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Paper submissions sought: The organizers of the Harrison M. Trice Competition are seeking submissions this academic year (fall 2002 and spring 2003) for the best undergraduate papers on the use and abuse of alcohol and/or other drugs and campus life. Students may enter individually or in teams of two or more. Papers can be written as part of a course or an independent project. All entrants are encouraged to find a faculty sponsor. The student author or authors of each of the two winning entries will earn a prize of $1,000. The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2003. The competition is sponsored by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations' R. Brinkley Smithers Institute for Alcohol-Related Workplace Studies and is named for Harrison M. Trice, a professor of industrial and labor relations from 1955 to 1990 who studied the affect of alcohol and other drugs on American society and who died in 1994. In this first year of the Trice competition, organizers particularly encourage papers that have a Cornell focus -- for example, the use and abuse of alcohol during Orientation Week, Slope Day, on or off campus, or among particular groups, such as athletes or sorority or fraternity members. A special committee appointed by the Cornell President's Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs will select the winners, based on clarity, quality of writing, originality of ideas, synthesis of relevant research, appropriateness of research methods and applicability toward abuse prevention and intervention. Winners will be announced May 8, 2003. For details on the competition, see the R. Brinkley Smithers Institute for Alcohol-Related Workplace Studies web site at http://www.cornell.edu/extension/smithers or the Gannett Health Center web site at http://www.gannett.cornell.edu , or call Associate Professor William Sonnenstuhl, 255-3118. Send copies of papers to Katie Briggs, kb41@cornell.edu.