Cornell CHRONICLE Volume 19 Number 34 May 26, 1988 3 Engineering a victory 4-5 Student award winners Cornell 8-9 in the News A week ahead of the rest, the Law School held Its convocation last Sunday at Bailey Hall. Among the 180 J.D. and 19 LL.M. graduates are, left to right: back row, Steven Browne, David Connolly and John Berg; center row, Patricia Lawrence; foreground, Lane Folsom, Lynne Cohee and Samuel Angell. Professor of Law Steven Shlffrin, who joined the faculty this academic year, addressed the law graduates and their guests with a talk that he called "A California Perspective." This Sunday, some 5,400 Cornell students will take part in commencement exercises beginning Claude Level at noon on Schoelkopf Field. President Frank H.T. Rhodes will be the speaker. At 9:30 a.m., Theodore Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, will deliver the Baccalaureate address in Bally Hall. At 8 a.m. the Cornell ROTC Brigade will commission officers in Statler auditorium. On Saturday at 1 p.m., Dr. Joyce Brothers, Class of '47, will address the senior class convocation In Bailey Hall. The Medical College held Its commencement for 95 medical degree candidates and 24 Doctor of Philosophy candidates on Tuesday. $25 million pledge caps Tower Club membership drive Cornell has received a $25 million pledge in recognition of the fund-raising success of its most generous alumni. President Frank H.T. Rhodes announced the pledge before 1,600 of those alumni at a black-tie dinner on May 20 marking the 25th anniversary of the founding of the group, called the Tower Club. Club members must give at least $2,500 annually to Cornell, but their actual average gift is almost 10 times that figure. At a dinner three years ago, Rhodes challenged them to raise their membership form 1,300 to 2,500 by their 25th anniversary. Then a small group of alumni pledged to top off the drive with a separate gift of $25 million if the goal were reached. The goal of 2,500 members later was raised to 3,000. "Thanks to our superb alumni leaders, the Tower Club signed up 3,017 members as of April 20, which was 10 weeks before the deadline and a month before the May 20 anniversary dinner," said Kenneth Derr, vice chairman of Chevron Corp. and the Tower Club's chairman. The anniversary and the realization of the challenge gift were celebrated with an afternoon symposium followed by the dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. The symposium consisted of seminars led by prominent faculty members on subjects ranging from creativity to the globalization of business. On the same day, back in Ithaca, an extended evening chime concert was played in the McGraw Tower, which gave the Tower Club its name. "This extremely generous gift will be crucial to insuring that Cornell can maintain top-quality education in a time of rising costs," Rhodes said. Noting that deans and senior administrators already are engaged in a comprehensive review to define Cornell's long-range educational needs, the president said: Continued on page 12 Diplomacy key to success of dean of faculty Cornell's dean of the faculty has no students, buildings or fund-raising obligations; no significant budget, no boss and few employees. He is not an administrator, but has an office on the third floor of Day Hall; not on the president's executive staff, but attends their meetings and those of virtually every important council on campus. Because the power of this deanship is rather elusive, success in the office depends largely on diplomacy; and because agricultural and business law Professor Joseph B. Bugliari is lauded universally as an able diplomat, he will be missed when he retires June 30 after five years as dean of Cornell's 1,560 faculty members. Actually, having recently adjourned the year's final meetings for the Faculty Council of Representatives and the faculty as a whole, Bugliari will perform his last official act on May 28 when he addresses the Board of Trustees on faculty concerns. "The very fact that he started the practice of speaking regularly to the trustees is a measure of Joe's effectiveness in representing faculty interests and concerns," said Provost Robert Barker. "In general, he's been infinitely patient, and very effective, in his role as principal consultant to the Joseph B. Bugliari Claude Level administration on faculty matters." The other half agrees. Philip Lewis, pro- fessor of Romance studies, praises Bugliari's "vigorous pursuit of faculty interests" and "unfailing willingness to promote constructive dialogue" with the administration — partly because the dean "has understood how to make a complex, sometimes Continued on page 12 Minority progress in jeopardy, warns panel headed by Rhodes A blue-ribbon national panel headed by President Frank H.T. Rhodes has concluded that the United States is sliding backward from earlier civil-rights progress and has urged the nation to rededicatc itself to minority advancement over the next two decades. At a Washington press conference on Monday, Rhodes introduced a report, "OneThird of a Nation," which was produced by a commission he had chaired for the past six months. The Commission on Minority Participation in Education and American Life, with former Presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter as honorary co-chairs, included 37 other prominent Americans from government, business, education, the news media and minority organizations. Rhodes told the press conference that the commission grew out of "deep concern that this nation's longstanding commitment to minority advancement had waned significantly in recent years." To examine statistics and trends, the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Education Commission of the States formed the commission, which, Rhodes reported, had reached "this disturbing conclusion: "America is moving backward — not forward — in its efforts to achieve the full participation of minority citizens in the life and prosperity of the nation." Rhodes, as ACE's chairman from 198788 and as Cornell's president, repeatedly has emphasized the importance of improving minority access to higher education. And, in his remarks to the press, he described particular concern "over disturbing trends in the education of minority citizens." But the full report, while giving great weight to educational measures of advancement, stressed that other sectors also must take initiatives. Education leaders at all levels were urged to cooperate, and higher education to improve minority recruitment, retention and graduation. These other strategies were urged on other sectors: • National leaders must stimulate economic growth and deal with the budget deficit. • Elected officials must promote minority advancement. • Private and voluntary organizations must generate more minority participation. • Minority leadership must be stronger within its own communities and society at large. • Each sector must contribute to a new vision of voluntary affirmative action that promotes national consensus. Continued on page 2 2 May 26, 1988 Cornell Chronicle Notables Proxy Review Committee votes Briefs on seven shareholder proposals Dr. Ira B. Black, the Nathan Cummings Professor of Neurology at Cornell University Medical Center, and a pioneer in the study of brain development, brain hormones and chemical messages, is a 1988 recipient of a McKnight Neuroscience Research Award. Worth $150,000 over three years, the award will support Black's research in neurotransmitter plasticity at the molecular level. Black, who found that experience guides the development of neurotransmitters, is one of 10 scientists to receive one of the prestigious awards this year. The McKnight awards are designed to stimulate research in the development of new approaches towards the understanding of memory and diseases affecting memory. Black's early work led to his discovering that nerve cells retain the ability to grow and change even in adults and that this ability is basic to normal brain function. A 1965 graduate of Harvard Medical School, Black has directed the division of developmental neurology at the medical college since 1975. His work may lead to benefits in the treatment of such degenerative neurological disorders as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. James W. Mayer, the Francis N. Bard Professor of Materials Science and Engi- neering, was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree by the State University of New York during its commencement May 15 in Albany. The citation reads in part: "As an inventor, scholar, engineer and teacher you . . . have created a revolution in nuclear physics and materials science. . . . Your pioneering work laid the foundation for the integrated circuit industry, and in turn for the computer revolution that has transformed our society. . . . You have served as a major force in advancing the science and technology of your discipline. You have also distinguished yourself as a humane and compassionate teacher and have upheld those values humankind prizes most highly in your interactions with stu- dents. " ' Mayer, who is 58, joined the faculty in 1980, coming from the California Institute of Technology where he had been a profes- sor of electrical engineering since 1971. Mayer holds seven patents, is co-author of five books and co-editor of three books, and is author or co-author of more than 400 scientific papers. Summer schedule The Proxy Review Committee of Cornell's Board of Trustees has considered the final seven of 34 shareholder proposals put forward this spring in connection with U.S. firms doing business in South Africa. By majority vote, the committee supported shareholder proposals concerning General Motors Corp. and Xerox Corp.; unanimously opposed a shareholder resolution in an Exxon Corp. proxy vote; and by majority vote rejected shareholder proposals concerning Ford Motor Co., Mobil Corp. and Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. The committee, whose membership is appointed by the university president, was established in 1983 by the board's Executive Committee to vote annually on behalf of the university as stockholder on specific corporate social responsibility issues, including those involving companies operating in South Africa. Reporting on the voting, Trustee Patricia Carry Stewart, chairwoman of the Proxy Review Committee, said the committee supported shareholder resolutions asking General Motors "to stop providing any of its products to" South Africa, "to terminate all further sales of products and licensing agreements there," and "that it ensure that its South African licensee did not sell any of its products to the South African police and military." Another committee supported shareholder resolution asked Xerox to no longer provide any of its products for distribution in South Africa. Stewart said the majority of the committee "noted that Xerox sold its South African operations in May of 1987 to a South African corporation rather than to its management or employees. The committee voted unanimously not to support a resolution asking Exxon "to ter- minate all economic relations, including licensing, in South Africa." Stewart said the committee pointed out that the firm sold its South African company in 1987 to a trust with no continuing licensing agreements, buy-back agreement or requirement to sell its products to its former affiliates. A majority of the committee opposed a shareholder proposal asking Ford to completely withdraw from South Africa by no longer providing any products there. Stewart said the committee majority pointed out that "blacks in South Africa are supportive of the way in which Ford is withdrawing, assured the role of union and non-white employees in the future of the company and is continuing its commitment to social concerns in the country." In opposing a shareholder proposal asking 3M to disinvest in South Africa, the committee cited the firm's social-justice programs, its anti-apartheid lobbying efforts and its drug products, which could be of benefit to the non-white population in South Africa. The committee opposed a shareholder proposal asking Mobil "to disinvest and terminate all economic relationships with South Africa," noting the firm's high ratings in efforts to eliminate racial discrimination in the workplace and to work toward bringing an end to apartheid. Committee members abstained from voting on a resolution asking Mobil "to make no sales to the South Africa police and military, because it did not have information available to it on this proposal," Stewart said. Before its most recent deliberations, the committee had voted against 21 of 27 shareholder proposals considered this spring. — Martin B. Stiles Statler exterior work resumes Exterior stone work resumed Monday on the new Statler Hotel building on East Avenue after a one-day halt in construction. University officials had ceased the work and ordered an extensive series of tests after fissures and deflection — or sagging — were found in the cement slabs that form the floors and ceilings of the nine-story, 150-room hotel, which is expected to be completed in early 1989. In announcing the problem late last Thursday, Cornell's vice president for university relations, John F. Burness, said that, as a precautionary move, more than 100 trades people would be reassigned to renovation work on the adjacent Statler Hall, which houses academic facilities for the School of Hotel Administration and which is scheduled to reopen in the fall. Resumption of the exterior work followed analysis of the tests conducted so far. Tests are continuing. • Musical dance revue: A musical dance revue in two parts, "Showtime" and "A Tribute to Fred Astaire," featuring dancers as young as three years of age, will be presented by the Ithaca Academy of Dance on June 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall. The performance is sponsored by the Cornell Recreation Club. Tickets are available at the studio, located at 102 West State St., at The Dance Connection store and at the door on the night of the performance. • Service awards: All employees who have worked for the university for 25 years or longer should have received an invitation to the 33rd annual Service Awards Banquet on June 7 in Barton Hall. If for some reason any eligible employee has not received an invitation, he or she should contact Laurie Roberts in Human Resources at 2553541. • Experimental college: Brochures covering the non-credit courses offered in the summer session of Cornell's Experimental College are available at the lobby desk and in Room 538 of Willard Straight Hall, and at numerous locations throughout campus and the City of Ithaca. Courses will be offered from July 4 to Aug. 5, usually in the evening once or twice a week. Various fees are charged, with discounts for persons with a Cornell I.D. Registration details are explained in the brochures. For more information, call the Experimental College at 255-9612. • Drive closed: The section of Schoellkopf Drive that connects the Lynah Rink area and the Tennis Bubble parking lot will be closed to all traffic from May 31 through late August for construction involving underground utilities. Parkers will be able to gain access from both the west and east to the Kite Hill parking area adjacent the Crescent. Ingress to and egress from the Kite Hill parking area just east of Lynah Rink will be from the east only. For more details, call 255-PARK. • Ithaca's silent films: Silent films produced in and around Ithaca in the early part of the century, including several starring Pearl White and Irene Castle, will be shown June 3 at 7:15 p.m. in Uris Auditorium by Cornell Cinema in cooperation with the Ithaca Festival and the DeWitt Historical Society. Composer David Borden will accompany the films with electronically synthesized music. Admission is $4. This is the last regular weekly issue of the Cornell Chronicle until the start of the fall semester. The next Chronicle will appear on June 9, followed by June 23, July 7, July 21 , Aug. 4 and Aug. 25. Job Opportunities will be published separately on off weeks. Cornell Chronicle EDITOR: Carole Stone GRAPHICS: Cindy Thiel CIRCULATION: Joanne Hanavan Barton Blotter: Oscilloscope stolen from Phillips Hall An oscilloscope and associated generator worth $9,360 were reported stolen from Phillips Hall between 3:15 and 9 p.m on May 13, according to the morning reports of the Department of Public Safety for May 16 through 22. Also missing in the 21 thefts reported were a $1,535 computer stolen from Sage Hall, a $1,000 balance taken from Olin Library, and a watch and a check worth $1,050, also taken from Olin Library. Losses totaled $15,817. Other thefts include three AM/FM radio and cassette players worth a total of $603 stolen from parked cars on campus, seven wallets with cash and valuables set at $268, a $350 slide projector and a $500 doubleheaded parking meter. Twelve persons were referred to the judicial administrator on such charges as petit larceny theft of services, criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and harassment. Three chairs valued at $30 were thrown out of the fifth floor of North Campus No. 1, papers were burned in a sink on the second floor of University Hall No. 5 causing $3,000 in damages, and two false alarms were set off. Published 40 limes a year, Cornell Chronicle is distributed free of charge to Cornell University faculty, students and staff by the University News Service. Mail subscriptions, 525 per year; two-year subscriptions are $45. Make checks payable to Cornell Chronicle and send to Village Green, 840 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850. Telephone (607) 255-4206. Second-Class Postage Rates paid at Ithaca, N.Y. