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Volume 33 Number 19 January 24, 2002 

3 GREEN IS GOOD Study finds green space 

boosts children’s attention capabilities. 

5 STARRY EYED Astronomy undergrads do 

research at Mount Pleasant observatory. 

Nazi war-crimes trial documents from CU’s law library are online 

By Linda Myers 

The online publication of important documents 

from a Cornell Law Library collection 

related to war-crimes trials of Nazis is 

attracting national attention. 

The web site, where a small sample of the 

thousands of documents amassed by U.S. 

Army Gen. William Donovan can be found, 

is accessible at: . The online publishing 

event of documents from Donovan’s 

collection was written up in the New York 

Times News of the Week in Review section, 

Jan. 13, and also appeared in an Associated 

Press wire story Jan. 10. 

Mellon Foundation 

grant allows library 

to finish online catalog 

Cornell University Library has received an $830,000 

grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to digitize 

the remaining records in its card catalog and add them to its 

online catalog. 

The project is expected to make 

known to the world at large more than 

a quarter of a million bibliographic 

records for items in Cornell’s collections, 

including a large number of 

humanities and social science titles in 

such areas as bibliography, political 

science and religion. 

“Putting our social science and 

humanities holdings online is a critical 

step in raising the visibility and use 

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of Cornell’s outstanding collection, which is one of the 

largest in the country,” said Cornell University Librarian 

Sarah Thomas. “The online catalog is a vital link between 

the traditional and digital library.” 

With close to 7 million volumes in its collections shared 

among 19 unit libraries, Cornell University Library (CUL) 

is one of the 10 largest academic research libraries in North 

America. Beginning in the 1970s, CUL began converting 

records from card to machine-readable format, and since 

1983 all records for newly acquired materials have been 

added to the library’s online catalog. However, more than 

276,000 bibliographic records for items in Cornell’s collections 

exist only on paper cards filed in traditional, heavy 

Continued on page 2 

Donovan compiled 

148 volumes of personal 

papers, photographs 

and other documents, 

including complete 

transcripts of the 

Nuremberg trials translated 

into English, 

when he served as spe- 

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cial assistant to the U.S. 

chief prosecutor of the International Military 

Tribunal, which prosecuted Nazi war crimes 

following World War II in Nuremberg, Germany. 

He also founded and directed the first 

U.S. intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic 

Services (O.S.S.), which assisted the tri- 

bunal. Donovan went on to become a partner 

in a New York City law firm and stored the 

collection in his law offices until the 1990s, 

when the firm broke up. The documents were 

then purchased by Henry and Ellen Schaum 

Korn, both Class of ’68 graduates, who gave 

them to the Cornell Law Library in 1998 to 

enhance its extensive human rights collection 

(see ). 

The Donovan Nuremberg online project 

focuses exclusively on those documents related 

to law and religion. The project is a 

joint one between Cornell Law School’s 

library and the Rutgers Journal of Law and 

Religion, a student-produced law journal at 

Acknowledging a legacy 

Rutgers University. The first installment, 

which went up this January, is an O.S.S. 

document outlining the Nazi plan to neutralize 

German Christian churches, which were 

viewed as fundamentally opposed to Hitler’s 

National Socialist Party’s agenda of racism, 

world domination and subservience of the 

church to the state. The site also offers 

scholarly commentary by Michael Salter, a 

professor of law at the University of Central 

Lancashire in the United Kingdom, and 

Claire Hulme, a doctoral student there. 

“At a time when war crimes tribunals are 

actively being discussed, it is very exciting 

to make available new primary evidence on 


Robert Barker/University Photography 

The Rev. Kenneth I. Clarke Sr., director of Cornell United Religious Work, gives the keynote address, 

“Dr. King Speaks to Us in Wartime,” at the ninth annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. community 

celebration at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, Jan. 21. The afternoon event also featured a 

luncheon, performances by local choirs, workshops and a panel discussion on welfare reform. 

AEM earns recognition as an accredited undergraduate business program 

By Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. 

Cornell’s undergraduate business program 

in the Department of Applied Economics 

and Management (AEM) was accredited 

Jan. 9 by AACSB International – the 

Association to Advance Collegiate Schools 

of Business. The AEM program becomes 

only the second general undergraduate business 

degree program in the Ivy League, after 

the Wharton School of the University of 

Pennsylvania, to earn this distinction. 

Accreditation provides recognition of the 

content and quality of AEM’s business program. 

The designation means that a peer 

group of scholars has examined and approved 

the undergraduate business program. 

“Recognizing that only about one out of 

four business programs nationally get accreditation, 

this implies a fairly high standard,” 

said Andrew Novakovic, the E.V. 

Baker Professor and chair of the department. 

“We have offered a very strong pro- 

Henry Novakovic McLaughlin 

gram for many years, but accreditation gives 

prospective students, employers, prospective 

faculty and others an external validation 

that says, ‘yes, this is really a business 

degree program and it’s a good one.’” 

Susan Henry, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean 

of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 

said: “Over the past century, this 

department has had a deep and rich academic 

history, and it is only fitting that we 

begin the new century with exciting pros- 

pects. Andy Novakovic 

and Ed 

McLaughlin [the R. 

G. Tobin Professor 

of Marketing and 

director of the undergraduatebusiness 

program in 

AEM] have done a 

terrific job in shepherding 

the department 

through the 

rigorous accreditation process. Rightfully, 

we are all quite proud of this program.” 

AEM offers one undergraduate major, 

applied economics and management. Within 

this major are six specialties: business, food 

industry management, agribusiness management, 

farm business management and finance, 

environmental and resource economics, 

and agricultural and applied economics. 

The department is home to 42 active 

faculty members, more than 750 under- 

graduate students and 60 graduate students. 

AEM began preparing for accreditation 

in 1997. Over the following four years, 

deans and faculty from other university business 

programs visited Cornell to assess the 

department for AACSB. 

At the end of the first site visit over three 

years ago, Paul Danos, dean of the Amos 

Tuck School of Business Administration at 

Dartmouth College, said, “I can’t believe a 

program this good has existed so long and so 

completely escaped my attention.” 

John Kraft, dean of the Warrington College 

of Business Administration at the University 

of Florida, said that while the educational 

program has existed for over 90 years, 

this accreditation makes AEM the “newest 

‘oldest’ business degree program” to become 

accredited in the United States. 

“We are confident [AEM] can become a 

top 10 undergraduate business program 

based on student quality, faculty and the 

Continued on page 6

2 January 24, 2002 Cornell Chronicle 

OBITUARY 

Don F. Splittstoesser, emeritus professor 

in the Department of Food Science and 

Technology at the New York State Agricultural 

Experiment Station in Geneva, died 

Dec. 23 in Geneva General Hospital after a 

brief illness. He was 74. 

Splittstoesser was internationally recognized 

as an authority on food microbiology. 

His research expertise was on bacteria and 

other microorganisms that cause food-borne 

diseases of humans. 

“Don’s expertise was invaluable to processors 

of fruit and vegetable products, including 

beverages,” said Agricultural Experiment 

Station Director James Hunter. 

“His work enabled the industry to produce 

products free of spoilage organisms and 

others that cause intestinal illnesses.” 

Randy Worobo, who succeeded Splittstoesser 

as the station’s food microbiologist, 

said, “Don was world renowned for his 

expertise and contribution to the field of 

mycology as well as the first person to 

identify Alicyclobacillus as a spoilage bacterium 

in fruit beverages. He was the editor 

for several editions of the food microbiology 

‘bible,’ Compendium of Methods for 

the Microbiological Examination of Foods.” 

During his career, Splittstoesser wrote 

approximately 200 scientific and technical 

papers. He made nearly that many presentations 

nationally and internationally at industry 

meetings and training programs and 

to professional organizations – wherever 

the topic was pathogens and spoilage microorganisms 

associated with fruit and vegetable 

products. 

Splittstoesser was born in Tomah, Wisc., 

in 1927, and he received a B.S. in agriculture, 

a M.S. in bacteriology and a Ph.D. in 

microbiology and biochemistry, all from the 

University of Wisconsin. After a two-year 

stint as a first lieutenant in the Army Medical 

Service Corps, in which he was chief of 

a serology branch, he came to Cornell as an 

assistant professor in 1958. He became an 

associate professor in 1964 and a full professor 

in 1969. He served as chair of the 

food science and technology department in 

Geneva from 1982 until 1989, and was 

named professor emeritus in 1995. 

Splittstoesser held many offices for the 

American Society of Microbiology, Central 

New York branch, including secretary-treasurer, 

president and councilor. 

He received numerous honors throughout 

his career. He was named a fellow of the 

Institute of Food Technologists in 1984. 

The American Society of Enology and 

Viticulture, Eastern Section, gave him its 

outstanding achievement award in 1991, 

and he won the William V. Hickey Award 

from the New York State Association of 

Milk and Food Sanitarians in 1994. 

Splittstoesser is survived by his wife, Clara, 

and a sister, Ruth Harley Erbs. Contributions 

may be made to the charity of one’s choice. 

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Richard Killen/University Photography 

Ed Thomas, Cornell research support specialist in the Department of 

Plant Breeding, like many others in the Cornell community, helps mentor 

a young person interested in his career field. The Learning Web, a United 

Way program, provides hands-on learning activities to over 500 Tompkins 

County youth each year. In the Caldwell Hall greenhouse, Ed demonstrates 

a technique to a young apprentice from the Learning Web. 

United Way’s ’01 campaign stays 

open to help county meet its goal 

Although the 2001 Cornell United 

Way Campaign has topped its goal, 

with pledges totaling $559,522.41, or 

106.5 percent of the 2001 Cornell campaign 

goal of $525,000, the campaign 

will remain open to help the United 

Way of Tompkins County meet its goal 

of $1.7 million. The county’s pledges 

have reached $1.53 million – 90 percent 

of its goal. 

“This is a very tough year for our 

local human service agencies whose 

resources have been severely strained 

because of the tragic events of Sept. 

NOTABLES 

Charles J. Arntzen, president emeritus 

of the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for 

Plant Research Inc. on the Cornell campus 

was named Dec. 13 to President George W. 

