Briefs

Executive Committee meeting: The Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City Thursday, June 22. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St. In a brief open session at 2 p.m., the committee will hear a report from President Hunter Rawlings. Tickets for the meeting may be obtained beginning Tuesday, June 20, for the general public at the Information and Referral Center in Day Hall. The Buildings and Properties Committee will meet at 9 a.m. Thursday in the Fall Creek Room. No tickets are required.

Campus traffic changes: Cornell Facilities Management reports that a number of projects during the coming months will affect vehicular and pedestrian traffic on campus.

• Beginning this week, the Dwyer Dam Bridge on Hoy Road, near the Route 366 intersection, is closed to all vehicular traffic for scheduled repairs. The bridge will reopen to one-lane, "local-traffic only" July 3, with both lanes reopening Aug. 4. Pedestrian traffic on the bridge will be allowed throughout the project.
• From June 12 to Aug. 15, relocation of steam, chilled water and potable water lines in the area will affect the north end of Hoy Road, requiring one-way traffic, and Campus Road will be closed between Hoy Road and East Avenue. From June 12 to Oct. 10, the project will affect pedestrian traffic on the Engineering Quad.
• From June 12 to Aug. 15, installation of a new steam line from the north side of the Thurston Avenue Bridge to Balch Hall will create one-lane traffic at times on Balch Drive (leading to Helen Newman Hall) and at the entrance to the Alumni House parking lot. Thurston Avenue will remain open at all times.

Mann online site selected: The online Dow Jones Business Directory has chosen the Albert R. Mann Library's USDA Economics and Statistics System as a "select site." "This nifty site brings to one centralized stall a bumper crop of useful statistics and reports on everything from broccoli production to Year 2000 issues affecting farmers," said Grace Lichtenstein, a web-site reviewer for the Dow Jones Business Directory editors. She explains that the Mann site publishes information from three data-collection departments within the U.S. Department of Agriculture -- the Economic Research Service, the World Agricultural Outlook Board and the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Mann Library's USDA Economics and Statistics System is available at: usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/. The Dow Jones Business Directory is available at http://bd.dowjones.com.

CU Catholic group project: Participants in Cornell Catholic Community's annual Appalachian Service Project spent their Cornell Senior Week, May 20-27, engaged in manual labor and social outreach projects on behalf of the rural poor in Jackson County in the Cumberland Plateau of southeastern Kentucky. The project is a joint ministry of St. Paul's Catholic Church, McKee, Ky., and the Cornell Catholic Community. This year 18 undergraduate and graduate students, four alumni volunteers and the Rev. Michael Mahler and Sister Donna Fannon of the Cornell Catholic Community staff participated in the trip. The volunteers completed many projects, among them helping to build a new home for a young family, housecleaning for elderly residents, plumbing and roof repairs and planting gardens. In addition to their volunteer work in Jackson County, the Cornell students during the spring semester raised all funds needed for their trip. This year they raised over $9,000, of which approximately $3,000 will cover trip expenses, the remainder going to St. Paul's Church for its Christian outreach in Jackson County.