Cornell University officials on Sept. 22 responded to a request by Howard King, a Los Angeles lawyer representing the rock band Metallica and rap artist Dr. Dre, that the university block students' access to the Napster file-sharing service. The text of Cornell's response, sent to King in a letter signed by Patricia A. McClary, associate university counsel, follows.
How could something so small have so much debris lying around? That is the puzzle presented by asteroid 433 Eros in the first major reports on the composition and history of the 21-mile-long body, the solar system's first asteroid to be subjected to close study. Writing in the latest edition of the journal Science (Sept. 22).
Rachelle Hood-Phillips, chief diversity officer of Denny's Restaurants, will deliver a talk at Cornell Sept. 26. The talk will take place from 4 to 5 p.m in 305 Ives Hall and is free and open to the public.
Cornell's Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics will hold an in-service income tax school in November to review tax reporting and management.
Cornell's statutory colleges will hold an Open House for prospective freshmen students on Saturday, Oct. 21, and a Transfer Day for prospective undergraduate transfer students on Friday, Nov. 3.
Peter Neufeld, co-author of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted (Doubleday, 2000) and an outspoken advocate for the rights of the wrongly accused, will speak at Cornell University Law School.
Mediator and arbitrator Marcia L. Greenbaum will deliver the Jean McKelvey Neutral-in-Residence inaugural lecture at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Cornell and leaders of the city of Ithaca have reached conceptual agreement on a complex project that would strengthen the Ithaca Commons by bringing additional jobs and sales- and property-tax revenues to downtown Ithaca.
Visiting nurses have helped reduce child abuse and neglect by up to 80 percent over a 15-year period among a group of low-income, unmarried women visited during their pregnancies and the first two years of their babies' lives.
Cornell Cooperative Extension and National 4-H Week will be celebrated from Sept. 30 through Oct. 7 on the Cornell campus and at events around Tompkins County. This year's theme is "Strengthening the Economic and Social Vitality of Communities."
The Alumni Association of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University will honor eight alumni at the association's annual alumni awards banquet Friday, Oct. 13.
Jeff Hawkins, the inventor of the PalmPilot, is being honored by Cornell Sept. 22 as the 2000 Entrepreneur of the Year and will deliver an address at 4 p.m. that day on campus in the Statler Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public.
