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First Aid and CPR courses:Employees can register for Red Cross sessions in standard first aid, adult CPR or community CPR by calling the Red Cross at 273-1900 and asking for a Cornell registration card. Four standard first aid course sessions are offered the mornings of Sept. 23 and 25, Oct. 9 and 11, Nov. 11 and 13, and Dec. 11 and 13. Participants will be eligible for certification in adult CPR and standard first aid. A four-hour adult CPR certification course will be offered the mornings of Sept. 11, Oct. 7 and Nov. 8. This course includes instruction on how to identify and care for breathing and cardiac emergencies for adults and heart disease prevention in adults. The six-and-one-half-hour community CPR certification is scheduled for Sept. 16 and 18, Oct. 2 and 4, Nov. 4 and 6, and Dec. 4 and 6. Participants will learn how to identify and care for breathing and cardiac emergencies in adults, infants and children. Departments will be billed for the course registration fee. Classes usually are held at Robert Purcell Community Center but can be held at other locations when requested by departments training six or more members. For more information call Health Education, Gannett Health Center, at 255-4782.

Upcoming Campus Store events: ·Sept. 20, 3-5 p.m., 2nd Annual Homecoming Group Book Signing with: Professor Robert Frank for The Winner-Take All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us; local author and M.F.A. program alumnus Edward Hardy for Geyser Life: A Novel; Cornell lecturer Marcelle Lapow Toor for Desktop Designers Illustration Handbook, and local authors Kip Wilcox and Lisa Cowden doing a signing and tasting for their cookbook Sweetness and Light: A Book of Desserts.

·Sept. 15-Oct. 15: Celebrate national Hispanic Heritage Month with book discounts in the Latino/Latina Studies section.

·Sept. 28-Oct. 5: Banned Books Week '96, with a banned book display and book discounts. English classes:Registration for free English classes sponsored by the Cornell Campus Club will take place Thursday, Sept. 5, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Hall's One World Room. There is a $10 registration fee. Classes begin Sept. 9. For further information, call Ann Marie Dullea at 277-2488 or Patricia Clark at 257-0407. Immunization and TB test clinics: Immunization and tuberculosis (TB) test clinics for new students are scheduled for Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays in September at Gannett Health Center. All new students are required by New York state law to be immunized against measles, mumps and rubella, and Cornell also requires immunization against tetanus within the past 10 years. International students also must have a TB test within one year prior to admission to Cornell or a chest X-ray within one year of entry if they have a history of positive TB tests. This year, immunizations and TB tests will be given only during scheduled clinics: Mondays, Sept. 9 and 16, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Tuesdays, Sept. 3, 10 and 17 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.; and Fridays, Sept. 6, 13 and 20, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. No appointment is needed. For information call 255-4364.