Bush’s Council of Advisors on Science and 

Technology. Arntzen, who currently is a 

professor at Arizona State University, will 

serve on the council with 23 other scientists 

for a two-year term. The council was 

founded Sept. 30 to advise the president on 

matters involving science and technology 

policy. Arntzen is best known for his research 

into edible vaccines. He and his 

collaborators at BTI have conducted pioneering 

human clinical trials in which volunteers 

ate uncooked potatoes to gain an 

immune response. His research group also 

is attempting to alter bananas genetically to 

contain vaccines, with a special interest in 

providing oral vaccination for children and 

adults in the developing worlds. The coun- 

Mellon Foundation grant continued from page 1 

wooden cabinets. That means those titles 

have no electronic bibliographic record in 

national or international databases. 

Increasingly, Cornell librarians are finding 

that if it’s not online, it’s invisible. They 

report that most undergraduates, and even 

some scholars, ignore the card catalog when 

conducting research, and they worry that, 

without an online record, researchers and 

scholars outside the university community 

may not be aware that Cornell has certain 

items in its collections. But as CUL has 

converted its holdings and made them 

widely known through its online catalog 

and international bibliographic databases, 

such as Online Computer Library Center 

(OCLC), WorldCat and RLIN (Research 

Libraries Information Network), there has 

been a significant increase in their use. For 

example, after the library converted the 

catalog records for its extensive collection 

11,” said LeNorman Strong, who is 

winding up his second year as the 

Cornell campaign chair. “We are going 

to give members of the Cornell community 

one more chance to pledge to 

help Tompkins County meet its goal so 

there will not be a shortfall for our local 

human service agencies.” 

Donations may be made through the 

first quarter of 2002. For more information 

on the United Way or to obtain a 

pledge card, contact Karen Brown at 

or on the web at 

. 

cil will be reviewing federal funding of 

those areas of science with strategic economic 

or military importance. 

◆ 

Leslyn McBean, recently elected representative 

from District 2 – in the city of 

Ithaca – on the Tompkins County Board of 

Representatives, has joined the Cornell- 

Ithaca Partnership (C-IP) as assistant director 

for programs after nearly five years as a 

mediation trainer and administrator at 

Ithaca’s Community Dispute Resolution 

Center. McBean is a mediation skills trainer 

for the New York State Dispute Resolution 

Program and offers diversity, communication 

and empowerment trainings throughout 

the state. The C-IP is a federally funded 

program addressing the concerns of neighborhoods 

and enhancing the quality of 

life in the city in Ithaca. 

of pamphlets and documents relating to the 

French Revolution, there has been a dramatic 

rise in international visitors eager to 

consult those unique resources. 

With the support of the Mellon Foundation, 

CUL will convert all of its card catalog 

records for titles classified according to the 

Library of Congress classification system. 

The resulting online records will highlight 

some of Cornell’s most valuable and unique 

books, including material housed in the library’s 

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. 

The subject areas encompassed by 

these titles include bibliography; geography; 

the history of science, medicine and technology; 

social and political science; and religion. 

The card catalog conversion project will 

be completed early in 2005. For more information, 

contact Karen Calhoun, assistant 

university librarian for technical services, at 

255-9915 or . 

BRIEFS 

■ Trustees meet in NYC: The Cornell 

University Board of Trustees will hold its 

first meeting of 2002 at the Weill Medical 

College of Cornell in New York City today 

through Saturday, Jan. 24-26. The full board 

will meet from 1:45 to 3:30 p.m. Friday and 

approximately the first 15 minutes of the 

meeting will be open to the public. The rest 

of that meeting and a meeting Saturday, 

from 9 to 11 a.m., will be closed. Both 

meetings will be in the Joan and Sanford I. 

Weill Education Center, 1300 York Ave. 

Among topics of discussion will be a report 

from President Hunter Rawlings. The board 

is expected to approve 2002-03 tuition rates 

for the endowed colleges. 

In addition to the full board meetings, the 

following committees with open sessions 

will meet today or Friday: 

• The Buildings and Properties Committee 

will meet briefly in open session to discuss 

ongoing construction projects at the start of its 

meeting at 9 a.m. today in Room A-126. 

• The Audit Committee will have an open 

session at the beginning of its meeting at 

3:30 p.m. today in Whitney 117. The 

committee’s annual report will be presented. 

• The Land Grant and Statutory College 

Affairs Committee will meet in open session 

at 6:30 p.m. today in Whitney 117. 

Items to be discussed at this open meeting 

include contract college tuition rates, the 

state financial climate and an update on 

Martha Van Rensselaer North construction. 

• The Committee on Academic Affairs 

and Campus Life will have a brief open 

session at its meeting at 4 p.m. today in 

Room A-126. The committee will consider 

whether to establish a bachelor of arts degree 

program in religious studies. 

Tickets for the board of trustees meeting 

can be obtained by the general public on a 

first-come, first-served basis at the Information 

and Referral Center in Day Hall, Ithaca. 

■ Library research grants: Cornell University 

Library is inviting applicants for its 

new Phil Zwickler Memorial Research Grants. 

Through the generosity of the Phil Zwickler 

Charitable and Memorial Foundation, the library 

is now able to offer financial assistance 

to select scholars for expenses incurred when 

they come to conduct research on sexuality 

with sources in the Division of Rare and 

Manuscript Collections (RMC). The Human 

Sexuality Collection in RMC seeks to encourage 

the study of sexuality and sexual 

politics by preserving and making accessible 

relevant primary sources that document historical 

shifts in the social construction of 

sexuality, primarily in the United States from 

the 19th century onward. (The Human Sexuality 

Collection web site is .) Any researcher 

with a project that can be augmented 

by research with the Human Sexuality 

Collection and related sources is eligible 

to apply. Preference is given to projects 

that have a high probability of publication 

or other public dissemination. One or more 

awards of up to $1,350 will be made annually. 

Applications for 2002 will be accepted 

through March 8. Awards will be announced 

by April 15. For complete details on the 

application process, contact Brenda J. 

Marston at , 255-3530. 

■ Chimesmasters competition: The 

Cornell Chimes annual 10-week competition 

for new chimesmasters will begin with 

two one-hour information sessions Monday 

and Tuesday, Jan. 28 and 29, at 5 p.m. at the 

top of McGraw Tower. Anyone interested 

in playing the chimes should attend one of 

the two sessions. People participating in the 

competition must be members of the Cornell 

Community, able to read music and climb 

161 steps; no prior chimes playing is required. 

Those who are selected as new 

chimesmasters will continue Cornell’s oldest 

music tradition, dating back to the 

university’s opening in 1868. For more information, 

contact the Chimes Office at 

255-5350, send e-mail to or see the web site .

Cornell Chronicle January 24, 2002 3 

Ainslie updates campus on the status of workforce planning effort 

The following update is from Carolyn Ainslie, vice president 

for planning and budget: 

“It has been approximately two 

months since implementation of the 

universitywide hiring freeze and formation 

of the Workforce Planning 

Team. The Workforce Planning Team 

has been meeting regularly to define 

objectives and to develop a plan for a 

comprehensive review of non-aca- Ainslie 

demic staffing requirements across the 

university. The team has established the following three 

objectives for the workforce planning effort: 

• Clearly define roles, responsibilities, standards of performance, 

and accountabilities within each major administrative 

area and function throughout the university; 

• Realize substantial and on-going financial savings as 

well as increased effectiveness and efficiency in support 

services across campus; and, 

• Improve competitive market-pay position for staff. 

“The major functional areas identified for review include 

human resources, financial management, alumni 

affairs and development, student services, information 

Six awarded 

study abroad 

scholarships 

Six Cornell undergraduates have won 

$5,000 scholarships to support their study 

abroad in spring 2002 as a result of their 

success in national competitions. Two 

Cornell undergraduates have been awarded 

Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarships for study 

abroad during spring 2002, and four students 

received Freeman Awards for study in 

East and Southeast Asia. 

The Benjamin A. Gilman International 

Scholarship Program, funded by the U.S. 

Department of State, is open to financially 

aided undergraduate students who are U.S. 

citizens and who plan to study abroad. The 

winners from Cornell are Matthew Kostura 

of the College of Engineering and Christina 

Melendez, a student in the College of Human 

Ecology. Kostura, a mechanical engineering 

major, will enroll for the semester at 

the University of New South Wales, Australia; 

Melendez will spend the spring in the 

Dominican Republic with the study abroad 

program sponsored by CIEE (Council for 

International Educational Exchange). 

Four CU students won Freeman Asia 

awards for undergraduate study in East and 

Southeast Asia during spring 2002. The students 

and their colleges are: Katie Calabrese, 

Human Ecology, who will study at Temple 

University, Japan; Ajsha Cheung, Arts and 

Sciences, who will be at the Chinese University 

of Hong Kong; Kira Moriah, Arts and 

Sciences, who plans to study in Beijing, China, 

at the program conducted by Loyola 

Marymount University; and Michael LaBurt, 

Arts and Sciences, who will study Chinese in 

Beijing as part of Cornell’s FALCON (Full- 

Year Asian Language Concentration) program. 

These awards are funded by the Freeman 

Foundation and administered by IIE, 

the Institute of International Education. 

CU financial aid may be applied to study 

abroad approved by a student’s college. 

Undergraduates planning to study 

abroad will find information on the Gilman 

Scholarship Program and the Freeman-Asia 

Awards on the IIE web site , or by visiting Cornell Abroad at 

474 Uris Hall. 

Travel abroad grants 

for graduate research 

The competition is now open for 

2002-03 international research travel 

grants for Cornell graduate students’ 

travel between April 1, 2002, and June 

30, 2003. Applications are available at 

the Einaudi Center for International 

Studies, 170 Uris Hall, or online at 

. 

The application deadline is Feb. 1. 

technology and facilities. 

