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INTERNATIONAL
PREPARING FOR JULY 1 IN HONG KONG
Controversy over a sculpture was symptomatic of tensions for
academe as China prepared to take over the British colony: A45
BALTIC-AMERICAN ACADEMICS GO HOME
Many American educators of Baltic ancestry are returning to the
region their parents left and are offering help to universities
there: A46
RESEARCH CODE IN CANADA
A national committee has proposed new standards for studies
involving human test subjects: A47
- THE U.S. AGENCY for International Development has no plans
to change its oversight of universities that receive its
grants, despite the recent problem with a Harvard University
program in Russia: A45
- TWO UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN campuses are pooling their
resources to expand their international-education
efforts: A45
- SIX SOUTH-AFRICAN GRADUATE STUDENTS are studying in the
United States as Mandela Economic Scholars, sponsored by the
U.S. Agency for International Development: A45
- ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER Binyamin Netanyahu says the College
of Judea and Samaria, located in the West Bank, should be
granted university status: A47
- A MCGILL UNIVERSITY PSYCHOLOGIST, Rhonda Amsel, has been
named Canada's "Professor of the Year": A47
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD faculty members approved plans for a
new business school that earlier they had voted down because
of its proposed location: A47
- SEVERAL THOUSAND CHILEAN STUDENTS took to the streets of
Santiago in a march to protest government policies on
universities: A47
- TWO ITALIAN PROFESSORS have been charged in the shooting
death of female law student at the University of Rome: A47
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION has promised to invest $80-million to
establish a computer laboratory at the University of
Cambridge: A23
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
TRACKING THE SURVIVORS
A 50-year study has found that people who lived through the
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have faced many
health risks in addition to cancer: A15
LIFTING THE VEIL
Scholarship on the burning of a Massachusetts convent in 1834
has led to an unusual exhibit that combines history and
contemporary art: A16
ELUSIVE BONOBO
Frans B.M. de Waal, a psychology professor and a researcher at
Emory University's Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center,
describes what scientists have learned about a rare species of
ape whose society is matriarchal and pacific: B8
IMMIGRANTS IN THE HEARTLAND
Sociologists at Iowa State University are watching how small
towns in the Midwest adjust to a wave of immigrants, primarily
Mexicans attracted by jobs in the meat-packing industry: B2
- HOT TYPE: A17
- Art historians are criticizing Time magazine's art
critic, Robert Hughes, for failing to acknowledge his use
of their work in a recent book and television series he
created on art in America.
- 88 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A18-21
- 23 SCHOLARS AND OTHERS have been awarded MacArthur Foundation fellowships; all of them are listed in this issue of The Chronicle: A49
THE FACULTY
A DEATH FROM HEROIN
Colleagues of the late Omar S. Castaneda wonder if Western
Washington University missed a chance to help a talented
professor deal with his addiction: A12
CRITICISM OVER FACULTY DISMISSALS
The American Association of University Professors censured the
Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the Saint Meinrad
School of Theology: A14
A DOUBLE STANDARD?
A professor denied tenure filed a sex-discrimination complaint
against Washington State University, charging that it responds
differently to indiscretions by male and female professors: A14
THE GATES OF HEAVEN
Creative writers face extra hurdles when they're being reviewed
for tenure, says Jesse Lee Kercheval, an associate professor of
English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison: A56
THE HISTORY OF THE MENAGE A TROIS
A Hunter College librarian who is part of a threesome has, with
her partners, written a book about such relationships,
including their own: A10
- DESPITE HER DEPARTMENT'S APPROVAL, Bonnie Honig was denied
tenure at Harvard. Now the political scientist has accepted
a position at Northwestern University: A12
- A LONG-TIME FACULTY MEMBER has been named provost at Adelphi
University: A12
- A LABOR ARBITRATOR has ordered the reinstatement of a former
professor at California University of Pennsylvania: A10
- A FORMER STUDENT at Wilkes University has accused the head
of the chemistry department of harassment: A10
- A CURATOR of Cornell University's insect collection happily
identified a specimen that had been mailed to him as a
banded alder beetle: A8
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
TOO BIG FOR ITS OWN GOOD?
