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 preference is overwhelmingly for a smaller rather than a larger place."
David L. Brown, chair and professor of rural sociology, discussing the preferences of Americans who yearn to live somewhere other than where they do roughly one-third of the U.S. population, according to surveys in the Forth Worth (Tex.) Star Telegram, July 20. The article is on urban residents embracing the rural life.
"When I was a kid, the soda fountains would have a container with a lever that would measure out just the right amount [of malt powder]. I can't tell you exactly what that amount was, but it seemed to me it was substantial. I remember all this very well, because I was a skinny kid and I used to have a malted milkshake every single day after school."
David Bandler, professor of food science, in an article reminiscing about the delights of malted milkshakes, in the Hartford (Conn.) Courant on July 21.
"If carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubles within the next century as we expect, these species [of beans and cucumbers] may be able to withstand temperatures a few degrees cooler than they do now."
David Wolfe, associate professor of plant science, discussing how some plants may benefit from global warming in the Atlanta Constitution, July 27.
"I'm getting at how notions of identity and intimacy and pleasure have orbited around the wound and the wounded body. The very notion of publicness has, since the 19th century, revolved around the wound, around crime and spectacle. I'm trying to tie together the way this fascination operates."
Mark Seltzer, professor of English, describing his new book Serial Killers in the Aug. 1 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.