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FEBRUARY 1989 24 Theater Arts Take Center Stage Cover
VOLUME 91 The Proscen-
NUMBER 6 By Mary Jaye Bruce ium Theatre
The new Center for the Performing Arts in CoUegetown awaits its first
startles architects and excites drama buffs. audience in the
new arts center
34 Tom Dyckman Strikes a Balance
in CoUegetown.
By Barbara Mink
The uncommon interests of a very productive professor JON REIS
of management.
DEPARTMENTS 20 News
Animal rights activists go after
4 From the Editors the Medical College.
A campus is no ivory tower. no Cfiidpηfo
8 Letters Engineers who can write.
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16 Faculty 75 Alumni Activities
Work near absolute zero. Clubhouse in Manhattan takes
shape.
18 Sports _ .
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Champions find a second year 80 Another View
is not easy. Lace, fabric of history.
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• Armenia-
bound Prof.
Thomas
O'Rourke, civil
engineering,
leaves Ithaca
airport in
December to join
a U.S. team in-
vited to analyze
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earthquake dam-
age in the repub-
lic. He repre-
sented multi-col-
lege national
earthquake
research center
at Buffalo.
O'Rourke went
to Ecuador in
1987 on a simi-
lar mission.
BiLL WARREN r ITHACA JOURNA
No Ivory Tower
T
he phrase " ivory tower" was na, Mali, Tanzania, and Zaire.
once used to dismiss universi- The work is to analyze the im-
ties and the work done within pact on the poor of government price
them as somehow outside the support, food prices, wage levels,
"real" world. A bearded pro- and changes in social programs such
fessor of muzzy mien personified as primary health care.
this caricature of higher education. • The National Science Founda-
Not so today. The university is tion asked two faculty members who
right in the middle of study, debate, teach organizational behavior to as-
and action on many real-life fronts. sess the most effective ways to fi-
Five examples make the point: nance and manage the transfer of
• The U.S. Agency for Interna- discoveries in biotechnology into
tional Development (AID) con- medical and agricultural products
tracted last fall with the university's for the marketplace. Professors
Division of Nutritional Studies to John Freeman, Management, and
conduct the most comprehensive Stephen Bailey, Industrial and La-
study ever mounted to measure the bor Relations, are doing the work.
effects of economic policies on the Freeman explains that biotech
poor in Africa. Work is to take place results are more difficult to put to
in Cameroon, Guinea, Malawi, Gha- use than is, say, a new semiconduc-
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V A C A T I ON B U L L E T IN
Vol. Ill, No. 1 Cornell's Adult University February 1989
Istanbul
September 24-October 4, 1989
Crossroads of Europe and Asia, center of
antiquity, Christianity, and Islam, guardian
of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn, Is-
tanbul is one of the world's great cities. Join
College of Architecture Dean William G.
McMinn for explorations of Istanbul's ar-
chitectural and cultured treasures.
Australia
October 29-November 18, 1989
Most visitors never get beyond the big cities
or linger long enough in one place to appre-
ciate the bounty of Australia's natural envi-
ronment. Botanist John Kingsbury and zo-
ologist Louise Kingsbury will take you to
Tasmania, the Great Barrier Reef, Mel-
bourne, and Sydney in search of a truly re-
markable and vibrant land and people.
Sonoran Desert
Summer CAU hi Ithaca
May 6-11, 1989
We still have a few places for CAU's spring- Four, weeklong sessions for everyone in the family
time desert and astronomy adventures at July 2-29, 1989
the Tanque Verde Ranch in the Sonoran
desert outside Tucson, Arizona, with natu-
Escape from civilization, exercise your mind arid body, give the kids a week at
ralist Verne Rockcastle and astronomer
college, and don't spend a mint in the process. Courses for adults include
Yervant Terzian.
twenty-eight seminars and workshops such as: History of Jerusalem—
Wines — Entomology — Astronomy — Paleobiology — Thailand — Psy-
New Mexico chology — American Humor — Writing — Sculpture — Geology — Modern
Britain—Farms of the Finger Lakes—Portrait Photography—Book Collect-
August 5-11, 1989 ing—Field Natural History. CAU's Youth College offers learning and recrea-
tion, all day and every evening, for youngsters three through sixteen.
High in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
near Taos and Santa Fe are monuments of
natural and cultural history that all of us de-
serve to see and understand. Come with ge- Fall Weekends
Gulf of Maine
ologist William Travers and historian Dan
Usner for a week of discovery in a glorious 1989
August 14-September 10, 1989
setting.
