Michael Belzer, professor of urban and labor studies in CULMA, is quoted in a front-page story about the stalemated NHL negotiations. He said NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is using time-tested strategies to get the upper hand in negotiations. "From a bargaining perspective, the leverage is pretty strongly being wielded by the owners in this case," he observed. "They have stuck together." The article points out that Belzer graduated from Cornell two years before Bettman but does not know him.