The early bird donors get the . . .

United Way donors who make their pledges or payments this month will have a chance to win some exciting Cornell prizes. According to Janiece Bacon Oblak, chair of the campus United Way campaign, several campus units have provided more than 30 premium gifts to encourage early donations to the 1997 campaign.

Prizes include football tickets, brunch at Banfi's, Cornell ice cream, theater tickets, gift certificates, pet food and a private, guided, hard-hat tour of Sage Hall, the new home of the Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Eight drawings will be held each week from among pledge cards turned in, and Oblak says the earlier you turn in your pledge card the greater the variety of prizes. Eight names will be drawn each week in October.

Here is a list of prizes collected by campaign volunteer John McKeown:

• Brunch for two at Banfi's
  
• Crimes of the Heart tickets at the Theatre Arts Center
  
• 20 Free games of bowling at Helen Newman Hall
  
• Tickets to Cornell Cinema
  
• 10 half-gallons of Cornell ice cream from the Dairy Store
  
• $25 gift certificates from Cornell Campus Store
  
• $10 certificates from Cornell Orchards
  
• A private, behind-the-scene tour for four of the Sage Hall construction project
  
• A private tour for two at the Johnson Art Museum and two T-shirts
  
• Two tickets for each of the remaining home football games
  
• Two bags of dog food from the College of Veterinary Medicine
  
• Two bags of cat food from the College of Veterinary Medicine
  
• Six free lunches at Trillium dining hall
  
• Winner's choice of a book of one-day parking permits in visitor's parking or a one-month transit pass or five free deliveries via the Red Runner courier service.