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Open to the Cornell community and general public. All events are free unless noted otherwise. The CIFD meets Sunday evenings in the North Room of Willard Straight Hall. Teaching is held from 7:30 to 8:30, and request dancing is 8:30 to 10:30. On Feb. 16, Vlasko, Samogyi Karikazo and Kopacka will be taught, and the monthly planning meeting will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. For information, call Edilia at 387-6547 or Marguerite at 539-7335.
Thursdays, 8 p.m., Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Free and open to the community. Beginners are welcome; no partners are necessary. For information, call Minna at 257-7833.exhibits
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, on the corner of University and Central avenues, is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. Telephone: 255-6464.
* "Things of This World: Dutch Prints and Drawings of the 17th Century," through March 9.
* "Gendered Visions: The Art of Contemporary Africana Women Artists," through March 9.
* "Landscapes Rural and Urban: Photographs by Paula Chamlee and Michael A. Smith," through March 16.
* "ASAFO! African Flags of the Fante" opens Feb. 15 and will run through March 30.
* The museum will celebrate the opening of "ASAFO!" with Kuumba: Africa Day, a celebration of African culture for the entire family, Feb. 15 from noon to 4 p.m. See story.
* "Art for Lunch": On Feb. 20 at noon, graduate student Diane Butler will lead a tour of the "ASAFO!" exhibit.
"Abstract Expressionism in Drag: From Textual to Sexual," paintings and photographs by Christopher Ho, B. Arch. '97, through Feb. 15.
* Landscape paintings and drawings by Sophia Cheung, through Feb. 15.
* "Lens on Russia," photographs by Jonathan Talbot, Feb. 17-22.Films listed are sponsored by Cornell Cinema unless otherwise noted and are open to the public. All films are $4.50 ($4 for students, kids 12 and under and seniors), except for Tuesday night Cinema Off-Center at the Center for Theatre Arts ($2), Thursday early bird matinees (5:15 p.m.) and Sunday matinees ($3.50). Films are held in Willard Straight Theatre except where noted. Check out the Cornell Cinema Web site at http://www-cinema.slife.cornell.ed. films
"Kaspar Hauser" (1995), directed by Peter Sehr, with André Eisermann and Jeremy Clyde, 4:45 p.m.
"A Woman Under the Influence" (1974), directed by John Cassavetes, with Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk, 7:25 p.m.
"La Femme Nikita" (1991), directed by Luc Besson, with Anne Parillaud, Jean Anglade and Tcheky Karyo, 10:15 p.m.
"Kaspar Hauser," 7 p.m.
"The Ghost and the Darkness" (1996), directed by Stephen Hopkins, with Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer, 7:30 p.m., Uris.
"Rendezvous in Paris" (1996), directed by Eric Rohmer, with Clara Bellar and Aurore Rauscher, 9:50 p.m.
"Swingers" (1996), directed by Doug Liman, with Jon Favreau, Heather Graham and Vince Vaughn, 10 p.m., Uris.
"La Femme Nikita," midnight.
"The Boy From Mercury" (1996), directed by Martin Duffy, with James Hickey, Rita Tushingham and Tome Courtenay, IthaKid Film Fest, 2 p.m.
"Dr. Zhivago" (1963), directed by David Lean, with Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, 7 p.m.
"The Philadelphia Story" (1940), directed by George Cukor, with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, 7:05 p.m., Uris.
"The Ghost and the Darkness," 9:35 p.m., Uris.
"La Femme Nikita," 10:45 p.m.
"Swingers," midnight, Uris.
"Dr. Zhivago," 3:30 p.m.
"The Ghost and the Darkness," 7:30 p.m.
"The Sexual Life of Belgians" (1994), directed by Jan Bucquoy, with Jean-Henri Compere, presented by Pentangle, 7:30 p.m., Uris, free.
"Korea: The Cinema on the Road" (1996), directed by Jang Sun-Woo, 5:30 p.m., free.
