Here is a sampling of quotations from Cornell University faculty, students and staff that have appeared recently in the national and international news media:
"The only prediction I'm certain of is we'll never go back."
-- Jennie T. Farley, professor of industrial and labor relations, discussing the increasing numbers of women with children under 6 entering the labor force, in a Gannett News Service article in the Boston Sunday Herald on May 4.
"Sewage sludge has nice nutrients. The thing we sometimes forget is that it also is industrial waste."
-- Ellen Z. Harrison, director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute, on the deregulation of sludge in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 6.
"Opponents of the current reform effort characterize the battle as the big banks against the little guys: Wall Street vs. Main Street."
-- Jonathan R. Macey, professor of law and director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, commenting on a controversial bill that would separate commercial banking from investment banking, in the Los Angeles Times, May 8.
"For $10 million they're going to save the African farmers hundreds of millions of dollars."
-- Donald W. Roberts, insect pathologist, Boyce Thompson Institute of Plant Research at Cornell, in the May 16 Wall Street Journal, discussing how a mite could biologically save cassava, an important staple crop in Africa.
"If American executives are to be true to their free market ideology, they must eliminate the protectionist barriers and let global market forces fairly decide their salaries."
-- Jan Hack Katz, senior lecturer on international business in the Johnson Graduate School of Management, discussing executives' salary protection by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, an international non-tariff trade barrier, in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on May 21.
"What may be needed is a radical rethinking of tenure in which record-keeping, portfolio maintenance and attention to procedure are made the responsibility of human resource professionals, and peer reviews deal only with quality and originality -- a sufficiently controversial and exhausting function, but one that academics recognize as important."
-- Jennifer Halpern, assistant professor, and Paul Velleman, associate professor, both of industrial and labor relations, in a letter in Science magazine May 30.