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Cornell Chronicle (ISSN 0747-4628), Cornell University, 840 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850. It is the policy of Cornell University to support actively equality of educational and employment opportunity. No person shall be denied admission to any educational program or activity or be denied employment on the basis of any legally prohibited discrimination involving, but not limited to, such factors as race, color, creed, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, age, or handicap. The university is committed to the maintenance of affirmative action programs that will assure the continuation of such equality of opportunity. Minorities continuedfrompage 1 The report's title comes from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's observation: "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, illnourished." By the year 2000, minority workers will make up one-third of the net additions of the U.S. labor force, and onethird of all school-age children — and 42 percent of public-school students — will belong to minority groups. Among the areas where earlier progress had faltered, the report cited below-povertylevel incomes for 31 percent of blacks and 27 percent of Hispanics; 47 percent of black children and 42 percent of Hispanic children living in poverty; a decline since the 1975 peak in the rates of college attendance for blacks and Hispanics who finish high school. In urging that the recommended broadbased recommitment to minority advancement be embraced, Rhodes summed up: "We hope that, 20 years from now, an ' examination of the kind of statistics we have presented here will reveal no such disadvantage as we see today. If we succeed, our minority citizens will be more visible physically in every realm of American life, "America is moving backward — not forward — in its efforts to achieve the full participation of minority citizens in the life and prosperity of the nation." — Commission on Minority Participation In Education and American Life and less visible statistically, as the conditions in which they live more closely resemble the conditions enjoyed by the majority." — SamSegaf, • Blood pressure: The Tompkins County Health Department will conduct blood pressure clinics on June 2 in the sixth floor conference room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and on June 9 in Room 336 of the Plant Science Building from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Trustees to meet May 28 in Ithaca The university's trustees will consider financial plans for the upcoming academic year and construction of 400 new housing units for graduate students during a meeting on May 28 at 11:15 a.m. on the sixth floor of the Johnson Museum of Art. The board's Executive Committee will meet there at 9:30 a.m. Among items to be considered are the election of deans for the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Law School, and adoption of a copyright policy. Trustees also will hear reports on several topics, including the status of women and minorities at Cornell, and graduate research, and hear a presentation by Joseph B. Bugliari, dean of the faculty. Other trustees committee meetings are: • Buildings and Properties Committee, 7 p.m. May 27, Lansing Room, Sheraton Inn. • Academic Affairs Committee, 7:30 a.m. May 28, Lansing Room. • Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs Committee, 7:30 a.m. May 28, The Library, Sheraton Inn. A limited number of tickets for the open sessions of the executive committee and the board will be available beginning at 9 a.m. on May 25 at the Information and Referral Center in Day Hall. Tickets are not required, for the open meetings of other,com-. mitteesv, Cornell Chronicle May 26, 1988 3 Team takes first place in race car competition Raw brainpower was the edge that gave a team of Cornell mechanical engineering students their victory in the 1988 Formula SAE Competition to build the best studentengineered race car in the country. The competition, sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers, was held May 19 to 21 at the Lawrence Institute of Technology in Michigan, and included 34 teams from universities around the country. "The Cornell entry was a very conservative design, with no fancy, way-out features, but its details were worked out with great sophistication," said engineering Professor John Lumley, who was faculty adviser for the 14-member student team. "Everybody kept saying what great drivers the Cornell students were, but they had only driven the car around the parking lot at Cornell before they left. They looked so good because the car was so well designed." Lumley stood in as faculty adviser this year for engineering Professor Albert George, who launched the project last year and who is on sabbatic leave. George flew in from California to attend the 1988 competition. The Cornell car was largely custom-built at a cost of about $17,000 for components, and was powered by a 600-cubic-centimeter Kawasaki motorcycle engine. Other readymade components included a Volkswagen carburetor and drive train parts. "It appeared simple, but it was extremely well-thought-out," said Craig Garvin of Buffalo, N.Y., who headed the engine design team. "What we did that made us win was a lot more engineering than anybody else," he said, pointing out that the team es- chewed such so- phisticated tech- nologies as turbo- charging. Cornell's entry, only the second ever mounted by the university, • was named overall win- ner in the competi- tion, which included judging both on and off the race course. The prize was a lov- ing cup and $1,000 for the school. Cornell placed second in the off- course, or "static," judging of a techni- cal presentation on the car, its engineering design and an analysis of its costing. The team Claude Level Mechanical engineering students Craig Garvin, left, Stephen Fulcher, center, and Tom Holland with their Cornell Formula SAE race car that won first place in national competition. placed first, however, with the highest combined scores on the race course in acceleration, skid pad, maneuverability and endurance events. Rules for the event stipulated that the O'Connell of Southboro, Mass. The chassis design team was headed by Paul Dowd of Fairhaven, Mass. Other team members were David Malicky of Berea, Ohio; Patrick Hodgins of Pittsford, N.Y.; Christian Aubrecht of Orchard Park, N.Y.; Christopher Gallante of Farmington, Conn.; Paul Hummel of Underhill, N.Y.; Paula Karsoulis of Longmeadow, Mass.; Thomas J. Kaz of Middle- cars be single-seat, open-wheel vehicles Pittsfield, Maine; Stephen Fulcher of Boon- port, N.Y.; and Bill Waytena of Clarence, with a four-wheel suspension and an engine ton, N.J.; Lisa Englesson of Warminster, N.Y. of a specified size. Otherwise, wide lati- Pa.; John Sieger of New Bern, N.C.; Julie All are students in the Sibley School of tude was given the student designers. Allen of Larchmont, N.Y.; Janine Simon of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The Cornell team was led by James White Plains, N.Y.; Tom Holland of — Dennis Meredith ILR center advances field of human resources Executives from 35 major American corporations are working with researchers here to turn human resource operations from paper shuffling into a key element in corporate strategy. To make U.S. business more competitive nationally and internationally, researchers at the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies believe that human resource departments must go far beyond the traditional roles of old-line personnel departments. The center has established a parternship for research and development between the faculty of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the vice presidents of human resources in 35*" leading corporations. Director of the center is Richard J. Jacobs, on loan to Cornell from International Business Machines Corp., where he has been a senior executive for 26 years dealing with domestic and international personnel operations. "The human resource field is moving towards a more active role in management decisions and away from its traditional dayby-day operations of maintaining employees' personnel files, processing medical and other benefit claims, and computing retirement pensions," Jacobs said. "What we're doing is using computers to determine how a corporation can meet its strategic goals by more effective recruiting, training, compensating and assigning of its workers and managers. We are the only center of its kind that is doing research and development in the human resource field to enhance the business process. "In the 1990s, calculations based on human resource factors are going to play as vital a role in corporate planning as did financial management in the 1960s." Despite growing costs of wages, salaries and benefit packages, few corporations are using computer technologies to design the most effective and competitive human resource policies, Jacobs said. "Human resource is the last corporate function to use personal computers as a tool in reaching executive decisions," he said. Cornell established the human resource center last year, and its research is conducted on IBM System 2 computers and software, a system costing nearly $1 million. Invitations were issued to corporations to participate in the research for a fee of $10,000 a year, and 35 national and multinational firms enrolled. The center's research activities address such questions as: • What is the bottom-line return to a corporation from programs to train managers for higher executive positions? • Does the cost of putting workers into a class for one week result in increased income to the company? • Do cost benefits result when part-time employees, students and retirees are brought into a work force? • What compensation systems are most effective in increasing productivity? Research now under way includes workforce preparedness, restructuring the way employees are paid, positioning the human resource function as a strategic partner in management, and developing computer-based technology to improve decisions on human resources. At the end of June, Jacobs will leave Cornell, where he has spent the past year organizing the center. The new executive director will be Martin C. Kennedy, also on loan from IBM, where he is program director of executive programs in IBM's corporate headquarters in Armonk, N.Y. — Albert E.Kaff Black Studies Council rewards essay about diaspora Africans Ph.D. candidate Obiagele Lake has won from the absence of European-American a national contest for an essay about Afri- dominance over their everyday lives," Lake can-Americans and Caribbean-Americans wrote. who have settled in the West African nation But she said in a recent interview that of Ghana. "the newly independent countries of Africa Lake's 30-page essay was selected as still are not free of economic domination by the best entry in a 1988 contest sponsored their former European rulers. European by the National Council for Black Studies, forces and concepts continue to influence and she was awarded $500. decisions in Africa. And here in the United Born into a poor family in New York State's wealthy Westchester County, Lake is the single mother of an 11-year-old son. Her doctoral studies in anthropology are States, African-Americans have made no real gains because we do not control significant segments of the press, government or economy in this country." funded by a three-year Ford Foundation Lake said she believes that the technical, grant. business and political skills black Ameri- She spent three months in Ghana last cans take with them when they settle in Af- summer interviewing 24 of the approxi- rica will help African nations shed their mately 90 diaspora Africans who have remnants of white rule. settled there. She will return to Ghana this "As African nations become truly inde- summer to continue her research into why diaspora Africans are making new homes in Africa and what this settlement has done to their sense of identity. pendent of European influences, the importance of those nations in international affairs will strengthen the position of AfricanAmericans in American society," she said. In the essay, Lake wrote that some of the As examples, she noted the political and people she interviewed in Ghana "ex- economic influence of Jews in the United pressed joy and relief at not having to face States, adding that African-Americans billboards and magazines with Anglo sym- could achieve similar importance if African bols of wealth and beauty." nations were strong and united. Many of the people she interviewed The diaspora Africans she interviewed "said that they felt more free in Ghana than in Ghana considered themselves to be in the they did in America.. . . This freedom was middle class. Most of them were well edu- expressed as a freedom from physical dan- cated. . Her 24 interviews included 14 ger as well as a spiritual freedom resulting ' '•'women'whd moved to Ghana after marry- Obiagele Lake Claude Level ing men from that country, and most of these couples had met while studying in universities in Britain or the United States. "Their day-to-day lives reveal a dialectical proce: on the move toward the formulation of an African identity," Lake wrote, underlining her hope for an Africa free of European control. -A&erit.Kaff 3 Southeast Asian graduate students win fellowships Cornell graduate students from Southeast Asia won three of the six doctoral research fellowships awarded this year in worldwide competition by the Social Science Research Council for studies in that region. They were: • Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr., a rural sociology major from Manila, who will study interrelations of landlords, peasants and the world market in the sugar economy of Negroes, one of the Philippine Islands. • Kasian Tejapira, a government major from Bangkok, who will investigate the political, cultural and social institutions of the Thai left in the post-World War II period. • Amrih F. Widodo, an anthropology major from Wonosari, Indonesia, who will study the Saminist religious sect in Java, Indonesia's most populous island. "It is a singular tribute to Cornell that the faculty of its Southeast Asia Program and the resources of the John M. Echols Collection attract such outstanding graduate students from Southeast Asia who come here to do advanced research on their own societies," said Benedict Anderson, director of Cornell's Southeast Asia Program. He said that Cornell graduate students have won the majority of the Social Science Research Council awards over the past severaryeHTS. 4 May 26, 1986 Cornell Chronicle A selection of student awards and honors Essays, fiction & poetry Academy of American Poets Prize The Academy of American Poets Prize has been awarded to Vernon L. Jackman. a graduate student in English. Arthur Lynn Andrews Award The Arthur Lynn Andrews '93 Award for Creative Writ- ing of $300 for the best short story or stories has been awarded to graduate student Stephen Marion, and $75 prizes each were awarded to undergraduate co-winners Tarquin Collis, Arts '91, Rachel Lee, Arts '88, Amanda Sumner, Arts, and EUen G. Triedman, Arts. Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize The Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Prize of $500 for a single long poem or sequence of integrated short poems, has been awarded to graduate student Marjorie Maddox for "How to Fit God into a Poem." Honorable mention was awarded to Vernon Jackman for "Hurricane" and to Mark Scroggins for "The Fourier Shaker." Lieutenant David Chrystall Memorial Prize The Lieutenant David Chrystall Memorial Prize of $250 for the best essay or treatise dealing with diplomacy, international relations or the preservation of peace, by a member of the senior class, has been awarded to Jessica Wang for her essay entitled "Fighting the Cold War: American Physics and the Security Clearance Case of Dr. Edward U. Condon." Corson-Bishop Poetry Prize The Corson-Bishop) Poetry Prize for the best original poem or poems of not less than 100 lines, will be shared by George Estreich, grad, and Tom Hawks, Arts '90. The prize of $650 will be divided between them. Mario Einaudi Prize The Mario Einaudi Prize, awarded in recognition of the many contributions of Mario Einaudi, professor of government emeritus, to the development of international studies, has been awarded to Bart E. Codd '88 for his essay entitled "Collaboration and Competition: W. Averell Harriman and United States - Soviet Economic Relations, 192428." Goethe Prize The Goethe Prize for the best essay on Goethe or on German literature has been awarded to Steven Bileca. Arts '88, for "Thoughts on Kretzschmar, Beethoven and 'Doctor Faustus.' " Guy Christiansen, Arts '88, won second prize. Elmer Markham Johnson Prize The Elmer Markam Johnson Prize for the best essay written by a freshman in the writing program has been won this spring by Miriam Aukerman for her "Reflections on Gener, Community and Power: Interviews in Telluride." Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prize The Dorothy Sugarman Poetry Prize of $150 for the best poem or poems of not less than 100 lines has been awarded to Gabriel Spera, Arts '88. Moses Coit Tyler Prize The Moses Coit Tyler Prize of approximately $500 for the best essay in the fields of American history, literature or folklore has been awarded to Shira Leibowitz, Arts, for her history honors thesis, "Also in God's Image: Attempts by Protestant, Jewish, and Catholic Women in the United States to Enter the Ordained Clergy." Whitney Prize The Douglas A. Whitney Prize of $1,000 for writing has been given to Edward N. Gewlrte, Arts '88. Playwriting Heermans-McCalmon Playwriting Awards Forbes Heermans and George A. McCalmon Playwriting Awards of $150 for the best one-act play and $75 for the second-best one-act play were awarded to Jeff Fischer, Arts, first place; Jan Balakian, grad, second place; and Denise McLoskej and James Schaefer, Arts '88, honorable mention. Public Speaking Eastman-Rice Prizes The Eastman-Rice Prizes for Public Speaking totaling approximately $650 for public speaking on country-life subjects have been awarded to Geetanjali Akerkar, Agr., first place; Donald Smith. Agr. '90, second place; and Karen Clifford, Agr. '88, third place. Honorable mention winners were Carlos Henriquez, Agr. '88, Nilmini de Silva, Agr. '88, and Julie Richter, Agr. '89. '94 Memorial Prizes The '94 Memorial Prizes in debate given at a public contest were awarded to Jane Y. Davenport, Agr. '90 and Laura Leasburg, Agr. '90, first place; David Topol, Arts '88, and Nick Coburn-Palo, Uncl., second place; and Pete Smiley, Arts '89, and Larry Rosenberg, Arts, third place; Andrew Jacobs, Arts '89 ,and Nilmini de Silva, Agr. '88 fourth place; and Melissa K. Miller, Arts '88, and Cam Jones, Arts, fifth place. Woodford Prizes The Woodford Prizes for original public speaking have been awarded to Ben Cheney, Arts, first place; Julie Mazur, Agr., second place; Steven Bertisch, Agr., third place; and Sharon Bender, HEC, fourth place. Honorable mention winners were Caren McCaleb, Agr., Tara McCaffrey, Agr. '90, Jonathan Samuel, Agr. '90, Charmian Todd, Agr. '90 and Paul Shoikhet, HEC '90. Other achievements Beatrice Brown Award The Beatrice Brown Award of $150 for students work- ing on some aspects of women and gender has been awarded to graduate students Nicole Carrier, Mary Jo Dudley and Kavita Panjabi. Lane Cooper Prize The Lane Cooper Prize of $150 for the upperclass stu- dent who demonstrates the greatest promise in the application of classical learning to the problems of modern life has been awarded to Shelley Kaufhold, Arts '88 Corson French Prizes The Cornson French Prize of $500 has been awarded to Patrick Mensah and a $350 prize has been awarded to Victoria Seligman. Juliette McMonnies Courant French Prize The Juliette McMonnies Courant French Prize of $250 has been given to Victoria Seligman. Freeman Peace Studies The Harrop and Ruth Freeman Peace Studies Prize has been awarded to Geoffrey Friedman, Mech. Eng. '88 Fuertes Memorial Prize The Fuertes Memorial Prize for Popular Articles in Physical and Biological Sciences of $350 has been awarded to Nathaniel C. Comfort, grad. A.W. Laubengayer Prizes The A.W. Laubengayer Prizes of $75 each to outstand- ing students in each of the introductory chemistry courses have been awarded to Bradley Oldick, Agr., Allan Berger, Agr. '91, and Stephen Pappas, Engr. Simmons Award in German The Simmons Award in German, a book or certificate for the purchase of books for the best work in German, has been awarded to Gayatri Kapur, Arts '88. J.G. White Prizes in Spanish J.G. White Prizes in Spanish to English-speaking stu- dents for proficiency in Spanish and to Spanish-speaking students for proficiency in English have been awarded to Lisa Markovits, Arts, J.J. Fernandez de Castro and Cecille Tapia Santiago. Each was awarded a $500 prize. Agriculture and Life Sciences Paul R. Guldin Memorial Awards The Paul R. Guldin Memorial Awards have been awarded to Sunny Edmunds, '89, first place; Cindy Hsu, second place; Juan Carols Iglesias, '88, third place. Honorable mentions were awarded to Harry Lin, '88, and Geoffrey R. Goldberg. Anson E. Rowe Award The Anson E. Rowe Award in the field of communica- tion, has been awarded to Randall Arnst, grad. Architecture, Art and Planning :: Alpha Rho Chi Medal The Alpha Rho Chi Medal, given by the professional architectural fraternity to the graduating student who has shown ability for leadership, has performed service to the school and gives promise of professional merit through attitude and personality has been awarded to Milton S.F. Curry. American Institute of Architects Student Medal The Student Medal of the American Institute of Archi- tects, awarded to the member of the graduating class who has maintained the best academic grade average throughout the entire course, has been awarded to Reidun J. Anderson. A certificiate from the Institute has been awarded to Jeffrey D. Holmes. Clifton Beckwith Brown Memorial Medal The Clifton Beckwith Brown Memorial Medal, given to the member of graduating class who has attained the highest cumulative average in architectural design over the entire course of study, has gone to Todd M. Fulshaw. Faculty Medal in Art The Faculty Medal in Art, awarded each year to the member of the graduating class in art who by academic record and work in the studio has in the estimation of the faculty shown the greatest promise for future achievement, has been given to Debora D. Wood. Mackesey Prize The Mackesey Prize, given to a student in city and re- gional planning who has demonstrated unusual competence in academic work or who by qualities of personality and leadership has significantly contributed to the intellectual advancement of fellow students, has been awarded to Thomas Iurino. New York Society of Architects Medal The New York Society of Architects Medal, awarded to the senior who in the opinion of the faculty's and society's committee is the leader of the class in total design, planning and construction, has been given to Reidun J. Anderson. Arts and Sciences ACS Analytical Prize The ACS Analytical Prize of a 15-month subscription to Analytical Chemistry and recognition of a junior who displays interest and aptitude for a career in analytical chemistry has been awarded to Jennifer Colonel). American Institute of Chemists Medals The American Institute of Chemists Medal for the senior in the Department of Chemistry who has demonstrated leadership, ability, character and scholastic achievement has been awarded to Helen Lu. George C. Caldwell Prizes The George C. Caldwell Prizes of $150 and $100 to two senior chemistry majors who have shown general excellence have been awarded to Mitsuko Fujiwara and Jeff Elam. Cornell Chronicle May 26, 1988 5 The awards and prizes listed here represent a good many, but not all, of the honors given to graduating seniors and others at this time of year. In some cases, the names of award winners were not available at press time. CRC Press Chemistry Achievement Award The CRC Press Chemistry Achievement Award of the latest edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics to the chemistry major or second-semester sophomore with highest achievement in Chemistry 358 or 360 has been awarded to Ken Shimizu and Sydney Morss, '90. Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize The Harold Adlard Lovenberg Prize of $100 to a junior chemistry major who has shown general excellence has been given to David Cherry, '89. Merck Index Award The Merck Index Award to outstanding seniors majoring in chemistry has been awarded to Elizabeth Borgoy and Gregg Caporaso. Engineering American Institute of Chemical Engineers Prize The American Institute of Chemical Engineers Prize, a certificate and a two-year subscription to AlChE Journal to a junior in chemical engineering with the best scholastic record at the end of the fourth term, has been awarded to Brian Anderluh, Chem. Eng. American Institute of Chemists Medal The American Institute of Chemists Medal for the senior in the School of Chemical Engineering who has demonstrated leadership, ability, character and scholastic achievement has been awarded to Bruce Kruger, Chem. Eng. Chester Buchanan Memorial Award The Chester Buchanan Memorial Award of $1,000 for a senior majoring in geology has been given to engineering student Judith A. Eggieston. William S. Einwechter Memorial Prize The William S. Einwechter Memorial Prize of $600 to a graduating senior has been awarded to Lori Ann Bianco. Michael W. Mitchell Memorial Prize The Michael W. Mitchell Memorial Prize of $1,000 to a senior geology student"who has proved adept in other fields as well as geology has been awarded to Wayne C. Schanck. NCR Award of Excellence The NCR Award of Excellence of $500 each has been awarded to Randy Freeman, Engr. '90, and Parissa Mohamadi. Elec. Eng., '89. John G. Pertsch Jr. Prize The John G. Pertsch Jr. Prize of $500 each to juniors with the highest GPA has been awarded to Ivan Andrew Bachelder, Bevan Narayan Das, Phillipe Gilbert Lacroute and Gregory James Toussaint. Procter & Gamble Technical Excellence Award The Procter and Gamble Technical Excellence Award has been given to Matthew Walsh, Chem. Eng. '88. Graduate School DuPont Teaching Prizes The DuPont Teaching Prizes of $100 each recognizing teaching assistants who have demonstrated excellence in the teaching of chemistry and the desire to upgrade the quality of undergraduate education have been awarded to Georgias Papandreou, Kathryn Uhrich, Matthew Kubasik, Jonathan Mumford-Zisk. and Ray Wieboldt. Outstanding Graduate Student Symposium The Outstanding Graduate Student Symposium, an event in which selected students who have demonstrated excellence give research presentations and are given a $100 award, honors Larry Fried, Jeffrey Gorcester, Evan Williams and Marja Zonnevylle. Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Animal Science The Outstanding Teaching Assistant in Animal Science Award has been given to Rodney C. Larson and Diane W. Cahen. Hotel Administration Drown Foundation Special Prize The Drown Foundation Special Prize of $15,000 to an outstanding senior with entrepreneurial spirit and background in recognition for service to the industry and the school has been awarded to Charlene Denise Patten. Finalists Marielle Jan de Beur, Thomas J. Kilroy, Linda Manaster, Leonard Wolin and Edward T. Wu received $1,000 awards. Industrial and Labor Relations Alpern Memorial Prize The Daniel J. Alpern Memorial Prize has been awarded to Cheryl Yancey and Seth Manoach. Campbell Memorial Award The James Campbell Memorial Award has been given to Jennifer Kaplan. Ives Award The Irving M. Ives Senior Award has been awarded to Lisa Gross. Kaufmann-Seidenberg Award The Felix Kaufmann-Sophie L. Seidenberg Award has been given to Lisa Gross. Johnson Graduate School of Management Wall Street Journal Award The Wall Street Journal Award, a one-year subscription to the Wall Street Journal and an engraved paperweight to the outstanding graduating student in the field of finance, has been given to Sean Redmond. Law School Freeman Award The Freeman Award for Civil-Human Rights to a third- year student who has made the greatest contribution during his/her law school career to international human rights as well as national civil rights has been given to Chevon Fuller. Ralstone R. Irvine Prizes The Ralstone R. Irvine Prizes for Legal Writing awarded to first-year students have been given to Susan Rider, first prize of $2,500; D. John Theodorakis, second prize of $1,000; and Robert Neis, third prize of $500. ROTC Brigade American Defense Preparedness Assoc. Award American Defense Preparedness Association Award, awarded to an outstanding cadet or midshipman in each service in recognition of active participation in campus activities and demonstrated leaderhip qualities, has been given to Douglas M. Sinclair, MS-IV; Richard J. Zjns, USNR; and John W. Palmieri (AS 400). American Legion Award American Legion Award, presented to cadets and mid- shipmen who have established the highest standards in military or scholastic excellence, have been given, for military excellence, to Ian P. Ashcroft, MS-IV; William F. Hawkins 111, USNR; Kirk L. Somers (AS 400); and Eric J. Butterbaugh (AS 300), and for scholastic excellence to John D. Horwhat, MS-IV; Eric C. Brown, USNR; John Hudanich (AS 400); and Mindy S. Schretter (AS 300). National Sojourners Award National Sojourners Award, given to the cadet or mid- shipman in each unit who has contributed most to encourage and demonstrate Americanism within his/her unit and on campus, has been awarded to Philip R. Costa, MS-JJ; Glenn R. Schneider, USNR; and Kurt A. Harendza (AS 300). Veterans of Foreign Wars Award Veterans of Foreign Wars Award, given to the cadet or midshipman from each unit who has demonstrated achievement and concentrated effort in military/academic subjects and diligence in the ROTC program, has been awarded to John D. Pfeiffer, MS-JJ; Christopher D. Holmes, USNR; and Brenda G. Laub (AS 400). Society of American Military Engineers Award Society of American Military Engineers Award, for meritorious promise of achievement in the field, has been given to Eric A. Foster, USNR, and Brian T. Wood, USNR. United States Naval Institute Award United States Naval Institute Award, presented to the outstanding graduating senior in the scholarship program, was given to Eric C. Brown, USNR. Marine Corps Association Award Marine Corps Association Award, for the outstanding Marine Option midshipman in the NROTC unit, has been given to Peter J. Ward, USMCR. Veterinary Medicine Hugh Dukes Prize in Experimental Physiology The Hugh Dukes Prize to a student who has done excel- lent work in physiology laboratory courses and shows potential for teaching and contributing new knowledge to physiology has been awarded to Mark C. Heit. Gentle Doctor Award The Gentle Doctor Award, a bronzed statue of the Gentle Doctor given to the senior student who exemplifies enthusiasm, motivation and dedication to the delivery of excellent veterinary patient care, wasawarded to Naomi E. Bierman Neuroanatomy-Clinical Neurology Prize The Neuroanatomy-Clinical Neurology Prize to the fourth-year student who has demonstrated the most outstanding expertise and interest in neuroanatomy and clinical neurology has been given to Mark C. Heit and Russell S. Katz. E.L. Stubbs Award The E.L. Stubbs Award to the fourth-year student who has demonstratead the most outstanding competence and motivation in various areas of avian medicine has been awarded to Delia M. Garell. Horace K. White Prizes The Horace K. White Prizes to the students whose aca- demic records for the entire veterinary course are the highest have been awarded to Caroline H. Griffitts and Suzanne J. Bobnjck. 