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". . .Provost Biddy Martin, who oversaw the search, stated: "I am enthusiastic about Mohsen Mostafavi's appointment and look forward to working with him. The committee that recommended him worked hard to find the best candidate for this important position. Their work has yielded a new dean who will not only be a strong and creative leader of the college, but also will play a significant role more broadly across the university. I am confident that the college and university will achieve a great deal under his leadership."
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Rawlings announces the nomination of Biddy Martin as provost
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced Feb. 2 that he will submit to the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees his nomination of Biddy (Carolyn A.) Martin as university provost, effective July 1. Martin will succeed Don M. Randel, who has been named the new president of the University of Chicago.
"Biddy Martin has had an outstanding scholarly and teaching career at Cornell," said Rawlings. "She has excelled in every assignment entrusted to her care and has won the admiration of faculty, students and staff throughout the university. Her most recent role as senior associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences has given her substantial exposure to universitywide issues that will prove most valuable in her new role as provost. I look forward to working closely with her on a day-to-day basis as a colleague and a friend."
On Dec. 20, 1999, Rawlings wrote to every member of the Cornell faculty, soliciting comments on the role of the provost as well as nominations for the position. He noted his appreciation for the many constructive responses that he received and said that they were most helpful in making his decision.
Martin expressed enthusiasm on her nomination: "I am honored to have been asked to serve as provost and delighted at the prospect of working with the president, the members of the central administration and the deans, faculty and students of all our colleges. It is an exciting and challenging time for the university, and I look forward to working to enhance the strength and richness of our programs and the diversity of our community."
Philip E. Lewis, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, offered the following comment on Martin's designation: "Biddy Martin is a brilliant scholar of international stature in the fields of German studies and women's studies. During her more than 16 years here at Cornell, she has proven herself to be a charismatic teacher and a formidably articulate spokesperson for the cause of liberal education. She is also a colleague of exceptionally strong commitment and high integrity in whom the members of this community can place their unreserved confidence. President Rawlings is fortunate to be able to enlist her as his principal partner in preserving Cornell's great traditions and in promoting educational innovation. Her associates in the university administration can anticipate with pleasure the ebullient personality, generous spirit and beneficent leadership she will bring to the office of the provost."
Martin, professor of German studies and women's studies, has served as senior associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences since 1997. A member of the Cornell faculty since 1983, her previous administrative responsibilities have included serving as the chair of the Department of German Studies from 1994 to 1997; associate director of the Women's Studies Program, 1993-94; graduate field representative for German studies, 1991-96; and as graduate field representative, 1992-96, and co-founder of the field of lesbian and gay studies. She was the recipient of the prestigious Clark Distinguished Teaching Award of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1990.
Martin is the author of numerous books and articles, including Femininity Played Straight: The Significance of Being Lesbian and Woman and Modernity: The (Life)Styles of Lou Andreas-Salomé. She currently is collaborating with Carol Maxwell Miller of Cornell's psychology department on a book on child analysis and play therapy that explores the relationship between traditional psychoanalysis and contemporary definitions of play and analysis. She is the editor of New German Critique, an interdisciplinary journal of German culture studies, and has served or serves on the editorial boards and staff of such publications as Studies in Gender and Sexuality, New German Critique, Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Diacritics, Signs and Women in German.
A native of Lynchburg, Va., Martin received her B.A. in English literature from the College of William and Mary in 1973, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and she earned her Ph.D. summa cum lauda in German literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985.
February 3, 2000
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Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings
Hunter Rawlings, Cornell's 10th president, is a classics scholar who is also no stranger to the role varsity athletics can play in the total academic experience.
During his undergraduate days at Haverford College, he was the starting center on the basketball team and later had a pitching tryout with the Baltimore Orioles.
"There is nothing better than a vigorous combination of academic and athletic life," says Rawlings. "My own college experience had a healthy measure of both and taught me the value of competition. My best friends continue to be my basketball and baseball teammates.
"The opportunity to earn an Ivy League degree and to be part of an intercollegiate team is a great reason to attend Cornell University."
Rawlings came to Cornell in 1995 from the University of Iowa, where he was president and professor of classics from 1988 until 1995. Before that, he served for four years as vice president for academic affairs and research and as dean of the graduate school at the University of Colorado, where he began as an assistant professor of classics in 1970, after earning his doctorate at Princeton University.
Rawlings was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. He is a member of the board of directors of the American Council on Education and has served on the executive committee of the Association of American Universities and the National Committee for the Selection of Mellon Fellows in the Humanities.
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President Hunter Rawlings speaks to seniors Jessica Cattelino, left, and Zoë Malcolm before the beginning of the town meeting in David L. Call Alumni Auditorium April 11. Charles Harrington/University Photography
By Jill Goetz
In a town meeting on April 11 with members of Cornell's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities, President Hunter Rawlings echoed the sentiment of one student by saying he was "tentatively optimistic" that all Cornellians will continue growing more sensitive to and accepting of these communities.
After listening to a performance of the gay, lesbian and bisexual chorus at a pre-meeting reception in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall, Rawlings heard speakers at the meeting give two-minute prepared statements on their hopes and concerns for fellow lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) students, faculty and staff.
Many of the statements addressed the president's decision to hold a moratorium on building additional program houses at Cornell for the next five years, a provision of the campus residential housing policy that he recommended earlier this semester. (Rawlings will present the housing policy to the Board of Trustees next month.) That provision had disappointed individuals advocating for an LGB program house.
The speakers stated their belief that program houses are essential in providing a safe and welcoming environment for LGB students, particularly those who are freshmen. Rawlings said he sympathized with their statements but said he believes campus diversity is best served not only by recognizing and respecting differences, but by fostering a sense of commonality and familiarity among all students, particularly freshmen. For this reason, he said, he supports limiting the number of freshmen living in program houses, another provision of the housing policy.
While facilitating constructive dialogue and disagreement, the forum, attended by approximately 150 people, was also an opportunity to recognize recent accomplishments. These included the establishment of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Resource Office, now headed by full-time staff member Carlisle Douglas; revision of Cornell health insurance policies to provide benefits to same-sex partners of eligible employees; establishment of undergraduate and graduate concentrations in lesbian, gay and bisexual studies; and Cornell Library's renowned collection in human sexuality.
The town meeting was Rawlings' second since becoming Cornell president last summer and was presented as part of "Gaypril."
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"As for the social life at Cornell, we are fortunate to have a very liberal president, Hunter Rawlings, who allows college life to exist in its traditional Animal House form. While university after university prescribes to a "dry campus" policy, Cornellians are relatively free to do as they please on the weekends."
--- Amanda MacBlane: Mandy is currently studying at the University of Paris but will be returning to Cornell in the fall of 2000. She is one of the many pre-med drop-outs that litter the Cornell Campus and has foolishly decided to follow her heart. Thus, the whole Paris thing. She is a member of the Cornell University Chorus and the Cornell Symphony and recently purchased a pair of beautiful turntables and is making some extra cash in western/central New York's small yet satisfying underground music scene. As a result of her Aries personality, she has a great fear of conformity and of losing any kind of competition. She recently read a book about Feng Shui and has become anal retentive.
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