“A team will be established to lead each review. The 

specific structure of the review team for each area will likely 

vary to best fit the needs of each review. We expect that 

reviews of each major administrative function will be conducted 

through either an internal or external review process, 

or possibly a combination of both in some areas. We are still 

developing a plan for how an external review process might 

be conducted in particular areas but, in general, we expect 

that external reviews will follow a format similar to external 

academic program reviews. We will keep you informed as 

reviews in each area are initiated. 

“President Rawlings, Provost Martin and Vice President 

for Administration and CFO Craft have accepted 

our recommendation to begin the workforce planning review 

in the area of human resources. Vice President Mary 

Opperman has been asked to lead the human resources 

functional review. The review team will develop planning 

scenarios that would enable a reduction of resources 

in this area campus-wide. The planning scenarios 

will focus on work definition, organization structure 

and position responsibilities. This review is to be completed 

by June 30, 2002. 

“The Workforce Planning Team is currently developing 

Name that café 

the charge for two additional functional reviews to be 

initiated within the next month. We will advise you of these 

reviews once the direction is finalized. 

“Implementation of the hiring freeze and initiation of the 

workforce planning effort have no doubt raised significant 

challenges for you in each of your units. I expect that some 

of you may be wondering what the overall target of this 

effort is in terms of budget savings. We have not yet 

established any overall targets. Staffing objectives are likely 

to vary by functional area, as necessary to support the 

overall mission of the university. However, it is clear that 

there are significant budget pressures facing the university. 

They challenge us to take a hard look at how non-academic 

support functions are performed, in an effort to reduce the 

resource commitment in these areas. 

“Please do not hesitate to contact me or other members 

of the Workforce Planning Team if you have questions or 

concerns as the workforce planning effort moves forward.” 

The members of the Workforce Planning Team are: 

Vice President Carolyn Ainslie, Vice Provost Walter 

Cohen, Dean Susan Henry, Dean Philip Lewis, Vice President 

Inge Reichenbach, Dean Robert Swieringa and University 

Budget Office Senior Project Director Paul Streeter. 

Frank DiMeo/University Photography 

Seated at tables at the new Two Naked Guys Café, in the lobby of the Johnson Museum, are, from left, Peter Gould, 

associate director for finance and administration at the museum (who came up with the name for the café); and 

seniors in Human Ecology Hana Abduljaami and Jessica Krzyzanowski. The café, open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., 

Tuesdays-Sundays, takes its name from the sculpture in the foreground by William Zorach, called “Conflict.” 

CU researcher: Green space is beneficial to children 

By Susan Lang 

A house surrounded 

by nature 

helps boost a child’s 

attention capabilities, 

a study by a Cornell 

researcher suggests. 

“When children’s 

Wells 

cognitive functioning 

was compared before and after they moved 

from poor- to better-quality housing that 

had more green spaces around, profound 

differences emerged in their attention capacities 

even when the effects of the improved 

housing were taken into account,” 

said Nancy Wells, assistant professor of 

design and environmental analysis in the 

College of Human Ecology. 

Wells also conducted a study that suggests 

the mental health of adults improves 

with a move from poor to quality housing. 

Although the green-space study sample 

was small – only 17 children – the statistical 

findings were highly significant, said Wells. 

Children in the study who had the greatest 

gains in terms of “greenness” between their 

old and new homes showed the greatest 

improvements in functioning. “The findings 

suggest that the power of nature is 

indeed profound,” she said. 

To conduct the study, published in Environment 

and Behavior, the researcher assessed 

the extent of natural surroundings 

around the children’s old and new homes by 

rating, for example, the amount of nature in 

the views from various rooms and the degree 

of the yard’s natural setting. To assess 

their children’s abilities to focus attention, 

parents answered a series of questions from 

the Attention Deficit Disorders Evaluation 

Scale, a nationally standardized measure of 

directed attention capacity. 

“The results suggest that the natural environment 

may play a far more significant 

role in the well-being of children within a 

housing environment than has previously 

been recognized,” Wells said. 

The study was funded in part by the 

University of Michigan and the U.S. Department 

of Agriculture (USDA) and its 

Forest Service. 

Wells’ other study, which found a link 

between housing quality and mental health, 

appears in the Journal of Consulting and 

Clinical Psychology. Wells and her co-au- 

thors developed an observer-based rating of 

quality of homes occupied by 207 low- and 

middle-income women with at least one 

child. They also gauged the women’s levels 

of psychological distress. In addition, these 

measurements were used in an urban sample 

of 31 low-income women before and after 

they moved into a home constructed in 

collaboration with Habitat for Humanity. 

“We consistently found that housing 

quality can affect mental health, in that 

better-quality housing was related to lower 

levels of psychological distress, while statistically 

taking into account the effects of 

income,” said Wells. “Such evidence is 

important and can be used to encourage 

legislators and policy-makers to promote 

housing improvements for low- and moderate-income 

families.” 

The study, co-authored by Cornell colleague 

Gary Evans and former Cornell undergraduates 

Hoi-Yan Erica Chan and Heidi 

Saltzman, was supported in part by the 

USDA, the John D. and Catherine T. 

MacArthur Foundation Network on Socioeconomic 

Status and Health, the National 

Institute of Child Health and Human Development 

and the University of Michigan.


Law School’s new web site features links to Nuremberg documents, U.S. laws 

By Linda Myers 

Among the many useful links 

on Cornell Law School’s new web 

site, , is one to documents in the 

law library’s Nuremberg collection 

(see related story on Page 1). 

Edited for the web and recently 

placed online in a joint project with Teitelbaum 

Rutgers Law School, the documents are representative of 

the impressive resources the law library offers to students 

and researchers. 

Also linked to the Law School’s new homepage is the 

Legal Information Institute, Cornell’s most accessed 

site, with summaries of Supreme Court decisions and 

links to laws and statutes across the United States. 

Nuremberg online project continued from page 1 

the first such tribunal to enhance both the 

historical and current perspectives,” said 

Claire Germain, the Edward Cornell Law 

Librarian and professor of law at Cornell. 

“Our mission in the library is to preserve 

and disseminate information for the benefit 

of future generations of scholars. Seeing 

new historical and legal insights develop 

ILR interns 

in D.C. help 

honor women 

union leaders 

It is certainly not new for Cornell ILR 

(Industrial and Labor Relations) student 

credit interns in Washington, D.C., to find 

themselves in the midst of history-making 

events. There was, however, a recent occasion 

that deserves special mention. 

Last semester, on Nov. 7, ILR credit 

interns joined top leaders of the AFL-CIO at 

an evening reception at the union’s national 

headquarters in Washington for five newly 

elected female officers of the union who 

have, in essence, cracked the “glass ceiling” 

in national union leadership. 

The women unionists, whom the students 

were able to meet, represent members from 

across a broad spectrum of occupations. 

Anxious to query the ILR students on 

their views and recommendations on ways 

to increasingly revitalize labor, Richard 

Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the AFL- 

CIO, hosted an intensive discussion with 

the students in his office for more than 

two hours. 

Overall, the evening signaled a new image 

for American labor, said Francine 

The accessibility of such information fits into the plan 

to make the new Law School web site much more useful 

to users by being easily navigable, logically organized 

and much more visually exciting than in the past. 

The web site project, which took five months to plan 

and design, was shaped by focus groups of key Law 

School faculty, current students, senior administrative 

staff and alumni, who also tested out the new site before 

its official launch. The new site was developed under the 

purview of Harry Ash, the Law School’s associate 

dean for external relations, and managed by Douglas 

Jones, director of communication. Ithaca-based Eclat 

New York created the site’s design, organization and 

Internet architecture. 

The new home page, which features bright colors and 

fresh photographs of scenes from Myron Taylor Hall, has 

a dynamic horizontal format, with buttons for the most- 

from students and established scholars via 

the Internet is very gratifying.” 

Germain worked with Rutgers law students 

to identify and digitize key materials. 

The students then edited them for the web 

site, which is housed on a server at Rutgers, 

with links to the Cornell Law School’s 

library web pages. 

Making the entire contents of the law 

library’s Nuremberg collection more widely 

known to scholars around the world is the 

next challenge, said Germain. To that end, the 

library hired John Lauricella (Cornell Ph.D., 

English, 1993) to create an index offering 

detailed descriptions of the collection’s contents. 

The index currently is being con- 

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From left, front: Francine Moccio, director of ILR’s Institute for Women and 

Work; Linda Chavez-Thompson, executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO; and 

Brian Harnett ’03; rear: Robert Cucchiaro ’02, Pearl Ann Hendrix ’03 and Andrew 

Wenzel ’03 on Nov. 7 at the AFL-CIO national headquarters in Washington, D.C. 

Moccio, professor and director of ILR’s 

Institute for Women and Work. 

“Coming at the beginning of the new 

century, this event honoring these exceptional 

women leaders symbolizes a paradigmatic 

shift from the conventional wisdom 

that unions are strictly a male purview to 

what many see as labor’s future – working 

women organized across culturally diverse 

backgrounds and occupations,” Moccio said. 

The ILR Credit Internship program in 

Washington, D.C., is directed by ILR Professor 

Cletus Daniel in the collective bargaining 

department at the ILR School. 

For further information, or a program 

description, call Brigid Beachler, program 

coordinator, at 255-2226 or e-mail 

. 

Congressional staffs are briefed on urban agriculture 

By Elizabeth K. LaPolt and 

Blaine P. Friedlander Jr. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Not all of agriculture 

looks like rolling hillsides or big 

red barns. While much of American farming 

remains rural in its location and culture, 

the agriculture times are changing. 

John Nettleton, a senior associate in 

Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) in 

New York City explained some of those 

changes this past fall at an urban agriculture 

seminar for U.S. Senate and House staff on 

Capitol Hill. Hiram Larew, a legislative 

fellow in the office of Sen. Charles E. 

Schumer (D-N.Y.), organized the briefing. 

New York City provides a model of cutting-edge 

efforts in urban farming. Nettleton 

described how city dwellers and rural producers 

across America are finding creative 

ways to get into niche farm-market production 

and direct marketing. He talked about 

how these programs work, what is being 

learned from them that may influence think- 

ing about agriculture in the future and how 

the upcoming Farm Bill could respond to 

these changes. 

Farmers are producing an array of ethnic 

and specialty crops to satisfy local demand. 