6 May 26, 1988 Cornell Chronicle Tony Avellino Pre-med handbook offers from a student's own perspective Every chance he got, Tony Avellino went to work in a hospital so he could learn, firsthand, what doctors do for a living. "Every surgeon I worked with said 'Don't go into medicine,' " Avellino recalled. He's disregarding that advice. After studying biochemistry and microbiology in a premed curriculum, the 21-year-old senior from New York City is going to Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. And he has written a handbook for high school students on preparing for a career in medicine. "So You Want To Be A Doctor?" by Anthony Michael Avellino is scheduled for summer release by Carlton Press, New York, N.Y. Avellino said the guidebook should help prospective doctors avoid some, though not all, of the research he went through on the way to medical school. His main piece of advice: "Get some health-oriented work experience — as early as high school and certainly during your undergraduate years in college. Exposure to 'hands-on' experiences within the health community will help you clarify your health career objective." Avellino did just that, beginning with high school summer vacations. He worked, watched and asked lots of questions in the Lawrence Hospital Pre-Medical Health Care Program, the Health Career Opportunity Program at New York University's Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York Hospital's Institute of Chronobiology and Sleep-Wake Disorders Center, and the Cerebrovascular Disease Research Center at Cornell University Medical College. (He also worked for electrical contractors, to earn money for college "and to learn a practical trade.") His 72-page handbook describes summer ii.ternship programs and also covers specialties within medicine, other health care choices and costs of college and medical school. Expensive private medical colleges may cost less than state-supported schools with lower tuition, because private schools offer more financial aid, Avellino found. "So You Want To Be A Doctor?" answers 15 frequently asked questions. Among them: • Do you need a particular major in college to apply to medical school? There's no evidence that medical colleges give it special consideration, Avellino wrote. "Pursue your own intellectual interests, because you are more likely to succeed if you study subjects that interest and stimulate you." • Is it essential to go to an Ivy League or other highly competitive college if you want to get into an American medical school? No, but it helps, according to Avellino. "Medical schools do pay attention when students with good grades and good test scores apply from certain colleges with good track records, but no matter what college you attend, if you do well and are committed to medicine, your chances of being admitted to a medical school in the United States are good." • What about grades? Chances of admission with a Bplus or better average grade are "good," and while 72 percent of students with grades between A-minus and B-plus get into medical school, 10 percent of students with grades of C or below also get in. Avellino was first inspired to a career in medicine by a series of dedicated speech therapists who helped him overcome severe stuttering. Eight years of "hard work and extreme frustration" brought it under control, although he still does breathing exercises daily. For a while, he thought of specializing in pediatric medicine, but internships in hospitals turned him toward orthopedic surgery and working with paraplegics and quadriplegics, in particular. Most of these "handicapable people," as he calls them, have "an amazingly optimistic outlook on life, despite their paralysis, and are grateful for any improvement." Avellino's four years at Cornell have been a study in effective time management. As if maintaining Dean's List grades in a tough science major while writing a book were not enough, he also managed to participate in activities that fill three pages of a resume: He has been treasurer of the Quill and Dagger, a senior honorary society, and co-founder of the Health Career Service Organization, which led to reactivation of the Cornell chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta, the national pre-med honorary society that brings guest lecturers and medical school representatives to campus. He played on Cornell's lightweight (150-pound) football team, earning varsity letters in 1984 and '85, then coached defensive backs in '86 and '87 when a thumb injury kept him off the field. The Cornell squad won the Eastern Lightweight Football League championship in 1984 and 1986. He worked as an RA (resident hall adviser) in a freshman dormitory during his junior year. He was an academic tutor for fellow athletes for three years, a TA (teaching assistant) in biology and microbiology courses, and a health Tony Avellino Claude Levet career student adviser. He was an adviser for new students majoring in microbi- ology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, a trainee in EARS (the university's Empathy Assistance and Referral Service) and a student member of the American College of Sports Medicine. An accomplished musician (piano, voice, clarinet and saxophone) and songwriter, he was recently granted a commercial recording contract for one of his original songs. Playing in a Manhattan bistro prepared him for the nightclub engagements he hopes will help pay for his medical education. A persistent Tony Avellino sent "So You Want To Be A Doctor?" to more than 80 book publishers; four made him offers, and he chose the best. Now he is turning his experiences at Cornell into another book: what to expect as a premed student. — Roger Segelken David Porter Humility was the lesson from a Cornell education The accomplishments of David Porter, a graduating senior in comparative literature, make it hard to believe his claim that a Cornell education has given him a realistic attitude towards his limitations. Porter, a straight-A Arts College student, is headed for Cambridge University in the fall, having been awarded a Keasbey Memorial Foundation scholarship covering two years of study in modern and Medieval languages. He is one of five American students selected this year for these coveted annual fellowships. Among his other accomplishments, which may raise the question of "What limitations?" Porter was: • named a Cornell Presidential Scholar, marking him as not only among the top 5 percent of the Cornell Class of 1988 scholastically but also as having "demonstrated remarkable intellectual drive, energetic leadership abilities and a propensity to contribute to the betterment of society," in the words of President Frank H.T. Rhodes. • elected to Phi Beta Kappa. • awarded a Fulbright grant, which he has declined in order to accept the Keasbey Fellowship. • a Telluride scholar for 1983-87. • elected treasurer, member of the advisory committee and president of Telluride House, a community of self-governing student scholars supported with full room and board by the Telluride Association, the outgrowth of an educational program established in 1905 by Lucien L. Nunn, an engineer and businessman turned educator. Porter describes his Cornell education as frustrating as well as enlightening because "there is no way you can get all the assignments in all your classes done. You're never able to read everything you are assigned, much less assimilate it in a way that you feel satisfied you have the subject under control. "And in the end, perhaps this is the crucial and most lasting aspect of a Cornell education," he mused, explaining that "you never fall into the danger of thinking you know it all, of developing a false sense of satisfaction." Porter entered Cornell in the fall of 1983, a graduate of David Porter Lewisburg Area High School in Lewisburg, Pa. He said he considered Brown, Yale and Harvard, but selected Cornell "largely because of its natural beauty and setting and diversity of its academic atmosphere, including agriculture and hotel administration." But after his freshman year, he decided to take a year's leave from Cornell. He worked for several months as a computer programmer for International Business Machines Corp. in Poughkeepsie and then as a programmer for nine months with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. During the summer of 1984, Porter traveled by bicycle throughout Europe, including Spain, West Germany, Austria and behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia, where he said he had a "few nervous moments, caused perhaps more by my imagination than any real threat, I think now in retrospect." He returned to Europe in the summer of 1987 under a fellowship from the Western Societies Program to conduct interviews in German with 13 leading contemporary German authors, material for his 70-page senior thesis. The paper explores the theme that "no literature is isolated from the political contexts in which it is created and received." In addition to his academic pursuits, Porter has been continuously active in Wilderness Reflections and the Outdoor Program at Cornell as both participant and instructor. These activities include bicycling, cross-country skiing, backpacking, rock climbing, kayaking, outdoor survival activities and first-aid courses. He plans to continue many of these pursuits, as well as take up rowing crew, while in Britain and Europe again in quest of his ultimate goal of writing and teaching in the area of comparative literature in an attempt to "provide insight into the modern condition." His past activities and vision give credence to his statement that "writing is a living act: Its role is not simply to represent experience but to engage it as well, to become itself a part of the process that shapes the writer's world." — Martin B. Stiles Cornell Chronicle May 26,1988 7 Debora Wood Art student compares the light in Ithaca and Rome Fine arts senior Debora Wood owes her budding career *s a painter and printmaker in part to grade school in Oklahoma City. Not that it was an innovative school; quite the contrary. "From first grade through third grade, I went to a very bad public school where there wasn't much education," she •^called in an interview. "I would go off in a corner and do * lot of drawing, because I wasn't being taught anything else." When she showed alarmingly little educational progress, her parents sent her for a battery of tests that proved her "mate capabilities and transferred her to a better school. "In that school, the teachers showed a lot of individual Personal interest. The art teacher encouraged me to work °n my own but didn't push to the point where art wasn't fun Anymore," Wood recalled. After graduating sixth in a class of 126 at Bishop McGuinness High School, Wood entered the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She was pleased that the curriculum permitted her to start right out in her freshman year with three art studio courses, as well as to take art history in the Arts College and a wide range of electives all °ver the campus. "I've had a chance to meet so many people in a variety °f fields," she said. "Like my next door neighbor is an engineer, my apartment mate this year is a pre-med, and I can learn about their very different areas of study. And that's terrific. "My roommate last year was an electrical engineer, and I used to have her repair my Walkman," Wood laughed. "She'd come home and at dinner she'd tell me, 'Oh, my computer's not working, I can't get the circuits to work.' And I'd say, 'Oh, my painting's not going well, I just can't find the right color for the sky!' " Along with 25 other students, Wood got a fresh notion of light and color when she spent her spring semester last year at Cornell's Rome Center in the historic Palazzo Massimo. "It was so beautiful!" she said. "And the light in Italy is different from the light here. Light coming from the courtyards has this mystical quality. It was just incredible." Rome initially was difficult to cope with — learning the language, going to market, accommodating to how Italians behave. "But I was there just long enough not just to appre- ciate the surroundings, but to really love it and develop a passion for it," Wood asserted. The students lived in two pensiones reserved by Roberto Einaudi, director of the Rome Center. The setting was an old Rome neighborhood, with its cafes and shops and cappucino bar. Wood travelled during spring break, visiting young people in Lille, France, and Cologne, West Germany, who had been foreign ex- change students at her high school. Af- ter the semester was over, she spent a month visiting muse- ums and Gothic ca- thedrals in Northern Europe. "Many works of Renais- Oebora Wood sance art don't nor- mally travel outside their countries for exhibits because they're on wooden panels, and they're so fragile — like the giant altarpieces with the sculptures. I just love those! "To me, the Northern art is more humanist art than, say, the Italian baroque. Actually to see these works that I'd studied about, and to see the cathedrals, and the stained glass windows truly jump off the walls, it was all just amazing! I knew the stained glass windows would be beautiful, but I didn't realize they'd be that impressive." Wood describes her own artistic style as "more realistic than abstract, with emphasis on light and atmosphere in the Claude Level setting. And I'm trying to bring in a certain amount of mystery, to make the viewer curious and say, 'I wonder what's in that dark corner, I wonder what's behind that door, or up those stairs.' " After graduating with the class of '88, Wood plans to go on to graduate school for a career that combines teaching with professional painting and printmaking. Despite a lack of affinity with winter weather, she said, "I'd really like to come back to Cornell and teach. You can't ask for a more beautiful setting for a university." — Irv Chapman Trina Jones Research reaffirms reason for aspiring to study law When she was a high school student in Rock Hill, S.C., TTrriinnaa JJoonneess wwiittnneesssseedd tthhee hhooppeelleessssnneessss ooff rruurraall ppoovveerrttyy during weekends she spent .traveling with her mother, a union organizer of textile workers. That experience convinced her that she wanted to study 'aw, to explore how public policy trickles down to "everyday people." Her sex and her race — female and black — convinced her that she would have few opportunities in the legal profession if she remained in the rural South. When her mother's boss, Bruce Raynor, a Cornell graduate, suggested she apply to his alma mater, she did. Not only was she accepted, she was accepted twice, first by the College of Engineering and one month later by the College of Arts and Sciences. Rather than let that snafu get her down (she pre-registered in one college and her student ID listed her in the other), she pursued her studies with such zeal and success that her biggest worry as she graduates with a degree in government is choosing between the law schools at the University of Michigan and Berkeley. "I am happy that I came here," Jones said. "I didn't expect it to be so hard academically, especially in the first year, but once you get through it, there's such a feeling of success. And there are so many things to do outside of academics." Her four years of Cornell study included semesters in Washington, D.C., and in Paris, as well as two summers of conducting research, one in Ithaca and one for a law professor at Stanford University. "Trina is, without a doubt, one of the best interns we've ever had," said Karen Arrington, deputy director of the research arm of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, where Jones conducted research and wrote articles for the Civil Rights Monitor during her semester with the Cornellin-Washington Program. Her articles reported on lax enforcement of civil rights policy by the Department of Health and Human Services, allegations of voter registration tampering in the South during the 1986 campaign, and arguments before the Supreme Court on affirmative action cases. "She did wonderful, substantive work," Arrington added. "She's not abrasive or arrogant, just quietly very, very competent and easy to work with. We're all interested in what happens to Trina; we're sure she'll go far." One year later, during the fall term of her senior year, Jones studied in Paris through the Cornell Abroad Program. ^^^^k*. _^B ^ ^ ^ _ 0 0 Trina Jones Claude Level "I found out that I'm a little bit nationalistic," Jones said of her time abroad. "I found myself defending my country and I never thought I'd do that. I'm not anti-American, but I really criticize the United States a lot. But when people tt0o'l^d mmee ^thaatt wwee ddoonn't't nhaavveea accuultluturere' ,ananddththatatwweeddoonn'l't tt hh iinnkk.... .."" During the summer before her junior year, Jones participated in Cornell's Undergraduate Summer Research Program for minority students, conducting legal research and analyzing court decisions on affirmative action for Thelma Crivens, an assistant professor of labor law in Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. "She always went the extra mile in her research, her reading and her analyses of legal issues," Crivens said. "She's intellectually challenging and one of the most personable individuals that I have met. I would like for her to teach at a major university. Minority students need role models in academic institutions." During the summer before her senior year, Jones researched the role of black women in history to identify issues that a Stanford law professor could include in her forthcoming book. Jones conducted her research at Stanford under the Presidents' Summer Research Exchange Program, an effort launched at the initiative of President Frank H.T. Rhodes and involving Cornell, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA and Yale. The program is intended to interest more black, American Indian and Hispanic students in graduate study. Throughout her years at Cornell — at least, when she was in Ithaca — Jones also was active in campus activities, including the program board that sponsors guest lectures and other events, and the Student Finance Commission that allocates money to student organizations. She also was a tutor for students on Ithaca's southside through a program at the Ujamaa residence hall. "A lot of Cornell students don't bother to go downtown and see how some of Ithaca's residents live," Jones said. "Everything isn't roses in Ithaca. But it's important for those children to have someone to talk to and to encourage them, just as I have received encouragement from others." And when she returned home on vacations, she would make appointments to visit high schools as a minority student recruiter for the Office of Admissions. "It was difficult to get past some of the guidance counselors," she recalled. "They'd say, 'Oh, Trina, we really appreciate you coming by, but we don't think you're going to do any good talking to these people. They just want jobs. There's no use in raising their expectations.' " But Trina Jones knows differently. — Mark Eyerly 8 May 26, 1988 Cornell Chronicle CORNELL in t h e News A selection of articles from the national and international media featuring Cornell University THE NEW YORK TIMES April 21, 1988 The Arts C23 Tracing 'Lost' Literature Of 1800 s Black Women By C. CFRALD r RASE R ' In 1772, nn 18 year old slavp nnmcd fhitlis Wheat Ipy fnred 18 white men who referred lo ihemwlv«s as "Ihe IJIOM respcrlahle characters In Bostttn." Ilie mrn — among them Jlohn 1 lanrork Hnd Ihe Governor and IJfU m (Governor of Mnssachuiftts — ropatrd Miss Whf alley to assure isclves ihul she had, Indeed, writ trn a hook of p<«etry. A year later Miss Whcntloy's Poems on Various Subjects, Rcll^ifnis nml Moral," the first hook of poetry or fiction by *n African American, was published MUs Whrallfy, who hnd been raptured In Africa and Hioitf>ht (o America, was freed that *>mr year. She runUnued m write for tlir next decode, and died In 1784 j Henry Louis Gates ir„ the W E B. OuR'ils Professor of Literature at Cornell University, has spent three. itmt a half years gathering nil of Miss •'heatley's poetry — some of which was missing — as well as almost four (Lien hooks of poetry, essays, fiction and rmnflctton written by black Women In the 19th century. 