Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 7, for Cornell's annual Trustee/Council Weekend.

The annual meeting of the 440-member council and a quarterly meeting of the trustees are scheduled on campus every fall so that the groups may attend joint meetings and hear President Hunter Rawlings' State of the University Address.

The council is an advisory body made up of alumni and friends of the university who are elected by the trustees.

Rawlings' speech will be delivered Friday, Oct. 8, at 9 a.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall.

The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet Saturday morning at 9 a.m. in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The open portion of the meeting will include a report from Rawlings, a report from Provost Don M. Randel on the university's 2000-01 state budget request for the state-assisted schools and colleges, a report on enrollment trends and a financial report on fiscal year 1998-99. A limited number of tickets for the full board's open session will be available starting at 9 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, at the Information and Referral Center in the lobby of Day Hall. No tickets are needed for the open sessions of the committees.

Several committees will have open sessions:

• The Committee on Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs, meeting Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel, will be open for discussion on a range of program and financial matters affecting Cornell's state-assisted colleges.
• The Buildings and Properties Committee, meeting Thursday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in the Statler Hotel's Yale-Princeton Room, will be open for the first 20 minutes to hear status reports on ongoing projects. A presentation will be made on proposed exterior changes to the School of Industrial and Labor Relations' Catherwood Library and Conference Center buildings.
• The Committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life, meeting Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Yale-Princeton Room, will be open for the first 25 minutes for an overview of the year and for a report on the Middle States Association reaccreditation process.

After Rawlings' speech, at 10:30 Friday morning, there will be a question-and-answer session with the provost, deans and executive staff.

On Friday afternoon at 2:30 and Saturday morning at 9, council members can choose from a series of seminars offered by Cornell faculty on a variety of subjects. The seminars range from "The Cornell Genomics Initiative: Leadership in the New Era of Life Sciences" to "Leadership, Scholarship, and Athletics" to "Gender Studies at Cornell: Are Sex and Gender Socially Constructed?" to "The Park Leadership Fellows Program: Finding the Business Leaders of Tomorrow."

On Saturday afternoon, trustees and council members may attend the Big Red vs. Harvard football game at 1 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field. In addition, a number of campus tours are scheduled between 1 and 4 p.m. These include a tour of the nearly complete 75,000-square-foot addition to the Albert R. Mann Library; a tour of the Bioacoustics Research Program (BRP), one of the world's leading facilities for the study of animal communication; and an in-depth tour of the Veterinary College's teaching facilities, among others.