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INTERNATIONAL
IN THE WEST BANK, UNFULFILLED HOPES
Israeli-imposed curfews, border closings, and empty coffers
have made life tough for Palestinian universities: A49
IN SOUTH AFRICA, BALANCING INTERESTS
The University of Cape Town is defining a role for itself in
the post-apartheid nation as an institution that promotes equal
opportunity and academic excellence: A50
IN AUSTRALIA, A LIMIT ON PHYSICIANS
The government has placed a ceiling on how many medical-school
graduates can be licensed as general practitioners: A51
- IN BOSNIA, Villanova University law professors and students
are using donated computers and the Internet to help rebuild
the Balkan nation's shattered legal system: A33
- IN THE UNITED STATES, the Coca-Cola Foundation gave a
$50,000 grant to Michigan State University to expand its
study-abroad program: A49
- ALSO IN THE U.S., the University of Iowa's international
writing program includes participants from 28 countries
this year: A49
- ALSO IN THE U.S., the Philadelphia College of Textiles and
Science is offering an international master's-degree program
with institutions in Germany and Israel: A49
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
FIGHTING BREAST CANCER
Malcolm C. Pike, an epidemiologist at the University of
Southern California, believes that hormones are responsible for
the disease and could lead to a way to prevent it: A14
MATERIAL CULTURE
The editors of a new scholarly journal with a focus on
consumption hope to promote discussion among researchers from
many disciplines: A15
- THE 100TH BIRTHDAY of F. Scott Fitzgerald will be celebrated
this month at a number of universities: A10
- A BIOLOGIST at Simon Fraser University, Zamir Punja, may be
the first scientist to have cloned North American ginseng in
the laboratory: A16
- OBSTETRICIANS succeeded in displacing midwives by the 1930s
after a campaign that linked them to abortion, according to
a new study: A16
- A SURVEY ON RACE AND POLITICS has revealed that opposition
to welfare is closely connected to racial views: A20
- COMPUTER SCIENTISTS at Cray Research Inc. have discovered a
378,632-digit prime number, the largest ever: A20
- A LARGE-ANIMAL CLINIC at Colorado State University has
reopened after a salmonella scare: A8
- HOT TYPE: A20
- 74 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A22-26
- Nota Bene: Thank You, St. Jude: Women's Devotion to the
Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes, by Robert A. Orsi, a
professor of religious studies at Indiana University. The
book is published by Yale University Press.
PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL CONCERNS
STAYING TOGETHER
Determined to avoid long-distance marriages, newly hired
faculty members are asking colleges to find jobs for their
academic spouses as well: A10
THE END OF TENURE?
Professors at the University of Minnesota are furious over a
set of "suggestions" from the state Board of Regents that would
modify faculty members' rights: A11
TRAINING TEACHERS
A new report calls for major changes by 2006 in the programs
offered by colleges of education: A12
COMING TO AMERICA
Thomas Dublin, a historian at the State University of New York
at Binghamton, has compiled a book of essays by his students
that relate their views of the immigrant experience: A9
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
GOING THE DISTANCE
To keep pace with the stiff competition for adult students, the
New School for Social Research has increased to 90 the number
of on-line courses it offers: A27
COPYRIGHT ON LINE
Publishers and educators have agreed on some points in their
negotiations over what constitutes "fair use," but differences
remain: A32
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
ON THE HUSTINGS
Republicans and Democrats are trading charges about the impact
that the Presidential election will have on the availability of
student loans: A34
UNDUE INFLUENCE?