"The Russia Idea" (1995), directed by several, 7 p.m., $5 admission includes "Battleship Potemkin."
"Battleship Potemkin" (1925), directed by Sergei Eisenstein, with A. Antonov, G. Alexandrov and V. Barsky, 8 p.m., free with admission to "The Russian Idea."
"Swingers," 9:45 p.m.
"Rendezvous in Paris," 7:15 p.m.
"Faust" (1994), directed by Jan Svankmajer, with Peter Cepek, 7:30 p.m., CTA Film Forum.
"The Philadelphia Story," 9:20 p.m.
"Blue Eyed," presented by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy as part of Black History Month, 5 p.m., Engineering Library, Carpenter Hall, free.
"Freeze. Die. Come to Life." (1989), directed by Vitaly Kanevski, 7:15 p.m.
"Swingers," 9:30 p.m.
"Looking for Richard" (1996), directed by Al Pacino, with Pacino, Kevin Spacey and Winona Ryder, 4:45 p.m.
"Opening Night" (1978), directed by John Cassavetes, with Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazzara, 7 p.m.
"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968), directed by Stanley Kubrick, with Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, 10 p.m.* Course changes: There is a $10 charge for adding each course. Courses may be dropped or credit hours or grading options may be changed through March 7 without penalty. Instructor of course and student's chairperson must sign the drop/add form. A course dropped after March 7 will appear on transcripts with a "W" (withdrawn). No course may be dropped or changed after May 2. graduate bulletin
* Income tax: International students with Cornell fellowships from which Cornell withheld tax will receive their Form 1042-S by March 15. You must use the form 1042-S along with the form W-2 "Wage and Tax Statement" (if you were also an employee) when filing your 1996 personal income tax return.
* Forms on Web: Forms needed for the Graduate School are available at Caldwell Hall, and many are on the Web. Forms for Federal Direct Loan Application for spring 1997, summer 1997 or the 1997-98 academic year are on the Web at http://www.gradschool.cornell.edu/gradschool-folder/fellowships/forms/forms-table. Forms for the Records Office are on the Web at http://www.gradschool.cornell.edu/gradschool-folder/current_student/forms/forms-table.
* Commencement is Sunday, May 25. To receive a May degree, the deadline for completing all requirements is May 16. Deadlines are earlier to have a diploma available for pickup following the commencement exercises (March 14) or to have one's name appear in the commencement program (March 26). A ceremony to individually recognize Ph.D. candidates will be Saturday, May 24, at 5 p.m. in Barton Hall; family, friends and faculty are invited. A reception follows the ceremony. Information will be in commencement packets available in March at the Grad School.
* Elections: Voting on March 4 and 5 for student-elected trustee on the Cornell Board of Trustees; sites are the Big Red Barn, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Willard Straight Hall, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Trillium, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; and RPU and Noyes Dining, 5 to 8 p.m.
* Graduate assembly: The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly will meet Monday, Feb. 24, at 5 p.m. in the Big Red Barn. All graduate students are welcome.lectures
Townsend Lecture: "Transforming Your Life: Virtue and Happiness," Julia Annas, University of Arizona, Feb. 18, 4:30 p.m., 142 Goldwin Smith.
Dieter Seebach of ETH - Zentrum, Zurich, will give the following Baker Lectures on "From the Biopolymer Poly (R-3-Hydroxybutyrate), sPHB, to b-Peptides - Journey of a Synthetic Chemist at the Interfaces of Organic, Biological, Inorganic, Medicinal, Polymer and Materials Chemistry": "Research: A Mystery Tour - An Overview," Feb. 18, 4:40 p.m., 200 Baker, and "Poly (R-3-Hydroxyalkanoates) - Biopolymers With Promise as Useful Materials," Feb. 20, 11:15 a.m., Baker.
"Guatemala: Massacres, Peace and Reconciliation," Paul Yamauchi, Feb. 17, 4:30 p.m., the Cafe, Anabel Taylor Hall.