Corner-lot farmers’ markets are thriving 

and there is a burgeoning interest in how 

best to link urban-perimeter farmers with 

urban markets. 

Over the past three years, the number of 

farmers’ market days has doubled in New 

York City, Nettleton said. Since there is no 

single, major grocery store chain there, it is 

easier for producers to enter the grocery 

trade with a large number of small-scale 

enterprises. “This situation gives you an in,” 

said Nettleton. 

About 60 percent of the children in the 

New York City public school system have at 

least one foreign born parent, which provides 

growers an opportunity to consider 

new and alternative crops for a multi-ethnic 

population. For example, upstate growers 

are experimenting with crops such as bok 

choy and collard greens, in an effort to 

directly market to cultural tastes in the city. 

“This is a growing national trend in a number 

of metropolitan areas and it’s generating 

increased interest on the part of producers 

and of the food sector, like restaurants and 

retail stores,” Nettleton said. 

Nettleton also explained CCE’s role in 

New York City. By conducting ethnic market 

research, CCE helps upstate growers 

understand the urban market, he said. And 

he discussed the migrant farming initiative 

in New York City, a CCE program, that 

introduces urban immigrants (who were 

farmers in other countries) to nearby growing 

opportunities. CCE also conducts training 

and education programs for new farmer 

development. 

“The demand for fresh produce is increasing 

at a very high rate,” said Nettleton. 

“And for Cornell Cooperative Extension 

educators in New York City, it’s an opportunity 

to help both urban consumers and 

rural producers.” 

accessed pages in a menu bar near the top and drop-down 

menus for easier access. The design is a sharp departure 

from that of the former site, which had a static vertical 

format and links arranged alphabetically. 

Also on the new home page are a Law School Athrough-Z 

list, a search function, and quick-jump links to 

an online version of Cornell Law Forum, which is 

published three times a year; and Cornell’s home page. 

In addition, the web site has new sections for alumni 

and giving. Still under construction in the ongoing project 

are new pages for admissions and faculty. 

Lee Teitelbaum, Allan R. Tessler dean and professor 

of law, said: “We are very pleased with delivery of the 

new web site, which gives the Law School an enhanced 

Internet presence and illustrates just one of the communications 

initiatives in development to express our commitment 

to legal education and scholarship.” 

verted to a format responsive to electronic 

searches of all kinds, including names of 

places, subjects and trial witnesses as well as 

authors of particular documents. And to ensure 

the collection will be preserved for 

future scholars, Germain and colleagues at 

the law library are reprinting on acid-free 

paper those materials that are falling apart. 

D. Merrill Ewert, 

CCE director, 

named president 

of Fresno Pacific 

D. Merrill Ewert, director of Cornell 

Cooperative Extension (CCE), has been 

named president of Fresno Pacific University 

in Fresno, Calif. His appointment is 

effective July 1. 

Ewert joined the 

Cornell faculty in 

1991 as a professor in 

the Department of 

Education, where he 

taught, conducted research 

and implemented 

extension pro- 

grams focused on 

community-based de- 

Ewert 

velopment. In April 1998, Ewert was appointed 

director of CCE and associate dean 

for outreach in Cornell’s College of Agriculture 

and Life Sciences (CALS) and in the 

College of Human Ecology. 

“Merrill’s leadership has been critical to 

the health of Cornell Cooperative Extension. 

His effort has enhanced the programs 

and has created opportunities for the productive 

exchange between the university 

and the communities of New York state,” 

said Cornell Provost Biddy Martin. 

Said Susan Henry, the Ronald P. Lynch 

Dean in CALS: “Merrill has been a tremendous 

asset to the College of Agriculture and 

Life Sciences. His vision in promoting excellence 

and revitalization has led to a new 

era for Cornell Cooperative Extension.” 

CUSLAR offers 

Spanish classes 

CUSLAR (Committee on United 

States/Latin American Relations) is offering 

beginning and intermediate Spanish 

classes. 

Beginning Spanish meets Tuesdays 

and Thursdays, 5:30-7 p.m., $90 per 

month. Intermediate Spanish meets Mondays 

and Wednesdays, 5:30-7 p.m., $90 

per month. Classes are taught by native 

speakers and are geared toward conversational 

fluency. Call 255-7293 or send email 

to for more 

information or to register.


CU and Seoul researchers report anti-cancer mechanism of vitamin C 

By Linda McCandless 

Writing in the 

medical journal, The 

Lancet, scientists 

from Cornell and 

Seoul National University 

offer a more 

precise explanation 

for vitamin C’s anticancer 

activity. And 

Lee 

they suggest that a 

natural chemical from apples works even 

better than vitamin C. 

Their report appears in the Jan. 12 issue 

of The Lancet, the weekly journal for physicians 

published in London. 

C.Y. Lee, Cornell professor of food sci- 

Undergrads look at 

the stars – and find 

stellar recognition 

By Lissa Harris 

Most astronomers whose research is published in major 

science journals have spent years of work to get recognition. 

Not so for the students of Stephen Eikenberry, an assistant 

professor in Cornell’s Department of Astronomy. Eikenberry 

makes sure his undergraduates have the opportunity to do 

important research and then to see their work published in 

leading astronomy journals. 

“When I did my Ph.D. at Harvard, there were undergraduates 

involved there, but they were sorting nuts and 

bolts in the lab,” Eikenberry mused. “Having this much 

undergraduate involvement is really unique to this project, 

even at Cornell.” 

The prestigious Astrophysical Journal and its supplement, 

Astrophysical Journal Letters, recently published 

papers reporting on research by Eikenberry and his students, 

including eight undergraduates. 

Junior Brian Cameron spent last summer working with 

Eikenberry on the curious behavior of the binary star system 

SS433. Cameron, in his fourth research project in the 

astronomy department, analyzed data collected by fellow 

students with the 25-inch telescope at Cornell’s Hartung- 

Boothroyd Observatory, located on Mount Pleasant, north 

of the Cornell campus. Their research was published in the 

Nov. 10, 2001, issue of Astrophysical Journal in a paper, 

“Twenty Years of Timing SS433.” 

Of the paper’s six co-authors, four were undergraduate 

students who had been freshmen at the time they conducted 

the research: Cameron, Benjamin Fierce, David Kull and 

David Dror. Other authors were Eikenberry; James Houck, 

the Kenneth A.Wallace Professor of Astronomy at Cornell; 

and Bruce Margon of the Space Telescope Science Institute. 

“I’ve been getting published for stuff I did my freshman 

year. I’m sure that’s going to be helpful,” said Cameron. “It 

was a big factor in deciding whether I wanted to go into 

academia.” Indeed, as a junior, he has more research experience 

under his belt than most incoming graduate students, 

and he plans to pursue graduate work in astrophysics. 

The subject of the research is a binary star system – an 

ordinary star in orbit around a massive star that either has 

been compressed under huge gravitational forces to form an 

extremely high-density neutron star or has collapsed to form 

a black hole. Material being pulled from the surface of the 

orbiting star spirals around the compact object like water 

circling around a drain, forming a bright ring known as an 

accretion disk. At the same time, the accretion disk itself is 

“precessing,” or wobbling, in a slow circular motion like a 

ence and technology, and his South Korean 

colleagues, Ki Won Lee, Hyong Joo Lee and 

Kyung-Sun Kang, found that vitamin C 

blocks the carcinogenic effects of hydrogen 

peroxide on intercellular communication. 

Until this finding, the mechanism for vitamin 

C’s inhibitory effects on carcinogenic 

tumor formation was not understood. 

However, the report notes that quercetin, a 

phytochemical found in apples, has even stronger 

anticancer activity than vitamin C. 

(Phytochemicals, such as flavanoids and 

polyphenols, are plant chemicals that contain 

protective, disease-preventing compounds.) 

“Vitamin C has been considered one of the 

most important essential nutrients in our diet 

since the discovery in 1907 that it prevents 

scurvy,” said Lee. “In addition, vitamin C has 

several important functions in our body for 

the synthesis of amino acids and collagen, 

wound healing, metabolism of iron, lipids 

and cholesterol and others. In particular, vitamin 

C is a well known anti-oxidant that 

scavenges free radicals.” (An anti-oxidant is 

one of many chemicals that reduce or prevent 

oxidation, thus preventing cell and tissue damage 

from free radicals in the body.) 

“Vitamin C prevents the inhibition of 

gap-junction intercellular communication 

(GJIC) induced by hydrogen peroxide,” said 

Lee. GJIC is essential for maintaining normal 

cell growth. Inhibition of GJIC is 

strongly related to the carcinogenic process, 

especially to tumor promotion. Hydrogen 

peroxide, a tumor promoter, inhibits GJIC 

by changing a special protein, connexin43. 

When rat liver epithelial cells were treated 

with vitamin C, the researchers report, inhibition 

of GJIC induced by hydrogen peroxide 

was prevented. 

Although vitamin C protects against oxidative 

DNA damage through its free-radical 

scavenging activity, Lee and his coworkers 

believe that the vitamin’s anti-tumor action 

functions through a different mechanism. 

“The most powerful weapon we have in 

the fight against cancer is prevention,” concluded 

Lee. “A diet rich in phytochemicals 

and vitamin C will reduce the risk of cancer. 

These phytochemicals and nutrients are most 

readily available in fresh fruits and vegetables.” 

These recommendations echo those of 

Lee and his Cornell colleagues in an earlier 

report in the journal Nature (June 22, 2000). 


Outside Cornell’s Hartung-Boothroyd Observatory Dec. 12, Stephen Eikenberry, left, assistant professor 

of astronomy, and James Houck, far right, the Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy, join student 

researchers (from left to right) Benjamin Fierce ’02, Brian Cameron ’03, Shannon Patel ’03, Dounan Hu ’04, 

Malia Jackson ’02, and Donald Barry, staff astronomer. 

top that has begun to spin down. 

Several hundred binary star systems that include compact 

objects are known in the Milky Way galaxy, but what 

makes SS433 unique is its relativistic jets – streams of 

matter that are forcibly ejected from the accretion disk at 

about a fourth of the speed of light. Scientists can use shifts 

in the velocities of the jets to calculate the precessional 

motion of the accretion disk. 