Take part in one of seven weeklong pro- CAU's fall weekend seminars will take
Charleston grams focusing on the various arts and sci- place on Cape Cod (September 14-17) and
ences of the sea, including marine biology, at the Sterling Inn in Pennsylvania's Poco-
October 20-24, 1989 ornithology, gulf ecology, drawing, pho- no Mountains (October 20-22). Ornithol-
tography, and sculpture. John B. Heiser, ogy and autumn ecology will be our focus
Retrace the culture of the Old South and the Richard B. Fischer, and the staff of the on the Cape; "Looking at Latin America"
politics of secession and Civil War among Shoals Marine Laboratory will be teaching. will be our topic for the Sterling Inn.
the historic sites of Charleston, Fort Sum-
ter, and the low country plantations, with
For program details and registration information please call CAU at any time.
CAU favorite Joel Silbey. We'll stay at the
comfortable and centrally located Mills cap
House in Charleston.
Cornell's Adult University
626 Thurston Avenue, Ithaca, New York 14850. Telephone [phone]
MEET
FROM THE EDITORS
ITHACA.
tor, a product whose marketing he
studied earlier. Biological products
require extensive testing and sub-
stantial capitalization, "more than a
lab or individual entrepreneur can
arrange/' he observes.
• The State of New York is rely-
ing on a study by Prof. Vernon
Briggs of Industrial and Labor Rela-
tions to focus attention on the rapid
growth of minority population in the
state. His study predicts minority
groups that have the greatest dif-
ficulties gaining job skills and educa-
Cornell alumni, looking for a
distinctive site tor a meeting of your tion will outnumber whites of Euro-
professional organization, corporate pean ancestry in New York by 2015.
executives, a governmental work- To avoid shortages of qualified
shop or seminar?
workers and surpluses of unqualified
job seekers, his report suggests,
A place you know offers wonderful
scenery, recreation, cultural events, "expanded education, training, and
tours, sports, and fine dining places. retraining programs are imperative.
At reasonable prices. They should be coupled with efforts
to assist members of minority
Call or write A. E. (Tony) Spinelli,
groups to find jobs and affordable
Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention 8
housing in areas outside New York
Visitors Bureau, 122 W. Court Street,
Ithaca, NY 14850, [phone]. City."
• An alumnus, Alan Huang 70 of
AT&T's Bell Labs, is at the fore-
front of efforts to build a better com-
putational mousetrap—an alterna-
tive to the electronic computer. His
groundbreaking work with lasers is
described in more detail on page 64.
• The last Cornellian we'll cite
here is the only one who in any way
resembles the bearded prof of leg-
end—dramatic C. Everett Koop, MD
'41, the U.S. surgeon general.
As Ronald Reagan prepared to
leave Washington, some journalists
and public figures singled out
Koop's battle against cigarette
smoking as one of the singular
achievements of the past eight
Vacation in the best circles. years.
The number of smokers is re-
ported as going down, the combined
You can see so much in circles. One all, which you can also choose to do
effort of Dr. Koop, the American
can be the sun warming your body. at the Bahamas resort that's your
Cancer Society, and individuals mo-
Another, the Bahamian moon private country club by the sea.
bilized locally by the national effort.
rising over romantic white For reservations and informa-
Most universities work hard to
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The world finds this talent in short
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inclusive cost.
1973 this month, but appears here quickly becoming just another ex-
because its subject matter ranges well president).
Call or write for a brochure, and beyond one class or one university. Quayle could have done that by
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We're formative years at those times, the but he hadn't stopped forever on his
first member of our generation 21st birthday. Admittedly, this has
looking for elected to national office, is 'The all happened fast; Dukakis was the
Man Who Wasn't There." fist national candidate from the Ko-
Quayle is the "Fortunate Son" rean War era. But it should be clear
a few singer John Fogerty sneered at when that we will not be able to play by the
we were freshmen. It's not that he's same old rules, and we shouldn't. It's
bird brains. conservative; many of us are, and our job to establish new ones.
were. It's not that he didn't go to Vi- It is, at least, refreshing to note
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If you know birds, we'd like to that regard, didn't. It is rather that bearer to rally Baby Boomers, that
know you. he seems so completely untouched George Bush was elected more in
Because the more we by the social upheavals of our age. spite of than because of his youthful
know about birds, the better He appears more a creature of the running mate. For that matter, suc-
equipped we'll be to help cynical '80s—or perhaps the care- cess in this campaign was a relative
them survive the perils of free '50s—than of the decade in thing. Bush was a halfhearted cham-
this century. That's why we which he and we grew to maturity. pion of the New Right and Dukakis a
need people like you—ordi- Vietnam, in fact, offers the most miserable representative of the Old
nary people with a not-so- glaring example. As a candidate, he New Left. Only Lloyd Bentsen was
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