Briefs

Donated clothing: Before they left campus in May, Cornell students donated 27,450 items of clothing to six local community agencies, according to Connie Fuess, one of the organizers of the annual clothing drive. Recipient agencies are the Tompkins County Task Force for Battered Women, the Tompkins County Economic Opportunity Corporation (EOC), Family and Children's Services, the local Tibetan refugee association, HOMES Inc. and the Committee on United States/Latin American Relations (CUSLAR). Donations were received from faculty, staff and students. The drive was sponsored by Ecology House in cooperation with the university's Office of Campus Life and volunteers from the Ithaca Rotary Club. Chair of the 1996 clothing recovery drive was Amber O'Reilly, a resident of Ecology House and a 1996 Agriculture and Life Sciences graduate.

Pollution prevention award: New York Governor George Pataki recently presented Cornell's Transportation Demand Management Program with a 1996 Governor's Award for Pollution Prevention. Cornell was one of nine organizations in the state to receive the award for outstanding environmental protection programs, and the university is the first not-for-profit organization to win the award in its nine-year history. Applicants for the award were judged on "their success at reducing hazardous pollution, as well as their overall environmental record, the economic benefits of the program, the extent of employee participation, management commitment, community involvement and whether their pollution prevention practices could be adopted by others." Cornell's program was developed in 1990 to reduce the number of faculty and staff vehicles brought to campus.

English teachers: Interested in helping people from foreign countries associated with the Cornell community? The Cornell Campus Club has a program for teaching English as a second language to persons temporarily in Ithaca. The teaching commitment is for one, two-hour class per week plus preparation. The Summer Session runs from July 1 through Aug. 2. For more information, contact Marie Dullea at 277-2488 or Joan McMinn at 277-0013.