A GUIDE to the February 21, 1997, Chronicle

INTERNATIONAL

IN AFGHANISTAN, MEN ONLY
The Taliban, the fundamentalist Islamic group that controls most of the country, plans to reopen several universities, but women will not be allowed to enroll: A43

IN JAPAN, FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES
Two American institutions have decided to close their branch campuses in Kobe and Kosugi because of serious financial problems and declining enrollments there: A43

IN THE UNITED STATES, COORDINATION
In an effort to reduce waste, President Clinton has proposed establishing a new office to coordinate federally sponsored foreign-exchange programs: A44

• IN AUSTRIA, the University of Vienna has apologized for its involvement in Nazism while Hitler ruled the country: A41

• IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP, the European Union has given $77-million in grants to Palestinian colleges and universities since 1993: A41

RESEARCH & PUBLISHING

INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
At the California Institute of Technology's Biological Imaging Center, scientists from a variety of fields use unconventional approaches to look inside organisms: A12

• THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the Humanities has chosen Stephen E. Toulmin, a philosopher at the University of Southern California, to deliver the 1997 Jefferson Lecture: A8

• STEPHEN W. HAWKING HAS CONCEDED defeat to two other physicists on a famous wager over whether a "naked singularity" can exist: A8

• RESEARCHERS AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY have found that slowing an animal's metabolism may prolong its life: A14

• A STUDY PUBLISHED in Nature says that climate affects the diversity of deep-sea life: A14

• RESEARCHERS SAY that the federal government is blocking research on the therapeutic value of marijuana: A31

• HISTORIANS' GROUPS have sued the Internal Revenue Service over the agency's alleged failure to preserve important historical records: A32

• HOT TYPE: A14
  • A study of the financial interests of authors of published research has found that scientific publishing has been penetrated by scientists' commercial connections.

  • A Hoosier Holiday, Theodore Dreiser's 1916 account of a car trip from Manhattan to Indiana, was the first American automobile road book, and Indiana University Press is publishing a new edition of it.

• 120 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A15-20
  • Nota Bene: Street Smarts and Critical Theory: Listening to the Vernacular, by Thomas McLaughlin, a professor of English at Appalachian State University. The book is published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

THE FACULTY

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR WHOM?
Some professors at the Virginia Military Institute are angry over a push to put more V.M.I. alumni and Vietnam veterans on the faculty: A10

UNION REJECTED
Despite a bitter fight with the Board of Regents over tenure policies, faculty members at the University of Minnesota voted down a proposal to form a collective-bargaining unit: A11

PROBLEMS OVER PLAGIARISM
Professors at St. Thomas University's School of Law say the outcome of an alleged incident of cheating indicates that the institution does not take such infractions seriously: A11

FIGHTING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
The board of Amnesty International is now headed by a professor at Florida International University and an expert on northern Africa. She is Susan E. Waltz: A7

A VICTORY FOR PROFESSORS
Many faculty members at Adelphi University were elated last week, when the New York Board of Regents ousted 18 of the university's trustees and replaced them with a new board: A26

• THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the Humanities has chosen Stephen E. Toulmin, a philosopher at the University of Southern California, to deliver the 1997 Jefferson Lecture: A8

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

EXPERIMENT IN ON-LINE INSTRUCTION
A professor at California State University at Northridge found that when he divided his class into two groups -- one taught with standard classes and one entirely on line -- the latter group outscored the former on examinations: A23

THE STAYING POWER OF THE INTERNET
Digital technologies complement some of higher education's most effective approaches to teaching and learning, writes Neil L. Rudenstine, the president of Harvard University: A48

• THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Press now offers more than 40 of its scholarly journals on line for a cheaper price than print subscriptions to the journals: A21

• A WORLD-WIDE WEB SITE at the University of Virginia details the process of preparing the papers of James Madison for publication: A21

• 8 SOFTWARE PROGRAMS, 19 Internet lists, and 13 other Internet resources: A24

FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)

A TEST FOR THE ARTS ENDOWMENT
Some Republicans in Congress think a deal two years ago assured the demise this year of the National Endowment for the Arts, but the agency's supporters vow they will save it: A33

ASSURANCE ON AID
Education Department officials said that federal funds for students would not be withheld from colleges that bar military recruiters or the R.O.T.C. from their campuses: A34

CAMPUS CRIME
A new bill in Congress would require colleges to report more information to the Education Department and would give the public access to colleges' disciplinary proceedings: A34

LEARNING TO READ
More than 70 colleges have promised to use half of their work-study funds to pay students to serve as tutors in President Clinton's new campaign against illiteracy: A35

CLINTON ASKS COORDINATION
In an effort to reduce waste, President Clinton has proposed establishing a new office to coordinate federally sponsored foreign-exchange programs: A44

