A GUIDE to the May 30, 1997, Chronicle

A SPECIAL REPORT: THE TUITION CONTROVERSY

• Statistics on tuition at different types of institutions and the role tuition plays in college budgets: A11

• A close look at how Duke University sets its tuition rates and spends the money that results: A12

• Comparisons of similar institutions show that policies on setting tuition need not always be the same: A15

• Some states are forcing public universities to cut costs, but many community colleges are having to raise tuition to make up for limited government support: A17

• Higher-education experts are divided over whether the availability of federal student loans encourages colleges to raise tuition: A18

INTERNATIONAL

LAST-DITCH LOBBYING IN AUSTRALIA
Higher-education groups are seeking public support to stave off a new round of spending cuts: A49

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Despite a drop in applications, the National Security Education Program in the United States is awarding about the same number of scholarships and fellowships this year as last: A50

DIVISION IN MANILA
Faculty members at the University of the Philippines are upset over a plan to lease part of the campus to a commercial developer: A50

• SHANGHAI IS MOUNTING a campaign to lure back to China the professionals and scholars who have left to study abroad and have never returned: A47

• SOME HONG KONG ACADEMICS say that China stands only to benefit if it maintains the colony's international links in higher education when it takes over: A47

• THE UNITED STATES AGENCY for International Development has suspended a $14-million grant payment to a Harvard University institute in Russia: A50

• THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE, a non-traditional institution in Budapest, has won the 1997 Hannah Arendt Prize, which recognizes its outstanding reforms in higher education: A50

RESEARCH & PUBLISHING

VINEYARD SCIENCE
Researchers at the University of California at Davis are using techniques such as DNA fingerprinting to help vintners improve their wine: A24

• MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL Academy of Humanism have released a statement in support of cloning research: A25

• SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED fossils of a bird-like dinosaur in the Patagonian region of Argentina: A25

• ENGINEERING PROFESSORS at Stanford University have offered an explanation for the recent finding that the universe is apparently not uniform in all directions: A26

• A SET OF NINE BURMESE manuscripts, describing tattooing as a 19th-century rite of passage, was given to the University of Michigan last month: A8

• PRESIDENT CLINTON has announced the creation of a new research center that will focus on developing an AIDS vaccine: A40

• HANS A. BETHE, one of the designers of the atomic bomb, has urged President Clinton to ban nuclear-weapons research: A40

• AFTER A YEAR-LONG competition, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has added 70 scientists to its ranks of investigators: A43

• HOT TYPE: A26
  • Many scholars are distressed over the news that HarperCollins is merging BasicBooks, its respected imprint, into the parent company.

  • The prose of Fredric Jameson, an English professor at Duke University, has won first prize in the third annual "Bad Writing Contest," sponsored by the editors of the journal Philosophy and Literature.

• 94 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A27-30
  • Nota Bene: Movies About the Movies: Hollywood Reflected, by Christopher Ames, an associate professor of English at Agnes Scott College. The book is published by the University Press of Kentucky.

THE FACULTY

A CONTROVERSIAL SEARCH
The State University of New York College at New Paltz is under fire for considering hiring a former nun who is a lesbian and has called herself a witch: A21

HELPING MEXICAN CHILDREN
Charles C. Southerland, a professor of podiatric medicine at Barry University, has set up a program to treat disabling foot deformities: A9

WHITEWATER STUDIES
Jeffrey Mount, a geologist at the University of California at Davis, uses rafting trips on the American River to teach students about rocks and floods: B2

• JAMES SCHAMUS, a Columbia University professor, has won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme award for best screenplay for his adaption of the 1994 novel The Ice Storm: A20

• THE FACULTY SENATE at Stanford University has voted to revise a controversial freshman humanities course, ending a two-year debate: A20

• COLLEGE PRESIDENTS, PROFESSORS, and advocates for the elderly, appearing before a Congressional panel last week, gave mixed reviews to a bill that would allow voluntary early-retirement incentives: A22

• THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES at North Carolina State University has been accused of weakening academic integrity by reversing charges of cheating against two students: A22

• THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY of Nebraska system is accepting plans for post-tenure reviews from each of its four campuses: A22

• ADMINISTRATORS AT HOSTOS Community College came up with a new grading system for a basic test of English proficiency after students who flunked it protested: A22

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

FAIR USE
The first round of a federally sponsored conference on copyright in the digital era lasted almost three years and adjourned last week with minimal progress: A32

• FISK UNIVERSITY'S Race Relations Institute will lead a project to digitize documents on the history of black people in America: A31

• THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN California offered live video images and an audio feed of this year's commencement on the World-Wide Web: A31

• THREE DOZEN MORE COLLEGES have joined the National Science Foundation's project to build a new, high-speed computer network: A33

• 8 SOFTWARE PROGRAMS, and 12 other Internet resources: A34-35

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

THE BUDGET DEAL
A pact between President Clinton and Congressional leaders would provide more money for Pell Grants and new tax breaks to help families pay for college: A37

POLITICAL PRESSURE
Another report has indicated that David A. Longanecker, a top Education Department official, was influenced by lawmakers in determining a college's eligibility for student loans: A38

