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INTERNATIONAL
IN BOSNIA, RECOVERING FROM WAR
After years of shelling, the University of Sarajevo is in
desperate need of money to rebuild itself physically as well as
academically: A59
IN CANADA, A SEAT AT THE TABLE
Many student leaders are taking pragmatic, non-confrontational
approaches to better influence higher-education policy: A60
IN THE UNITED STATES, FEWER FUNDS
A bill signed by President Clinton cuts the amount of money the
United States Information Agency will receive for educational
and cultural exchanges for the second consecutive year: A62
IN BRITAIN, A SHRINKING BUDGET
The country's universities are warning that some of them may
have to impose tuition charges for the first time: A62
- IN THE UNITED STATES, the U.S. Information Agency is
collaborating with historically black colleges to involve
more black students in the Fulbright exchange program: A59
- ALSO IN THE UNITED STATES, two devoted advocates of foreign
study were given awards by the Alliance for International
Educational and Cultural Exchange: A59
- IN INDIA, the government will begin regulating academic
partnerships between foreign and Indian institutions in
order to cut down on fraud: A63
- IN NIGERIA, the military government has imposed a new law
that forbids professors to go on strike: A63
- IN BRITAIN, Greenwich University is moving to a group of
historic, 17th-century buildings on the Thames River: A63
- IN FRANCE, the government has proposed increasing the budget
for higher education by 5.4 per cent next year: A63
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
THE FUTURE OF U.S. DEMOCRACY
An elite group of philosophers, political scientists,
historians, and sociologists gathered recently at the
University of Virginia to examine the state of American
political life: A16
"PRIVILEGED HANDS"
In his new memoir, Geerat Vermeij, a biologist at the
University of California at Davis, explains how he uses his
hands, instead of his eyes, to study the mystery of shells: A20
FULL TANK
Stephen Paul, a research physicist at Princeton's Plasma
Physics Laboratory, has transformed waste products into a
cost-efficient, clean fuel for cars: A10
VENOM EXPERT
Struan Sutherland, a researcher at the University of Melbourne,
is Australia's leading expert on the nation's many venomous
creatures: B2
- MARK HOSTETLER, a graduate student in zoology at the
University of Florida, has written a book to help people
identify the insects that their cars smack into: A12
- SOME MILLIPEDES USE Velcro-like bristles to disable foes
that might prey on them, scientists report: A22
- LARRY M. BARTELS, a political scientist at Princeton
University, has analyzed how much influence the media have
over the agendas set by politicians: A22
- THE RE-EMERGENCE OF SWEATSHOPS in the United States has been
linked by three researchers to new, liberal trade pacts: A22
- KEENE STATE COLLEGE will hold its 20th annual Children's
Literature Festival to honor the often-overlooked genre: A8
- RESEARCHERS at Cornell University and the University of
Hawaii at Manoa have developed the first papaya resistant to
papaya ringspot virus: A10
- HOT TYPE: A24
- Until the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska won the 1996
Nobel Prize in Literature, few people outside of poetry
and Slavic-literature circles knew of her work.
- Eric Foner, a historian at Columbia University, will edit
The Penguin Book of American History, a five-volume
series of "synthetic and analytic" narratives.
- 46 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A24-27
PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL CONCERNS
FROM THE LEFT
Academics who are angry over conservative attacks on higher
education met at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
recently to plan a defense strategy: A12
FAMILY VALUES
A new report rates colleges and universities on their
willingness to help employees who need child care or assistance
in caring for sick relatives: A13
A CAMPAIGN FOR GAY RIGHTS
Homosexual employees of the University of Missouri are pushing
the institution to include sexual orientation in its anti-bias
policy: A15
- A NEW BOOK examines whether a person's identity should
dictate what subjects they are allowed to teach: A12
- FLORIDA'S BOARD OF REGENTS has decided to require all
tenured professors in the state-university system to undergo
periodic reviews: A15
- A FEMALE CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR who was denied tenure at Smith
College has leveled a sex-bias charge at the women's
college: A15
- AN APPEALS COURT has ruled that a sexual-harassment case
against a former provost at Chicago State University must be
resolved at trial: A15
- ABOUT 100 PROFESSORS, students, and staff members at the
University of Maryland at College Park protested the denial
of benefits to the partners of gay employees: A8
- GOVERNOR ARNE H. CARLSON will form a three-member panel to
mediate the tenure battle at the University of
Minnesota: A10
- RUTGERS UNIVERSITY faculty members are upset at the sizable
salaries earned by three sports coaches: A58
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
"INTERNET II"
Computing officials at 34 universities have agreed to try to
create a network for higher education that would represent an
improvement over the existing Internet: A29
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- Many computer users in higher education complain that
delays and traffic jams on the Internet interfere with
their work: A30
PHI KAPPA MICROSOFT
Paul Allen, a founder of the giant software company, has
financed an information-age house for his old fraternity at
Washington State University: A34
CALIFORNIA OPTS OUT
Governor Pete Wilson has announced that his state will not join
other Western states in creating a "virtual university": A34
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
LAST-MINUTE BOOSTS IN STUDENT AID
A big budget bill signed into law last week by President
Clinton sets the maximum Pell Grant at $2,700, $230 more than
the current level: A37
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MORE MONEY FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
The National Institutes of Health received a 7-per-cent
increase for the fiscal year that started last week: A38
- By the numbers: the 1997 appropriations for the National
Institutes of Health: A40
STABLE APPROPRIATIONS
The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment
for the Humanities escaped further budget cuts for 1997: A38
BUDGET CUTS ANEW
A bill signed by President Clinton cuts the amount of money the
United States Information Agency will receive for educational
and cultural exchanges for the second consecutive year: A62
AGENDA FOR RESEARCH
Some scientists worry that proposals drafted by the U.S.