Work by Eikenberry and his students shows that the 

accepted model of SS433’s motion is incorrect. Their data, 

which covers the 20 years since SS433 was discovered, 

reveal that the wobble, despite being extremely erratic on 

short time scales, is much more stable than previously had 

been thought. 

“It’s kind of like a watch, where the second hand might 

jitter back and forth, but two days later it has still got the 

right time,” said Eikenberry. The Cornell group’s data 

means that astrophysicists must revisit their assumptions 

about how to interpret the jets’ erratic shifts in velocity. 

The second paper, “Possible Infrared Counterparts to the 

Soft Gamma-Ray Repeater SGR 1806-20,” appeared in the 

Dec. 20 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters. The coauthors, 

besides Eikenberry and Houck, include undergraduates 

Dounan Hu, MaliaJackson and Shannon Patel; 

graduate student Michael Colonno; Northwest Nazarene 

University undergraduate Megan Garske; and Cornell staff 

astronomer Donald Barry. 

The Cornell students used images obtained with the 

Hartung-Boothroyd Observatory’s infrared camera, as 

well as images from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American 

Observatory in Chile, to determine whether infrared 

light is being emitted along with the gamma rays. Their 

findings narrow down the potential source of the gamma 

rays to a very small area of the sky, with two stars as 

likely candidates. 

Eikenberry is supporting the undergraduate research 

with a five-year, $500,000 grant he received last year as part 

of a National Science Foundation Early Career Award. 

“Very rarely will you see such strong undergraduate involvement, 

with a small telescope in upstate New York 

producing cutting-edge results,” said Eikenberry. “We’re 

really excited about this.” 

Weill Cornell scientists’ research may lead to new heart attack therapies 

By Victor Chen 

this release of noradrenaline 

via two inde- 

NEW YORK — 

pendent systems, 

When a heart attack 

based on the intracel- 

strikes, the nerve endlular 

concentrations 

ings in the heart release 

of calcium and so- 

excessive amounts of 

dium. The research 

the neurotransmitter 

suggests a novel, po- 

noradrenaline, leading 

to arrhythmias, or Levi Silver 

tential therapeutic approach 

to heart attack 

disturbances of the heartbeat, with some- or to myocardial ischemia in general. 

times fatal consequences. In a recently pub- Levi, a professor of pharmacology, has 

lished article in Proceedings of the National 

Academy of Sciences, two scientists 

been studying the role of the H -receptor in 

3 

myocardial ischemia (decreased blood sup- 

at Weill Cornell Medical College – Drs. ply to the heart) for several years. He says 

Roberto Levi and Randi Silver – report on that while the receptor limits the release of 

studies showing how the activation of a noradrenaline in both normal states and 

histamine receptor, the H -receptor, limits 

3 ischemia, the receptor in normal states is 

“not terribly important.” It is in ischemia 

that the receptor plays a critical role, which 

he and Silver, an associate professor of 

physiology and biophysics, have examined 

in two recent articles. 

Histamine is a chemical found in many 

tissues in the body, and the H 3 -receptor is the 

third important receptor to have been discovered 

for it. The H 1 -receptor produces 

allergies, and blocking this receptor is how 

the common drugs known as antihistamines 

work. The H 2 -receptor is involved in the 

secretion of acid in the stomach, and its 

discovery has led to some common remedies 

for upset stomach.The authors report 

on two main sets of experiments: with guinea 

pigs and with lines of human tumor cells – 

namely, neuroblastoma cells – which can 

reliably be used to stand for the heart’s 

nerve cells. Each of these sets of experiments 

provides a model for the relationship 

between H 3 -receptors and noradrenaline 

release and for the involvement in this relationship 

of intracellular sodium and calcium. 

With both the guinea pigs and the 

human cell lines, the study confirms the role 

of the H 3 -receptor in limiting the release of 

noradrenaline. 

In addition to Levi and Silver, there is a 

third senior author of the latest two articles, 

Dr. Timothy W. Lovenberg of the R.W. 

Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute 

in San Diego. Two years ago, Lovenberg 

cloned the H 3 -receptor. For the latest study, 

he transfected the cDNA of the H 3 -receptor 

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New heart attack therapies continued from page 5 

into one subset of the neuroblastoma cells. 

The remaining neuroblastoma cells did not 

express the receptor. 

The authors observed the results of exposing 

the lines of neuroblastoma cells to 

an H 3 -receptor agonist (a chemical that 

activates the receptor) and to an H 3 -receptor 

antagonist (a chemical that blocks the 

receptor). The presence of the receptor 

proved to be necessary for the limiting of 

both noradrenaline release from the cells 

and calcium intake to the cells. The activated 

receptor performs its function by inhibiting 

the entry of sodium and calcium 

into the cells. 

To limit the release of noradrenaline and 

the consequent risk of arrhythmia in the 

event of ischemia, the research suggests a 

potential strategy of stimulating the H 3 - 

receptor. Levi said, “The idea is to come up 

with a drug that stimulates the H 3 -receptor 

exclusively in the heart and peripheral nervous 

system, but not in the brain.” 

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Episcopal (Anglican) 

Wednesdays, worship and Eucharist, 5 p.m., 

Anabel Taylor Chapel. 

Sundays, worship and Eucharist, 9:30 a.m., 


For more information, call 255-4219 or send email 

to . 

Friends (Quakers) 

Meeting for Worship, Sunday, 11 a.m., in the 

Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Child care 

provided. For information call 273-5421. 

Jewish 

• Conservative and Reform: Fridays, 6 p.m., 

Welcoming in Shabbat with song, in the lobby of 

Anabel Taylor Hall, followed by a community 

Shabbat dinner at 7:45 p.m. in the Kosher Dining 

Hall. Saturdays, 9:45 a.m., Conservative services 

in the Founder’s Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Call 

the Hillel office at 255-4227 for more information. 

• Orthodox: Friday, Young Israel House, call 

272-5810 for weekly times; Saturday, 9:15 a.m., 

Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. For daily 

service times, call 272-5810; all daily services are 

at the Young Israel House. 

Korean Church 

Sundays, 11 a.m., One World Room (in English), 

and 1 p.m., chapel (in Korean), Anabel 

Taylor Hall. Call 255-2250 for more information. 

Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) 

Cornell student branch: Sundays, 9 a.m. Call 

272-4520 or 257-6835 for directions and transportation. 

Basketball on Wednesdays, 8 p.m. 

Muslim 

Daily congregational prayer at 218 Anabel 

Taylor Hall. 

Weekly Friday prayer, 1:15-1:45 p.m., One 

World Room, ATH. Weekly Halaqa, Friday, 6:30- 

7:30 p.m., 218 ATH. 

Orthodox Christian Fellowship 

Father Stephen Lilley will lead Vespers followed 

by discussion, every Monday at 5 p.m. in 


Pagan 

For information about United Pagan Ministries, 

call Cornell United Religious Work at 255-4214. 

Protestant Cooperative Ministry 

Sunday service at 11 a.m. in Anabel Taylor 

Chapel. 

Zen Meditation 

Meditation practice is Mondays and Wednesdays, 

5:30-6:30 p.m., Founders Room, Anabel Taylor 

Hall. For info, call Anne Marie at 273-4906. 


Levi adds that it is important to put the 

relationship between arrhythmia and histamine 

in perspective. Severe arrhythmias 

can also result from the release of large 

amounts of histamine that occurs when there 

is a massive allergic reaction, such as anaphylaxis. 

This is because too much histamine 

stimulates the heart’s H 2 -receptors, 

which tends to cause arrhythmia. In most 

myocardial ischemia, only a small amount 

of histamine is released in the heart, and its 

effect on the H 3 -receptors is favorable, tending 

to reduce the release of noradrenaline. 

The H 3 -receptor needs only a little histamine 

to be stimulated, whereas the H 2 -receptor 

needs much more, and the H 1 -receptor 

still more. 

Besides Levi, Silver and Lovenberg, the 

authors of the article are Kumar S. Poonwasi 

and Nahid Seyedi, of Weill Cornell’s Department 

of Pharmacology, and Sandy J. 

Wilson of the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical 

Research Institute. 

Applied Economics and Management continued from page 1 

Cornell environment,” wrote Kraft and Richard Cosier, 

dean of the Krannert Schools of Management at Purdue 

University, in their final report to the AACSB International’s 

board of directors. 

During the accreditation process, Cornell began to recognize 

the department’s program as the university’s general 

Music department offers four concerts this week 

The Department of Music starts off the 

semester with four concerts, three of which 

are free and open to the public. 

The Cornell University Glee Club, under 

the direction of Scott Tucker, will give a 

“Post-Tour Concert” Jan. 25 at 8 p.m. in 

Sage Chapel. Admission is $5. 

The Cayuga Winds begins its fourth season 

Saturday, Jan. 26, at 8 p.m. in Barnes 

Hall, with a concert featuring works by 

Charles Gounod and Wolfgang Amadeus 

Mozart written for the “harmonie” or chamber 

wind ensemble. The concert opens with 

Gounod’s Petite Symphonie, written in 1885, 

and closes with Mozart’s Serenade in E-flat 

Major, K. 375. 

An ensemble created to bring important 

chamber wind music of the past 500 years to 

the Ithaca community, the Cayuga Winds was 

founded by conductor Mark Davis Scatterday 

in 1998 and features professional area musicians 

and students, primarily from the Cornell 

and Ithaca College campuses. Inheriting the 

vast history and tradition of the many superior 

professional and amateur wind bands in the 

Ithaca area, the Cayuga Winds plans to continue 

this wind cannon with new music commissions 

and premieres as part of a millennium 

consortium project for new music. 

Currently director of wind ensembles, 

professor of music and chair of the Department 

of Music at Cornell, Scatterday conducts 

the university’s four wind ensembles, 

Cornell Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble 

X and teaches conducting and music theory. 

