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INTERNATIONAL
CRISIS AT INTERNATIONAL CENTERS
The North-South Center, in Florida, and the East-West Center,
in Hawaii -- programs focused on South America and Asia,
respectively -- are trying to adjust to big cuts in federal
support by turning to private sources of funds: A47
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN AUSTRALIA
Companies started by universities are earning millions of
dollars for higher education -- at a time of big cuts in
government support: A48
PRECEDENT-SETTING CASE
A student is suing Earlham College over a rape that she says
happened while she was in a study-abroad program in Japan: A37
NOTES FROM ACADEME
A professor in Budapest is working to preserve Hungary's
tradition of Gregorian-chant music: B2
- IN THE UNITED STATES, the State University of New York at
Buffalo has established a World-Wide Web site devoted to
Poland: A47
- ALSO IN THE UNITED STATES, Harvard University's John F.
Kennedy School of Government is working with a Chinese
institution on an exchange program: A47
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
FAITH IN THE LABORATORY
The John Templeton Foundation is seeking to create an academic
discipline at the intersection of science and religion, but
some researchers are skeptical of the idea: A15
- A study has found little change over the last 80 years in
the proportion of scientists -- about 40 per cent -- who
believe in God: A16
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE
Nathan Glazer, a professor of education and sociology at
Harvard University and a long-time foe of affirmative action
and multiculturalism, has reversed himself in a surprising new
book: A16
UNDERCOVER SOCIOLOGIST
A professor at the University of Montana has written
extensively on the Heaven's Gate cult, based in part on the two
months he spent with its members before they killed
themselves: A10
CENTERS SEEK SUPPORT
The North-South Center, in Florida, and the East-West Center,
in Hawaii -- programs focused on South America and Asia,
respectively -- are trying to adjust to big cuts in federal
support by turning to private sources of funds: A47
THE FACULTY
AN ATTACK ON THE SOCRATIC METHOD
A new book by Lani Guinier, the controversial legal scholar at
the University of Pennsylvania, argues that the common way of
teaching law classes discriminates against female students: A12
COPYRIGHT DISPUTE
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a ruling
that affirmed the rights of publishers when their books,
magazines, and journals are excerpted in "course packs": A14
- A JOB OFFER to the feminist scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon
from the University of Chicago has upset conservative
students and alumni there: A12
- SCHOLARS ARE CALLING for improvements in the education of
American students in geography: A12
- A REPORT HAS URGED public colleges and universities to
become "genuine learning communities": A14
- A JURY HAS AWARDED $760,000 to a male professor who claimed
he was denied a promotion because of a "feminist agenda" at
community college in Michigan: A14
- ROBERT PINSKY, a professor at Boston University, has been
named the next poet laureate of the United States: A8
- A RESEARCHER AT SOUTHEASTERN Louisiana University worked
with students over spring break to save a dying swamp: A10
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BLACK STUDIES ON LINE
Some material is available in electronic formats (and The
Chronicle provides a list of it), but important collections are
not. The key, as always, remains the cost of putting the data
in digital form: A23
SUPERCOMPUTER CENTERS
The National Science Foundation will support programs led by
the University of California at San Diego and the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: A25
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
NEW AMBITIONS IN MASSACHUSETTS
State officials are hoping to create an elite public college
that would rival the quality of many private institutions in
the region: A28
THE LEGALITY OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Texas and U.S. officials are exchanging angry letters over
their differing interpretations of a court ruling on racial
preferences in admissions decisions: A29
RACE-EXCLUSIVE SCHOLARSHIPS
At the urging of the U.S. Education Department, Florida
Atlantic University has expanded the pool of those eligible for
various awards beyond members of minority groups: A30
PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS
President Clinton has proposed new rules that would apply to
classified, government-supported research: A31
POLICING SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT
The federal Office of Research Integrity has quickened the pace
of its investigations, but many critics still question the
quality of those inquiries: A32
SPENDING ON STUDENT AID
State appropriations leveled off in 1995-96, ending a five-year
period of rapid growth, according to a national survey: A33
- SEVERAL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES are lobbying Congress to
appropriate more money for research: A28
- A WORLD-WIDE WEB SITE created at the University of Wisconsin
at Oshkosh gives people the opportunity to comment on the
reauthorization of the Higher Education Act: A28
- JUDITH S. EATON, chancellor of the vast Minnesota State
Colleges and Universities System, has resigned after just
two years in the job: A30
