and the Retreat From • "Master Prints From Upstate New York Muse Cosme Cortazar, 7 p.m. in the graduate field offices and the Graduate Public Policy," William Julius Wilson, University of ums: through Dec. 31. "Midnight Dancers" (1994), directed by Mel Fellowship Office. Application deadline is Jan. 26. Chicago and A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Nov. • "Akira Kurosaki Woodcuts: through Dec. 31. Chionglo, 9 p.m. Award includes 9-month stipend of$8,000 plus full 13, 4:30 p.m., Goldwin Smith D. The This exhibition reflects Kurosaki's knowledge of tuition for 1996-97 academic year; available to Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center also will hold ukiyo-e methods and his personal, modern vision. Thursday, 11/16 citizens or permanent residents oftheUnited States. an informal faCUlty colloquium with Wilson on Nov. • "Uklyo-e Prints and Woodblocks," through "Belle deJour" (1967), directed by Luis Bunuel, 16 at noon in the Faculty Commons of MarthaVan Dec. 31. To accompany the works by Akira with Catherine Denueve and Jean Sorel, 7 p.m. Rensselaer Hall. Kurosaki, this exhibition, drawn from the perma "Midnight Dancers," 9:15 p.m. nent collection, includes works by Hiroshige and Chemistry Hokusai, masters of the traditional ukiyo-e print. Baker Lectures: Graham R. Fleming of the • "Matisse: The Jazz Series," an exhibition of University of Chicago presents a lecture series on 26 senal prints depicting circus scenes, folklore "UltrafastSpectroscopy" at 11 :15a.m. in 119Baker: SUbjects, life in Parisian music hallsand theartist's "Introduction to the Primary Steps in Photosynthe own travel experiences, through March 24, 1996. sis: Theories ofEnergy Transfer," Nov. 9; "Primary • Sunday Afternoon Artbreak: "Botanicalillus Charge Separation in Photosynthetic Bacteria," tration Demonstration" with Bente Starcke King, Africana Studies & Research Center Nov. 14; and "Green Plant Light Harvesting and Nov. 12,2 p.m. "Africa '95: Reflections on the British-Based Charge Separation," Nov. 16. • 12 O'Clock Sharp: Thursday Noontime Gal Festival of African Arts," Salah Hassan, Africana lery Talks: On Nov. 16, Nancy Green, curator of • CoursEnroll: Pre-enrollment for Spring '96. stUdies, Nov. 10, 12:15 p.m., Hoyt Fuller Room, Cornell African Students Association prints, drawings and photographs, will present All course pre-enrollment will be on-line and elec 310 Triphammer Road. "Who Will SaveAfrica?" GeorgeAyitteh, Ameri "Master PrintsFrom UpstateNewYork Museums: tronic through Bear Access through Nov. 10. A "Parental Advocacyand Black StudentAchieve can University, Nov. 9, 7 p.m., Bache Auditorium, graduate student must obtain consent from the ment in the Ithaca School System," Lucy Brown, Malott Hall. Comell Library committee chairperson for the pre-enrollment INHS, Nov. 15, 12:15 p.m., Hoyt Fuller Room, 310 "Paper, Leather, Clay & Stone: The Written course selections and then receive an electronic Triphammer Road. CUSLAR Word Materialized," through Jan. 5, Kroch library, "adviser key" (password) from the chairperson or The Rev. Loren Riebe, a native of Los Angeles Mondaythrough Friday, 9a.m. t05p.m.; saturday, graduate field office. There are no course pre Archaeological Institute of America and the only priestfor about30,000 parishioners in 1 to 5 p.m. enrollment paper forms to be filed with the Gradu Finger Lakes Society the remote Mexican village of Yajalon, Chiapas, ate School. As in the past, during the first three "Israelites and Canaanites: The Emergence of will speak about his arrest and expulsion and Mann Library weeks of the spring semester, course "add and the Ancient Israelite Nation," Gloria London, Tho about the current situation in Chiapas on Nov. 9 at Learn about the scope of the Department of drop" can be done. mas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, 8 p.m. in the cafe at Anabel Taylor Hall. Fruit and Vegetable Science's activities at the • Thesis/Dissertation: The thesis/dissertation Nov. 13, 8 p.m., 22 Goldwin Smith Hall. Continued on page 10