Soundbites

Here is a sampling of quotations from Cornell University faculty, students and staff that have appeared recently in the national and international news media:

"That kind of involvement is unusual, in that it is not a day-to-day occurrence. But when very large issues of structure arise, they were involved."

--Henrik N. Dullea, vice president for university relations, discussing the history of the City University of New York's (CUNY's) relations with the mayor of New York City and the governor, after they proposed an end to CUNY's offering remedial education to its students, in The New York Times, May 8.

"There was a grass-roots women's movement that started to identify this as a collective issue. What was so powerful was that it gave a name to an experience that all women had, but didn't have a conceptual framework to address."

--K.C. Wagner, School of Industrial and Labor Relations extension associate, discussing the landmark 1975 case at Cornell that is credited with bringing the issue of sexual harassment to the national consciousness, in The New York Times Magazine, May 3.

"I refer to it as the black hole of capital litigation. It is by far the most conservative appeals court in the country. You lose cases you would win in any other circuit."

--John H. Blume, professor of law, commenting on decisions made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, which has jurisdiction over the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in The Washington Post, April 26.

"Individuals have different levels of sensitivity. I myself would not like to be in a spray drift area where this material was being applied."

--William Smith, extension associate in entomology, commenting on the effects of the herbicide tebuthiuron being sprayed on illegal drug crops in Colombia, in an Associated Press wire story, April 23.