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Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:40:00 -0400

To: "Michele M. Moody-Adams" <mmm45@cornell.edu>

From: Stuart Davis <sad4@cornell.edu>

Subject: Faculty, Redbud, and the West Campus Residential Initiative

Cc: Carolyn Arthur Martin <cam18@cornell.edu>,

Dear Michele,

I'm glad that you are meeting today with representatives of the Redbud Woods student group. It is very good of you to hear them in the first days of what will be a busy and illustrious Vice Provostship. The faculty group may trespass on your hospitality soon by asking you to meet with them.

Because your portfolio includes undergraduate education, I thought you would be interested in a partial list of faculty who responded to one question in our recent appeal to faculty supporters of the Redbud Woods group -- a question on faculty participation (without parking) in the intellectual life of West Campus -- with excerpts from replies.

Biddy, when we met with her June 23, expressed particular concern that the lack of all those planned West Campus parking spaces (if they were not to materialize) would deter faculty from visiting Cook House to dine or lunch with students or give lectures and lead discussions.

So we wrote the 370+ faculty who had already signed petitions and letters opposing the Univ. Ave. parking project to see whether that was likely. The responses below suggest that it isn't -- but instead, that a wise and timely decision on Redbud Woods would galvanize the support of many faculty for the West Campus Residential Initiative.

There were 60+ positive responses to the questionnaire and they're still arriving. Many respondents also offered to surrender permits or minimize use of those they hold and they pledged cash to sustain an "urban woodland" on the site -- but that is matter for another tale.

Thank you for paying attention to this contentious issue, and forgive a hasty compilation of these responses.

Sincerely,

Stuart

for the Redbud Woods Faculty Working Group

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Scott McMillin, Prof. English

4. I am willing (without guaranteed parking) to visit Alice Cook House in the academic year 2005-06 to have lunch or dinner with students or to offer an informal lecture, reading, or discussion. (Please suggest the type of activity and the topic.) I will invite Alice Cook students to join in my Faculty Fellow outings to the Cornell concert series and Theatre Cornell: the Brentano Quartet, Alfred Brendel, the Mozarteum Orchestra, and the musical The Cradle Will Rock are all on my schedule of student outings from Risley, and I would be glad to stop by Alice Cook and talk to the students about joining in.

Sandra Greene, Prof. History

4. I am willing (without guaranteed parking) to

> visit Alice Cook House in the academic year

> 2005-06 to have lunch or dinner with students or

> to offer an informal lecture, reading, or

> discussion. (Please suggest the type of activity

> and the topic.)

YES, I AM CERTAINLY WILLING TO PARTICIPATE IN LUNCHES, DINNERS, READINGS,

DISCUSSIONS AND INFORMAL LECTURES.

Jennifer Tiffany, Ext. Associate (Dir. HIV/AIDS Educ Project)

> 4. I am willing (without guaranteed parking) to

> visit Alice Cook House in the academic year

> 2005-06 to have lunch or dinner with students or

> to offer an informal lecture, reading, or

> discussion. (Please suggest the type of activity

> and the topic.)

Yes. My topic would be HIV/AIDS prevention and/or participatory research.

Tom Hirschl, Prof. Dev. Soc.

I will provide a lecture/discussion on the politics & economics of the automobile based system of transportation.

John Bowers, Prof. Linguistics

I am willing, but I would have to think a bit about what sort of Linguistics-related topic

might engage the students.

David Hammer, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dear Stuart,

I will be happy to visit the Alice Cook House (or any other West Campus venue) without the expectation of a nearby parking place some evening next academic year to give a talk about advanced energy resources or controlled fusion research as the most advanced energy resource of all. That offer holds with or without a dinner with students attached.

With best regards,

Dave

Shelley Feldman, Prof. Dev. Soc.

I would be pleased to offer an informal lecture or discussion or meet for a dinner.

Robert F. Young, Visit. Lec. Natural Resources

I will attend two student faculty dinners on West Campus to discuss

Sustainability and Environmental Design and not park there.