A public-interest group has released a report finding that
banking interests are big campaign contributors to lawmakers
who oppose direct loans to students: A35
MORASS AT CENTRAL STATE
Officials in Ohio are trying to figure out why their state's
historically black college has so many financial problems, and
what to do about them: A36
BUDGET TRADEOFFS
Student aid fared better than the National Institutes of Health
in a spending plan for 1997 that a Senate panel approved last
week: A38
- OPPONENTS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION are irritated at David
Duke's planned appearance in a debate on the issue at
California State University at Northridge: A34
- THE ECONOMIST PAT CHOATE, Ross Perot's running mate, should
heat up the campaign: A34
- COLORADO'S PUBLIC COLLEGES have the right to stop student
organizations from discriminating against people on the
basis of their sexual orientation, a court has ruled: A37
- THE U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT has asked a federal court to
order the Virginia Military Institute to send application
forms to women who request them: A39
- BOB DOLE has pledged to increase education benefits for
veterans if he is elected President: A39
- THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has passed a bill that could
save some students more than $1,000 each in loan fees: A39
- A FEDERAL JUDGE berated leaders of Alabama's colleges for
failing to comply with a year-old desegregation plan: A40
- THE U.S. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT should do a better job of
enforcing laws on reporting campus crime, the House of
Representatives resolved last week: A40
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
TRANSITION AT THE BUSH FOUNDATION
President Humphrey Doermann, known as a champion of faculty
development, is retiring after 25 years: A41
DONORS FROM AFAR
Brandeis University's library has grown thanks to the
involvement of a group of supporters, many of whom are not
alumni of the college and have never visited the campus: A43
STUDENTS
POPULATION GROWTH
The size of first-year classes is setting records at private
colleges and universities in the Northeast: A45
EXPLORING THEIR ROOTS
Essays by State University of New York at Binghamton students
about their families' arrival in the United States have been
turned into a book about immigration and ethnicity: A9
- CHELSEA CLINTON is checking out colleges, including her
parents' alma maters: A45
- A PLAYBOY PINUP at the University of Oklahoma is fighting
to keep her sorority pin: A45
- STUDENT FANS of in-line skating rallied against a weekday
ban on their use at Indiana University-Purdue University at
Fort Wayne: A9
- COE COLLEGE MADE FRESHMEN test the waters during orientation
week with a dragon-boat race: A9
ATHLETICS
ALCOHOL AND ATHLETES
A number of universities have been forced to deal with players
or coaches who violate drinking laws or get into trouble while
drunk: A47
THE CORRUPTION OF COLLEGE ATHLETICS
Unscrupulous agents are among the most vexing problems college
sports programs face, but the National Collegiate Athletic
Association can take steps to help, says William E. Kirwan,
president of the University of Maryland at College Park: A60
- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS at Austin is trying to protect its
football team's playbook from disclosure under the state's
open-records law: A47
- INDIANA UNIVERSITY at Bloomington is using free football
tickets to fill up its dormitories: A47
- THE DAUGHTER of the chancellor of the University of Arkansas
at Fayetteville has admitted that she violated a rule of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association: A48
OPINION & LETTERS
THE CORRUPTION OF COLLEGE ATHLETICS
Unscrupulous agents are among the most vexing problems college
sports programs face, but the National Collegiate Athletic
Association can take steps to help, says William E. Kirwan,
president of the University of Maryland at College Park: A60
PRICE VERSUS QUALITY
Tuition vouchers can't guarantee a strong education, fiscal
responsibility, or a responsiveness to students' needs, writes
Mike Lopez, associate vice-chancellor for student affairs at
the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System: B5
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
UNIQUE VISION
Robert Rindler, dean of the School of Art at the Cooper Union
and a self-described "pack rat," uses photography to remember
things that are too big to take home: B2
UNFINISHED WORK
John F. Callahan, a professor at Lewis and Clark College,
writes of his voyage of discovery as he tried to assemble --
from computer disks, stacks of printouts, and odd scribblings
-- a publishable version of Ralph Ellison's last novel: B3
UNDERSTANDING THE BLACK DIASPORA
A passion for jazz is at the center of the music criticism,
poetry, and novels of Nathaniel Mackey, a literature professor
at the University of California at Santa Cruz: B10
WATER WORLD
An exhibition of photographs and poems from the book Up River:
The Story of a Maine Fishing Community will be featured at the
Round Top Center for the Arts, in Maine, through October 7: B64
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