Here is a sampling of quotations from Cornell University faculty, students and staff that have appeared recently in the national news media:
"The Packers may not actually be 'America's team' -- in a diverse nation such as ours, who has the right to make such a claim? But they are, in the truest sense, the 'people's team' and, especially given their renewed success, their ownership structure might well serve as a model for cities across the nation as they confront the greed and power of corporations."
-- Isaac Kramnick, the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government, in an op-ed piece written with Harvey Kaye of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, in The Washington Post, Jan. 26.
"I don't get much, usually."
-- Jonathan Levine, senior physics major and 1996 Rhodes Scholar, talking about sleep, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 10.
"If you look at those numbers you can see why they're all competing like hell. What has slowly and surely been happening is a shifting away from manufacturing to a service economy, and among the services, tourism has become a major force."
-- Malcolm Noden, senior lecturer in the School of Hotel Administration, in an article about how tourism is replacing industry as the economic mainstay of America's cities, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 15.
"Those are the people who are supposed to have flexibility over their schedules, but in fact they're working more and more."
-- Francine D. Blau, the Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations, in a Newhouse News Service article about research showing an increase in the number of high-paid employees working 49 or more hours per week, in the San Jose Mercury News, Jan. 5.
"[In many instances] what they're doing is displacing the point at which you get some postural deviation [strain]. They're not really eliminating that postural deviation."
-- Alan Hedge, professor of design and environmental analysis who studies ergonomics, discussing new keyboard designs, in The Washington Post, Dec. 24.