Lois Levitan, Ext. Assoc. ERAP

Yes. I can relate what a wonderful person Alice Cook (note spelling) was, and how she undoubtedly would be thrilled by this show of civic engagement, and how horrified I think she would be to have her name associated in any way with these parking lot plans. Among other things, Alice was a devoted gardener, lover of nature, and woodswoman. She was also my dear friend and next door neighbor for many years in Longhouse Cooperative.

&/or I could participate in/lead a discussion about the relationships between land use choices and public health consequences. Or any of a number of other environmental/health/sustainability topics.

And/or I could unveil the book project that I am working with my 5-year-old, to be called something like "Teo Loves Buses"...

Brian Chabot, Prof. STS

Dinner, discussion

Timothy Murray, Prof. of English

4. I am willing (without guaranteed parking) to visit Alice Cook House in the academic year 2005-06 to have lunch or dinner with students or to offer an informal lecture, reading, or discussion.

I would be willing to present material from the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art and discuss developments in this area.

Jane Marie Law, Associate Professor of Japanese Religions

I have been asked to be a Becker Fellow and will consider it. I will also start teaching Sophomore seminars (remember, I won both the advising award and also the Knight Writing Program teaching excellence award). I will also come and support the initiative.

Victor Koschmann, Prof. History

I would certainly have lunch or give a lecture at Alice Cook House, and as I am already on the Transportation Hearing and Appeals Board, I recognize the importance of reducing the number of cars on campus and would be happy to be involved in a concerted effort to do so. Etc.

Kathleen Perry Long, Assoc. Prof. Romance

I would be willing to have lunch or dinner with students, or give a lecture (perhaps on hermaphrodites and early modern notions of gender, or on monsters and questions of identity).

Shimon Edelman, Prof. Psychology

> 4. I am willing (without guaranteed parking) to visit Alice Cook

> House in the academic year 2005-06 to have lunch or dinner with

> students or to offer an informal lecture, reading, or discussion.

> (Please suggest the type of activity and the topic.)

I am (not in '05-06, when I'm on sabbatical leave, though). The

activity would be an informal lecture followed by a discussion, on a

topic related to cognition and religion.

Marc Peter Keane, Visiting Scholar, EAP

***I can visit and would talk about Japanese gardens.

Nicholas Sturgeon, Prof. Philosophy

I am on leave for all of 2005-06. But I would be happy to visit Alice Cook House the following academic year to give an informal presentation on some problem in ethics.

Herbert J. Engman, Ext. Assoc. HD

Yes - any activity related to local government, farmworkers (I was director of the Cornell Migrant Program for 25 years) or the environment (I have been a member of the Environmental Management Council for the past 25 years, was president of the Finger Lakes Land Trust and am currently chair of the Tompkins Council Planning Advisory Council).

Ed Salpeter, Emeritus Prof. Physics

I would be quite happy to come some of the West Campus Student places ( all the way on foot) and talk to students, although it isnt quite clear to me what topics or format they would like.

Wayne Harbert, Prof. Linguistics

Dinner or an informal lecture/discussion on endangered languages.

(Our department is hosting an international conference on language

and poverty this fall, in connection with which I'll be teaching my

course on Minority Languages and Linguistics. There are definitely

some tie-ins here with more general problems of ecology and

sustainability.)

Jean Locey, Prof. Art

Dear Stuart,

I would be delighted to visit Alice Cook House in the next academic year and happily do so without guaranteed parking. I would be willing to have lunch and/or dinner with the students, give an informal lecture on my creative work or a related art function on campus and engage in discussion on the creative arts/ process or whatever the students might suggest. I'm sorry my summer schedule does not allow me to participate actively with the group. Keep up the good work!

Jack Elliot, Assoc. Prof. DEA

4. I am willing (without guaranteed parking) to visit Alice Cook House in the academic year 2005-06 to have lunch or dinner with students or to offer an informal lecture, reading, or discussion. Anytime. I teach courses on ecological literacy and design and could talk about a number of issues related to Redbud such as brownfields, embodied energy, CO2, health and obesity, affluence, etc. I am also a Faculty Fellow and am comfortable in this setting.

