Briefs

Cornell documentary available: The WSKG (Binghamton, N.Y.) public television documentary "Cornell -- Birth of the American University" is part of the station's current pledge donation drive and will be throughout this year. People who would like to purchase a VHS or DVD copy of the documentary, which aired in December 2004, can do so by contacting the WSKG membership department:Carol Young, (607) 729-0100, ext. 322; or by accessing the WSKG Web site:http://www.wskg.com/cornell.htm. A VHS of the program is available for a $65 membership donation or a DVD for a $95 membership donation.

CUSLAR offers language classes: The Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) will be holding conversational Spanish and Portuguese classes for the Cornell and Ithaca community starting Monday, Jan. 31. Classes to be offered include Spanish Beginner 1, Spanish Beginner 2, Spanish Film and Discussion for Intermediate and Advanced Levels (new), and Beginner and Intermediate Portuguese. Classes are taught by native speakers and are geared toward conversational fluency. Contact CUSLAR for more information or to register, e-mail cuslar@cornell.edu, or call 255-7293.

Spring ESL enrollment begins: Cornell Campus Club is offering English as a Second Language classes. Registration will be held Saturday, Jan. 29, from noon to 2 p.m. at the Hasbrouck Community Center. The fee is $20 per semester, and a student can attend up to three classes per week. See the Web site for details: http://www.campusclub.cornell.edu/ESL.

Chimesmasters competition: The Cornell Chimes' annual 10-week competition for new chimesmasters will begin with two one-hour information sessions, Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 1 and 2, at 5 p.m. at the top of McGraw Tower. Anyone interested in playing the chimes should attend one of the two sessions. To participate in the competition you must be a member of the Cornell community, able to read music and climb 161 steps. No prior chimes playing experience is required. For more information, contact Cornell Chimes at 255-5350, e-mail chimes@cornell.edu or visit http://www.chimes.cornell.edu.

Road names change: In order to comply with the city of Ithaca's 911 project to aid emergency response, two campus roadways have new names. Drill Hall Drive, between Statler and Barton Halls, has been renamed Statler Drive. A formerly unnamed driveway into West Campus has been named Mary Ann Wood Drive; this drive enters West Campus from the south, off Campus Road and runs parallel and closest to Stewart Avenue. The first buildings to have addresses on Mary Ann Wood Drive are Delta Tau Delta and Phi Kappa Psi. Mary Ann Wood Drive was named by the Committee on Memorials and Named Facilities and commemorates Ezra Cornell's wife.

Site license for RefWorks: The Cornell University Library and Cornell Information Technologies have announced that Cornell now has a site license to RefWorks, a Web-based tool for managing citations and bibliographies. RefWorks http://refworks.cornell.edu/ allows users to easily import and organize references from online database searches and format their papers and bibliographies. The library's Database Review Committee and CIT are jointly funding this campuswide site license. Although the program is intuitive and easy to use, free workshops will be offered by various campus libraries throughout the semester. For a schedule of these classes, consult the Web site. Questions about RefWorks can be directed to the library's Citation Management Working Group at CITEMANAGE-L@cornell.edu.