"What is Kamakura New Buddhism?" Matsuo Kenji, Yamagata University, Feb. 20, 4:30 p.m., 374 Rockefeller Hall.
"The Return of the Visual in Post-Soviet Russia," Vladimir Padunov, University of Pittsburgh, Feb. 17, 12:15 p.m., 153 Uris Hall.
"Back on Track," Ellen Hart Peña, Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m., Statler Auditorium.
On Feb. 13 at 5 p.m. in the Johnson Museum, Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee will give a slide lecture of their work in conjunction with the special exhibition of their photographs.
"Constructing Christian Origins: The Acts of the Apostles in Early Christianity," Christopher Mount, University of Chicago, Feb. 14, 4 p.m., 374 Rockefeller Hall.
"Representations of Gender and Islam: The Philippines in Context," Anne-Marie Hilsdon, visiting fellow, Feb. 13, 12:20 p.m., Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave.
"Transition to a Market Economy in Vietnam," James Riedel, Johns Hopkins University, Feb. 20, 12:20 p.m., Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave.music
* Feb. 16, 3 p.m., Barnes Hall: Soprano Judith Kellock and pianist Xak Bjerken are joined by Ithaca College School of Music faculty members Ellen Jewett (violin), Elizabeth Simkin (cello) and Richard Faria (clarinet) to present romantic, comic and bawdy music from the end of the 19th century - including live animals. The featured works were penned by Arnold Schoenberg and his teacher, Alexander Zemlinsky, with the poetic inspiration of Richard Dehmel. See story.
* Feb. 17, 8:15 p.m., Barnes Hall: Soprano Loralyn Light presents a voice recital including works by Handel, Poulenc, Schubert, Sondheim and Lerner/Loewe that was made possible through an Individual Grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts.
Feb. 16: Dana Robinson will perform. The show runs Sundays from 8 to 11 p.m., with live sets at 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30, in the Cafe at Anabel Taylor Hall. Admission is free. Refreshments are available. Bound for Glory is broadcast on WVBR-FM 93.5 and 105.5.
Barenaked Ladies will perform Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall. Tickets, at $12/$14 for students and $16/$18 for the general public, are on sale at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office, Ithaca Guitar Works and Ticketmaster.
The Cornell Jazz Ensemble will perform Feb. 16 from 3 to 5 p.m.
religion
William Gipson, associate dean of the Chapel at Princeton University, will give the sermon Feb. 16 at 11 a.m.
Sundays, 5:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Union.
Fridays, 7:30 p.m., Balch Hall Unit 4 Lounge, speakers, open discussion and refreshments. Sunday morning prayers and breakfast, 7 a.m., at alternating locations. For more information, call 272-5320.
Weekend Masses: Sunday, 10 a.m., noon and 5 p.m., Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium. Daily Masses: Monday-Friday, 12:20 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. Sacrament of Reconciliation: Call the Catholic Office at 255-4228 for an appointment.
Thursdays, 7 p.m., Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Everyone on campus is welcome. Room G-20 Anabel Taylor Hall is open daily for prayer and study.
Also, Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., First Church of Christ, Scientist, 101 University Ave., Ithaca.
Sundays, worship and Eucharist, 9:30 a.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel.
Meeting for worship, Sundays, 11 a.m., Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Child care and rides provided. For information, call 273-5421.
Shabbat: Evening Services: Conservative and Reform, 5:30 p.m., meet in the Anabel Taylor Hall lobby; Orthodox, at Young Israel, call 272-5810 for times. Morning Services: Orthodox, 9:45 a.m., Edwards Room, ATH.
Sundays, 1 p.m., chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall.
Sundays, 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., St. Luke Lutheran Church, Oak Ave. at College Ave.
Friday Juma' prayer, 1:15 p.m., One World Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Daily Zuhr, Asr, Maghreb and Isha' prayers at 218 Anabel Taylor Hall.
Protestant Cooperative Ministry: Worship, Sundays, 11 a.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel.
