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ALUMNI ACTIVITIES<br />
Alumni Trustee Statements<br />
The terms of two alumni-elected trustees<br />
will expire on June 30. The customary<br />
statements from the two,<br />
Donald Lifton '67, PhD '88 and Judith<br />
Monson '69, are reprinted below:<br />
Donald E. Lifton<br />
Four years ago, you elected me<br />
to the <strong>Cornell</strong> Board of Trustees.<br />
This wonderful experience<br />
prompts me to offer four issues<br />
for alumni to monitor.<br />
1. Financial aid. I opposed<br />
administration suggestions to alter<br />
our "needs-blind" admission policy.<br />
This policy offers a sufficient financial<br />
aid package to any admitted student<br />
to enable them to attend<br />
<strong>Cornell</strong>. Changing it would threaten<br />
Ezra's founding statement about<br />
"any person, any study" and risk<br />
making <strong>Cornell</strong> an even less diverse<br />
community than our dismal demographics<br />
continually report. Millions<br />
could be saved if winter break were<br />
shortened by two weeks to help recipients<br />
earn more summer funds.<br />
2. Town-gown. Many alumni<br />
know how crucial involved corporate<br />
participation is in determining their<br />
own community's quality of life.<br />
Brown <strong>University</strong>'s president pledged<br />
it will eliminate poverty in Providence<br />
by the year 2000. Yale has committed<br />
$50 million for investments in New<br />
Haven. Marquette has offered $9 million<br />
for investment in Milwaukee<br />
neighborhoods. <strong>Cornell</strong>'s leaders offer<br />
comparatively little to the Ithaca<br />
community that helps sustain its<br />
greatness. To begin, <strong>Cornell</strong> should<br />
pay all its employees a livable wage.<br />
3. Teaching excellence. The<br />
CORNELL MAGAZINE<br />
84<br />
board supported a new provostial<br />
policy to require that all requests for<br />
tenure include documentation of<br />
teaching ability. As our aging faculty<br />
is replaced by newcomers, we must<br />
insist that this procedure be rigorously<br />
enforced.<br />
4. Disenfranchising alumni.<br />
Mine was the last independent candidacy<br />
to seek election to the board.<br />
Policies were then implemented to<br />
reduce the likelihood of any future<br />
insurgent appealing successfully for<br />
your votes. My candidacy was endorsed<br />
by 17 distinguished faculty<br />
members and alumni trustee Joseph<br />
Holland. Now, the brochure distributed<br />
with the ballot may list only the<br />
endorsement of the screening committee.<br />
Some of you voted only for<br />
me. Now your ballot is disqualified if<br />
you vote only for one candidate instead<br />
of two. My petition needed 100<br />
alumni signatures to nominate me.<br />
Now 400 are required. I have heard<br />
talk of eliminating platform statements,<br />
leaving only selected biographical<br />
information in the brochure.<br />
Thank you for the opportunity<br />
you gave me to serve. Despite these<br />
disempowering policies, I hope to<br />
qualify again for your consideration<br />
and vote next year.<br />
Judith H. Monson<br />
The anticipated privilege, opportunity<br />
and pleasure to serve as<br />
a university trustee for a fouryear<br />
term has been just that.<br />
It became evident that no<br />
previous involvement in <strong>Cornell</strong> activities<br />
as a volunteer could fully introduce<br />
me to the scope of the
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