1 Tie result i| a 30-volume set called "The Srhomruirg library of NineteenthOniury Black Women," whtch has JUKI been pubtiihed by Oxford University I'ress (J595 for the series, individual volumes from $16 95 to $29 95 each). j There aie 7 volume!* of fiction, 3 of i f says. II biographies and 9 books of poelry. Including "The Collected Works of Phlllls Whoatlcy." The atrtff' name reflects the fact [hat U arkrd," I have thus far seen no book of Importance written by a Negro woman." novel written by an Afto-American Bui the book, Harriet E. Wilson's "Our Nig," published in 1859, Is n^t tn the Sfhombnrg series because Mr. "Historians have thought that Gates found the book six years ago black people essentially didn't create and It vail iepr imed in 19A2. much literature In (hr 19th centuty," Since "(Hir Nig" was reprinted, he Mr. Cntes said. "It (urns out that said, he has been "concerned to piece thousands of people created litera- together a sophisticated syllabus de- ture; it's just never been looked at signed lo establish the formal t'tnti- systematically before." nuh irs between black women wi itei s To find them, hr said, he photocopied blbHogrnphies and checked research libraries such as the Schomburg In New York, the Moreland Sptnparn CsHectfem at Howard University and the Boston Public Library. After compiling his own hitiliopraphy, he said, he "had to find (he books." "Many hnd never hern reprinted, most rxistr*d in research libraries from Harriet Wilson In IR59 to lonl Mori Ison " "After (he phenomenal success of 'Our Nig' It occuried lo me thai this could not be the only undiscovered book by n black person In the 19th century," he said. "Black women had their own viahle, sustained and exi it In* Intellectual tradition from early In (he l!Hh century conliniMHisly to the present." Speaking for Themselves only; they were virtually inaccessi- "ThrouRhoul Ihesr bonks* Mr. ble," he said. "Some were so rare Oalcs snid, the women mncle it t N f they couldn't he shipped through thai they needed "lo be allowed lo inter library loan _ They couldn't be speak for themselves." that black phpiodnpHcated " He also revisited li- men couldn't do It for them. braries and checked on the authors' F.ach volume Is edited b> «n eicperi race. on African-American literature. In her introduction in Anna Julia Coop- 'A Lot of False Leads' e i s 1892 bt»ok. A Voice fiom the Mr C.ates, who Is nlsoa MacArthur South," Wary Helen Washington Tellow, said he encnurucrrtt "a lot of wrote that this work "Is the most pre- false leads, a lot of book*! listed that che, forceful, well argued slatrmeot weren't by black women, that were of black feminist thought In come out by while people." of the 19th century." Ms Washlnfton " I established n list of « discrete books, wltten by black women," he Is a visiting lecturer at Harvard Divinity.School. said. Ihe <5 (files were combined into Mrs. Cooper was a prominent Mark 30 volumes feminist at thr turn of (Itc century. The first book of essays published Site lived from I85A to IWM and was here bv an African AnT*i(can, Ann pnmtpal of Wash ing I mi's elite !>im Plato's 1841 "Essays," Is in the bur High School and a founder of the Henry IjMtia Gates Jr. of Cornell University, right. h « gathered the works of Pauline E. Hopkins, above, I»bi!1i> Wlte.itlry, and Anna Julia Cooper, top right, into a collection entitlrrl "Hie Sihoiuhiirg Library of NineteenthCentury ptnek Women." O'l'iretl V.W C A Another WnftMqt inub.T-ed vutifc is "Itrhind the Scenes: Ihirlv Vrftfi n Slave and font Year* in the White House," the aut<>i>i"gtn|>hy of I-'It r abet h Keckley, a se.-tmstn-ss nml drcssflMfccr who woikodfor PffakhaH Lincoln's fa miIv Mr. Cues sai'J he >wt certain innslstcnl themes thrmigbout the scries ' I he fn si is thai !•!;« V people me op pressed ;md they .in' rTiewcd bv caus« of !rV ipnni:im' nt thrii frlln* Amerirnm whp nee a btatli fno »nd think of a whole wH (if i!ireoi\pos, ' hfffttd "Hut. foi tin- fn • I tune «c sc» the ihrme of npres^nm bv mtf and grndci' Ihe wrrond tli"inr, he taM, r ih.il winking (Dllci lively and riiltgriKlv thr I • can uvnii nmlf^t Mint to lit- ? ii'M'it ' ll'i' ki'nl t>f liif-tm i frrd I".. 'Wl Hi" h i" I, I' -'nil and wine, hui aV" (In km.I Ir-hmf bk ^'i. h :v- Hi- bn an K*. " NEW YORK DAILY NEWS April 26,1988 Oil group seeks fix on prices Carl Sagan, the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences, stands beside a photograph of his great-grandparents during a live interview of him and his wife, the writer Ann Druyan, conducted from their gorge-top home on May 13 for "CBS This Morning." A CBS News producer, director and camera crew came to Ithaca and used Cornell's satellite uplink mobile unit to air this "At Home" feature of the program. And President Frank H.T. Rhodes was interviewed on the nationally disseminated BizNet program "Ask Washington," which is produced by Cornell alumna Anne Merick for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Other recent uses of the Cornell satellite uplink included interviews on area stations' newscasts of Dr. Halfdan Mahler, director general of the World Health Organization and the Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow, and Kenneth C. Hover, an associate professor of structural engineering. Urie Bronfenbrenner, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Human Development and Family Studies, and Sagan also took part in teleconferences via satellite from the campus. SCIENCE NOTEBOOK THE WASHINGTON POST April 25, 1988 Equal Opportunity in the Resttoom? • A scientific study confiiins what many women hive Iniij! suspected: Womrn .IIP bring trented unfairly in the allocation o( spnrc foi restrooms. Cornell University enRineering undergraduate Anh Iran has confirmed that women take longer in the restroom than men and, therefore, need more stalls to handle an equal number of patrons. Vet most restroom facilities in public places allocate the same number of stalls for both sexes. The average woman, according to Tran's stopwatch, spent 79 seconds in the restroom while the average man took 45 seconds. If equal numbers of each sex use the facilities, lines are more likely to form for the women's room than for thr men's. Tran did the study for the Washington State LVpartment of Transportation, which is planning to improve its criteria for designing highway rest stops. Her results suggest that a more equitable allocation would be three women's stalls for every two men's stalls. Trail also developed a computer proprnm that calculates the optimum number of stalls for each sex after being given data about traffic volume and vehicle occupancy. By FRANKLIN FISHER Daily News Staff Writer In Vienna today, key OPEC oil ministers are to sit down with their counterparts from seven nonmember nations in hopes of cutting a deal that will drive the price of oil up, and keep it there. OPEC's motive is to dog- paddle its way out of a world oil market awash in surplus crude. The excess has meant the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' 13 members get less per barrel on the world market. The seven nonmembers at today's sitdown are Angola, China, Colombia, Egypt, Malaysia, Mexico and Oman. Even Texas - over U.S. Energy Department objections — has sent a state official to Vienna. The official, Kent Hance, of the agency that regulates Texas' oil industry, is expected to offer his state's help in propping up oil prices in a series of private meetings. U.S. Energy Secretary John Herrington opposes the entire conference as a push "by OPEC to build a global price- fixing ring, a spokesman Tor Herri ngton confirmed. A derailing tour Herrington was in Asia last week lobbying top officials in six nations in hopes of derailing the OPEC effort. He's also been critical of Hance. If the cartel fails at this week's meeting, prices are apt to plunge further. But if the group succeeds, it does not mean soaring prices at America's gas pumps, say economists and oil industry analysts. Instead, it might add a nickel to every gallon at U.S. pumps if OPEC makes its $18per-barrel goal, said Prof. Jerome E. Hass, professor of managerial economics and finance at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. "It's vprv important to -—og- Cornell Chronicle May 26, 1988 9 NEWSDAY May 7, 1988 CORNELL in the News Chickens Used to Hatch Eye Theory By Robert Cooke — so the image is focused sharply on the retina, Young chickens outfitted with Experimental goggles are showing surprised scientists that imma-. ture eyeballs compensate for blurred vision by changing their shape while growing. The experiment eventually may yield data to help overcome vision disorders in humans, the researchers said. "These experiments are the first demonstration of a feedback loop controlling growth of the eye," said Howard C. Howland, professor of neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University. "If the same feedback loops operateTn humans, it would mean that placement of lenses on the eyes of young the light-sensing organ at the back of the eye. In nearsightedness and farsightedness, the im- age is poorly focused, either in front of the retina or behind it, resulting in blurred vision. Eyeglasses are designed to bend the light more, or less, to focus the image precisely on the retina. The Cornell researchers — Howland, Frank Schaeffel and Adrian Glasser — put lenses on the chickens to cause both myopia (nearsightedness) and hyperopia (farsightedness). They found that the eye can change either way, becoming relatively shorter or longer depending on what is needed to correct the blurring. children could, conceivably, affect the growth of "It's always seemed sort of a miracle that young the eyes." • The discovery suggests that defects in human vision — such as nearsightedness and farsightedness — may be correctable if researchers can learn to control eyeball elongation during growth. The experiments involved mounting vision-distorting lenses over the chicks' eyes during the short time their eyes were growing. That eyegrowth period lasts a few weeks in chickens, but continues for years in humans. eyes can grow — increasing in size several times as they mature — and still keep an image focused on the retina, with all the internal parts changing," Howland said. Now, the changes in growth indicate how sharp vision is maintained. Biologist Michael Gottlieb, an eye research specialist at the City College of New York, commented that "in these animals it seems as if the eye figures out a way to grow such that they have normal vision. The question is, how does the eye know which way to grow?" It also suggests that some people who began wearing glasses as small children may have experienced unexpected changes in their eyes. Howland said studies should be done on those people to see if the changes occurred. Experiments at Cornell and other research centers also suggest that some unidentified biochemical substance, a hormone-like growth factor, may be released by the retina in the growing eye, controlling how rapidly, or how far, the eyeball elon- In normal vision, the light entering an eye is gates. The amount of growth factor released may bent by the optical system — the lens and cornea be controlled by how clearly the eye can see. Chicken is fitted with goggles THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL May 8, 1988 SCIENCE JOURNAL • ANIMAL BEHAVIOR Elephant sounds: The high-pitch scream of an angry bull elephant has a counter-sound: the low, drawn-out "song" of a female who wishes to mate. Although it is of such low frequency that it is inaudible to the human ear, the cow's call can be heard several miles away by male elephants, who hurry to her, says Katharine B. Payne, a Cornell University acoustics expert. Microphones placed on the ground near elephant watering holes in Etosha Park, Namibia, have demonstrated that the elephants are hearing calls from other groups of elephants several miles away. Low-frequency sound is less subject to attenuation, or weakening, by large distances or obstacles — such as forest trees — than high-frequency sound, which may be why the elephants use i t Careers Elizabeth M. Fowler THE NEW YORK TIMES April 19, 1988 Summer Jobs in Right Line Hard to Find FOR a college student, a careerrelated summer job is ideal, but such a job may be harder to find this year, one expert says. Vicki Lynn, director of the career development center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., has discovered that fewer summer jobs of this kind are available, particularly for some students with a B average or less. There are alternatives, however. Construction jobs pay high hourly rates, sales jobs can provide good commissions and hotel work offers a chance at occasionally lavish tips. Working as an office "temporary" can provide a taste of business and possibly a door to a full-time job later. Some lower-paying alternatives include serving as a lifeguard or working at a supermarket. Mrs. Lynn gave some reasons for the difficulty in finding summer employment that is career-oriented. "Many employers feel obligated to offer summer jobs to sons and daughters of their employees," she said in an interview last week. "Then, if other summer jobs are available, they are offered to women and minorities." And many companies, she said, insist that their few career-related summer jobs go to students with high grades. The problem can be serious for those with lower marks. When the time comes to seek good jobs after graduation, they will find it quite helpful if they can mention pertinent summer work on their resumes. About 80 percent of Rensselaer's students find career-related work experience, though not necessarily during the summer, Mrs. Lynn said. About 15 percent of that 80 percent can be described as co-op students — those who wotk for a company for a semester or so while they continue to take courses. • Because many students cannot find career-related summer jobs, she said, "1 hire on a year-round basis" for the placement center at Rensselaer. Some part-time students handle computer work in the office. Students can advance in their field of interest by working for professors on projects — sometimes being paid for their efforts. In some cases they volunteer for research, both to gain the experience (which looks good on a resume) and to earn a recommendation from a professor. "The colleges are looking at many extracurricular ways to transfer skills," Mrs. Lynn said. "I think more and more colleges are encouraging their own campus research projects to help students gain experience. It is self-serving