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INTERNATIONAL
END TO FREE TUITION IN BRITAIN
The new Labor government will enact a plan to charge students
about $1,700 a year each, starting as early as the fall of
1999: A35
LEAVING ALBANIA
Students and faculty members want out of the country, which is
just emerging from a period of violence and anarchy: A37
A GATHERING IN JERUSALEM
Scholars convened on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of
the Dead Sea Scrolls to discuss, with an unprecedented lack of
rancor, the state of research on them: A14
THE "HANDOVER" OF HONG KONG
Raymond Wylie, a professor of international relations at Lehigh
University, reports that Chinese-American students and those
from the British colony witnessed its return to China with a
mixture of pride and anxiety: B8
- THE ROCHESTER INSTITUTE of Technology will open a college of
hotel-and-resort management in Dubrovnik to help Croatia
rehabilitate the once-thriving seaport that was badly
damaged during the war in the Balkans: A35
- OFFICIALS OF THE UNIVERSITY of California system have
announced a new partnership with Mexico's National Council
on Science and Technology. It will provide fellowships for
foreign study for 3,000 graduate students a year: A35
- IN INDIA, FUNDS for higher education are unlikely to grow
over the next five years as the government focuses more of
its resources on primary education: A37
- KENYATTA UNIVERSITY and four campuses of the University of
Nairobi have reopened after a two-week shutdown prompted by
violent anti-government protests: A37
- FORMER PRIME MINISTER Margaret Thatcher of Britain is
seeking to endow a new professorship in "free enterprise" at
the University of Cambridge: A37
- THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO has rescinded a job offer to
Fernando Collor de Mello, a former president of Brazil, who
resigned amid charges of corruption: A12
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
EYE TO EYE
Studies of the opsin molecule are teaching researchers about
the evolution of vision and are provoking speculation about why
many animals can distinguish colors: A13
A GATHERING IN JERUSALEM
Scholars convened on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of
the Dead Sea Scrolls to discuss, with an unprecedented lack of
rancor, the state of research on them: A14
BIG MONEY
In his ninth book, Andrew Hacker, a professor of political
science at Queens College of the City University of New York,
examines income inequality in the United States: A8
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
A national commission should be formed to scrutinize research
partnerships between universities and companies, writes Mildred
K. Cho, an assistant professor of bioethics at the University
of Pennsylvania: B4
- SCIENTISTS SAY that a major reorientation of the earth's
tectonic plates 530 million years ago caused evolution to
proceed nearly 20 times as fast as normal: A15
- RESEARCHERS BELIEVE that the protein that causes jellyfish
to glow can be used to create a new type of computer-memory
device: A15
- DISCOVERIES of the oldest-known monkey skull and of a
possible subspecies of chimpanzee may force scientists to
revise the evolutionary tree of primates: A15
- THE INTERNET IS WRACKED continually by "storms," or bursts
of congestion, that slow communication throughout the
network, according to two researchers: A21
- HOT TYPE: A18
- Two recent books offer cultural analyses of serial
killers.
- Former students of David L. Bevington, a professor at the
University of Chicago and editor of The Complete Works
of Shakespeare, have dedicated to him a book of
essays on early English drama.