Michael Latham, Prof. Nutritional Sciences

on topic such as World hunger;HIV/AIDS;etc

John H. Weiss, Assoc. Prof. HIstory

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ATTEMPT TO STOP THE KILLING IN DARFUR: THE RIDE AGAINST GENOCIDE

Douglas Mao, Assoc. Prof. English

4. I am willing (without guaranteed parking) to visit Alice Cook House in the academic year 2005-06 to have lunch or dinner with students or to offer an informal lecture, reading, or discussion. (Please suggest the type of activity and the topic.) (Y, lunch or dinner with students interested in any aspect of literature, or interested in academic careers/graduate school, or interested in anything else with which I might help.)

Roy Colle, Prof. Emer. Communications

> 4. I am willing (without guaranteed parking) to

> visit Alice Cook House in the academic year

> 2005-06 to have lunch or dinner with students or

> to offer an informal lecture, reading, or

> discussion. (Please suggest the type of activity

> and the topic.)

Louise E Buck, Ext. Assoc. Natural Resources

I am willing to do any of the following types of activities

around topic of ecoagriculture/agroforestry -- certainly

without driving.

Matthew Evangelista, Prof. Government and Dir Peace Studies

4. I am willing (without guaranteed parking) to visit Alice Cook House in the academic year 2005-06 to have lunch or dinner with students or to offer an informal lecture, reading, or discussion. (Please suggest the type of activity and the topic.) I'm on leave 05-06, but would be glad to do anything there when I return: show and discuss films, discuss current international political issues, etc.

Margaret Washington, Prof. History

I am wiling to go to Cook house and have lunch or dinner with students on occasion. I would be wiling to lead a discussion or give a lecture on a topic of interest to them, provided I have the expertise.

Timothy Fahey, Prof Natural Resources

4. yES, EITHER LECTURE OR INFORMAL DISCUSSION WOULD BE FUN.

Eric Cheyfitz, White Prof. of American Studies

I'll pledge $500 for the maintenance of the woods; and I'll visit Alice Cook House for dinner to talk about federal Indian law and the Iroquois land claims in NY State.

Jean Hunter, Prof. BEE

I would also be happy to visit Alice Cook House this fall. I could do a presentation on long term space colonies - in particular, the food and water aspects of advanced life support. I have a canned outreach presentation on "space food" with various NASA food materials, which could be presented just about any time. I could also do a presentation on the engineering of space suits. I expect to have a set of genuine NASA EVA suit components on loan from Johnson Space Center some time around Columbus Day, and could add West Campus (or North campus, for that matter) to the outreach activities I already have planned for local K-12 classes. In neither case would I require parking except for a few minutes of loading and unloading.

----------- apparently already participating in the West Campus initiative ---------------

Jack Elliot, Prof. DEA

4. I am willing (without guaranteed parking) to visit Alice Cook House in the academic year 2005-06 to have lunch or dinner with students or to offer an informal lecture, reading, or discussion. Anytime. I teach courses on ecological literacy and design and could talk about a number of issues related to Redbud such as brownfields, embodied energy, CO2, health and obesity, affluence, etc. I am also a Faculty Fellow and am comfortable in this setting.

Steven Robertson, Prof. HD

I have already agreed to serve as a faculty fellow at Becker house.

Tamara Loos, Asst. Prof. History

I have taught a seminar in the Alice Cook House and would be willing to do this again.

Dan Brown, Assoc Prof Animal Sciences

3) I will offer a new sophomore seminar on West Campus this Fall in Alice Cook Hall.

4) I will be riding the bus or my bike to cover the 1.3 miles (?) from my office in Morrison Hall to West Campus; I doubt I'll be parking a car near there very often if at all. I can't imagine why I would need to...

Molly Diesing, Prof. Linguistics

I'd be delighted to have lunch or dinner at Alice Cook House.

Michael Gold, Assoc. Prof. ILR

AS A FELLOW OF COOK HOUSE, I HAVE WALKED THERE MANY TIMES AND PLAN TO CONTINUE TO DO SO.