Agriculture Department do not reflect the needs of the
environment or of family farmers: A41
CLIMBING TO THE TOP
At Michigan's Republican Convention, races for regents'
nominations are full of tension as well as debate over issues
having little to do with higher education: A43
- AT A RECENT PRESS CONFERENCE, Republican members of Congress
defended their record on education and criticized colleges
for costing too much: A37
- ELIZABETH HICKS, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education,
will stay on as head of the direct-lending program if
President Clinton is re-elected: A37
- THE WHITE HOUSE has ordered a comprehensive review of the
federal government's role in furthering research by
universities: A40
- THE COLLEGE BOARD and the Educational Testing Service have
settled a sex-discrimination complaint by agreeing to modify
a standardized examination: A40
- TWO FEDERAL AGENCIES, the Food and Drug Administration and
the National Institutes of Health, will ease restrictions on
research conducted on emergency-room patients: A40
- TWO-YEAR COLLEGES that belong to the State University of New
York System may start offering tuition discounts to attract
non-traditional students: A42
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER was found at fault in the death
of a 19-year-old student in a research project. New York is
reviewing research standards and procedures statewide: A42
- THE U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT has filed a brief asking the
Supreme Court to uphold at least some parts of the
Internet-indecency law: A36
- THREE NOMINATIONS and appointments in the federal
government: A42
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
WHAT COLLEGES CONTRIBUTE
More institutions are preparing economic-impact studies to show
how many millions of dollars they pump into local communities,
but some people are skeptical about the reports' value: A47
- THE NEWEST MEMBER of Duke University's Board of Trustees is
Melinda French Gates, the wife of the Microsoft mogul Bill
Gates: A47
- PATRICK T. KIRBY, the former dean of students at Westminster
College in Missouri, has proven his worth as the
institution's alumni director: A47
- JOHN G. BENNETT, JR., whose Foundation for New Era
Philanthropy collapsed last year, has been indicted on 82
counts of fraud, money laundering, and tax invasion: A50
- THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA is being sued by a company
that sells textbooks out of a truck: A50
- THE COCA-COLA COMPANY plans to increase its foundation's
endowment to $50-million: A50
- IN BUFFALO, the State University of New York hopes to cut
its costs and clean the air by promoting car pools: A51
- HARVARD UNIVERSITY will pay $775,000 in fines for "sloppy"
record keeping in the campus pharmacy and the theft from it
of prescription drugs: A10
STUDENTS
QUESTIONS ABOUT FAIRNESS
A charge of date rape at Brown University has left many on the
campus saying that the university's judicial system treats male
students unjustly: A53
AN END TO LENIENCE
Franklin Pierce College has started to ask underperforming
students to leave the institution; the students who remain are
pleased: A55
PHI KAPPA MICROSOFT
Paul Allen, a founder of the giant software company, has
financed an information-age house for his old fraternity at
Washington State University: A34
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA at Tuscaloosa is still trying to
prevent a clandestine society known as The Machine from
controlling the campus's student government: A53
- THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT at the University of Central Florida
is back in business after having been suspended since last
spring: A53
- A HUGE VOTER-REGISTRATION CAMPAIGN, involving photographs of
and quotations by famous writers, is under way at the City
University of New York: A8
- A GROUP OF PRANKSTERS at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology topped the campus's Great Dome with a giant
beanie: A8
ATHLETICS
HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS
A new book on the economics of college athletics finds that few
sports programs are financially successful. Most are run at a
loss: A57
- GENE STALLINGS, the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa's
football coach, recently found himself an unwilling player
in the political arena: A57
- ASHANTI HAYES, a San Jose State University football player,
recently learned how dangerous away games can be: A57
- FORTY-SIX COACHES and administrators at the University of
New Mexico drive in style, courtesy of local automobile
dealers: A57
- FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY last week lost its appeal of a
one-year probationary period that had been imposed for rules
violations: A58
- RUTGERS UNIVERSITY faculty members are upset at the sizable
salaries earned by three sports coaches: A58
- THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC Association may relax its
academic requirements for learning-disabled athletes who
want to transfer to an N.C.A.A. institution: A58
- FIFTEEN APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS in intercollegiate
athletics: A58
OPINION & LETTERS
LEARNING ABOUT THE FAMILY
Susan Cotts Watkins, a sociology professor at the University of
Pennsylvania, describes how she teaches students the basics of
sociological research while they explore personal issues: A72
NEEDED: DECISIVE TRUSTEES
The best guardians of public universities are trustees who act
vigorously to protect the public interest, writes Candace de
Russy, a self-described "activist" member of the Board of
Trustees of the State University of New York: B3
A CALL FOR DIVESTMENT
The College Retirement Equities Fund should get rid of its
more than $1-billion of investments in Philip Morris and other
tobacco companies, argues Eugene Feingold, a professor emeritus
of public health at the University of Michigan: B5
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
FIDDLING AT VANDERBILT
A music program that once shunned the influences of Nashville
is now adding courses in country, folk, and bluegrass music,
and in fiddle, dulcimer, and mandolin: B10
ART FROM "INDIAN TERRITORY"
An exhibit of works by more than 20 American Indian artists
runs at the University of Tulsa through November 1: B76
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