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October 26, 2001

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Cross-Country Looks for Heps Bragging Rights

By wpengine | October 26, 2001

It’s time.

After nearly two months of races that haven’t counted for much of anything, when the cross-country teams line up today at the Heptagonal Championships at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, they’ll have their eyes on the prize —

ILR Dean Receives Cooley-Mead Award

By wpengine October 29, 2001

Edward J. Lawler, dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a scholar of organizational behavior, recently won the distinguished 2001 Cooley-Mead Award. The award was given by the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in recognition of Lawler’s contributions to the field of social psychology throughout his career. ASA is the paramount organization of sociology scholars in the United States and grants the Cooley-Mead Award annually. Lawler received the award for his research when he presented his paper, “Micro Social Orders: A Social Exchange” in Anaheim, Calif. at their August award ceremony. Lawler’s work has centered on examining the role emotion plays in exchange and negotiation. “The award came out of earlier work but was a cumulative development,” he said. “Winning was a surprise,” noted Lawler, who didn’t know he had even been nominated as a candidate. “I didn’t really think about it. I knew someday I could win it, but I didn’t dwell on it.” Throughout his career of 30 years, Lawler participated in writing and editing 15 books and more than 30 articles for specialized journals. He served as editor of “Social Psychology Quarterly in Group Processes,” a serial publication of theoretical and empirical work on small-group relationships. Lawler also co-wrote Power and Politics in Organizations, which was published in 1980, as well as Bargaining: Power Tactics and Outcomes, which was published in 1981 with Prof. Samuel Bacharach, organized behavior. Lawler came to Cornell to become a part of the Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) faculty in 1994. In 1998, he helped implement the move of much of the ILR program into a new $23 million 116,000 square-foot building. In addition, Lawler began Union Days, which is a program comprised of a year-long series of workshops and seminars in which ILR faculty, students and union leaders participate. Lawler said, “If I had kept with my work I might have won it anyway, but Cornell definitely contributed.” “Some of my best work” was done at Cornell, he added, noting that the University has had a “good context to continue to develop the work I had done before.” Lawler noted that Cooley-Mead is “the key award for a sociologist with my interest … and is a capstone” in his career.Archived article by Kate Walton
Incoming Students Create Website to Address Freshman Concerns

By wpengine October 29, 2001

Administrators and students are working together to revamp the Class of 2005 website. Originally designed to ease the transition to the University, the site will now address more current issues affecting freshmen. “The old web page was geared more toward incoming freshmen, while the new site will focus more on current student life,” said Adam Berlinsky-Schine ’05, a student organizer of the website. “This past spring, a few of us decided to create a web page that would allow incoming freshmen to meet each other before arriving on campus,” he explained. Then, over the summer, the site’s student organizers sent the web page to members of the administration for suggestions and approval. “We looked at it and saw a very creative idea that needed to be pursued,” said Project Coordinator Marisa Piliero ’96. The decision was then made to expand the site beyond its initial function as a pre-orientation activity. “We asked ourselves how we could use this as a tool for developing class identity not only before the freshmen year, but also throughout the undergraduate and postgraduate years,” Piliero added. “Cornell then contacted us and discussed the possibilities of the website’s future,” Berlinsky-Schine said. Since then, the student originators have been working with Cornell to refine the site’s content to fit the needs of a changing audience. “As we receive more feedback from the survey that is currently up, we gain a better idea of what the site needs to be,” said Eric Grysko ’05, another site organizer. Among the new features of the new site are an electronic ride board and job posting services; however, the exact content of the page will depend on the responses to the survey. The survey, a brief series of yes or no questions, is currently available at www.classof2005.cornell.edu. Nearly 15 percent of the current freshmen class has been using the site. News of the site has spread by word of mouth and Internet postings. Even though the site is now officially endorsed by Cornell, students will still be in charge of the content. “Students will be given primary oversight for the page,” Piliero said. In addition to developing the website concept for the Class of 2005, administrators are now looking forward to new projects and have already begun registering domain names for future classes. “The hope is that what is being started with this class will extend to future classes as well,” Piliero added. The new Class of 2005 Web Site is expected to be up by the end of the semester. Archived article by Philip Lane