Having received his doctorate in conducting 

at the Eastman School of Music in 1989, 

Scatterday has directed wind ensembles and 

orchestras throughout North America and 

Japan and has commissioned several new 

works. He is senior editor of WindWorks, a 

Warner Brothers publication dealing with 

new compositions and transcriptions, research 

and performance practice for the wind 

band. Warner Bros. also has published his 

compilation and edition of 10 early instrumental 

works by Gabrieli, Padovano and 

Viadana titled Renaissance Set I as part of 

the Donald Hunsberger Wind Library. 

Tenor Gary Moulsdale presents song 

cycles and opera arias in Barnes Hall on 

Sunday, Jan. 27, at 3 p.m., assisted by flutist 

Bethany Collier, oboist Anna Herforth and 

pianist Blaise Bryski. The concert features 

three Irish folk-song settings of John 

Discussing diversity 

undergraduate business degree offering. AEM also began to 

assess itself against other leading undergraduate business 

programs and formed an advisory board of business and 

academic leaders. 

The popularity of the department’s classes among undergraduates 

in recent years has hurt student-faculty ratios, which 

Charles Harrington/University Photography 

Steven Wright, director of Cornell Planning Design and Construction, 

speaks during a panel discussion on “Increasing Diversity in the Skilled 

Trades,” at the Statler Hotel, Jan. 18. The meeting was convened by Mary 

George Opperman, Cornell vice president for human resources, and 

coordinated by the Office of Workforce Diversity, Equity and Life Quality. 


Mark Davis Scatterday will conduct 

the Cayuga Winds Saturday, Jan. 26, 

at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall. 

Corigliano with flute and piano; Ralph 

Vaughan Williams’ cycle, Ten Blake Songs, 

scored for tenor and oboe; and eight songs 

from Leos Janácek’s cycle, Diary of One 

Who Vanished. Interspersed throughout the 

program are three opera arias from 

Massenet’s Manon, Britten’s Billy Budd and 

Ponchielli’s La Gioconda. 

Moulsdale is a Ph.D. candidate in the 

musicology program at Cornell. Last spring 

he performed Schumann’s Dichterliebe and 

a program of Jerome Kern songs here in 

Ithaca. At the Aspen Music School and Festival, 

he sang several 20th century vocal 

chamber works, including the Britten Nocturne 

and the Dominick Argento song cycles 

To Be Sung Upon the Water and Letters 

From Composers. Moulsdale also has appeared 

with the Ithaca Opera in The Marriage 

of Figaro, Amahl and the Night Visitors 

and El Retablo del Maese Pedro. 

Bryski is finishing a doctorate in 18th 

century performance practice at Cornell, 

where he served on the piano faculty last 

year. He played for many years as accompanist 

for the UCLA Department of Music and 

has performed in such varied venues as the 

Nakamichi Baroque Festival and the Green 

Umbrella New Music Series. As a 

fortepianist, Bryski’s credits include the Los 

Angeles Baroque Orchestra Chamber Music 

series, the New York Concert Singers and 

the Aldeburgh Connection/CBC Radio. 

The Susie Kelly Quartet was featured on 

a Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players 

concert in Barnes Hall last April. This young 

string quartet from the Eastman School of 

became a problem for accreditation. The department redressed 

this problem by gradually hiring new faculty. In the 

past three years, the department has hired five faculty members 

and plans to hire five more within the next three years. 

For more information, see the department’s web site at 

. 

Music returns to the Barnes Hall stage, presenting 

its own concert Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 

8 p.m. The quartet begins with the world 

premiere of Brad Lubman’s Various Pieces 

for four string instruments, followed by 

Bongani Ndodana’s Rituals for Forgotten 

Faces and two movements from Martin 

Scherzinger’s Across Dancing Ground. 

The second half of the program is devoted 

to George Crumb’s Black Angels (13 Images 

from the Dark Land), which was conceived 

as a kind of parable on our troubled contemporary 

world. The numerous quasi-programmatic 

allusions in the work are symbolic, 

although the essential polarity – God vs. 

Devil – implies more than a purely metaphysical 

reality. The image of the black 

angel was a conventional device used by 

early painters to symbolize the fallen angel. 

The underlying structure of Black Angels is 

a huge arch-like design that is suspended 

from three “threnody” pieces. The work portrays 

a voyage of the soul in three stages: 

departure (fall from grace), absence (spiritual 

annihilation) and return (redemption). 

The Susie Kelly String Quartet initially 

formed with the intent of mainly playing the 

music of young composers and has since 

expanded its repertoire to include many different 

types of 20th and 21st century works. 

Currently studying with the Ying Quartet 

at the Eastman School of Music, the quartet 

recently has performed pieces by Earl Brown, 

Jan Bach and African composer Bongani 

Ndodana. The group’s desire to play new 

music has led them to work with several 

young composers in addition to such established 

musicians as Steven Stucky, John 

Adams, George Crumb and Steve Reich. 

Keeping in close contact with Eastman’s 

faculty, the quartet has performed chamber 

music with violinist Charles Castleman, 

worked with composer Martin Scherzinger 

and, most recently, prepared new works under 

the supervision of the quartet’s composer, 

Brad Lubman. The group has been 

coached by members of the Guarnari, Tokyo 

and Colorado string quartets and was accepted 

to study at the 2001 Internationale 

Sommerakademie in Austria. 

Individual interests within the group extend 

in many directions, including musical 

exploits in improvisation, Baroque performance 

practice, standard classical works, 

pedagogy and music from popular spheres.

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seminars 

Biomedical Sciences 

“Development of an In Vivo Model in Cattle for 

Investigation of Lymphocyte-Medicated Immunity 

to Anaplasma Marginale,” Reginald Valdez, Animal 

Disease Research Unit, USDA/ARS, Jan. 28, 

2:30 p.m., Lecture Hall I, Veterinary Research 

Tower. 

“Pressure and Anemia Regulated Influences 

on Myocyte Maturation and Coronary Tree Development,” 

Kent Thornburg, Oregon Health Sciences 

University, Jan. 29, 4 p.m., Lecture Hall III, 

Veterinary Research Tower. 

Chemistry & Chemical Biology 

“Discovering and Understanding Transition 

Metal-Catalyzed Reactions,” John Hartwig, Yale 

University, Jan. 24, 4:40 p.m., 119 Baker Lab. 

“Double-Bagging Vesicles: A New Way to Stabilize 

Liposomes and Colloids,” Joseph 

Zasadzinski, University of California, Jan. 28, 4:40 

p.m., 119 Baker Lab. 

“Simulating Quantum Processes Using Entangled 

Classical Trajectories,” Craig Martens, 

University of California, Jan. 31, 4:40 p.m., 119 

Baker Lab. 

Cornell Participatory Action 

Research Network 

“Follow-Up on the Conference: Feminisms and 

the Academy,” TBA, Jan. 31, 2:30 p.m., 153 Uris 

Hall. 

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 

“Nitrogen and Water Effects on Tallgrass Prairie 

Structure and Dynamics,” Scott Collins, National 

Science Foundation, Jan. 28, 12:30 p.m., 

A106 Corson Hall. 

Food Science 

“Raising the Bar: Nutrition and Genetically 

Modified Foods,” Cutberto Garza, nutritional sciences, 

Jan. 29, 4 p.m., 204 Stocking Hall. 

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 

“An Algebraic Approach to Learning for Heuristic 

Neural Control,” Silvia Ferrari, Princeton University, 

Jan. 29, 4:30 p.m., B11 Kimball Hall. 

Microbiology & Immunology 

“Experimental Leishmaniasis: A Mode Understand 

and Redirect Immune Response Resulting 

in Protection or Pathology,” Ingrid Müller, Imperial 

College School of Medicine at St. Mary’s, London, 

Jan. 24, 12:15 p.m. Boyce Thompson Institute 

Auditorium. 

Nanobiotechnology Center 

“Optics, Electronics and Imaging: Getting Data 

From a Nanodevice,” Warren Zipfel, Webb Research 

Group, Jan. 29, noon, G01 Biotechnology 

Building. 

Neurobiology & Behavior 

“Species Recognition in Brood Parasitic Brown- 

Headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater),” Mark Hauber, 

neurobiology and behavior, Jan. 31, 12:30 p.m., 

A106 Corson Hall. 

Peace Studies Program 

“Pakistan’s Security Dilemma: Past and 

Present,” Tariq Chaudhry, Pakistan Permanent 

Mission to the United Nations, Jan. 24, 12:15 p.m., 

G08 Uris Hall. 

Plant Breeding 

“Changing Strategies in Intellectual Property 

Protection of Plants,” Martha Mutschler, plant 

breeding, Jan. 29, 12:20 p.m., 135 Emerson Hall. 

Physics 

“Into Thin Air: the Atacama Telescope Project,” 

Riccardo Giovanelli, astronomy, Jan. 28, 4:30 

p.m., Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall. 

Science & Technology Studies 

TBA, Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic 

Institute, Jan. 28, 4:30 p.m., 609 Clark Hall. 

South Asia Program 

“Engaging the State: Rethinking Processes of 

State Formation in South Asia,” Cynthia Caron and 

Saadia Toor, development sociology, Jan. 28, 

12:15 p.m., G08 Uris Hall. 

Theoretical & Applied Mechanics 

“Applied Mechanics, the First Few Million Years: 

Prehistoric Stone Tool Technology and Its Affect 

Upon Human Skeletal Anatomy,” Kenneth 

Kennedy, ecology and evolutionary biology, Jan. 

25, 2:30 p.m., 205 Thurston Hall. 

Textiles & Apparel 

TBA, Pete Scala, Cortland Cable Co. (retired), 

Jan. 30, 12:20 p.m., 317 Martha Van Rensselaer 

Hall. 

theater 

Theatre, Film & Dance 

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot opens 

Jan. 30 at 8 p.m. in the Cornell Schwartz Center 

for the Performing Arts. Performances continue 

Jan. 31 and Feb. 1-3, with a matinee Feb. 3 at 

2 p.m. Tickets are $9 for the general public and 

$7 for students/seniors. Tickets at the door are 

$8 and $10. Call or visit the Schwartz Center box 

office, 430 College Ave., weekdays, 12:30-5:30 

p.m.; 254-ARTS. See story, Page 8. 

symposiums 

Cornell Participatory Action 

Research Network and Feminisms 

“Feminisms and the Academy: Going Out of 

Business,” Jan. 25-26, 401 Warren Hall. For more 

information contact Nimat Hafez Barazangi at 

. 