in a way because the professors get the help they need at minimal cost. Some students even work as volunteers. In fact, I see a reawakening of volunteer work." Mrs. Lynn praised Cornell University's two-year-old program, the Cornell Connection, in which the university works with its alumni to find summer jobs for undergraduates. World History, as Tree Rings Tell It, Gains Accuracy The New York Times April 12,1988 By MALCOLM W. BROWNE RECENT studies of tree rings in Europe and the United States have given scientists astonishingly precise new gauges for reconstructing the history of volcanoes, climate and human endeavor in the last 8,500 years. Tree rings, as distinctively patterned by fluctuations in the environment as bullets are by gun barrels, were recognized half a century ago as potentially useful historical markers. In 1930, Dr. Andrew EUicott Douglas of the University of Arizona established the scienpe of tree-ring dating, dendrochronology, when he used the rings discernible in ancient wooden artifacts to determine the age of a prehistoric Indian site. But only recently have scientists accumulated enough wood samples and other evidence from bogs, ice layers, medieval ruins, . ancient campf ires and many other sources to extend dendrochronology to objects almost as old as the last Ice Age. New understanding of the significance of tree rings has also allowed scientists to calibrate other less precise techniques for determining the ages of objects, thereby making the entire field of age determination more reliable and accurate. Archeologists are quickly-putting the new knowledge to practical use. Last weekffor ex- ample, Dr. Peter I. Kuniholm of Cornell University extracted tree-ring samples from the cedar planking of a boat built in Egypt in the 16th century B.C. The boat, owned by the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, is believed to have been built while Egypt was ruled by the Hyksos "shepherd" kings, a time when few written records were kept, Dr. Kuniholm said. The tree-ring dating techniques he plans to apply to the samples may help archeologists sort out the detailed chronology of the Hyksos period. In Europe and the Middle East arcbeoiogists have started scores of new tree-ring dating projects. In one, Dr. Michael G. C Baillie of Queen's University, Belfast, and his colleagues expect to determine the exact fa*- ' -"^ithir- -»»inSonv "•»«- 10 May 26, 1988 Cornell Chronicle PLEASE POST Job Opportunities May 26,1988 Number 19 Office of Human Resources Cornell University 160 Day Hall Ithaca, New York 14853-2801 In compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Cornell University is now required to check the identity and employment eligibility of alt new hires. Effective June 1,1987, if you accept a position, you must show documents on or before your first day of work, that Indicate your identity and employment eligibility; for example, a state issued driver's license and a birth certificate. For more information, contact Staffing Services, 255*5226. -DIBINC THE SUMMER, JOB OPI'OKTINITKS WILL BK PRINTED SEPARATELY ON JUNE 2. 16, 30. JULY 14, 28. AUGUST II & IS. THE CORNELL CHRONICLE RESUMES ITS WEEKLY SCHEDULE Al GUST 25. -Interviews lire conducted by appointment onl\. -Send cover letters & resumes to Staffing Services. 160 Day Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca. NY 14S5.V -Employment & employee transfer application forms are available at both Staffing Services locations-160 Day Hall & Cast Hill Pfaua. -Requests for referral &/or cover letters are not accepted unless specified in the ad. -Cornell I niversity is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer. -This listing is also available on ( 1 INK) terminals are situated in main lobbies of Day Hall & Gannett C h k , & the Olin, Mann & ILK Libraries. -DEPTS.-Deadline for submission is noon on Thursday for following week's Job Opportunities. -Minimum salaries listed are for recruitment purposes only. -s Sututory; 1 I ndowed Administrative and Professional ASSOC. DIH.. SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATIONAL SUPPORT (PA 1902) Theory Center! Administer the S.C.S. component, which is responsible for user support & trng.. of Cornell Natl. Supercomputer Facility (CNSF). Provide Theory Center Directors w/advice regarding policy decisions affecting CNSF. Req.: PhD, pref in sciences. 8 10 yrs. related exp.; incl. exp. administering scientific projects/ programs. Demonstrated ability to successfully coord, w s r . scientists. Broad knowl. of wide range of issues impacting operation of a supercomputer clr. Detailed understanding of principles & tools for scientific research in supercomputing is vital. Strong scientific bkgrnd Exc. interper. skills. Letter & resume to Search Committee: Assoc. Dir. by 7/1. ASSOC. DIR. OF FINANCE* & BUSINESS FOR ACCOUNTING SVCS. (PA 1904) Finance & Business Services-S Resp. lor statutory college acctg. function (approx. S25OM budget) which justifies & generates req. revenue/expenditure reports of 4 partially state-supported colleges. Req.: BS acctg.. busn. admin, or related field w 8 yrs. exp. in public governmental, higher ed or related field acctg.; knowl. of SUN Y acctg & financial practices desir. MBA w/6 yrs. exp as indicated above. C'PA highly desir. letter & resume to Bettie Thompson by 6, 24. TECHNICAL CONSULTANT III (PT1904) Theoty Center-E Provide full range of consulting & educati. sves. to researchers using resources of Cornell Natl. Supercomputer Fac. Req.: BS req., MS pref. (grad study in I of phy. sci., bio. sci., computational social set., math, computer sci. or engr. desir). Exp. w mainframe computers essential: VM/CMS, UNIX. IBM extended architecture & FPS Scientific Processor exp. desir. Exc. written & interper. comm. skills. Fluency in at least 2 prgrmng. lang.. FORTRAN pref. Demonstrated ability to work w/complicated programs & to solve problems under time constraints. EducatX or trng. exp. Scientific computing exp. Letter & resume to Judi Baker by 6/10 EXECUTIVE CHEF (PAI9O3) Slatler Hotel-F Resp. for profitability, quality, planning, coordinating & scheduling of food production in hotel & conference ctr. Complete knowl. & ability in prep, and presentation of internal! & domestic cuisine. Supv. staff of 50+. Req.: AAS in culinary arts req. w mm. 5 yrs. exp. in similar (e.g. Hotel Chef) position incl. internal! hospitality exp Proven ability to assume responsibility, exercise authority & use food financial mgmt. & planning skills. I etler & resume to Cynthia Smithbower by 7 I. ELECTRICAL ESTIMATOR (PA 1906) M&SO-F. Prep, detailed estimates for residential & commercial electrical repairs & construction incl. lighting & srvc. distribution. Req.: AAS in elec. tech. or related field A; or completion of Electrical Apprenticeship program. 5 yrs. exp. in field. Exc. comm. skills. understanding ol scheduling; project mgmt. Exp in univ. research environ. Complete knowl. of all electrical work: power, lighting, controls, fire alarm, comm. & security devices. Ix-tter & resume to Cynthia Smithbower by 6 3. TRAVEL OFFICE MANAGER (PAI9I2) Travel Office- r Manage Travel Offc. incl. staff supv. & trng. Resp. for active CU acct. solicitation. Req.: AAS in related field. 5+ yrs. exp. using computer-based reservation systems, 2 yrs mgmt. exp. in travel industry (travel offc. or airline) Letter & resume to Cynthia Smithbower by 6 6. HEALTH EDUCATOR (PAI905) Health Services-E Resp. to Dir.. Health Ed. for planning, implementing, coordinating & evaluating campus-wide AIDS ed. program; co-directing Peer Sexuality Ed. Program & assisting in overall development & admin of Health Ed. programs for community. Req.: MS, health e d . public health, community ed or related field. 2 3 yrs. exp. providing sexuality ed. programs in community setting. MUjt haye.ejc cpmm.J^nlte^orsu.) skills. Exjp, working w i college-aged m t n - 4 w»men desir Letter & resume to Cynthia Smithbower by 6 17. RESEARCH SUPPORT SPECIALIST II (IT1906) Eng. College Project SOCRATES-E I )esign, write & maintain interaetive-graphiesbased instruct!, programs & some systems utilities in VMS & I NIX. Assist in presenting workshops on adaptation & use ol software & in operation & maim, ot computer fac Req.: BS. computer sci. or engr. ol equiv 2 5 \is prgrmng exp-.; knowl ot VAX VMS, C, FORTRAN. HOOPS; exc. comm., interpcr. skills letter & resume lo Judi Baker by 6 i. EXEC. STAFF ASST. II (PCI9I2) Human Fcology Admissions-S Provide prol. & managerial asst. lor dir. & assi. dir. Manage all operations involving human & material resources; design data mgmi systems to support mktg. & stat. analyses; assist w annual budget prep. & supv. all monthly budget transactions & purchases; design & coord, freshman processing systems. Kecrutt. train & supv. all support & student stall, provide assi lo special projects as needed. Req.: BA orequiv. Pref. w exp. ot or familiar w CU. Min. 2 yrs. offc. mgmt. exp. incl.: design of automated systems, budget & psnl. records. Proven abilities in supv. & public relations. Proficiency in Dbasc 111. WordPerfect A Lotus I 2 .V Familiar v. I T mainframe computer helpful. Emphasis on stat. & editing abilities. Letter & resume lo Esther Smith by 6 7. TEACHING SUPPORT SPECIALIST II (PA 1909) Hotel Admin -E Resp. for working w students to demonstrate & assist in leaching all elements of prof, food prep. Duties lie primarily w in realm of food prep. labs. Req.: AAS in related lech, field (e.g.. food vervrce hospitality) plus 3 yrs. supv. food srvc. exp. High level of culinary knowl. & skills. Intermediate knowl of food & beverage mgmt. systems. Elementary knowl. of food chem. Must know & be able to explain differences in grade levels of products; meats, produce. Letter & resume to Cynthia Smilhbower by 6 17. ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER I (PAI9I0) Coop. Ext. Adminislranon-S Assist Fiscal Specialist in daily financial oper. of County Assoc. 's; coord, monitor geni. ledger acctg. system; coord, related trng. of County Ext. Assoc. coordinators & bookkeepers & coord, computerization of Statutory Finance & Personnel Office. Req.: BS in acctg. busn. 3 yrs. exp. in financial mgmt. (acctg. & budget control) & computer prgrmng., such as designing & developing reports. Good comm. & interper. skills, ability to conduct acctg. & computer skills trng. programs desir. dBase mgmt. & spreadsheet knowl. pref. letter & resume to Cynthia Smithbower by 6 10. APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMER/ANALYST II (PT15I0) Computer Services-E Under direct supv., design, develop, modify & document straight forward applications software in support of major admin, system. Req.: BA or equiv. w computer related courses. Knowl. ol at least 2 lang.-PI. I, Natural, COBOL; applications lor interactive & batch admin. & data base mgmt. systems, machine arch., system utility, programs, VM.CMS. Letter & resume to Judi Baker ASAP. RESEARCH SUPPORT SPECIALIST I (PT0204) Neurobiology & Behavior-E Assist in electrophysiological studies of sensory processing in auditory nervous system & in behavioral studies of animal sound communication. Duties incl.: surgical prep, of smalt vertebrates (frogs, toads, h/ardsj. fabrication of microelectrodes, recording & analysis of neuroelectric data. Req.: BS, nctirobiology. physiology or bioengr. or related exp. MS pref. Familiar w electronic instruments & computer analysis of electro phy siological data plus histoiogical equip, pref. Letter & resume to Judi Baker by 6 10. CUSTODIAL SUPV. (PC1824) Hotel Administration-! Asst. Dir. of Engr. in mgmt- of custodial tasks in School. Manage daily operations ol School custodial sves. Will fill in short-term for dept absences & perform normal duties of custodian. Req.: AAS, H&RI or facility mgmt mm., BS pref Min. 5 yrs. custodial or related exp. pre! I etter & resume to Esther Smith by 6 1 Clerical REGULAR KMPLOYKfcS Submit employee transfer application, resume & cover letter. Career counseling interviews available by appt. EXTERNAL APPLICANTS Mail employment application & resume to 160 Day Hall. Interviews conducted at Staffing Services, fast Hill Pla/a by appt. only. Qualified applicants are contacted alter materials are reviewed. OFFICE ASST., C1RI6 (CI905) Public Allans Records- E Make biographic additions, changes & deletions to CU alumni friends records using IBM 3270 terminal for on-line system. Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Some data entry & CRT exp. desir Good org.. interpcr. & comm. skills Lt. typing. Mm, Biweekly. $401.78 SECRETARY,GRI7(CI908) Alumni Attain.-! Provide recept. sec, support to offc., dir., & exec asst. in carrying out alumni activities Assist other alumni programs as needed; sort alumni house mail. Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Exp. w public Exc. phone & org. skills. Previous olTc. exp. pref Med. typing. Min. Biweekly: $421.81 SECRETARY. OR IK (CI903) Univ. Develop- ment-1: idc Be tm to O(fc at Special Gifts. ^ppt^ j ^ 'hone Req . H.S. dip. Of equiv. Iwe. sec., org. & backup, hire, train & supv. student employees; purchasing exp. desir., fundamental computer interper. skills. Able to work independ. Med. process tape orders for mail-order srvc.; coord, knowl. & skill desir. Accuracy & attention to i\ping. Mm. Biweekly: $444.37 equip, requests A- instruct m use ot a v equip.*, detail nee Good org.. interper. & supv. skills record & assist in production o! tape materials, AppK bv 6 3. Mm. hourly: $6.39 SR. DEPT. ASST., GRIK (CI909) JGSM edit, duplicate A catalog tapes Library-* Req.: AAS orequiv. I \p. dealing w public in TECHNICIAN. GRI9 (1 170-4j Clinical Sci- Admin &. offc tasks: upe reports & coriv^p . univ. setting. Some supv. exp. heiptul. Exp ences-S compile statistics] reports: manage offc. tiles v\ dBase Ell helpful, Abie to work in fast-paced Asst in experiments w lab animals, princi- supplies equip.; process limeeards, control dept. environ, w limited supv f.xp. w budget admin. pally mice. Inject by various routes, bleed. calendar, son mail, answer phone & reler ques- & development & w a-v equip. Med. typing. remove & process organs tor bactenol. cultunny tions. Libr, resp. bill & collect fines; search & Min BiwcckK: $527 W & prep ol purified cell suspensions tor bu>. process book orders, backup other Matt at cue. studies. & reserve desks ADMINISTRATIVE AIDE. GR22 (CI906) Req.: \AS as \H I 01 min 2 vrs. related e\p Req.; College degree or AAS or cquiv. pref. Coop. I xi.-NVC-S 1 xp. working w mice. Perform pu»cedures on Exp. in lib.. 01 offc. work helpful. Able to organ- Provide sec. admin, support to program living & dead animals Able to learn sterile tech. ize & work independ. Good comm. iorul & writ- coord Serve as liaison, provide support to satel- & working w a human pathogen. Applv ASAP. ten) skills. WP helpful. Med typing- Min. lite offc. sull. Make mtg. & cont. arrangements. Mm. Biwecklv: $469.53 Biweekly: $444.37 Req.: AAS ot equiv. Min 3yrs,exp. Demon- strated computer, org.. supv, & math skills req TECHNICIAN. GR20 (I 1901) Biochemistrv. SECRETARY, t.RJS (CIMI7) Coramuntca- Heavv typing Min. Biweekly: 1554.63 Molecular & Cell Biologv-! tion-S Conduct experiments related to study ot yeast Prep corresp,. classroom materials. schoiarK cyioske.eton. incl. in-viiro mutagenesis. yeast General Servicepublications, proposals, etc. for 3 or more faculty using micro-computer & or typewriter; provide bacterial iranstormations, isolation characterization ot mutants, molecular cloning, chromoso- ad nun. support incl. travel arrangements &. mal plasmid DN V DNA RNA hybridizations. forms; assist w annual inventor) review &. protein purification, mimunoblotting & unmu- w audio-visual reservation & checkout system; notluorescent election microscopv serve as primary recept. (phone & in person) Req : BS in biochem. or related field. I 2 \rs. Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. F.xp. w PC's, pret. REGLTLAB EMPLOYEES Submit employee exp. Familiar w molecular genetics, bii>chemiL;i! IBM & Wordpcrfect. Good interpcr. & comm. transfer application to Slatting Services. !60 Day & cytology techniques. Apply bv 6 3 Mm. {written oral) skills. 1 \p. w audio-visual equip, Hall. Interviews conducted by appl. only. EX- Riweckly: $496.SO desir. Med. typing. Mia Biweekly: $443.13 TERNAL APPLICANTS Mail employment application to Staffing Services, 160 I);iv Hall. COMPITER OPERATOR. GR21 24(1 1902) SECRETARY. GRI8 (CI9I I) Human Service Interviews conducted bv appl. only Qualified, Computer Semces-1 Sludies-S applicants aid, contacted after materials are Operate large scale computer system* & asso- Provide recept, sec support tor 4 6 faculty in reviewed ciated peripheral equip., monitor data communi- a large dept. Type classwork, reports, manu- cations networks. Consuli w vendor customer scripts, corresp. & vouchers; answer phone; dis- < I sn>DIAYSO,6(Giy04.GI902) Buildings engrs. & dept. sialf. Shiti work & weekends. tribute mail; arrange travel, libr. reserve lists. C.iiv-f Req.: AAS or equi\. combination o! ed. & conferences & mtgs.; ordci texts; make copies, Provide ocnl custodial care ol bldgs. & exp. in large data processing facility. Computer run campus errands; keep (acuity files & calen- grounds in immediate \iciniiv ot assigned area. operating exp. req.. data communications exp. dars Mon.