Some participants fear that Internet 2 is letting in too many
universities, but politicians who are being asked to pay for
the project say its membership should be broad: A23
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
TAX PROPOSALS MOVE FORWARD
A Senate panel is poised to approve legislation that would
provide billions of dollars in tax breaks to help students and
their families pay for college: A28
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- Graduate students are furious over a Republican plan,
approved by a key House of Representatives committee, to
tax the tuition waivers they receive: A29
RESTRICTIONS ON PELL GRANTS
The Clinton Administration is considering proposals to limit
the number of years that students are eligible to receive the
awards: A30
DEFENDING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Warning that the United States "must not resegregate higher
education," President Clinton said that racial preferences used
by many colleges are necessary: A31
HUGE CUT FOR THE ARTS ENDOWMENT
A House of Representatives panel voted to provide it with
$10-million in fiscal 1998, $89.5-million less than its current
budget: A32
INFIGHTING IN TENNESSEE
Political battles may threaten the future of the state's
coordinating board for higher education: A33
EVALUATING GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS
A new report is calling for stronger state coordination of
public colleges and universities. The report praises the
higher-education boards of Georgia, Illinois, and Texas, and
pans those of California, Michigan, and New York: A34
- FLORIDA WILL NOT CHARGE tuition or fees at any of its public
colleges to foster children who are adopted after December
31: A28
- A MARIJUANA-RESEARCH CENTER at the University of California
has been proposed by a State Senator: A28
- A REPORT WARNS of a "catastrophic" budget shortfall for
higher education by 2015 if colleges don't become more
efficient and government support remains flat: A32
- THE GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE says unpaid student loans make
up nearly 40 per cent of the total loan debt held by the
federal government: A32
- A NEW LAW WILL CREATE a commission of business and education
leaders to study the rising cost of higher education: A32
- THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES has approved a bill that would
merge job-training programs into a single block grant to
states: A32
- A FEDERAL COURT has declined to reconsider a ruling in a
22-year-old college-desegregation case in Mississippi: A35
- AN ALUMNUS HAS OFFERED to buy financially troubled Central
State University from Ohio: A35
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
A PATENT FIGHT WITH HIGH STAKES
Many universities fear that a legal and political battle over a
technique used to treat cancer could discourage businesses from
supporting academic research: A37
RELIGIOUS DISPUTE
A controversy over a gay wedding has escalated into a rift
between Emory University and United Methodists in Georgia over
the control of the university: A40
- BROWN UNIVERSITY HAS NAMED a scholarship after the mayor of
its hometown, Providence, R.I.: A37
- THE COUNCIL FOR ADVANCEMENT and Support of Education's new
president says he'll "increase the value of membership" by
providing more information to members: A37
- THANKS TO A TWO-HOUR SEMINAR in 1971, Southwestern Oklahoma
State University is $162,000 richer. One of the seminar's
participants left the money to the university in her will:
A37
- THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES fired the president of Shorter College
in Arkansas after an accreditor placed the institution on
probation: A39
- ALABAMA'S REVENUE DEPARTMENT has asked a court to close down
Selma University because it failed to remit state income
taxes withheld from its employees' earnings: A39
- THE POPULAR PRESIDENT of North Idaho College has been
dismissed by the college's Board of Trustees, which will not
say why he was fired: A39
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION has promised to invest $80-million to
establish a computer laboratory at the University of
Cambridge: A23
- AN ALUMNUS HAS OFFERED to buy financially troubled Central
State University from Ohio: A35
- ALLEGHENY UNIVERSITY of the Health Sciences has threatened
to sue Harper's magazine for reprinting an excerpt of an
article that criticized the university for its treatment of
drug-study participants: A8
- SEVERAL RESIDENCY PROGRAMS in the College of Medicine at the
University of California at Irvine might lose their
accreditation: A8
STUDENTS
AUTOMATIC ADMISSION
Some universities have found a new way to increase their
undergraduate enrollment: They grant alumni automatic admission
to their medical schools. But do the students really benefit?:
A41
- A COLLEGE GUIDE to be published this fall provides
information for women on student and academic life: A41
- CALIFORNIA STATE University at Northridge wrongly labeled
more than 700 students as deadbeats, causing their state tax
refunds to be garnisheed: A41
- THREE STUDENTS have been arrested for starting a fire at
a University of Cincinnati dormitory on the first morning of
final examinations: A8
- FIVE STUDENTS at the Iliff School of Theology ended a
month-long hunger strike after administrators promised to
increase recruitment of minority officials: A8
- MORE THAN 200 ENGINEERING students competed at Cleveland
State University in the 10th annual National Concrete Canoe
Competition: A10
- WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of
best-selling books: A42
ATHLETICS
SEEKING COMPLIANCE
Many campuses in the California State University System are
struggling to meet the goals of an agreement that settled a
gender-equity lawsuit on the treatment of female athletes: A43
- ICE-HOCKEY FANS at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
warmly welcomed their new coach and team: A43
- INDIANA UNIVERSITY at Bloomington has belatedly awarded
varsity letters to female alumnae, including two Olympic
medalists, Leslie Bush and Cynthia Potter: A43
- THE WOMEN'S SPORTS FOUNDATION has released a "report card"
on the treatment of female athletes in sports programs at
767 colleges: A44
- THE U.S. SUPREME COURT declined to hear an appeal by a
former Northwestern University student who had been denied a
spot on the men's-basketball team because of a heart
ailment: A44
OPINION & LETTERS
THE GATES OF HEAVEN
Creative writers face extra hurdles when they're being reviewed
for tenure, says Jesse Lee Kercheval, an associate professor of
English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison: A56
MORAL JUDGMENT
Kay Haugaard, an instructor in creative writing at Pasadena
City College, thought she knew the lesson Shirley Jackson's
"The Lottery" teaches. Then her students refused to condemn the
practice of human sacrifice: B4
- We must teach students that having respect for other
cultures does not require them to abandon values, argues
Robert L. Simon, a professor of philosophy at Hamilton
College: B5
ELUSIVE BONOBO
Frans B.M. de Waal, a psychology professor and a researcher at
Emory University's Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center,
describes what scientists have learned about a rare species of
ape whose society is matriarchal and pacific: B8
MARGINALIA: A8
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The roles and relationships of presidents and their
governing boards: B3
"Celebrity" cases at Brown U.: B10
Victims' privacy in news reports: B11
Humanities courses that work: B12
Productivity and scholarly output: B13
The purpose of studying literature: B13
Salaries of men's and women's coaches: B13
A "bulwark against immorality": B13
THE ARTS
PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS
At the Cannes Film Festival, Robert Sklar, a professor of
cinema at New York University, looked for other scholars who
try to bridge the gap between the academic arena and the world
of movies: B7
REVITALIZING THE ETCHING
A book and an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art celebrate
the work of the Crown Point Press: B60
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