PRIORITIES AT THE ARCHIVES
Responding to an outcry from historians, federal officials announced a plan to provide more support for publishing the papers of the Founding Fathers: A38

AFTER THE TUSKEGEE APOLOGY
President Clinton announced new efforts to increase the participation of minority-group members in health research supported by the government: A39

SUPPORT FOR TRIBAL COLLEGES
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching issued a report calling for a major increase in federal spending: A40

• THE ONE BLACK STUDENT who had formally accepted an offer of fall admission to the University of Texas's law school withdrew last week: A36

• A COMMITTEE AT THE UNIVERSITY of California urged the institution to help disadvantaged students meet its rigorous admissions standards: A36

• THE GOVERNING BOARD for Mississippi's public colleges has decided not to appeal a federal court's ruling on desegregation: A39

• A NEW JERSEY APPEALS COURT has ruled that Montclair State University did not violate anti-discrimination laws when it refused to let a blind student skip a required course: A39

• A FEDERAL COURT HAS GRANTED a request by Louisiana officials to delay the opening of a community college in Baton Rouge. The college is part of the state's desegregation plan: A39

• PRESIDENT CLINTON has announced the creation of a new research center that will focus on developing an AIDS vaccine: A40

• THE U.S. SUPREME COURT has ruled that state and local governments cannot levy property taxes on non-profit groups simply because they cater to out-of-state residents: A40

• HANS A. BETHE, one of the designers of the atomic bomb, has urged President Clinton to ban nuclear-weapons research: A40

MONEY & MANAGEMENT

BREACH OF CONTRACT
Massachusetts' highest court has ordered Boston University to pay a local training company more than $5.7-million. The court also reprimanded the university's chancellor and president: A42

• THE UNIVERSITY of Notre Dame now requires all its licensees to pledge that they hire neither children nor workers from prisons or forced-labor pools: A41

• A NEW BOOK BY A SOCIOLOGY professor at Amherst College explores the link between corporate giving and corporate politics: A41

• AFTER A YEAR-LONG competition, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has added 70 scientists to its ranks of investigators: A43

• THE PRESIDENT of the University of Mobile has left the institution, citing his inability to solve its financial crisis: A43

• FACULTY MEMBERS at Gonzaga University are upset over the resignation of its president, the Rev. Edward Glynn: A43

• THE U.S. SUPREME COURT has ruled that state and local governments cannot levy property taxes on non-profit groups simply because they cater to out-of-state residents: A40

• THE PRESIDENT of New Mexico State University resigned after being placed on paid leave by the university's governing board: A8

STUDENTS

• A school-by-school breakdown of passage rates for first-time takers of bar examinations: A46

• A JOURNALISM PROFESSOR at Ohio University allows his students to skip his classes, as long as they tell him why: A45

• DUKE UNIVERSITY will offer an ethics-and-rhetoric class to some sections of its required writing course for freshmen this fall: A45

• EIGHT STUDENTS at the Iliff School of Theology were arrested for trespassing in a chapel as they prayed in protest against the departure of a popular professor: A9

• TWO GRADUATES of the Citadel have accused the military college of allowing some cadets to glorify Nazi symbols: A9

• THE ATTORNEY GENERAL of Illinois has accused an Idaho-based company of using seminars on financial aid to make sales pitches for life-insurance policies: A9

• TWO DOZEN PEOPLE protested human-rights abuses in Peru at Boston University's commencement. In attendance was Peru's president, Alberto K. Fujimori, whose daughter graduated: A8

• PART OF A BALCONY at the University of Virginia collapsed before graduation ceremonies, killing one person and injuring 18 others: A8

• STUDENTS AT SAN FRANCISCO State University rallied to protest the administration's apparent attempt to block a previous rally against Proposition 209: A8

ATHLETICS

OPINION & LETTERS

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN
The cultural representation of people with disabilities affects us all, argues Michael Berube, a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B4

FIGHTING POLLUTION ON ALL FRONTS
Colleges can offer both moral and intellectual leadership in efforts to eradicate environmental injustice, says Bailus Walker, Jr., associate director of the Cancer Center at the Howard University Medical Center and a professor of environmental and occupational medicine: B6

CHEATING AT CHESS
Glenn D. Klopfenstein, a professor of English at Passaic County Community College, examines how a pristinely amoral computer conducted itself during the course of a match: B8

• MARGINALIA: A8

• The job market for professors: exploitation, hypocrisy, and a happy ending: B3
• Equal opportunity for women in sports: B11
• Controversy over the "most wired" rankings: B11
• Educating students about the theater: B12
• Does New York University still deserve tax-exempt status?: B12
• Honors program in Massachusetts: B13
• Walter Benjamin's important letters: B13

THE ARTS

TEACHING SPIRITUAL GEOMETRY
The childhood of the seminal modernists, a new book argues, coincided with the development of a radical educational system -- kindergarten: B64

• A VISITING ART PROFESSOR and 20 students at Pitzer College are leaving their marks on the campus in the form of two murals: A9

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