I support this petition!! We should strive to have more of a mix of practical, hands-on classes like these in our College. Please reconsider reinstating Tom Cook's classes!
I support this petition. Intro to Metal Fabrication was one of the best classes I took at Cornell! Please reconsider the decision to remove this valuable class from the University.
I support this petition. I took welding last year at Morrisville State College and my teacher told me that he knows a very qualified young woman who didn't get a position as an agricultural teacher because she hadn't taken a welding course. I hate to see any others miss out on job opportunites because they discontinued the class.
I support this petition. I am particularly concerned that the community have access to learning these skills as we face escalating prices, the need to re-use instead of buy new, and increasing depletion of resources.
I support this petition. As a freshman at Cornell, I think I want to take one of these courses. Either way, it seems ridiculous to displace a fully equipped workshops and an experienced professor for temporary storage.
I support this petition. The BEE welding class is a necessary tool for learning the introductory concepts for welding. Although I am on an engineering project team, and welding knowledge is generally passed down, it is still nice to have a formal introduction to it. Not to mention my team only welds with TIG.
I support this petition whole-heartedly! Hands-on practical training is an essential complement to the theoretical courses offered at the this fine university.
I support this petition. I am planning to return to Cornell and take these classes so I can better instruct my students in agriculture. These skills are a necessity in some cases, and I do not know where else I could get them. It is essential that Cornell offer such courses.
I support this petition. There is plenty of storage available at Emerson. Engineers in the American model are not pure academics (ie: idiot engineers), but professionals with with practical experiences that allow real world solutions to engineering problems (ie: lawn mower belts and automotive spark plugs that can be changed with out disassembling the mower or pulling the engine). The cost of storage is a few bucks, the value of an equipped shop and an experienced instructor is PRICELESS.
I support this petition. Having taken both Beginner and Advanced Metal Fabrication with Tom in 2003-04, it would be a shame to see these classes stop. These are among my favorite courses at Cornell.
I support this petition. I have not taken this class, but as a DEA Option 1 major learned woodworking in our junior studio. I think it is very important for people going into fields such as design, architecture or engineering to understand that what goes into actually constructing the things they design in CAD. Please keep this option open and viable to students who are desperately trying to take classes they enjoy and that benefit their education while filing graduation requirements.
Mr. Cook's classes represent the last respectable connection between the white collar university class and reality. Their abolition will deprive students of the concrete skills which give esteem to our working class brothers and further the disparity between ourselves and the world which we draw on.
These courses are important. We need to maintain the courses that keep Cornell unique and a good place to be. This is valuable to us, science labs and new buildings are what the administration want, but the students actually want a good university.
So I support this petition.
Food Science '01 '04
Metal Fab was one of the most useful courses I took at Cornell. Although I will never be a machinist, I work with them frequently and have a basis for understanding what is being asked of them on a project. Had I not taken this course, I have no idea where I would have casually picked this information.
remember- this Institution should be a place where a person can find instruction in any (especially these key) discipline. this includes "less sexy" topics like woodwork..
I support this petition as an Agricultural Science Education graduate student I realize the importance that those classes have directly to my career. As an educator I will be responsible for teaching elements of both classes and without them, I will be unable to be prepared to share knowledge to future Cornell students.
