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president for research, was approached
by Kenneth Kennard of Kodak Research
Laboratories, who asked if the university
would be interested in a cooperative
research program. Cooke convened a
group of thirty-six faculty members that
created a proposal.
"At that point," Cooke recalls, "Kodak
began to think they'd like to do
something bigger. We thought, well, to
make a larger impact, why not see if we
could involve some other industries."
Cornell selectively approached industries
that might benefit: chemical companies,
Pharmaceuticals, agriculture-oriented
companies.
Hammes admits he was a little apprehensive
at first about having industrial
scientists on the advisory board that decides
what projects are to be funded.
"But the first meeting went extremely
well," he says. "There was very little
disagreement. Good research is good research,
no matter whose eyes you're
looking through.'' — William Steele '54
Articles by Steele on pages 25 and 28
explore other relationships between
Cornell and industry, and the patents
policy on university research.—Ed.
On campus: politics,
hazing & other flaps
Students became involved in the 1984
national election during the semester,
particularly among Democrats and particularly
on behalf of Colorado Senator
Gary Hart's primary candidacy. Students
worked for him in March in Massachusetts,
where he won.
A campus poll conducted in mid-
March by the Willard Straight Program
Board among more than 300 students
showed President Reagan ahead with 35
per cent of those polled, followed by
Hart with 18, former Vice President
Mondale 17, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson
at 15. Democrats polled 56 per cent, and
minor party candidates 9 per cent.
Carl Sagan, the Duncan professor of
astronomy and space sciences, was one
of a number of scientists at Worcester,
Massachusetts who endorsed Hart three
days before that state's primary on "Super-Tuesday."
Sagan, who has become
an activist on nuclear warfare and stockpiling,
said he thought Hart "has farseeing
and practical approaches" in the
areas of Sagan's concern.
Students from various organizations
on campus joined to encourage fellow
students to register to vote during the
presidential year, both in their home
states and in Ithaca.
Chi Psi became the third fraternity to
be put on probation this school year,
after an incident that administrators
termed hazing and the brothers did not.
Members followed a house tradition
when they kidnapped several of their
pledges and left them naked at Pi Beta
Phi sorority during a party, hands tied
behind their backs, and strategically
covered with shaving cream.
The administration charged nineteen
students with violating the campus code
of conduct when they blocked the doorway
to a room in Barnes Hall where a
US Central Intelligence Agency recruiter
was interviewing students for jobs. A
twentieth person, a resident of Ithaca,
was arrested by city police and accused
of trespassing. The CIA interviews took
place.
The Cornell Review, a periodical that
seeks to offer a conservative point of
view, published its first issue in mid-
March with help from a New York City
foundation, the Institute for Educational
Affairs, which says it has helped
found thirty-eight such college journals
since 1980. William Simon, former US
secretary of the treasury, was a founder.
The first issue drew complaints from
gays and feminists who felt derided by
an article in the Review, and some concern
among the Cornell College Republicans
that the periodical was too "elitist"
and might work against the interest of
the Republican student group. Students
edit and set policy for the Review, and
hoped to put out four or five issues this
spring.
In late March the Board of Trustees
approved a research program based on
development of a "supercomputer," described
in an article in the Alumni News
in October 1983. Work will be done in a
proposed Center for Theory and Simulation
in Science and Engineering. Nobel
laureate Kenneth G. Wilson is one of the
center's founders. The trustees approved
the concept of the center and left it to
President Rhodes to OK a formal
launching at a later time. The center
would have an annual budget of $18 million
by 1987, according to its prospectus,
and employ a support staff of 100.
Where's the space, or
who pays for parking?
An administration proposal to provide
more parking on campus, and to pay for