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:

"I would be very, very worried about that. [Requiring marines to work] 80 hours a week is total organizational irresponsibility. The monstrous [amount of] hours being worked by all military recruiters these days runs against the grain of the military's commitment to families."

--Samuel Bacharach, professor and director of the School of Industrial and Labor Relation's Institute of Workplace Studies and Smithers Institute, in an article commenting on the long hours that U.S. marines are required to work, in The State, a South Carolina newspaper, Oct. 17.

"The storm unleashed by Klestil's speech should make it clear that this festival does engage issues of modern cultural identity and difference in a country that is completing the century without having come to terms with its history."

--Michael Steinberg, professor of history, in an article about a cultural clash between Gérard Mortier, director of the Salzberg Music Festival, and Austrian President Thomas Klestil, in The New York Times, Oct. 17. Klestil denounced Mortier at Salzburg's opening ceremonies this year for favoring music that was too urban and disharmonious. Mortier countered that Klestil wanted to reinvigorate Austrian fascist ideas of harmony and beauty.

"Tea has a much more healthful connotation."

--Barbara Lang, lecturer in the Hotel School's Food and Beverage Institute, discussing the rise of "power teas" in place of three-martini lunches, in The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 15.