Here is a sampling of quotations from Cornell University faculty, students and staff that have appeared recently in the national and international news media:
"... we in the senior administration decided early on to interact on this issue with graduate assistants as intelligent adults, who had been actively recruited to come to Cornell and who played important roles in the university's instructional and research life."
--Henrik N. Dullea, vice president for university relations, discussing last semester's union drive and its defeat in a vote by graduate students, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 17.
"It is a positive step, definitely. But we still need to do more in terms of tackling the questions of subsidies [to U.S. farmers, which make American goods cheaper than African goods]."
--Muna Ndulo, professor of law and director, Institute for African Development, commenting on President Bush's announcement that he will ask Congress to extend Africa trade benefits and increase aid to Africa, in The New York Times, Jan. 16.
"Workers in that kind of position are not in a particularly strong position ... because they can be replaced fairly easily, in contrast to airline pilots."
--Harry Katz, the J. Sheinkman Professor in Collective Bargaining, in a Jan. 14 Reuters wire story about the two-day nationwide strike at General Electric U.S. plants to protest an increase in employee health-insurance co-payments.
"It's a way, without management being in the bedroom, to say good night."
--Chekitan Dev, associate professor of marketing, School of Hotel Administration, discussing the origin of the practice of placing mints on guests' bed pillows in luxury hotels, in a story in the Dallas Morning News Jan. 12.
"I wanted to show people how possible it is to develop wearable technology so that commercial companies might be less afraid to leap in since apparel companies have no experience with electronics and electronics companies have no experience with apparel."
--Lucy Dunne, a graduate student in the College of Human Ecology, talking about her design of a "smart" jacket that automatically heats up in the cold, lights up in the dark and checks pulse rate, in an Associated Press article that appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among other news media, Jan. 6.
"There really is a social benefit to living in a kind of society where people want to live on the right side of the law."
--Jonathan Macey, the J. DuPratt White Professor of Law and director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, pointing out one of the benefits of tighter laws and stricter penalties for accounting fraud, in The Wall Street Journal Online, Jan. 3.