Cornell Theory Center 

“Introduction to Parallel Computing in CTC’s 

Windows HPC Cluster Environment,” Feb. 1- 

March 1, offered as a virtual workshop . 

The objective of this web-based course is to present 

parallel programming as a general concept and to 

show its application in practice. The course is 

aimed at anyone currently doing serial programming 

who is ready to start applying parallel concepts 

to create parallel programs. To register or for 

more formation about the workshop, contact Susan 

Mehringer at . 

miscellany 

Alcoholics Anonymous 

Meetings are open to the public and will be held 

Monday through Friday at 12:15 p.m. in Anabel 

Taylor Hall. For more information, call 273-1541. 

Campus Life 

Campus Life will hold a housing fair Jan. 30 

from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Willard Straight Hall 

Memorial Room. The fair will have information and 

displays concerning student housing options for 

next year. For more information contact Cornell’s 

housing office at 255-5368. 

Emotions Anonymous 

Emotions Anonymous, a 12-step program for 

those dealing with emotional problems, meets 

Sundays at 7:30 p.m. and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. at St. 

Luke’s Lutheran Church, 109 Oak Ave. For information, 

call Ed at 387-8257. 

Walk-in Writing Service 

Free tutorial assistance in writing. 

• 178 Rockefeller, Sunday, 2-8 p.m., Monday- 

Thursday, 3:30-5:30 p.m. and 7-10 p.m. 

• 222 Robert Purcell, Sunday-Thursday, 7- 

10 p.m. 

• 320 Noyes Center, Sunday-Thursday, 7- 

10 p.m. 

For information, visit . 

Willard Straight Hall Program Board 

Phil Shapiro’s group folk guitar lessons begin 

Jan. 28, 7 p.m. for beginners and 8 p.m. intermediates, 

in the North Room of Willard Straight Hall. 

The cost of the eight-week course is $50, payable 

at the first lesson. For more information, contact 

Phil Shapiro at 844-4535, or e-mail at 

. 


International flavors blend in Feb. 1 CCS concert 

The Cornell Concert Series presents a 

unique collaboration among Cuban guitar 

virtuoso Manuel Barrueco, Danish recorder 

virtuoso Michala Petri and Cornell’s own 

new-music group Ensemble X on Friday, 

Feb.1, at 8 p.m. in Statler Auditorium. The 

concert features the Ithaca premiere of 

Cornell music Professor Steven Stucky’s 

recorder concerto “Etudes,” an encore performance 

of James Matheson’s “Falling – 

Variations for Violin, Cello and Piano,” duos 

for recorder and guitar by Handel, Castelnuovo-Tedesco 

and Piazzolla, and solo works 

for guitar by Copland and Rodrigo. 

Tickets for the concert – $12-$20 for 

adults and $8-$12 for students of any age 

attending any institution – are on sale at the 

Willard Straight Hall ticket office (Monday- 

Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, noon-5 p.m.; 

255-3430) and at the ticket center at Clinton 

House (116 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca; Monday- 

Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., closed 2-3 p.m. on 

Saturday; 273-4497 or 1-800-284-8422). 

Tickets also are available from the Cornell 

Concert Series web site at . Student rush tickets for $5 

will be on sale Jan. 30 and 31. 

Born in Copenhagen in 1958, Petri began 

playing the recorder at the age of 3 and was 

first heard on Danish Radio when she was 5. 

Her debut as concerto soloist took place at the 

Tivoli Concert Hall in 1969. Since then the 

Danish artist has performed with such musicians 

as Heinz Holliger, Pinchas Zukerman, 

James Galway, Salvatore Accardo, Maurice 

Andrè, Keith Jarrett, Christopher Hogwood 

and Claudio Abbado, and she has appeared as 

soloist with many of the world’s major chamber 

orchestras and symphony orchestras. 

Petri has received the highest praise for her 

astonishing virtuosity in a repertoire ranging 

from the early baroque to contemporary works, 

many of them written especially for her. 

Stucky, the Given Foundation Professor 

of Composition at Cornell, is one of a number 

of composers who were unprepared for 

the force of Petri’s artistry. “I knew Ms. 

Petri’s reputation, of course, but I knew little 

about the instrument,” he said, “and I imagined 

that its small range of expression, dynamics 

and technique would be too limiting. 

Eventually, though, Ms. Petri played with 

the Buffalo Philharmonic, close enough to 

home that my wife and I could satisfy our 

curiosity with a short drive to western New 

Ensemble X 

Petri Barrueco 

York. We were instant converts; here was 

playing of imagination, heart and brilliance 

that made the recorder seem like a ‘big’ 

instrument, not a little one.” 

Stucky has taught at Cornell since 1980. 

Currently he is also a visiting professor of 

composition at the Eastman School of Music. 

Widely recognized as one of the leading 

American composers of his generation, he 

has written commissioned works for many 

of the major American orchestras, including 

Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles 

and Philadelphia, as well as for Chanticleer, 

the Boston Musica Viva, Carnegie 

Hall and the BBC. 

Stucky is also active as a conductor. This 

season his acclaimed new-music band, Ensemble 

X, has made its New York City 

debuts in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall 

and in Merkin Hall. He will record an all- 

sports 

Men’s Basketball (3-13, 0-3 Ivy) 

Jan. 26, Columbia, 7:30 p.m. 

Women’s Basketball (9-7, 3-0 Ivy) 

Jan. 26, Columbia, 5 p.m. 

Women’s Gymnastics (3-3) 

Jan. 26, Massachusetts, 1 p.m. 

Hockey (11-5-1, 7-2-1 ECAC, 2-2-1 Ivy) 

Jan. 25, at Clarkson, 7 p.m. 

Jan. 26, at St. Lawrence, 7 p.m. 

Women’s Hockey (3-12, 2-4 ECAC, 

1-4 Ivy) 

Jan. 25, St. Lawrence, 7 p.m. 

Jan. 26, St. Lawrence, 4 p.m. 

Men’s Swimming (3-3, 2-3 EISL) 

Jan. 26, Colgate, noon 

Women’s Swimming (2-4, 1-4 Ivy) 

Jan. 26, Colgate, noon 

Jan. 30, at Binghamton, 6 p.m. 

Men’s Tennis 

Jan. 25-27, at VCU Invitational 

Women’s Tennis 

Jan. 26, Colgate, 10 a.m. 

Jan. 26, St. Bonaventure, 2 p.m. 

Men’s Indoor Track & Field (3-0) 

Jan. 26, at Harvard with Brown 

Women’s Indoor Track & Field (4-0) 

Jan. 26, at Harvard with Brown, noon 

Men’s Wrestling (1-2) 

Jan. 25, Hofstra, 7 p.m. 

Kathy Morris 

Judith Weir disc with Ensemble X for Albany 

Records. 

Guitarist Barrueco’s artistry has been described 

as that of a superb instrumentalist 

and an elegant musician, possessing a seductive 

sound and uncommon lyrical gifts. His 

most recent recording, “Cuba!” was called 

“an extraordinary musical achievement” by 

the San Francisco Chronicle, while his recording 

of Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de 

Aranjuez, with conductor/tenor Placido 

Domingo and the Philharmonia Orchestra, 

was called the best recording of that piece in 

Classic CD Magazine. His latest release, 

“Nylon & Steel,” is a collection of duos with 

guitar greats Al Di Meola, Steve Morse 

(Deep Purple) and Andy Summers (The 

Police), further demonstrating his outstanding 

versatility and imaginative programming. 

His commitment to contemporary music 

and to the expansion of the guitar repertoire 

has led him to collaborations with many 

distinguished composers, such as Toru 

Takemitsu, Roberto Sierra and Arvo Pärt. 

Ensemble X was founded in 1997 by a 

group of faculty performers at Ithaca College 

and Cornell who share a passionate 

commitment to new music. The ensemble’s 

mission is to perform both very new music of 

the “classical” tradition – typically music 

written within the past five to 10 years – and 

established works from earlier in the 20th 

century. In addition to touring and recording, 

the group performs a series of concerts each 

season in Ithaca.


CALENDAR 

exhibits 

Johnson Museum of Art 

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, on the 

corner of University and Central avenues, is open 

Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Admission is free. Telephone: 255-6464. 

• “Red Grooms: The Bus,” through March 17. 

• “Shaped With a Passion: The Weyerhaeuser 

Collection of Japanese Ceramics From the 1970s,” 

Jan. 26 through March 24. 

• “Art From the Islamic World,” Jan. 26 through 

March 24. 

• “Lasting Impressions: A Portfolio of Contemporary 

Native American Prints,” Feb. 2 through 

March 24. 

• Gallery talk of exhibition “Shaped With a Passion: 

The Carl Weyerhaeuser Collection of Japanese 

Ceramics,” with Ellen Avril, curator of Asian 

art, Feb. 1, 4 p.m. 

• Opening reception for winter exhibitions, 

Feb. 1, 5-7 p.m. 

films 

Films listed are sponsored by Cornell Cinema 

and held in Willard Straight Theatre, except where 

noted, and are open to the public. All films are 

$4.50 ($4 for students, kids 12 and under and 

seniors). Saturday and Sunday matinees are $3.50. 

Visit the Cornell Cinema web site at . 

Thursday, 1/24 

“Erotic Tales 5,” directed by Rosa Von 

Praunheim, Georgi Shengelaya and Markus 

Fischer, with Jeff Stryker, 7:15 p.m. 

“The Vertical Ray of the Sun” (2000), directed 

by Anh Hung Tran, with Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Le 

Khanh and Nhu Quynh Nguyen, 9:15 p.m. 

Friday, 1/25 

“Black Girl” (1965), directed by Ousmane 

Sembene, with Mbissine Thérèse Diop and Anne- 

Marie Jelinek, 7 p.m., Uris. 