- THE U.S. SUPREME COURT has rejected an appeal by former
University of California students who objected to the use of
student fees to finance insurance that covers abortions: A30
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
HELP FOR JOURNALISM EDUCATION
The Knight Foundation is winning praise for its grants that
have endowed professorships, fellowships, and scholarships: A34
AN INVESTMENT RAISES IRE
Environmentalists are attacking a decision by the University
of Alaska to buy mining claims on land inside Glacier Bay
National Park: A35
A CONTROVERSIAL RELATIONSHIP
The John Templeton Foundation encourages efforts to meld
science and religion into a new discipline. Reaction from
scientists has been mixed: A15
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN AUSTRALIA
Companies started by universities are earning millions of
dollars for higher education -- at a time of big cuts in
government support: A48
- THE CHAIRMAN OF NIKE wants part of his recent gift to the
University of Oregon to endow the president's salary: A34
- ROWAN COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY has become Rowan University,
marking the second time in five years that the public
institution has changed its name: A34
- THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY of America is selling a 12-acre
tract for a center honoring Pope John Paul II: A36
- THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE of Technology has entered into
a research partnership with the pharmaceutical company Merck
& Co.: A36
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS for Medical Sciences has won a
$25.5-million grant to establish courses on geriatrics for
all its medical students: A36
- BAYLOR UNIVERSITY will receive millions of dollars in an
agreement by which it will relinquish control over the
Baylor Health Care System: A8
- TWO HIGHER-EDUCATION institutions in Pennsylvania have ended
a feud over their use of the name "Allegheny": A8
STUDENTS
LIABILITY IN STUDY-ABROAD PROGRAMS
An Earlham College student is suing the institution over how it
handled her charges of sexual harassment and rape while she was
participating in a college-run program in Japan: A37
- THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO has been urged to abandon
separate student-services offices for minority students: A37
- THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA at Chapel Hill may fight
alcohol abuse with 8 a.m. classes and Friday exams: A37
- FOUR FEMALE STUDENTS at Huston-Tillotson College have been
charged with hazing and assaulting a pledge: A10
- A FORMER STUDENT at the University of South Florida has been
freed from prison after serving 18 months in a dispute over
patents with the university: A10
- 60 COLLEGE SENIORS have received Watson fellowships for a
year of independent travel and study abroad; all of them are
listed in this issue of The Chronicle: A50
ATHLETICS
GENDER EQUITY IN ATHLETICS
A survey by The Chronicle documents differences in the
participation rates and spending levels of men's and women's
intercollegiate-sports programs. The survey confirms that women
get fewer resources than men: A39
- A table lists spending and participation levels at 305
Division I members of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association: A41-46
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS' men's-basketball team lost a
semifinal game of the National Invitation Tournament, then
lost its way home: A39
- THE EMBLEM OF ILLINOIS State University's hockey team, the
Redbirds, has been put on ice by administrators: A39
- A FORMER GYMNASTICS COACH at the University of Minnesota has
won a lawsuit over an administrator's use of a videotape
that showed the coach and her husband having sex: A40
- SHANNON SMITH, a kicker on the University of Hawaii's
football team, drowned while saving the life of the coach's
6-year-old son: A40
OPINION & LETTERS
AN UNCONVENTIONAL BIOGRAPHY
Gary Collison, a professor of English at Pennsylvania State
University, describes how writing the biography of an
illiterate fugitive slave brought him unimagined rewards: A60
BOUND FOR BROADWAY?
University departments need to create synergy between the needs
of the theater as a liberal and fine art and its needs as a
profession, writes Thomas W. Loughlin, a professor at the State
University of New York College at Fredonia: B4
COLLABORATING IN THE CLASSROOM
Anne Bernays, a novelist, and Justin Kaplan, a biographer,
describe how they shared the teaching of a writing seminar: B6
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
BOUND FOR BROADWAY?
University departments need to create synergy between the needs
of the theater as a liberal and fine art and its needs as a
profession, writes Thomas W. Loughlin, a professor at the State
University of New York College at Fredonia: B4
FOLKTALES FROM CHINA'S MINORITIES
Carolyn Han, who teaches at Hawaii Community College, has
brought the stories of ethnic-minority groups in China to
English-speaking audiences: B7
NOTES FROM ACADEME
A professor in Budapest is working to preserve Hungary's
tradition of Gregorian-chant music: B2
LEARNING TO DRAW, DRAWING TO LEARN
Artworks by architecture students and faculty members at the
University of Miami are featured in a book published by the
Monacelli Press: B64
- AN ART PROFESSOR at the University of Pittsburgh has created
a pyramid out of tasty after-school treats: A8
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