All Randy Worobo, associate professor of food science and technology, ever wanted to do as a college student was to go back to the farming life of his childhood. Five miles from their nearest neighbor, the Worobo family calved 800 cattle each year and grew the grain they needed to feed them on their 12,000-acre ranch in rural Alberta, Canada. "My brother and I knew, though, that we couldn't stay on the farm," says Worobo, whose high school class consisted of just six students. "Our parents insisted that we go get a degree from a university -- not a college -- in anything, even basket weaving, to see that there's more to life than farming. After that, they said we could come back." (April 14, 2005)
The only airline not singing the blues these days may be JetBlue Airways, according to industry leaders on the "Flying High for Years to Come" panel at the 80th Annual Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC) April 8, 2005.
Tony Ehrenreich, a South African labor leader who helped dismantle apartheid, called for an end to "globalized apartheid" when he spoke on campus April 7. While "globalization is a reality and has many positive benefits, it is structured so the benefits go to the wealthiest countries, at the expense of the poorest," said Ehrenreich, the keynote speaker at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations' Union Days, April 6-8, 2005. (April 12, 2005)
Nobody knows the slippery slope better than Patrick Kuhse, who spoke April 5, 2005, in visiting assistant professor of ethics Dana Radcliffe's Ethical Issues in Finance and Accounting class at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, for the second year in a row.
For the third year in a row, the Career Management Center at Cornell University's S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management has taken its search for corporate recruiters to new heights -- approximately 30,000 feet in the air, to be exact.
Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center is sponsoring a benefit concert by Sweet Honey In The Rock, the internationally renowned Grammy Award-winning a cappella ensemble. The concert is at Ithaca's Historic State Theatre Sunday, April 17, 2005, at 7 p.m. (April 12, 2005)
Graduate students in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Department of Communication at Cornell University are sponsoring a conference, "Science for Sale?: Public Communication of Science in a Corporate World," April 15-17 on the seventh floor of Clark Hall on the Cornell campus. It is free and open to the public. "Science for Sale?" is an interdisciplinary weekend conference for exploring the mediation of science in a corporate environment. (April 12, 2005)
In 2004 actions by "a significant number" of United Nations (U.N.) forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo prompted the world body to confront a problem that had previously gone unnoticed: sexual exploitation and abuse by its staff and peace keeping troops. On Friday, April 15, two U.N. staffers will discuss this problem and how the U.N. plans to address it. The event is titled "Toward the Elimination of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in U.N. Peacekeeping Operations." Their talks are based on a report they helped prepare for the U.N.'s General Assembly at the request of Secretary General Kofi Annan. (April 12, 2005)
Anita L. Allen, author and University of Pennsylvania professor of law, will present a talk titled "A Tour of the Ethical Landscape," Tuesday, April 19, at 4:30 p.m. in the Lewis Auditorium (Auditorium D) in Goldwin Smith Hall. Allen is the author of The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape (2004), named by Publisher's Weekly as one of the top nonfiction books of 2004. (April 12, 2005)
A scholarly reflection on the legacy of the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida titled "Literature and Democracy" will be held April 15 to 16 on the Cornell University campus. It is free and open to the public. Hosted by the Cornell Program in French Studies, the symposium brings together nine outstanding scholars in the fields of literature and literary theory -- Derrida's happy hunting grounds. (April 12, 2005)
ITHACA, N.Y. --Cornell University's Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large program will host two distinguished visitors this month: Lynn Hershman Leeson, professor of art in the Technocultural Studies Program at the University of California-Davis, and Jules Pretty, head of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Essex, England. Pretty will lecture on "Clarifying the Ends and Means of Sustainability: Some European Perspectives," Wednesday, April 20, at 4:30 p.m. in 401 Warren Hall. (April 12, 2005)
Paul Rusesabagina, the hero portrayed in the Oscar-nominated movie "Hotel Rwanda," will deliver a public lecture, "Hotel Rwanda: A Lesson Yet to Be Learned," Wednesday April 20, at 8 p.m. in the Statler Auditorium on the Cornell University campus. Tickets are $5, available at the Willard Straight ticket office. All proceeds will benefit the Genocide Intervention Fund. (April 12, 2005)
