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INTERNATIONAL
IN BRAZIL, FINANCING SCIENCE
The government has announced a plan to identify the
most-promising research projects and to provide them with
long-term support: A43
IN SWEDEN, A GENDER GAP
The country's six state-run universities are under orders to
develop comprehensive plans by next spring to recruit more
women to their academic staffs: A44
IN ISRAEL, "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS"?
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has characterized academics
in the country as ideologically narrow, and says he plans to
set up think tanks to promote a diversity of views: A44
AROUND THE WORLD, LAGGING SUPPORT
A study has found that, over the past decade, government
support for higher education in leading industrialized nations
has not kept pace with enrollment increases: A45
- IN THE UNITED STATES, a meeting is devoted to the
controversy over a documentary on the 1989 protests in
Beijing's Tiananmen Square: A43
- IN CANADA, an art student wages a visceral attack on modern
art: A43
- IN BRITAIN, universities welcome budget increase: A46
- IN WALES, a deadly outbreak of meningitis rocks the
University of Wales in Cardiff: A46
- IN BURMA, 1,500 students protest the conduct of police: A46
- IN INDIA, leading technical institutions announce a big
tuition hike: A46
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
WOMEN'S STUDIES IN EASTERN EUROPE
Courses and research projects that would have been barred by
Communist regimes are now sprouting up in many countries: A14
THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF SUICIDE
New research on the human brain may indicate why some depressed
people attempt to end their lives, while others who are equally
depressed do not: A15
- THE JOURNAL Social Research is sponsoring a meeting on
technology and culture: A12
- SUPREME COURT JUSTICES rarely act like legislators, scholars
say: A16
- SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND the Northern Hemisphere's smallest
frog: A16
- RESEARCHERS at the University of Texas at Austin have cast
doubt on the viability of a huge fusion-energy project: A16
- BY UNEARTHING ONE STONE, archaeologists revealed an ancient
city: A8
- HOT TYPE: A18
- A new journal, Fashion Theory: The Journal of Body,
Dress & Culture, will make its debut this spring.
- A poet who is also director of the University of Arkansas
Press may be asked by President Clinton to deliver a poem
at the inauguration in January.
- The University of California Press is releasing a series
of paperback novels that exemplify "California Fiction."
- 107 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A18-22
- 127 SCHOLARS have been honored with fellowships and other
awards; all of them are listed in this issue of The
Chronicle: A48-50
- The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical
Gardens announced 90 1996-97 fellows.
- 37 women were appointed 1996-97 fellows at the Mary
Graham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College.
THE FACULTY
THE NEW BIOLOGY CURRICULUM
With their life-sciences enrollments booming, colleges are
starting to overhaul their undergraduate programs, in many
cases giving students more direct exposure to research: A12
NATURAL MEDICINE
Bastyr University's non-traditional approach to the health
professions is attracting a growing number of students: A10
- THE LEADERSHIP of the Jewish-studies program at Queens
College of the City University of New York remains in
question: A12
- THE PRESIDENT of the University of Notre Dame has been
chided for his intervention in a faculty-hiring decision:
A13
- A NOVELIST and professor of English has sued Temple
University for age and race discrimination: A13
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BEYOND THE TEXTBOOK
Some textbook publishers are using technology to offer a range
of supplementary materials, including news services, multimedia
tools, and two-way interaction with authors: A25
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
ADJUSTING TO A NEW ERA
New York University's medical programs are undergoing
significant changes because of cuts in federal, state, and city
funds -- and the prospect of more cuts in coming years: A30
FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTIONS
A federal judge has ruled that the University of Wisconsin at
Madison violated students' rights by forcing them to pay
activities fees to support groups with missions they opposed:
A32
CUTTING THE COST OF BORROWING
Higher-education officials are urging President Clinton to call
for the elimination of the origination fees that students pay
on federal loans: A33
- JAMES L. JEFFORDS, a moderate from Vermont, will take over
the leadership of a key Senate committee: A30
- LOUISIANA LEGISLATORS are objecting to a state grant to
Southern University for research: A30
- VIRGINIA WAS ORDERED to report on progress at the Virginia
Military Institute toward the enrollment of women: A34
- THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION has proposed new criteria
to be used by outside reviewers of grant applications: A34
- A NUCLEAR-WEAPONS PLAN would benefit federal laboratories
run by the University of California: A34
- TWO RESEARCHERS have been found guilty of scientific
misconduct: A34
- A REPORT from the Governor's office urged that all of
Minnesota's public college be placed under the purview of
one board: A35
- A FEDERAL JUDGE was asked to enjoin the enforcement of
Proposition 209 and a similar plan approved by regents of
the University of California: A35
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA is not immune from a lawsuit
filed under the Americans With Disabilities Act: A35
- THE PRESIDENT of the University of the District of Columbia
resigned: A35
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
RELIGIOUS SPLIT
Some Southern Baptist colleges are rethinking their ties to
state conventions of the denomination, saying that they are
tired of being caught in the middle of doctrinal battles: A37
STRINGS ATTACHED?
A Taiwanese foundation wants to finance a Chinese-studies
center at a university in the United States and to have the
center named for Chiang Ching-kuo, the foundation's namesake.
The demand has stirred debate because of Chiang's history: A39
MASTER BUILDER
Brother Mel Anderson, president of St. Mary's College in
California since 1969, reflects on his years of building the
campus and of helping its students: B2
STUDENTS
A CONTROVERSIAL RELIGIOUS GROUP
The recruiting tactics of the International Churches of Christ
have led some colleges to ban it from their campuses and have
raised concerns about its impact on students: A41
ALLEGATION OF DATE RAPE
After medical students at the University of Pennsylvania held a
sit-in to protest the pace of an investigation, the institution
barred the accused from attending class for a week: A42
OPINION & LETTERS
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Colleges' disciplinary systems often provide better means of
dealing with allegations of misconduct than do court
proceedings, write Edward N. Stoner II, an attorney and author,
and Sheldon E. Steinbach, vice-president and general counsel of
the American Council on Education: A56
TRAINING TOMORROW'S READERS
The primary task of literature professors should be to teach
students the skills -- and the importance -- of textual
interpretation, says William E. Cain, a professor of English
at Wellesley College: B4
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
FROM SCIENCE TO SHAKESPEARE
Under the leadership of Alan Brody, its associate provost for
the arts, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is
expanding its horizons to emphasize the arts as well as
technology: B6
WOMEN'S WORK
The New York Public Library is hosting an exhibition through
January 4, 1997, that examines the contributions of female
photographers: B76
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