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INTERNATIONAL
TWO TIERS IN ISRAEL
A report criticizes the way new colleges are being developed,
saying they will become second-class institutions serving
mainly the disadvantaged: A47
- The first Bedouin woman to be accepted at an Israeli
medical school credits a special program at Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev: A48
EAST AND WEST TOGETHER
Researchers are finding that scientists in former Soviet-bloc
countries have broad training that helps in many collaborative
projects: A13
BATTLING CONTAMINATION IN MANILA
Institutions in the Philippines are becoming more vigilant
about sanitation after a major hepatitis outbreak this year at
the University of Santo Tomas: A48
HELPING DEVELOPING NATIONS
The U.S. Agency for International Development announced plans
to increase the role of American universities in its programs:
A50
- TWO GROUPS OF AMERICAN students and scholars, who were
trapped in Cambodia during Hun Sen's coup, have returned to
the United States: A47
- ROMANIA HAS LIBERALIZED its policy on the use of minority
languages in education, angering the country's nationalists:
A47
- A PALESTINIAN SCHOLAR who has been critical of Yassir
Arafat's administration is waging a hunger strike to protest
his arrest and subsequent incarceration in a Gaza jail: A50
- THE UNIVERSITY OF WROCLAW, in southern Poland, has been
damaged in recent flooding that has claimed the lives of
more than 80 people in Poland and the Czech Republic: A50
- HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS from Kenya Polytechnic University took
to the streets of Nairobi in anti-government protests: A50
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
EAST AND WEST TOGETHER
Researchers are finding that scientists in former Soviet-bloc
countries have broad training that helps in many collaborative
projects: A13
DISPUTE OVER ARTIFACTS
Many scholars and archivists are furious over a decision by the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania to disperse some of its key
holdings: A14
MAKING SENSE OF ROSWELL
A new book by three scholars uses sociology to examine the
belief of many Americans that aliens landed in New Mexico 50
years ago: A8
THE STUDY OF GUARDRAILS
A Bucknell professor is an expert on the many types of
guardrails and the many roads that could use the protection
they provide: B2
- COMPETITION FROM HEALTH-MAINTENANCE organizations has led
medical schools to reduce the amount of clinical research
they perform, two studies report: A14
- SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVELOPED a gene-therapy method that has
been used to heal spinal-cord injuries in laboratory rats:
A15
- A RESEARCHER HAS FOUND that the states with the most obese
people were not the states where fast-food restaurants did
the most business: A15
- HARPER'S MAGAZINE has apologized to Allegheny
University of the Health Sciences after having criticized
the way human research subjects are treated there: A6
- FOUR SCIENTISTS have uncovered a chemical process by which
algae help to form clouds: A6
- THE FORMER MANAGING EDITOR of Partisan Review was
indicted on charges of embezzling more than $100,000 from
the academic quarterly, which is published by Boston University: A8
- HOT TYPE: A18
- A lighthearted mystery novel written in 1929 by the feminist
author Charlotte Perkins Gilman is finally being
published.
- Chronicle Books has published a restored version of the
diaries of Marie Bashkirtseff, a Russian emigre who came
of age in 19th-century France.
- 73 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A16-19
THE FACULTY
FACULTY RIGHTS UPHELD
A federal appeals court ruled that the University of Minnesota
at Duluth violated the First Amendment when it removed photos
of two professors from a display: A10
"NO WARNING AND NO HEARING"
A popular jazz instructor at Stanford University says political
correctness is to blame for the university's decision to let
him go: A11
SUCCESSFUL PARTNERSHIP
The City of Chelsea, Mass., has extended an agreement
under which Boston University has managed its public schools:
A12
- THE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., Center for Nonviolent Social
Change has broken off talks with Emory and Stanford
Universities over their competing proposals to house the
civil-rights leader's papers: A10
- THE JAMES S. MCDONNELL Foundation will give 10 $1-million
fellowships to young scientists in celebration of the
centennial of its founder's birth: A10
- A MARYLAND APPEALS COURT upheld the decision of Essex
Community College to eliminate two tenured faculty jobs
because of budget cuts: A12
- THE BOARD OF REGENTS at the University of Iowa has approved
a plan allowing tenured faculty members to negotiate their
schedules individually: A12
- THE CHIEF UROLOGIST at the University of Michigan's medical
school resigned after an investigation revealed that he had
engaged in multiple billings for services: A6
- THE FORMER MANAGING EDITOR of Partisan Review was
indicted on charges of embezzling more than $100,000 from
the academic quarterly, published by Boston University: A8
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
CAVEAT EMPTOR
Georgetown University, like other institutions buying financial
software, found the process long, expensive, and crucial to
many people on the campus: A21
WHAT IS INTERNET 2?
The new project's name has won it attention but has also
created confusion: A22
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
THE BUDGET FOR 1998
A Congressional panel voted to increase the maximum Pell Grant
to $3,000, and the House of Representatives voted to kill the
National Endowment for the Arts: A27
- The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is
defending its work against lawmakers who want to eliminate
it: A28
INQUIRIES ON MEDICARE CHARGES
The Department of Health and Human Services has dropped 16 of
its 49 audits of medical schools: A30
A SURPLUS POPULATION
A report released by the National Research Council called on
the National Institutes of Health to impose a moratorium on its
chimpanzee-breeding program: A30
- A new organization seeks to give chimpanzees more rights,
and to end most biomedical research that uses them: A31
A CHALLENGE TO THE REGENTS?
