• The Texas Legislature has passed a bill to require public colleges to admit all in-state applicants who graduate in the top 10 per cent of their high-school classes: A29

BATTLING IN THE GARDEN STATE
New Jersey's public colleges have more independence than they did a few years ago, but they are still encountering plenty of conflicts with state officials: A29

IMPROVING THE AIDS-RESEARCH EFFORT
Officials of the National Institutes of Health have carried out many, but not all, of the recommendations in a year-old report that stoutly criticized their efforts: A32

CONTENTION OVER THE BUDGET
Federal programs in science, education, and social services are being pitted against one another, write Alan G. Kraut and Sarah Brookhart, executive director and director of science policy, respectively, of the American Psychological Society: A64

• CONGRESSIONAL STAFF MEMBERS took part in the third annual Mini-Med School on Capitol Hill, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Association of American Medical Colleges: A28

• JOHN DEUTCH, a former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and a former provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, may return to Washington, D.C., to assume a White House post: A28

• THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT has ended a bitter, two-year battle between Governor Fob James, Jr., and two Auburn University trustees whom he had sought to replace: A31

• MOODY'S INVESTORS SERVICE has lowered the rating outlook on some University of Kentucky bonds from "stable" to "uncertain": A31

• MORE THAN 100 HISTORIANS have sent an open letter to President Clinton and members of Congress to push for more funds for projects to publish key documents: A33

• THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has approved a bill to create a commission to study the rising cost of higher education: A33

• THE SUPREME COURT HAS CHOSEN not to hear a sexual-harassment lawsuit brought against a Texas school district: A33

• A RESEARCHER AT THE JOHNS HOPKINS University School of Medicine has been found guilty of scientific misconduct: A33

• THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE on Drug Abuse has given final approval for a controversial needle-exchange study at the University of Alaska at Anchorage: A33

MONEY & MANAGEMENT

A NEW POST
David Baltimore, the Nobel laureate who resigned under fire as president of Rockefeller University six years ago, will lead the California Institute of Technology: A36

• A FUND-RAISING REPORT at Harvard University has angered a group of Radcliffe College alumnae who are boycotting Harvard's $2.1-billion capital campaign: A35

• A FORDHAM UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS who as a student was cut from the football team by the legendary coach Vince Lombardi has donated $10-million for a new library and $500,000 for an athletics-training center: A35

• THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES of Selma University has voted to not renew the contracts of its employees: A37

• FLORIDA COMMUNITY COLLEGE at Jacksonville has ended a contentious, 16-month-long search for a new president: A37

• THE BOARD OF MANAGERS at Haverford College voted this month to divest its stocks in three major tobacco companies: A37

• THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM has sold Texaco stock worth $240,000, two months after it adopted a socially responsible investment policy: A37

• MOODY'S INVESTORS SERVICE has lowered the rating outlook on some University of Kentucky bonds from "stable" to "uncertain": A31

STUDENTS

• A table shows the enrollments by race at 3,300 colleges and universities in 1995: A39-49

SETTLEMENT AT BROWN
Two students have resolved a dispute that led to an allegation of rape and a federal inquiry into how the university responded to the charge: A49

• NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY is considering a plan to build three apartment buildings that would provide dormitory rooms for students as well as housing for low-income families: A38

• A FRESHMAN HAS SUED a Miami University sorority chapter, charging that five of its members defamed her while she was trying, unsuccessfully, to join the group: A38

• A PROFESSIONAL COMEDIAN accused of attempted rape at Pasadena City College has also been charged with the rape of an instructor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha: A6

• FEDERAL AUTHORITIES are investigating a complaint that an airplane towing a congratulatory banner over James Madison University's commencement was flying too low: A6

• QUADRUPLETS are set to graduate from Baylor University this week, the second time that four identical sisters have earned their degrees there: A6

• DOGS WERE HONORED at commencements, at the Universities of Mississippi and of Alaska at Fairbanks, for helping their blind owners to graduate: A6

• A BLACK LAW STUDENT who endured racist threats for three years has graduated from Gonzaga University: A6

• A DOZEN STUDENTS at Transylvania University struck poses to re-create the scene depicted in Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party": A8

• THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY of Oregon has publicly apologized to Asian-American students for referring to them as "Oriental": A8

ATHLETICS

• SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY has reversed its plan to discontinue wrestling and men's gymnastics at the end of this year: A50

• A FORMER MEN'S-BASKETBALL PLAYER has accused Rutgers University of violating New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination: A50

• THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Athletic Association has told the University of Connecticut to return $90,000 because two of its men's-basketball players were ineligible to compete in last year's tournament: A50

• DUKE UNIVERSITY'S football team has won the College Football Association's Academic Achievement Award: A50

• ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY'S former director of student health won a jury award of nearly $1-million because her contract was not renewed when she complained that athletes were receiving preferential medical treatment there: A50

OPINION & LETTERS

RE-EXAMINING THE COLOR LINE
Jackie Robinson launched the era of racial integration, but for African Americans, his success remains a source of ambivalence, writes Gerald Early, a professor of modern letters at Washington University: B4

THE CONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE
Frederick Busch, a novelist and professor of literature at Colgate University, describes how he uses authors' visits to show his students the process of serious writing: B6

BOOKSTORES OR SOUVENIR SHOPS?
College stores have passed from the center to the periphery of intellectual life on campuses, says James Shapiro, a literature professor at Columbia University: B8

• MARGINALIA: A6