-fhur.. 6 a.m. 2.M) p.m : rn. 6 a.m. 1:30 heiptul. Knowl. ot computer hardware, software, Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Busn. sec. school p.m. operating svstems & prgrmng. languages. Apply desir. Previous sec. exp. IBM PC & Wordperfeci Req. H.S. dip. or equiv. Able to operate a by 6 3. Min. Biweekly: $527.69 '625.69 exp. Good interper. & org. skills, machine man- variety of heavy power equip., lift 50 lbs. & climb ual transcription skills. Able to set priorities & an S tt. ladder. Basic reading & writing skills. MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST, GR2I (11903) work in a complex, active environ. Min. Bi- Min. hourly: $5.49 Univ. Health Sen ices- \ weekly: $443.13 Perform lab tests in hematology. serology, CISTOI)IAN,SOI6(G!903) BuildingsCare-S unnalysis, bacteriology & parasitology lor diag- ACCTS. ASST.. GRI8 (CIWI) Dining Ser- Provide geni. custodial care ol bldgs & nostic & treatment purposes. Read microbio. & vices -I grounds in immediate vicinitv ol assigned area cultures, pertorm venipuncture & FKGY Mon. Perform daily data entry assoc. w acctg. lor Sun-Wed., 11 p.m. 7:30 a.m.; 1 bur. 11 p.m. Fri. S:30 5. rotating weekend coverage income & expense. 6:30 a.m. Req.: BS in medical tech. plus ANCP cert, Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Min. I yr. exp. in Req : H.S. dip. or equiv. Able to operate a acctg. bookkeeping. Proficient use of calcula- variety ot heavv power equip., lift 50 lbs. & climb tors. Exc. data entry skills. Familiar w CD an 8 ft. ladder. Basic reading & writing skills. acctg. desir. Able to work in a complex, active environ. & meet acctg. deadlines. Lt. typing. Min. hourly: ^ Min. Biweekly: $444.37 Cl STODIAN,SOI6(G 1905) Buildings Care-I pret. Hospital lab exp. desir. Applv bv 6 .V Min. Biweeklv: $527.69 Part-Time Provide geni. custodial care of bldgs. & OFFICE ASST., GRI8 (CI920) JGSM-E grounds in immediate vicinity of assigned area. Provide support assistance to Dir. of Busn. Sun.-Wed.. II p.m. 7:30 a.m.; Thur. M p.m. Operations. Busn Olte. & Ottc. Mgr. & Faculty 6:30 a.m. support aides Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Sec. school desir. Min. I yr. geni. offc. exp. Heavy typing. Mm. Biweekly: $444.37 Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Able to operate a variety ot heavy power equip., lift 50 lbs. & climb an K ft. ladder. Basic reading & writing skills. Min. hourly: $5.49 ALERT COORDINATOR (PAI90U Health Services-F Recruit, train & supv. student volunteers in outreach alcohol drug ed. program (ALERT). RECEPTIONIST. GRI9 (CI902) Graduate School-E Entries on C R I ; process forms related 10 grad. student records; answer phones & walk-in inquiries from sludents, faculty & other otfes . assist in course enrollment; hand out & receive forms, process application letters. Req.: AAS or equiv. Knowl. of college struc- STOCKKEEPER..GRI7 (GI90I) Genetics & Devetopment-E Provide assistance & backup to bldg. coord . maim, mech., Sr. res. supp. supv.. & bldg. mgr. 1 ype orders, verify prices, discounts & all duties assoc. w processing orders; file A keep records: Arts & CALS equip, inventories, shipping, reeeiv ing for Biotech, bldg. & Corson-Mudd Assist in development, coord. & evaluation ot drug risk reduction program for Univ. comm. 20 hrs. wk.; some eve work req. Req.: BS BA in health or community ed., human srvc. or related field. I 2 yrs. exp. in providing substance abuse ed- programs. Must have strong org. & comm. skills. Letter & resume to Cynthia Smithbower by 6 17. ture. Able to work organize indpend. Comm. halls. Temporaryskills important. Familiar w WordPerfect & Req.: H.S. dip. or cquiv. Able to iitt 100 lbs. dBase desir. CRT exp. a plus. Med. typing. Min. Valid NYS driver's lie. Must have own vehicle Biweekly: $470.80 It. typing. Mm. Biweekly: $421 SI SECRETARY, GRI9 (C19J5) Office tor Re- PROGRAM AIDE. GRI7 (GI906. GI907, search-S GI90H) NYS Extension Program-S Provide recept. sec support to Assoc. Dir. & Work w low income lamilies & youth to Experienced & skilled individuals specifically Occupational Health & Safety Coord.. & clerical acquire know!. & skills for improving nutritl interested in temporary work should mail appli- support for Offc. personnel quality ot their diets. Take req. 3 wk. trng. Teach cation t» 160 Day Hall. Req.: AAS or equiv. Min. 2 yrs. exp. in otic. mothers & young essentials ol nutrition & work. Knowl. of computers. Able to set priori- increase their knowl. & skills in selecting & using DATA ENTRY OPERATOR (CI9I3) Compu- ties, meet & greet the public & work in a com- food. ter Services-F plex, active environ. Heavy typing. Min. Bi- Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Knowl ot commun- Key enter or key verity data via CADI kev- weekly: $469.53 ity. Abie 10 read & write complicated Inglish & stations. F-t. 6 months only. do arithmetic through fractions. Min. Biweekly: Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. Data entry & or ADMINISTRATIVE AIDE. C.R20 (CI9I4) $420.76 keypunch exp.. pref. CADF system exp. Med. HDFS Family Lite Development-S typing. Coord, registration & scheduling ot a large Technicalstate & natl. trng. effort in Human Sves Req.: AAS or equiv. Min. 2 yrs. ottc. exp CHIMES ASST, (CI6O4) Campus Aftairs-1 Asst. w corresp. & other contacts w donors, Exp. w PC's, pref. Mac. Med. typing. Mm visitors, alumni & others. Participate in org. & Biweekly: $495.35 continued maint. ot chimes offc. files related to ongoing projects, search out info, related to nee. SECRETARY. GR20 (CI904) Public Atfaus Reg! Offc-Bala Cvnwyd. PA-E Ivpe corresp., forms, vouchers & other materials. Maintain records & tiles & provide rccept. support; handle mtgs. & travel arrangements tor Dir.; phone & persona) contact w alumni & volunteers. Special projects as needed. Req.: AAS orequiv. Min. 2 yrs. sec. admin, exp. Strong org., interper. & comm. skills. Able to work independ. Med. typing. Min. Biweekly: $496.80 REGULAR EMPLOYEES: Submit employee transfer application, resume & letter. EXTERNAL APPLICANTS: Mail employment application, resume, & list ot lab techniques equip., or computer software hardware with which you are familiar. Submit letter per position, specify mk\ dept. & job number. Interviews conducted bv appt. only. Qualified applicants are contacted alter materials are reviewed. Backgrounds highly desired: biochem., chem., microbio.. elec!.. physics, lie animai health tech. supplies, etc. Provide staff asst. Asst. w mtg. arrangements & maintain comm. Casual potation, approx. 15 hrs. wk. tor I yr. letter & resume to 1.auric Worscll. Academic TEC H. SALES ASST.. GR20(C 1919) Campus Store I Provide customer service leading to sales ot computer software, publications & supplies Demonstrate a variety ot sottware. process mailouts & dept. charges & coord, projects Assist m development & implementation of computer inventory system, hardware rental program & new customer related offerings and sves. Req.: AAS in computer sci or equiv. Some exp. pret. Able to operate microcomputers such as IBM-PC, Macintosh w or w out hard-drives. Able to demonstrate applications software for same. Strong interper. comm. skills essential Retail exp. pref. Letter & resume to Esther Smith by 6 3. Min. Biweekly: $496.80 TECHNICIAN. GRIK (1I90K) Genetics A Deveiopment-S Provide gcnl lab assistance, maintain & stenli/e glassware. Prep, media, care for plants & bacteria as well as tissue culiures. Req.: BS or equiv in scientific field. 6 months I yr. lab exp. pref. Touch typing for computer data entry prd., but not req. I t . typing. Apply bv 6 V. Mm. Biweekly: $443.13 TECHNICIAN, GRIK (TI909) Diagnostic Laboratory-S Handle & process diagnostic specimens, test samples, process paperwork & enter data into computer terminal. Route deliver specimens to MOLECULAR PARASITOLOGIST (AI901) Microbio.. Immunology & Parasttolog) Send CV & names & addressee ot 3 references lo Dr. Roger J. Averv, Chairman. Dept. ot Microbiology. Immunology & Parasrtologv. NYS College ol Veterinary Medicine. 616 Veterinary Research lower. Cornell University, Ithaca. NY I4«5.'S 6401(607)255 MOO by 7 5. FACULTY POSITION: AVIAN MEDICINE (A 1902) Avian & Aquatic Animal Medicine Send CV. personal bibliography & references by X I to Dr Bruce W Calnek. Dept of Avian & Aquatic Animal Medicine. NYS College ol Veterinary Medicine. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 6401. lab sections. Sat. rotational I 2 hrs. 6 wks. ACCTS. ASST.. GR20 ICI907) Engineering & Facilities-F. Provide admin. & acctg. support for Facilities Engr., Utilities, M&SO & Grounds dept. Req.: AAS in acctg. or busn. pref. Exp. using PC, typewriter & calculator necessary. Accurate typing & exc. interper. comm. (oral written) skills. CU acctg. & mainframe computer exp. desir. Med. typing. Min. Biweekly: $4%.8O Req.: H.S. dip. or equiv. & NYS driver's lie. Some computer & lab exp. helpful Familiar w inventory systems an asset. Accuracy & ability to meet deadlines under pressure desir. Apply by 6 3. Min. Biweekly: $443.13 LAB ATTENDANT. SOI9 (TI9I0) Hotel Administration-!' Maintain inventories; process food & equip requisitions; ensure deliveries to lab in advance of PET & WILD BIRDS-AVIAN MEDICINE (A 1903) Avian & Aquatic Animal Medicine Send CV. personal bibliography & references to Dr Bruce W. Calnek. Dept. of Avian & Aquatic Animal Medicine. NYS College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 6401. RESEARCH ASSOC.-PATHO1.OGIST (A 1904) Clinical Sciences ADMINISTRATIVE AIDE. GR2I (C19I6) Modern Languages A Linguistics f Manage busn. operations of Phonetics A class needs; maintain computerized equip, inven- Contact Bud C. Tennant, Clinical Sciences. tory; maintain lab cleanliness & equip. Mon- NYS College ol Veterinary Medicine, 524 Vet Fn'. 8 4:30 A kiig. LuiK."l*rep.i*daaal budget; aucwd RrJi*.* Continued on page 12 Cornell Chronicle May 26, 1988 11 CALENDAR All items for the calendar should be submitted (typewritten, double spaced) by campus mail, U.S. mail or in person to Chronicle Calendar, Cornell News Service, Village Green, 840 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca, NY 14850. Notices should be seat to arrive 10 days prior to publication and should include the name and telephone number of a person who can be called if there are questions. Notices should also include the subheading of the calendar in which the item should appear. New York City, and an A.D. White Professor-at-Large here. Recent acquisitions in a variety of media will be on display from May 20 through June 26 in celebration of the museum's 15th anniversary. In addition, two original three-dimensional models of the museum and drawings of the building by its architect, I.M. Pei, will be on view. FILMS Unless otherwise noted, films are sponsored by Cornell Cinema. An (•) indicates that admission is charged. DANCE Thursday, 5/26 "Bedtime For Bonzo" (1951), directed by Frederick de Cordova, with Ronald Reagan and Walter Slezak, 8 p.m., Uris.* Cornell Folkdancers The Cornell community and the general public and beginners are welcome to join in folkdancing. Admission is free, unless stated otherwise. Instruction and request dancing on May 29, 7:30-10:30 p.m.. North Room, Willard Straight Hall. Cornell Recreation Club The Ithaca Academy of Dance will present a musical dance review on June 4 at 7:30 p.m., in Bailey Hall. "Showtime," a potpourri of music and dance and "A Tribute to Fred Astaire," music from many of his Broadway performances and musical films since 1927, will be performed. Tickets are available at the studio, 102 West State St., The Dance Connection and at the door. Friday, 5/27 "The Graduate" (1967), directed by Mike Nichols, with Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katherine Ross, 7:30 p.m., Uris.* "Allegro Non Troppo" (1977), directed by Bruno Bozzetto, 10 p.m., Uris.* Saturday, 5/28 "The Graduate," 9:30 p.m., co-sponsored by Senior Week, Uris.* "Allergro Non Troppo," 7:30 p.m., Uris.* Sunday, 5/29 "The Graduate," 8 p.m., Uris.* Monday, 5/30 "A Woman is a Woman" (1961), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, with Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo, 8 p.m., Uris.* Tuesday, 5/31 "Rockers" (1979), directed by Theodoras Bafaloukos, with Leroy Wallace, 8 p.m., Uris.* ine Hepburn, co-sponsored by Alumni Affairs, 8:30 p.m., Uris.* LECTURES Theory Center "Simulations of Specificity and Activity of Receptor and Binding Proteins," Harel Weinstein, Physiology and Biophysics, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, June 9, 1:30 p.m. MUSIC Bound for Glory Records from the studio, WVBR-FM93, May 29. Department of Music Romantic American Music for Bassoon will be performed by Ron Bukoff, bassoon, Wendy Maraniss, piano, Christina Hilton Fenn, flute and Mark G. Simon, clarinet, May 27, 8:15 p.m. in the auditorium of Barnes Hall. A Senior Weekend Concert will be given by the Cornell Wind Ensemble under the direction of Marice Stith and Christopher Kaufman, May 28, 3 p.m., in Bailey Hall. The program will include Rimski-Korsakov's "Procession of Nobles," "Cappriccio Espagnol" and "Flight of the Bumble Bee"; Dello Joio's "Satiric Dances"; Vaughan Williams' 'Toccata Maziale"; Hanson's "Fanfare Prelude"; Borodin's "Polovetsian Dances"; and Foster's "Centennial Celebration March." Daily Masses will be announced on a weekly basis. Christian Science Testimony Meeting: Every Thursday, 7 p.m., the Anabel Taylor Founders Room. Episcopal (Anglican) Every Sunday, 9:30 a.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. Friends (Quakers) Sunday, 10 a.m., adult discussion; 11 a.m., meeting for worship, Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Beginning May 29 meeting for worship will be «t the Hector Meeting House, Perry City Road, at 10:30 a.m. Rides available in Anabel Taylor parking lot at 10 a.m. Jewish Morning Minyan: Young Israel House, 106 West Avenue. Call 272-5810. Reform Services: Friday evenings 6:00 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. Conservative/Egalitarian Services: Friday 5:30 p.m., Saturday 9:45 a.m., Anabel Taylor Hall Founders Room. Orthodox Shabbat Services: Friday evenings. Young Israel House, 106 West Avenue. Call 272-5810. Saturday, 9:15 a.m., Anabel Taylor Edwards Room. Korean Church Every Sunday, 2:30 p.m., Anabel Taylor Hall. (Beginning June 5 every Sunday, 3 p.m.) Muslim Sunday through Thursday, 1 p.m., 218 Anabel Taylor Hall. Friday, 1 p.m., Anabel Taylor Edwards Room. Protestant Protestant Cooperative Ministry: Every Sunday, 11:15 a.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. Baptist Campus Ministry (SBC): Every Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. Zen Buddhism Zazen meditation: Tuesdays at 7 p.m., Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Every Thursday, 5:10 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. For more information or to arrange beginner's instruction, call Ian Dobson at 277-4364. EXHIBITS Wednesday, 6/1 "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942), directed by Orson Welles, with Joseph Cotten and Anne Baxter, 8:30 p.m., Uris.* SEMINARS Johnson Art Museum The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, on the comer of University and Central avenues, is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to S p.m. Admission is free. Call 255-6464 for further information. "Elsie Dinsmore Popkin: Cornell Reunion Exhibition," a one-woman show featuring landscapes in pastel by Elsie Dinsmore Popkin, Class of 1958, will be on view June 1 through June 30. " '63 Creates: Interior Visions," organized by Nancy McAfee, Class of 1963 and an instructor in the education department of the Cleveland Museum of Art, featuring a selection of works in various media by Class of 1963 artists Thomas H. Beeby, Barbara Burger, Alan Chimacoff, N. Penney Dennings, Fred Faudie, Elizabeth Graham, Mary Margaret Hanse, Richard Allen Heinrich, Nancy Lockspeiser, Madeleine Meehan, Nan Rick and Pat Sutton will be on display June 1 through June 30. "Artist of Ithaca: Henry Walton and His Odyssey," an exhibition of approximately 65 prints, watercolors and oil paintings by Henry Walton, a 19th-century artist who spent the most productive years of his career in Ithaca, through June 26. In addition to accurate, minutely detailed lithographs and paintings of town views, Walton also created meticulous portraits of men, women and children. "New York State Artist Series VHI," the eighth exhibition in a continuing series focusing on contemporary artists working in New York State, through July 3. "New Photography 2," featuring works in color by three contemporary photographers — Mary Frey, David Tavener Hanson and Philip Lorca diCorcia — through June 11. The exhibition was organized by John Szarkowski, director of the Department of Photography of The Museum of Modern Art, Thursday, 6/2 "Wild in the Streets" (1968), directed by Barry Shear, with Shelley Winters, Hal Holbrook and Richard Pryor, 8:30 p.m., Uris.