• WARD CONNERLY, the University of California regent who led the effort to pass Proposition 209 last year, took his new anti-affirmative action drive to Washington, D.C.: A31

• RESEARCHERS SAY that the federal government is blocking research on the therapeutic value of marijuana: A31

• PRESIDENT CLINTON has chosen to affiliate his Presidential library with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock: A32

• HISTORIANS' GROUPS have sued the Internal Revenue Service over the agency's alleged failure to preserve important historical records: A32

• REPUBLICANS HAVE DECIDED against providing funds for vocational training in a proposed job-training program: A32

• THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION has honored 10 universities for their commitment to integrating research and education: A32

• UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS officials have been accused of using their work hours to solicit, and even to coerce, donations for election campaigns of a key state politician: A35

MONEY & MANAGEMENT

SMALLER RAISES
The median salary increase for college and university administrators was 3.7 per cent this year, down from 4.2 per cent in 1995-96, according to figures collected by the College and University Personnel Association: A29

• A table showing median salaries of college and university administrators in 1996-97: A28

UNCERTAIN ALLIANCES
Deals between colleges and wireless-cable companies could generate money and improve distance learning, but the results haven't always been successful: A21

TROUBLE AT JAPANESE BRANCHES
Two American institutions have decided to close their branch campuses in Kobe and Kosugi because of serious financial problems and declining enrollments there: A43

• SEVERAL COLLEGES FEAR the demise of a trust set up by Colonel Harlan Sanders, founder of the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants: A26

• A RETIRED ELEMENTARY-SCHOOL teacher has left Carroll College $2.3-million: A26

• MOODY'S INVESTORS SERVICE downgraded bonds issued by the University of Hartford to below investment grade, or "junk" status: A30

• THE COMMON FUND HAS ADDED three index funds as investment options for its members, which include both colleges and schools: A30

• THE PRESIDENT of Wayne State University has authorized an investigation into charges that the university mishandled a patent dispute: A30

STUDENTS

RESPONSE TO A RAPE CHARGE
A Brown University senior has filed a lawsuit against a female student who accused him of sexual assault and against the institution, which he says punished him for a crime he didn't commit: A38

• FRATERNITY PRESIDENTS at the University of Colorado have lifted a 1995 resolution that banned alcohol at fraternity events: A37

• A POLL OF SENIORS at Cornell University reveals that graduates expect extra compensation in the job market if they have to sell out their ideals: A37

• A LAW STUDENT at the University of Virginia is seeking to diversify a hallway display of portraits of former law-school deans, all of whom are white men: A6

• THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND at College Park's Black Student Union re-created legal segregation for one day to remind people what life was like in the days of Jim Crow: A6

• LEADERS OF THE CAMPUS CRUSADE for Christ and of the Southern Baptist Convention are discussing possible joint projects they may undertake: A6

• ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY has apologized to the Muslim community of Tulsa, Okla., after students attempted to convert worshipers at a local mosque: A6

• MOTHERS OF FEMALE STUDENTS at the University of South Florida have been receiving threatening telephone calls: A6

• MORE THAN 20 STUDENTS were arrested in a series of drug busts at an Ohio University fraternity and dormitory: A7

• SEVEN STUDENTS AT FROSTBURG State University have been charged with manslaughter in the alcohol-related death of a freshman: A7

• FEMINISTS at George Washington University have succeeded in an effort to have a symbol of an offensive fraternity tradition removed: A7

ATHLETICS

• A CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL player has criticized the psychological tests administered to potential draft picks by scouts from the National Football League: A39

• BRENDA KELLY, the women's-basketball coach at Illinois College, has managed a winning team despite four asthmatic starting players: A39

• THREE FOOTBALL PLAYERS at the University of Rhode Island have been found guilty of charges related to an attack last fall on a campus fraternity house: A40

• THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA has proposed its own punishment to the National Collegiate Athletic Association for recruiting violations: A40

OPINION & LETTERS

IN PRAISE OF OBSCURITY
Complicated language is sometimes necessary to capture complicated academic ideas, says Michael Berube, an English professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B4

LABORING FOR CHANGE
It is vital for professors to support efforts by teaching assistants to form unions, write Tamara Joseph and Jon Curtiss, union organizers at the Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin at Madison: B6

• MARGINALIA: A6

• Apprenticeship as a model for graduate education in the humanities: B3
• Revisiting the Alger Hiss case: B10
• Students face adulthood in rites of passage: B11
• Freshman seminars at Stanford: B11
• Jewish studies at Queens College: B11

THE ARTS

MUSEUM OR MAUSOLEUM?
How does society decide whose past to preserve and whose to discard? A macabre discovery in San Francisco raised that question, and Richard Barnes was there to document it: B7

ICONOCLASTIC ART LOVERS
The Kamm Collection, on display at California State University at Northridge, reflects the quirky tastes of its independent-minded owners: B84

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