Bruce Lewenstein, Assoc. Prof. Communication

* Nearly all have offered to participate in West Campus social or educational activities without parking there. They have proposed an imaginative array of lectures, discussion groups, and dinner-group topics.

I will be a Faculty Fellow on West Campus (Baker Tower) next year. I was planning on requesting an evening-only parking permit. But I'm willing to forgo that if it lets you count me in one of the lists.

-------------- Copy of the June 28 solicitation to RW faculty supporters ---

Tues., June 28

To: Signers of the various Redbud Woods letters and petitions

From: Redbud Woods Faculty Working Group

Please see below for members, unsubscribe notice, and press conference announcement.

Last Thursday, President Lehman offered to suspend construction work on the Redbud Woods parking lot project until the end of his term, conditional on a show of support from faculty for steps that would reduce on-campus parking. The deferral may or may not continue after June 30. We have agreed to take the measure of faculty support for such steps as a way of helping to move beyond the current stalemate.

Please SEE OUR QUESTIONS IN BOLD BELOW and reply if you will consider taking one or more of the following actions. (All pledges are contingent on the University's continuing suspension of activity in the woods.)

1. Participate in a concerted effort to reduce the number of cars on campus and alleviate the looming "parking crisis" by car-pooling, participating in ride share, or turning in your parking permit. The administration will be particularly impressed by surrenders of parking permits, but at this point we are only gathering pledges. We think that permit surrenders must be part of a larger, well-coordinated plan.

2. Contribute money to maintaining woods as an "urban woodlands" or "sustainability park." We have already generated over $20,000 in contributions. We'd like to offer the administration an impressive amount in pledges by the end of the week. Sums in all amounts are welcome.

3. Demonstrate that faculty will support the West Campus Initiative without having to park on West Campus. This is a concern that has been raised by the Provost and seems to be one of the administration's strong rationales for paving. We'd like to offer a list of faculty who are willing to participate in West Campus life by participating in activities with students.

Please look at the following questions and return your response to sad4@cornell.edu, being sure to give your name and preferred e-mail address.

1. I am interested in participating in a well-coordinated plan to reduce the number of cars on campus.

2. I am willing to surrender all or part of my parking permit. (Please indicate the number of days you would pledge not to park on campus and the type and location of your current permit.)

3. I pledge to contribute the following amount to preserving Redbud Woods as an urban woodland.

5. I wish to join the Redbud Woods Faculty Working Group and be informed of future meetings.

Note: If you do NOT wish to receive further email from us, just type "unsubscribe" at the top of this message and return to sa4@cornell.edu.

Upcoming: This faculty group will hold a press conference at 10:00 a.m. Friday, July 1 at the corner of University Avenue next to Redbud Woods. You are welcome to attend.

Many thanks for your attention.

Members of the Working Group:

Ti Alkire, Romance Studies

Kora Bättig, Romance Studies

Lourdes Beneria, City and Regional Planning

Abigail Cohn, Linguistics

George Conneman, Emeritus, Applied Economics and Management

Roy Colle, Emeritus, Communications

Stuart Davis, English

Brett de Bary, Asian Studies and Comparative Literature

Thomas Eisner, Neurobiology and Behavior

Tim Fahey, Natural Resources

Martin Hatch, Music

Lois Levitan, Environmental Risk Analysis Program

Barbara Lynch, City and Regional Planning

Joanna Luks, Romance Studies

Jane Marie Law, Asian Studies

Jane Mt. Pleasant, American Indian Program

Kenneth Mudge, Horticulture

Judith Pierpont, John S. Knight Writing Institute

Trevor Pinch, Science, Technology, and Society

Carol Rosen, Linguistics

David Rosen, Music

Paul Sawyer, English

James Siegel, Anthropology

Aaron Sachs, History

Elizabeth Sanders, Government

Nava Scharf, Near Eastern Studies

William Trochim, Policy Analysis and Management

Margaret Washington, History

Anke Wessels, Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy

Thomas Whitlow, Horticulture

Stuart Davis

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