Briefs

Ithaca Crop Walk: Members of the Cornell community who want to help fight hunger, nationally and locally, by participating in the Ithaca Crop Walk 2002, Sunday, Oct. 20, can register on campus and walk together to the annual event's starting point. Cornell community walkers will gather at Ho Plaza and register at 1:15 p.m. and then walk to DeWitt Park in downtown Ithaca to join the other Crop Walk participants. There will be a mayor's proclamation at 2 p.m. in DeWitt Park and the walkers will leave from the park at 2:15. Crop Walk raises money through pledges and donations, and the funds are divided and distributed by the Crop Walk charitable organization to third-world, U.S. and Ithaca-area hunger centers. Crop Walk participation forms can be picked up at Anabel Taylor Hall, the Willard Straight Hall Browsing Library and at the service desks at Robert Purcell and Noyes community centers. For more information, contact Philip Fiadino with Cornell United Religious Work at 255-9380 or pmf6@cornell.edu . Ithaca Crop Walk 2002 is an activity of Area Congregations Together and is supported at Cornell by Campus Life-Community Development, CURW, the Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Association, Multi-Cultural Greek Letter Council, Alpha Phi Omega, Cornell Tradition, Hotel Ezra Cornell, Cornell Chorus and Glee Club, HUSH (Help Us Stop Hunger) and Bread for the World.

Ivy Greens meet here: The Cornell student organization Cornell Greens is the host, on campus, of the fifth annual "Greening of the Ivies" conference this weekend, Oct. 18-20, with talks and workshops in Goldwin Smith Hall, as well as tours and other activities in and around Ithaca. The conference is open to the public free of charge, although food and souvenirs will be provided only to delegates from the colleges. Originally convened by students from Ivy League schools, the conference has since expanded and this year delegates are expected from as far as Washington University in St. Louis and as near as Ithaca College. Discussion is planned on a wide variety of topics, including conservation, corporate accountability, global climate change, greening facilities and activism tricks of the trade. More information on the conference is available by calling 255-9985.

DAAD fellowships: Applications are now invited for the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) fellowships for the academic year 2003-04. DAAD fellowships carry tuition and fees, monthly stipends ranging from 715 euro to 975 euro for 10 months and a 520 euro to 1,022 euro allowance for travel. The fellowships enable students to study at a German university or to work on a research project in Germany. The competition is open to graduating seniors, graduate students and recent Ph.D.s from all schools and colleges of the university except medicine, veterinary medicine and pharmacy. For more detailed information, visit the German Studies office at 183 Goldwin Smith Hall or contact Professor Herbert Deinert, 188 Goldwin Smith Hall, 255-8356, hd11@cornell.edu or Miriam Zubal, 183 Goldwin Smith Hall, 255-4047, mz17@cornell.edu . The application deadline is Monday, Oct. 21, for students in music (performance) and fine arts, and Monday, Nov. 4, for all others.

TCAT adds new route: A new bus route offers more frequent service to morning commuters in Community Corners, Cayuga Heights and Cornell Heights, TCAT has announced. Route 33 provides three runs between 8:03 a.m. and 9:03 a.m. from those neighborhoods to the Cornell campus. The route begins at Community Corners and picks up passengers at the Parkway, Upland and Highland roads and Thurston Avenue, en route to Uris Hall and the Cornell Dairy Bar. Two of the runs also include a stop at Uptown Apartments, and one run terminates at Sage Hall.