Members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 22, 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, which is open only to trustees, council members and their spouses, will be delivered Friday, Oct. 23, at 9 a.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall.

The 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 1999-00 state budget request for the state-assisted schools and colleges, a report on enrollment trends and a financial report on fiscal year 1997-98. A limited number of tickets for the full board's open session will be available starting at 9 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, 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 Thursday:

• The Committee on Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs, meeting from 2 to 4 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 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.

The Committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life will meet Friday from 2:15 to 4:15 p.m. in the Yale-Princeton Room. The meeting will be open for the first 30 minutes for an overview of the year and for reports on NCAA certification review and the recent restructuring of the provost's office.

After Rawlings' speech, at 10:45 Friday morning, there will be a question-and-answer session with the provost, deans and executive staff.

On Friday afternoon at 3:45 and Saturday morning at 10:15, council members can choose from a series of seminars offered by Cornell faculty on a variety of subjects. The seminars range from "Cutting-Edge Research in the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University" to "Back to the Future: Distance Learning at Cornell" to "Who Killed Classical Music? A Composer's View."

At 6:15 Friday evening, trustees and council members will have the opportunity to meet student recipients of named scholarship funds. On Saturday afternoon, trustees and council members will attend the Big Red vs. Dartmouth football game at Schoellkopf Field.