* Friday, 6/3 "Silent Movies From Ithaca" (1917), with Pearl White; musical accompaniment by David Borden, co-sponsored by the DeWitt Historical Society, 7:15 p.m., Uris.* "A Room With a View" (1986), directed by James Ivory, with Maggie Smith, Helen Bon Ham Carter and Denholm Elliot, 9:45 p.m., Uris.* Saturday, 6/4 "A Room With a View," 7 p.m., Uris.* "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), directed by Stuart Rosenberg, with Paul Newman, George Kennedy and Jo Van Fleet, 9:40 p.m., Uris.* Sunday, 6/5 "Born Yesterday" (1950), directed by George Cukor, with Judy Holiday, 8:30 p.m., Uris.* Monday, 6/6 "An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano" (1977), directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, with Alexander Kaliagin, Elena Solovei and Antonia Shuranova, 8:30 p.m., Uris.* Tuesday, 6/7 "Body Heat" (1985), directed by Law- rence Kasdan, with William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Richard Crenna, 8:30 p.m., Uris.* Wednesday, 6/8 "Love Story" (1970), directed by Arthur Hiller, with Ali McGraw, Ryan O'Neal and Ray Milland, 8:30 p.m., Uris.* Thursday, 6/9 "Bringing Up Baby" (1938), directed by Howard Hawks, with Cary Grant and Kather- Thomas A. Sokol Charles Harrington The Cornell Chorus and the Glee Club, under the direction of Susan Davenny Wyner and of Thomas A. Sokol, will present their annual Senior Week concert May 28 at 8:15 p.m., in Bailey Hall. The concert will feature works by Beethoven, Mozart, Poulenc, Brahms, Bruckner and Dvorak, plus traditional Cornell songs. The Glee Club Hangovers, a small a cappella subset of the Glee Club, will perform, too. Tickets are available at Lincoln Hall and at the door. For information call 255-3396. RELIGION Sage Chapel Theodore Hesburgh, president emeritus, University of Notre Dame, will be the speaker at the Baccalaureate Service, May 29, 9:30 a.m., Bailey Hall. Catholic There will be graduation masses May 28, 5 p.m. and May 29, 8 a.m. Anabel Taylor. Mass: Every Saturday, 5 p.m., every Sun- day, 10 a.m., Anabel Taylor Auditorium. Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology "GTP binding proteins involved in signal transduction," Yoshito Kaziro, University of Tokyo, June 3, 4:30 p.m., 204 Stocking Hall. Low Temperature Biology (Agronomy) "The role of antifreeze glycopeptides and peptides in freezing avoidance of cold-water fishes," A. DeVries, University of Illinois, May 26, 11 a.m., 135 Emerson Hall. Physiology "Developing a model to study myometrial activity in early pregnancy in the sheep," Linda Rhodes, diesis seminar. May 31, 4:30 p.m., G-3 VRT. Plant Biology "Membrane Transport Processes in a Green Suspension Cell of Chenopodium rubrum L." F.W. Bentrup, Justus LiebigUniversitat, Giessen, W. Germany, May 27, 11:15 a.m., 404 Plant Science Bldg. MISC Cornell Waste Watchers Cornell Waste Watchers, a group of staff, students and faculty working for an expanded university-sponsored recycling program and for solid-waste reduction on campus, meets biweekly on Thursdays at S p.m. in Room 314 of Anabel Taylor Hall. Meetings are scheduled for May 26, June 9 and June 23. For more information, call Paul Aeschleman at 255-7832. 12 May 26, 1988 Cornell Chronicle Drown Prize winner aspires to owning her own hotel The Joseph Drown Foundation Prize, the major award presented to a graduating senior in the School of Hotel Administration, has been awarded to Charlene Patten of Storrs, Conn. She was selected for the $15,000 cash award from among 28 of the school's top students on the basis of her independence, leadership abilities, entrepreneurial spirit and contributions to society. In her essay applying for the award, which was established by the late Joseph Drown, a California and Nevada hotel ex- ecutive and owner, Patten said she plans to follow the advice of a financial adviser and invest her prize to start accumulating capital so she can own and operate an independent hotel chain. "My goal is to be a hotel owner either in the Northeast or the Northwest in 10 years," she said. Three Hotel School professors wrote letters to endorse her for the award. "Charlene has maintained the highest possible standards in the pursuit of her academic work, her professional development and her personal life," wrote Peter Rainsford, an associate professor of hotel administration. "Her work experiences have provided her with increasingly responsible positions and have allowed her to gain insights into a variety of facets of the hotel industry." A Dean's List student and recipient of a Dean's Merit Award, Patten was vice president of the Hotel School's Ye Hosts Honorary Society and vice president of her social sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma. She played on the junior varsity field hockey team, too. Her grade point average was 3.37 on a scale of 4. She was a teaching assistant in the Hotel School through her last two years. During summers, she worked in restaurants in Massachusetts and California and was a personnel intern in the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. During her senior year, she represented the recruiting office of Westin Hotels and Resorts at Cornell. Patten is scheduled to start work as a management trainee in the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta on June 17. — Albert E.Kaff Four win cash prizes in Mobil essay contest Three Cornell students won a total of $4,000 in cash prizes in an essay contest sponsored this spring by Mobil Corp. The winners were selected from among 65 Cornell graduate and undergraduate students who entered the competition. First prize, worth $2,500, went to John H. Field of Charlotte, N.C., a doctoral candidate in computer science, for an essay on the continuing decline in the number of college freshmen interested in engineering fields. He received a bachelor of science degree from Princeton University in 1983. Douglas W. O'Neill of Maplewood, N.J., a junior in civil engineering, took second prize of $1,000 with an essay on solid waste. Karen Kay Varley of Waukon, Iowa, a candidate for a master's degree in plant breeding, won third prize worth $500, for an essay on the decline in the number of engineering students. She received a bachelor of science degree from Iowa State University in 1983. Mobil staff members judged the essays. Marketing student wins top prize Susan B. Greenfield, who is graduating from the Johnson Graduate School of Management, has been selected as one of the nation's six outstanding scholars by the American Marketing Association, and she is donating part of her prize to the school. "I wanted to give something back to the Johnson School, because it helped make my accomplishment possible," Greenfield, 27, said. "I'm donating $50 to help build an international library to aid the school in its efforts to expand its international program." The American Marketing Association, an organization of academics and practitioners, awarded Greenfield an $850 prize in recognition of her academic record at Cornell and her accomplishments as a Phi Beta Kappa business administration graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, four years in marketing for Grey Advertising Inc. and Pacific Bell in San Francisco, club activities at Berkeley and Cornell, and conducting public relations for the San Francisco Advertising Club. Greenfield and the five other award winners were among 65 contestants, one from each of 65 graduate business schools throughout the country. Dick R. Wittink, a professor of marketing in the Johnson School, said that, in addition to her excellent academic record, "Susan was very active in our student marketing association, serving as vice president and instrumental in persuading companies to make presentations that were important to the school and students/' Greenfield said she selected Cornell for her M.B.A. studies, in part, "because of the quality and breadth of the program in the Johnson School, which permits students totake courses in other departments. — Albert E.Kaff Three win Fulbrights for study in Indonesia Cornell graduate students won three of the 10 Fulbright Fellowships offered this year in nationwide competition held by the U.S. Department of Education for research in Southeast Asia. Each of the students is a specialist in the Indonesian language and Southeast Asia area studies, and each will conduct research in Indonesia for 12 months starting later this year. They are: • Anita E. Kendrick, a development soci- ology major, who will study resources of the poor on the island of Java. • James Van Riker, a government major, who will study rural development in Jakarta and Yogjakarta. • Joseph H. Saunders, an anthropology major, who will go to The Netherlands and Indonesia to study education and national integration in Indonesia, which formerly was ruled by the Dutch. —Albert E.Kaff Graduate Bulletin Tax Petition: A petition is being sent to members of Congress from New York State asking them to support legislation to amend section 117 of the Internal Revenue Code (the exclusion for qualified scholarships) to make clear that tuition waivers or reductions awarded to graduate research and teaching assistants are not subject to tax or withholding. Dean Casarett has sent a letter to each member of Congress from New York State, the members of the House Ways and Means Committee and the members of the Senate Finance Committee documenting the need for this legislation. Copies of the petition are available for signing at the Graduate Field Offices and at the Graduate School information desk, Sage Graduate Center. Additional letters from students, faculty and staff would be helpful. Addresses are available at the Office of Publications, Graduate School, Room 210, 255-1935. Graduated Faculty Meeting: May 27 at 4 p.m. in the General Committee Room, Sage Graduate Center. This meeting is solely for the purpose of voting on May degrees. J o b S continuedfrom page 10 Research Tower, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. POST DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE (A 1905) Plant Pathology-Geneva Work on portion of project directed toward determining role of thigmotropicaJly triggered post-iranscriplionally expressed proteins involved in differentiation process. Req.: PhD in bio. sci. (e.g. biochem., botany. immunology, mycology, plant path). Exp. & or adequate know!, of cell & molecular bio. & be able to perform studies using techniques as protein purification, gel etectrophoresis, immunization, light microscopy. Western blotting, etc Exp. in Mab production A/or mycology useful Send CV, transcripts & 3 letters of reference to: Dr. H.C. Hoch, Dept. of Plant Pathology, NYS Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University. Geneva, NY 14456 by 6 20 RESEARCH ASSOC. (A 1906) Ornithology Apply to Katy Payne, Laboratory of Orni- thology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road. Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 255-B1RD. SPORTS Saturday, 5/28 Men's Heavyweight Crew, Madeira Cup w/ Pennsylvania Thursday-Saturday, 6/2-6/4 Men's Heavyweight Crew, IRA at Syracuse Saturday-Sunday, 6/4-6/5 Women's Crew, Collegiate National Championship at Tioga, Pa. The men's lacrosse team has advanced to the NCAA semifinals with a 13-11 victory over U. of Mass, and a 6-4 win over North Carolina. Cornell will meet Virginia on May 28 in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse. C l u b continuedfrom page 1 "The priorities in our present capital plan and those coming out of the long-range plan will inevitably require large amounts of funding for implementation. This gift will be of enormous help in addressing those priorities. "That the gift itself is a recognition of the great generosity of our alumni makes it doubly gratifying." The afternoon's symposium sections were: • Toxics, Technology and Torts, with Professors Christopher Wilkinson, James A. Henderson Jr. and Mark A. Turnquist. • The American Family and the Next Generation, with Professor Urie Bronfenbrenner; Assistant Professor Michael Y. Abolafia of the Johnson Graduate School of Management; and Larry I. Palmer, vice president for academic programs. • Courting Creativity at Cornell, with Associate Professor of Art Jean Locey; Associate Professor of Music Susan Davenny Wyner, Associate Professor of English Kenneth A. McClane Jr., a poet; and David Feldshuh, artistic director of Theatre Cornell. • Computers, Technology and Communication, with Professors Donald Greenberg, John Hopcroft and Edward D. Wolf. • The Globalization of Business, with Professors Dick R. Wittink and Davydd J. Greenwood and Dean David L. Call of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. — Sam Segal Continuedfrom page 1 unwieldy system work responsively." Good humor, too, is a Bugliari trait often praised. At the last FCR meeting, when speaker Russ Martin hailed Bugliari for combining the best deanly virtues of his four predecessors, the outgoing dean summoned humor to dampen the applause: "You're not going to get a salary increase," he told the (unsalaried) speaker, "no matter what you say." In more serious moments, he expresses thanks for the chance to have met so many faculty and administration colleagues he wouldn't otherwise have met. He also said he is thankful for having had a part in shaping and presenting to the administration faculty positions on major issues, including increasing minority-group representation by about 40 percent, a position the faculty recently voted to support, and updating the appeals panels that give faculty more of a review role in promotion and tenure actions. Bugliari noted that the job also has its routines — from all-purpose counseling of faculty to managing the paperwork for elections — and at times entails research that may yield no concrete product for years. An example is the report he recently summarized to the trustees on long-term prospects for hiring and distribution of faculty in light of changing demographics and retirement rules. Although the deanship is the crossroads between faculty and administration, Bugliari is clear as to which side of the intersection he stands on: "I'm part of the faculty," he said. And he prefers Cornell's arrangement, under which the dean of faculty is elected and spends half his time on those responsibilities, over some institutions' arrangements under which it is a full-time, appointed position. 'If it were full time, I'd be seen by my colleagues to be part of the administration system," he asserted. How the faculty itself sees the world is one of the visions he has tried to convey to the trustees. "Most faculty owe their main allegiance to their departments," he has said, adding: "Their life, present and future, centers in the decisions made at this level." He made this point to explain why the larger issues of overall university policy and governance don't much interest the average professor, who may in fact have closer ties to nonCornell colleagues in his or her field than to Cornell colleagues down the hall but in another discipline. Starting in the fall, Bugliari's own faculty identification will intensify as he resumes teaching his four courses. (This last year he was on sabbatic leave from his teaching assignment.) Besides Introduction to Business Law and Estate Planning, he also will teach Advanced Business Law and the Law of Business Associations. Over the years, since he began teaching part time in 1961, Bugliari often has been honored for his teaching and lecturing. He no longer blows smoke rings, but he still chews on a cold pipe as he paces the lecture platforms using the same laconic but wry style that trustees and faculty, as well as students, obviously find engaging. Bugliari did his undergraduate work at Hamilton College, where he played on the golf team and had a two handicap. He got his law degree from Cornell in 1959, spent two years at a Wall Street firm, then left to practice law in Elmira and was recruited to teach part time at Cornell. After six years, he became a full-time associate professor of agriculture and business law, teaching much-demanded courses for non-law students jointly through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. Among those who know him, there is the suspicion that teaching isn't the only thing he'll do more of once he leaves the deanship. Judy Bower, his executive staff assistant for five years, supposes that he will spend more time doing " 'ballistic testing' " and " 'looking at real estate,' which actually means an afternoon on the golf course." — Sam Segal