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:

"Turkey is an ally of the United States; therefore, the Kurds in Turkey are the opposition."

--Stephen Yale-Loehr, visiting scholar at Cornell Law School, in a Feb. 20 Baltimore Sun story about America's "schizophrenic" policy towards the Kurds of northern Iraq, whom the U. S. support in their resistance to Saddam Husein but oppose in their attacks on Turkey.

"There is much debate inside corporations about whether airing a commercial during the Super Bowl makes financial sense, but what is certain is that these pricey spots attract the world's attention and bring a good deal of prominence and attention to a corporation."

--Douglas Stayman, associate professor of marketing in the Johnson Graduate School of Management, quoted in the San Jose Mercury News Jan. 27.

"What happens in five years when Microsoft wants to add the next hot technology to Windows? It's difficult for a court order today to contemplate that."

--George Hay, the Edward Cornell Professor of Law and a former chief economist in the Department of Justice's antitrust division, explaining why a sanction like requiring Microsoft to remove its web browser from the Windows operating system would be ineffective, in a Washington Post story published in the International Herald Tribune, Feb. 16.

"We see a sharp demarcation between professionals working on professional business and people looking for self-help in personal matters. It's neighbors with barking dogs, fences built over driveways, and it's matrimonial, matrimonial, matrimonial."

--Thomas Bruce, co-director of the Law School's Legal Information Institute, describing visitors to the institute's web site, in Fortune magazine's Technology Buyer's Guide, Dec. 7.

"Children thrive on stability, regularity, predictability, security. They all build a sense of trust in children and basic trust is one of the primary ingredients for successful development."

--James Garbarino, professor of human development, in an article about foster children on the Newhouse News Service and in the New Orleans Times Picayune, Dec. 27.

"Any student will be able to log on the system and look at the job listings. Students will be able to see new job opportunities as they are entered, and all of the jobs they are qualified for in one place."

--Mark Savage, director of placement for engineering, describing a new Internet job-search system available to students, in Fortune magazine's Technology Buyer's Guide, Dec. 7.

"The more information we have, the better we'll be able to ensure our common birds will remain common and take measures to protect species already in decline. That's why it's so important to get as many people as possible to tell us what they're seeing."

--John Fitzpatrick, the L.A. Fuertes director of the Laboratory of Ornithology, explaining the purpose of the nationwide Great Backyard Bird Count in the San Jose Mercury News, Feb. 20.