Sunday Worship Services, 10:30 a.m.; Communion on the first and third Sundays of the month. Sunday school and adult Bible classes at 9 a.m. 149 Honness Lane, Ithaca, 273-9017.seminars
"Regulation and Function of the Acid Labile Subunit of the Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Complex," Yves Boisclair, animal science, Feb. 18, 12:20 p.m., 348 Morrison Hall.
"How Activators Stimulate Transcription: The View From the Basal Transcriptional Machinery," William Tansey, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Feb. 14, noon, large seminar room, Biotechnology Building.
"Regulation of the Metaphase-Anaphase Transition by Spindle Assembly Checkpoint," Rey-Huei Chen, University of California, Feb. 17, noon, large seminar room, Biotechnology Building.
"D-Cyclins: A Link Between Development and Cancer," Peter Sicinski, Whitehead Institute, Feb. 20, noon, large seminar room, Biotechnology Building.
"Electrical Impedance Tomography of Multiphase Flows," Roger Bonnecaze, University of Texas at Austin, Feb. 17, 4:30 p.m., 165 Olin Hall.
"The Biophysical Chemistry of Human Lung Surfactant," Ka Yee C. Lee, University of California at Santa Barbara, Feb. 13, 4:40 p.m., 119 Baker.
"Phenotypic Plasticity and Vertebral Variation in Slender Salamanders (Plethodontidae: Batrachoseps)," Elizabeth Jockusch, University of Arizona, Feb. 19, 4 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.
"Will the Price of Electricity Really Decrease by Restructuring the Electric Power Industry?" Niraj Jha, Princeton University, Feb. 12, 4:30 p.m., 310 Phillips Hall.
"Morphological Transformation: Does Darwin's Notion of Historical `Actual Passage' Make Any Sense?" Ronald Brady, Ramapo College, Feb. 17, 4 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.
"Does Annual Ryegrass (Lolium multiflorium) Have an Allelopathic Effect on Concord Grape Vines," Greg Sandor, fruit and vegetable science, Feb. 13, 4 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building.
"HACCP: A Potential New Food Safety System for Agriculture," Bob Gravani, food science, Feb. 20, 4 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building.
"Genetic and Cellular Mechanisms of Hindbrain Segmentation and Segment Specification in the Zebrafish," Cecilia Moens, University of Oregon, Feb. 13, 4 p.m., large seminar room, Biotechnology Building.
"The Regulation and Targets of CED-3/ICE-like Proteases in Programmed Cell Death," Ding Xue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Feb. 17, 4 p.m., large seminar room, Biotechnology Building.
"Monolignol Glucosides and Glucosidases in Lignification," Palith Dharmawardhanna, Feb. 19, 12:20 p.m., small seminar room, Biotech Building.
"Plasmas, the Early Solar System and Paleoceanography," Alexander Halliday, Feb. 18, 4:30 p.m., 1120 Snee Hall.
"Preliminary Report on the Development of a Rat Model of Brugian Filariasis," Robin Bell, Baker Institute for Animal Health, Feb. 14, 12:15 p.m., Boyce Thompson Institute.
"Maternal Stunting and Delivery Complications," Kathleen Merchant, University of Nevada, Feb. 13, 12:20 p.m., 100 Savage Hall.
"Redefining the Nation: The East Indian Cultural Struggle for Inclusion in Trinidad," Viranjini Munashinghe, anthropology, Feb. 14, 12:10 p.m., 335 Baker Hall.
"Pollution Prevention Improving Both Economic and Environmental Performance," Andrea Farrell, chair of the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable and manager of the state of Delaware's pollution prevention program, Feb. 14, 10 a.m., 253 Malott Hall.
"Dollars, Darts and Desire," Steve Rubenstein, Society for the Humanities and anthropology, Feb. 18, 12:15 p.m., 153 Uris Hall.
"U.S. Manufacturing: Succeeding in a Globally Competitive Environment," Al Suter, Emerson Electric Co., Feb. 13, 4:30 p.m., 155 Olin Hall.
