Here is a sampling of quotations from Cornell University faculty, students and staff that have appeared recently in the national and international news media:
"It almost felt like doing a documentary on myself. . . . it made me stronger. I remember hating my name, but as I grew older I became proud of it, because it was unique."
-- Trac Minh Vu, a senior majoring in film studies, discussing a film he produced on the life of Thien Minh Ly, a young man killed in a hate crime, in the Oregonian, Sept. 26.
"How are companies going to comply with this? Quotas. Now we're saying we don't care about your hiring methods. We don't care about your applicant pool. What we care about is what your work force looks like relative to the available labor pool."
-- David Sherwyn, assistant professor of hotel administration, commenting on a Florida sex discrimination case in which the EEOC ruled a restaurant did not have sufficient females on the wait staff, in the Miami Herald, Oct. 5.
"Basically our technology would decrease the cost of vaccines. Most of the companies that produce vaccines don't want to see that happen."
-- Hugh Mason, adjunct associate professor of plant breeding at the Boyce Thompson Institute, discussing genetically altered vegetables that could produce edible vaccines, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 6.
"If faith alone could solve our problems, cities in America ought to be in much better condition than in many European countries where most people never go to church. Unfortunately, faith has not kept our streets clean or safe, housed our homeless or healed our sick."
-- Isaac Kramnick, professor of government, and R. Laurence Moore, professor of history, in an opinion piece in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Oct. 9.
"Animals don't turn over the card to see if it's Hallmark."
-- Katherine A. Houpt, professor of veterinary physiology, on why homemade cat toys are as good as store-bought, in the Oct. 5 Hartford Courant.
"When you think about violence, about the connections with organized crime and the financial manipulations for personal gain, that kind of corruption, as best I can tell, is dramatically lower than 25 years ago. Twenty-five years ago, we used to hear about these things most often when someone was murdered. Now, it's different. It's coming to the surface now for the right reasons -- there are very serious efforts by government and some unions to clean up and expose corruption."
-- Richard Hurd, professor of labor studies, discussing the history of corruption in labor unions, in The New York Times, Oct. 28.