"Are We All Equal Under the Law?" will be the question discussed at the fifth annual civil rights symposium sponsored by the Cornell Political Forum Tuesday, April 14, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall Auditorium.
It doesn't have a brain or a heart, and its walk is a little like the scarecrow's, but a little headless, armless, trunkless two-legged robot, developed at Cornell University, can walk, wobble, hobble, limp, stride and stagger. But it can't stand still in any position without falling over. (April 7, 1998)
The Kingsbury commission, appointed by Cornell University Provost Don M. Randel, announced today (April 2) the results of the necropsy of the unidentified object removed from Cornell's McGraw tower on March 13. In a four-word executive summary, the commission found: "It is a pumpkin!"
Women who cook, eat and chat together also improve their diet together, according to a Cornell University study of a cooperative extension program. In fact, women on limited income who participated in the six-week Sisters in Health program reported they ate 40 percent more fruits and vegetables.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and slavery expert David Brion Davis will speak at Cornell Wednesday, April 8, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall in a lecture titled "The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery: Seeing the Big Picture." The lecture is free and open to the public and is made possible by the Walter LaFeber and Joel Silbey Fund in American History, which is sponsoring Davis' visit.
Politicians across the country - and in particular congressmen - are engaged in a frenzied dance of political extortion, extracting payments from constituents for legislative inaction. "It's a shakedown - and it's perfectly legal," says Cornell law Professor Fred S. McChesney.
Jaclyn Engelman explained meteor showers called Leonids. Paul Kleinman talked about analyzing U.S. census data. Joshua Ladau described the peculiar mating habits of crickets. All three are 18-year-old undergraduate freshmen doing paid, sometimes graduate-level research at Cornell.
When Cornell art history Professor Robert G. Calkins was 17 years old, he took a bicycle trip through southern England and France. "I was swept off my feet," he said, by the countryside, the people and the antiquity he saw. Most of all, he was amazed and moved by the great cathedrals of Europe.
"Technology for 21st Century Teaching," offered by Cornell's Office of Distance Learning, will be held Friday, April 3, beginning at 8 p.m. in Room 105 ILR Conference Center, Garden Avenue. There is no registration fee.
Cornell has vigorously reaffirmed its commitment to providing students with the financial aid they need to attend the university and has significantly increased funding -- with some awards boosted as much as 40 percent -- of a major financial aid program, officials announced last week.