The U.S. Education Department is investigating whether the
University of California discriminated against minority
applicants to its three law schools: A32
WATCHFUL EYES
State officials are pushing Texas Southern University, a
historically black institution, to improve its financial
management or risk losing its autonomy: A33
CUTS PROPOSED IN ALABAMA
The state's Commission on Higher Education wants to stop spending money
on remedial education, private colleges, and small branch
campuses of public institutions: A34
- W. ANN REYNOLDS, the embattled president of the City
University of New York, has been named the first female
president of the University of Alabama at Birmingham: A27
- A FEDERAL PANEL APPOINTED to study the rising cost of
college includes several critics of higher education: A27
- PRESIDENT CLINTON HAS announced a proposal to attract new
teachers into impoverished urban and rural schools: A32
- A HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES panel has decided that
requirements for reporting statistics on campus crime
need to be toughened: A32
- A CONTROVERSIAL PROPOSAL to tax graduate students' tuition
waivers is meeting strong opposition from the U.S. Senate:
A32
- THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT is halting the processing of student loans
for two weeks due to computer problems: A32
- CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY has appointed one of its alumni, an
official at the University of Virginia, to serve as
president of the beleaguered institution: A34
- THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT'S Board of Trustees has
delayed a decision on whether to join with a Roman Catholic
hospital and two other hospitals: A34
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
PRESSURE ON TIAA-CREF
Changes are afoot at the giant pension fund, as increasingly
effective competition forces it to create new offerings: A35
CHALLENGE TO A GIFT
The highest court in Italy ruled against a woman who might lay
claim to a valuable estate in Florence that was bequeathed to
New York University: A37
CAREFUL BUDGETING
Berea College stays frugal so it can continue to charge no
tuition and serve poor students -- and it banks on its
$500-million endowment: A38
- THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA is considering increasing its
capital-campaign goal to $1-billion: A35
- THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of College and University Business
Officers will hold its 1998 annual meeting in Las Vegas: A35
- THE RETIRING PRESIDENT of Saint Mary's College of California
was honored with a statue of John Baptist De La Salle that
was donated to the college: A6
STUDENTS
FAILING TO CURB GRADE INFLATION
Professors who attempt to fight the trend report that they
receive complaints not only from students but also from
colleagues and administrators: A41
CONTROVERSY OVER ENGLISH PROFICIENCY
A New York State judge ordered the City University of New York
to award diplomas to 125 students who had failed a required
test: A42
- A 23-YEAR-OLD FEMALE STUDENT has accused Thomas Aquinas
College of having a double standard for men and women
after she was expelled for living off campus with her
fiance: A41
- DARTMOUTH COLLEGE held its first business "boot camp," a
four-week crash course designed to give liberal-arts
students training in business: A41
- A FORMER UNDERGRADUATE at the Johns Hopkins University has
pleaded guilty to shooting and killing another student on
campus last year: A6
- A JURY HAS AWARDED $375,000 to a former University of
Maryland student who was beaten severely in a fraternity
hazing ritual four years ago: A8
ATHLETICS
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Many basketball and football players enter college with far
lower standardized test scores and high-school grade-point
averages than other students: A43
- RUTGERS UNIVERSITY has a 54-per-cent graduation rate for
athletes, according to a survey by the National Collegiate
Athletic Association: A43
- KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY is investigating an incident in
which a basketball player broke down the door to the room of
a sports columnist who had criticized the player's ability
in the student newspaper: A43
- A STATE COURT CONVICTED a football player at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University of assault and
battery. The charges stemmed from a brawl in which a member
of the university's track team was injured: A45
- SIX MEN WERE INDICTED in connection with a gambling scandal
at Boston College that rocked the college-football world
last fall: A45
- VOLUNTEERS ARE STUDYING the numerous bats who spend their days
sleeping under the bleachers at Dixie College's Hansen
Stadium: A6
OPINION & LETTERS
THE NEED FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Equal-opportunity programs alone are not enough to combat
unconscious, subtle forms of racism, argues John Dovidio, a
professor of psychology at Colgate University: A60
LIVING UP TO A NOBLE IDEAL
It's time for every American feminist to admit that both
mainstream and academic feminism have been guilty of
ideological excesses, says Camille Paglia, a professor of
humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia: B4
THE JOYS OF INTERRUPTION
The novelist Alice Mattison discovers that she benefits as a
writer from teaching in an unusual program: B6
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
Peter W. Williams, a professor of religion and American studies
at Miami University of Ohio, turned a hobby into a process of
intellectual discovery when he began studying America's
religious architecture: B8
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
Peter W. Williams, a professor of religion and American studies
at Miami University of Ohio, turned a hobby into a process of
intellectual discovery when he began studying America's
religious architecture: B8
"SNATCHING YOUR HUMANITY"
Photographs from a book picturing death-row prisoners in Texas
will be on exhibit at Saba Gallery in New York City: B52
- THE RETIRING PRESIDENT of Saint Mary's College of California
was honored with a statue of John Baptist De La Salle that
was donated to the college: A6
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