“Erotic Tales 6,” directed by Antonis Kokkino, 

Hal Hartley and Bernd Heiber, 7:15 p.m. 

“Apocalypse Now Redux” (2001), directed by 

Francis Ford Coppola, with Martin Sheen, Marlon 

Brando and Dennis Hopper, introduction by Kent 

Hubbell, dean of students, 8:45 p.m., Uris. 

“Open Your Eyes” (1997), directed by Alejando 

Amenábar, with Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz 

and Chete Lera, 9:15 p.m. 

“Ghost World” (2001), directed by Terry Zwigoff, 

with Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and Steve 

Buscemi, 11:30 p.m. 

Saturday, 1/26 

“The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T” (1953), directed by 

Roy Rowland, with Peter Hayes, Hans Conried 

and Tommy Rettig, presented by Ithakid Film 

Festival, 2 p.m. Tickets are $2, kids under 12 are 

$1.50. 

“Ghost World,” 5 p.m. 

“The Vertical Ray of the Sun,” 7:15 p.m. 

“Apocalypse Now Redux,” 7:15 p.m., Uris. 

“Erotic Tales 5,” 9:45 p.m. 

“Open Your Eyes,” 11 p.m., Uris. 

Sunday, 1/27 

“Daisy Miller” (1974), directed by Peter 

Bogdanovich, with Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown 

and Eileen Brennan, 2 p.m. 

“Apocalypse Now Redux,” 3:45 p.m. 


“Mandabi” (1968), directed by Ousmane 

Sembene, with Makhouredia Gueye and Ynousse 

N’Diaye, presented by Pentangle, 7:30 p.m., Uris, 

free. 

“Ghost World,” 9:30 p.m. 

Monday, 1/28 

“Erotic Tales 7,” directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, 

Jos Stelling and Amos Kollek, 7:15 p.m. 

“Daisy Miller,” 9:15 p.m. 

Tuesday, 1/29 

“Erotic Tales 8,” directed by Susan Streitfeld, 

Petr Zelenka and Eoin Moore, 7:15 p.m. 

“The Vertical Ray of the Sun,” 9:15 p.m. 

Wednesday, 1/30 

“Emitai” (1971), directed by Ousmane 

Sembene, with Robert Fontaine, Michel 

Remaudeau and Pierre Blanchard, 7 p.m. 


Thursday, 1/31 

“Mulholland Drive” (2001), directed by David 

Lynch, with Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring and 

Justin Theroux, 7 p.m. 

“Erotic Tales 8,” 10 p.m. 

lectures 

Computer Science 

“The Linear Programming Approach to Approximate 

Dynamic Programming,” Daniela Pucci 

de Farias, Stanford University, Jan. 24, 4:15 p.m., 

B17 Upson Hall. 

“Designing a Small, High Performing Load- 

Value Predictor,” Martin Burtscher, computer science, 

Jan. 31, 4:15 p.m., B17 Upson Hall. 

Mind & Memory 

“Performance Practice/Performance Theory,” 

Richard Schechner, A.D. White Professor-at-Large, 

Jan. 28, 2:55 p.m., 155 Olin Hall. 

music 

Department of Music 

• Jan. 25, 8 p.m., Sage Chapel: The Cornell 

Glee Club, under the direction of Scott Tucker, will 

present a “Post-Tour Concert.” Admission is $5 at 

the door. 

• Jan. 26, 8 p.m., Barnes Hall: The Cayuga 

Winds, under the direction of Mark Davis 

Scatterday, will feature works by Charles Gounod 

and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 

• Jan. 27, 3 p.m., Barnes Hall: Tenor Gary 

Moulsdale, with Anna Herforth, oboe; Bethany 

Collier, flute; and Blaise Bryski, piano, will perform 

works by Corigliano, Vaughan Williams and 

Janácek. 

• Jan. 29, 8 p.m., Barnes Hall: The Susie Kelly 

Quartet will feature George Crumb’s Black Angels. 

• Jan. 31, 8 p.m., Barnes Hall: Guest piantist 

Lisa Leong will perform works by Carter, Murail, 

Ligeti, Harvey and Messiaen. 

Cornell Concert Series 

Ensemble X, under the direction of Steven 

Stucky, with Manuel Barrueco, guitar, and Michala 

Petri, recorder, will give a concert Feb. 1 at 8 p.m. 

in Statler Auditorium. The program features the 

Ithaca premiere of Stucky’s recorder concerto 

“Etudes” (written for Petri) and duos played by 

Barrueco and Petri. See story, Page 7. 

Dean of Students Office 

Late Nights@Cornell! Spring 2002 Events Series: 

“Rustic Overtones in Concert,” Jan. 26, 10 p.m. 

to 2 a.m., Helen Newman Hall. This event is open to 

students and their guest. Admission is free. 

Bound for Glory 

Jan. 27: Akire Bubar will perform. Bound for 

Glory is broadcast Sunday nights from 8 to 11 from 

the Café at Anabel Taylor Hall, with live sets at 

8:30, 9:30 and 10:30. Admission is free; kids are 

welcome. Listen to Bound for Glory on WVBR-FM, 

93.5 and 105.5. 

religion 

Sage Chapel 

Rev. Kenneth Clarke Sr., director of Cornell 

United Religious Work, will lead the service Jan. 27 

at 11 a.m. 

African-American 

Sundays, 5:30 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. 

Baha’i Faith 

Fridays, 7:30 p.m., meet in the lobby of Willard 

Straight Hall, speakers, open discussion, games 

and service-oriented activities. Classes, speakers, 

prayers, celebrations at alternating locations. 

January 24 

through 

January 31 

TO SUBMIT A NOTICE: 

Items for the calendar should be submitted by campus mail, U.S. mail 

or in person to Chronicle Calendar, Cornell News Service, Surge 3, 

Ithaca, N.Y. 14853. Notices should be sent to arrive 10 days prior to 

publication and should include the name and telephone numbers of a 

person who can be called if there are questions. 

Nicola Kountoupes/University Photography 

In this rehearsal photo, Hans Vermy ’03 plays Estragon, one of two tramps who 

search for the meaning of human existence in Samuel Beckett’s classic Waiting 

for Godot. Directed by well-known theater scholar and Cornell alumnus Richard 

Schechner, Waiting for Godot is playing at the Cornell Schwartz Center for the 

Performing Arts Jan. 30-Feb. 3. Additional seating has been released, and 

tickets are now available for all performances. Call 254-ARTS. 

Director Richard Schechner brings 

Waiting for Godot to Cornell stage 

“Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody 

goes, it’s awful!” In these words from the 

first act of his play Waiting for Godot, Samuel 

Beckett reveals the context of his most wellknown 

and relevant work. Waiting 

for Godot questions the meaning 

of human existence and explores 

the ways we invent to pass time 

before we die. The Cornell 

Schwartz Center for the Performing 

Arts will stage this contemporary 

classic Jan. 30-Feb. 3. 

Waiting for Godot opens 

Wednesday, Jan. 30, at 8 p.m. Schechner 

Evening performances continue 

Jan. 31 and Feb. 1-3. One matinee will be 

offered Feb. 3 at 2 p.m. Tickets in advance 

are $7 for students and seniors and $9 for the 

public. Tickets at the door will be $8 and 

$10. A discussion for the audience and members 

of the cast and crew is scheduled following 

the Jan. 31 performance. 

For tickets and information, call or visit 

the box office in the Schwartz Center for the 

Performing Arts, 430 College Ave., 12:30- 

5:30 p.m., weekdays; 254-ARTS. 

Considered innovative and brilliant when 

first staged in 1953, Waiting for Godot was the 

Theater of the Absurd’s first theatrical success. 

The play follows Vladimir and Estragon, 

who wait daily for the arrival of a mysterious 

Mr. Godot and contemplate the meaninglessness 

of their existence. As they wait they 

devise ways to pass the time. They encounter 

others passing by, they laugh, eat, cry, pee – 

For more information, call 272-3037 or send e-mail 

to . 

Buddhist 

Tibetan Buddhist Class, instructed by Ven. 

Tenzin Gephel, Mondays, starting Feb. 11, 5:30 

p.m., 314 Anabel Taylor Hall. For more information 

contact or call 255-4214. 

Meditations: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 

12:15-1 p.m., Founders Room, ATH. 

Catholic 

Weekend Mass schedule: Sunday, 10 a.m., 

noon and 5 p.m., Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium. 

Daily Masses: Monday-Friday, 12:20 p.m., 

and sometimes do nothing at all. Waiting for 

Godot, born in post-World War II France, has 

been performed all over the world. 

And who better to direct this play than a 

director who has directed at theaters 

and universities around the 

world. Overseeing this unique production 

is Cornell Andrew D. 

White Professor-at-Large Richard 

Schechner ’56. Schechner is 

the artistic director of East Coast 

Artists in Manhattan and a professor 

of performance studies at 

New York University. He is the 

author of 10 books, including Performance 

Theory, Between Theater and Anthropology 

and Environmental Theater. 

Schechner is renowned for shifting the terrain 

of thinking in theater scholarship from 

traditional theater approaches to the stage to 

a total environmental approach. 

Working with this esteemed director are 

eight talented cast members: equity actor 

John Payne as Vladimir, students Hans 

Vermy (Estragon), Amin Kirdar (Pozzo) and 

Tim Flood, Kevaughn Harvey and Craig 

Divino (all as Lucky). Two area children, 

Sean Karasin and Elias Spector-Zabusky, 

are cast as boys. 

Schechner has innovative ideas for the 

environment of this play. Helping to make 

his vision a reality are scenic designer Kent 

Goetz, costume designer Richard MacPike, 

lighting designer Ed Intemann and sound 

designer Warren Cross. 

ATH Chapel. 

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Sundays, 4 p.m., 

G-22 ATH. 

Christian Science 

Testimony meetings: Thursday, 7:15 p.m., 

Anabel Taylor Hall. Church services: Sundays, 

10:30 a.m., and Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., First 

Church of Christ, Scientist, 101 University Ave., 

Ithaca. 

Cornell Christian Fellowship 

Meets every Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the One 

World Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. 

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