"Mechanical Properties in Small Dimensions," Shefford Baker, Max-Planck-Institut für Metall-Forschung, Feb. 13, 4:30 p.m., 140 Bard Hall.
"Interactions of WF6 With TiN-Tibarriers During W Chemical Vapor Deposition," G. Ramanath, University of Illinois, Feb. 20, 4:30 p.m., 140 Bard.
"The Microbiology of Reductive Dechlorination of Chlorinated Solvents," Stephen Zinder, microbiology, Feb. 13, 4 p.m., 105 Riley Robb.
"Microbial Ecology of Disease Suppressive Composts and Compost-Amended Soils," Eric Nelson, plant pathology, Feb. 20, 4 p.m., 105 Riley Robb.
"Fly Visual Systems: Evolutionary Implications and Phylogenetic Consequences," Elke Buschbeck, neurobiology and behavior, Feb. 13, 12:30 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.
"Synapses and Simulations: Past, Present and Future," Joel Stiles, neurobiology and behavior, Feb. 20, 12:30 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.
"Evidence for and Role of Metabolic Channeling," Patrick Stover, nutritional sciences, Feb. 13, 12:20 p.m., 200 Savage Hall.
"Pheasant Propagation and History of Pheasant Management in New York," Mike Strickney, Richard E. Reynolds Game Farm Manager, Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m., Fuertes Room, Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road.
"Institutional Theory and International Institutions," Stephen Krasner, Stanford University, Feb. 13, 12:15 p.m., G-08 Uris Hall.
"Single-Channel Studies of NMDA Receptors: Substates, Subunits and Ca++FLUX," Tony Auerbach, SUNY Buffalo, Feb. 17, 4:30 p.m., Lecture Hall III, Veterinary Research Tower.
"Accelerator Physics at the Luminosity Frontier: The Self-Interaction of Beams," Joseph Rogers, Cornell, Feb. 17, 4:30 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
"Spreading It Thin: Dispersion of an Intravascular Marker From the Pulmonary Artery to the Carotid Artery in the Exercising Horse," Pamela Wilkins, clinical sciences, Feb. 18, 4 p.m., Lecture Hall III, Veterinary Research Tower.
"Predicting the Effects of Increasing Tropospheric Ozone Levels on Major Forest of the United States," David Weinstein, Boyce Thompson Institute, Feb. 14, 11:15 a.m., 404 Plant Science Building.
"A hrp-linked Pathogenicity/Avirulence Locus of Erwinia amylovora," Adam Bogdanove, plant pathology, Feb. 19, 12:20 p.m., 404 Plant Science.
TBA, Shelly Chaiken, New York University, Feb. 14, 3:30 p.m., 202 Uris Hall.
"Gaia: The Living Earth From Space," Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Feb. 17, 4:30 p.m., 609 Clark Hall.
"Statistical Methods for Quality-of-Life-Adjusted Survival Analysis," Bernard Cole, Brown University, Feb. 19, 3:30 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building.symposiums
"Offroads Disciplines: Who's Got the Map?" conference featuring talks by scholars from Cornell, Harvard, Yale and Pennsylvania State universities, Smith College and the University of Michigan. Feb. 14, 1 to 6 p.m., and Feb. 15, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., A.D. White House. Keynote speakers: Abbey Zanger, Harvard, "Unmappable Disciplines: Views from the Early Modern Frontier," Feb. 14, 5:45 p.m.; and Francis Aparicio, Michigan, "Ethnifying Spanish: Resisting Hybridity, Feb. 15, 12:30 p.m.theater
Strider - A Play with Music will be performed Feb. 13-16 and 19-22 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 16 and 22 at 2 p.m. in the Flexible Theatre at the Center for Theatre Arts. Tickets are $8 and $6. See story.
Join the director, cast and others after the Feb. 20 performance of Strider for a "talk-back" discussion.miscellany