Here is a sampling of quotations from Cornell University faculty, students and staff that have appeared recently in the national and international news media:
"It's good for us to remember that sovereignty is in a way an achievement and not just a right. You have to able to defend yourself. You have to able to control the territory."
--Jeremy Rabkin, associate professor of government and author of The Case for Sovereignty, in a Fox News Special Report interview with Major Garrett, July 5, speaking on the politics of sovereignty in Iraq.
"I can give a CEO a much better deal -- because I don't have to advertise -- than I can in a regular executive education program, and I can truly customize it for you. And, unlike with consultants, you can have a role in the development of the program and have your senior officers on the floor."
--Thomas Hambury, director, executive programs at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, explaining why customized executive programs are a better buy for companies than general executive programs at business schools, in the July 2004 issue of Chief Executive magazine.
"Oceans are the last frontier for discovering medicines. They're vast -- you can't imagine what lives in there. I've got to start with the organism, see where it lives. It does help me to see where those [special] molecules play an important part for, say, a sponge."
--Eloy Rodriguez, the James A. Perkins Professor of Plant Biology, currently on sabbatical leave as a visiting professor at the University of Miami exploring coral reefs off the Florida coast in search of chemicals in living organisms that might be useful as drugs, in an interview with the Miami Herald, June 29.
"Without economic forms of class identity or populist anti-elitism pointed against the true elites, workers' class interests will continue to be defined by stunts such as son of wealth and privilege George W. Bush zipping around the Daytona 500 in front of 180,000 screaming fans and a sea of corporate-sponsored automobiles."
--Jefferson Cowie, assistant professor of collective bargaining, labor law and labor history, in the Chicago Tribune, June 27, in a review of What's the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, a book by Thomas Frank.
"Because Wal-Mart's so big, so enormous, so powerful ... where there is a large lawsuit, people pay attention. It may be that women elsewhere can use this as a vehicle for trying to improve their situation in their own workplace."
--Risa Lieberwitz, associate professor of labor law, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, on the gender discrimination class action suit by women employees at Wal-Mart, in a Washington Post story, June 23, picked up in the Houston Chronicle, June 27, as well as other news outlets.
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