- 107 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A16-19
THE FACULTY
PROFESSIONAL HELP
Some universities have enlisted psychologists to help academic
departments with personnel disputes, morale problems, or bitter
professional feuds: A10
CRITICAL REPORT
Many people at Purdue University are questioning why an
administrator lost her job shortly after completing a study of
race relations on the campus: A12
CORE SKILLS
Colleges must make deep reforms in the curriculum if they are
to prepare students to function in the world after graduation,
writes Robert M. Diamond, assistant vice-chancellor for
instructional development at Syracuse University: B7
- ADELPHI UNIVERSITY has appointed Gayle Insler, a biology
professor who was a harsh critic of its former president,
Peter Diamandopoulos, as the dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences: A10
- THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION has begun producing a radio
program to set the record straight about what literature and
language professors do: A10
- AN ARBITRATOR HAS RULED that the University of New Hampshire
did not violate a labor contract when it refused to extend
health benefits to the partner of a gay professor: A12
- NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY learned recently that the new
dean of its education school had been found guilty of sexual
harassment at an institution where he used to work: A12
- THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO has rescinded a job offer to
Fernando Collor de Mello, a former president of Brazil, who
resigned amid charges of corruption: A12
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
A REQUIREMENT AT UCLA
All courses in the university's main undergraduate college will
have World-Wide Web pages by this fall. Reaction to the plan
among students and faculty members has been mixed: A21
BY DESIGN
Students are the workhorses behind many colleges' World-Wide
Web sites. Some institutions like the results, but others yearn
for professional help that will not graduate: A22
INFORMATION MISCONCEPTIONS
William Miller, president of the Association of College and
Research Libraries, warns professors and administrators not to
be deceived: A lot of important scholarly work is not available
electronically and may never be: A44
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
APPROPRIATIONS BILLS ADVANCE
While both the House of Representatives and the Senate appear
poised to back an increase in the maximum Pell Grant, they
differ on many other key budgetary items: A27
TAX PROVISIONS DROPPED
Republicans in Congress abandoned proposals that would have
been costly to many graduate students and faculty members: A28
"ANTI-MILITARY" POLICIES
Colleges that bar Pentagon recruiters on gay-rights grounds
will lose their ability to receive some federal student-aid
funds, the Education Department has ruled: A28
BATTLE OVER DIRECT LENDING
Republicans are objecting to a Clinton Administration proposal
to bar lenders from giving rebates to some borrowers in the
guaranteed-student-loan program: A29
POLICIES ON HOME-SCHOOLED STUDENTS
States are considering how their public colleges should
evaluate applications for admission from an increasingly large
group: A30
REGULATING TRADE SCHOOLS
The agency in California that monitors proprietary institutions
will lose its independence under legislation signed by Governor
Pete Wilson: A30
- SHELDON HACKNEY, the chairman of the National Endowment of
the Humanities, offered some advice to potential successors
as he stepped down: A27
- A CONTROVERSIAL PROVISION that would make the direct-lending
program's income-contingent-repayment option more attractive
to student borrowers somehow slipped into tax bills approved
by the Senate and the House of Representatives: A27
- THE SENATE LABOR and Human Resources Committee approved a
bill that would restrict how the National Endowments for the
Arts and Humanities spend their money: A31
- THE SAME COMMITTEE also approved a bill that would allow
the National Science Foundation to receive up to a
7-per-cent increase in funds in fiscal 1998: A31
- THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES approved a bill to continue
federal support for community colleges through the
"Tech-Prep" vocational-education programs: A31
- GOVERNOR GEORGE E. PATAKI of New York announced that due to
an upsurge in state revenue, there will be no increase in
public-college tuition or cuts in student aid: A31
- NEW BILLS IN CONGRESS; new regulations issued by
federal agencies; Congressional hearings scheduled: A31
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES
Declining interest by students in attending private two-year
colleges has forced many of them to close, merge, or become
four-year institutions: A25
ANTITRUST CHARGES
An association of college bookstores has sued three publishing
houses, accusing them of discriminatory pricing policies: A26
PROFESSIONAL HELP
Some universities have enlisted psychologists to help academic
departments with personnel disputes, morale problems, or bitter
professional feuds: A10
BUSY TIMES FOR COUNSELING CENTERS
Many campuses report that up to 20 per cent of their students
are seeking help for depression or stress: A32
- A HUSBAND AND WIFE have been appointed to the presidencies
of two Georgia colleges. She will take over at Wesleyan; he
will take the reins at Macon State, just down the road: A25
- WESLEYAN COLLEGE HAS RECEIVED an anonymous $6-million gift
through the same Hong Kong law firm that informed Oberlin
College in April that it would receive a similar gift: A25
- HARVARD UNIVERSITY'S Board of Ministry has announced that
same-sex commitment ceremonies will be permitted in the
campus church: A8
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI has conducted a national study
of its image. The findings indicate that most people do not
associate the college with symbols of the Confederacy: A6
- THE SKELETON OF LITTLE SORREL, the horse of the Confederate
General Stonewall Jackson, has finally been laid to rest at
the Virginia Military Institute: A6
- THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA will pay $14-million to 75
couples who were patients at university fertility clinics
where doctors were accused of stealing human eggs: A8
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A26
STUDENTS
BUSY TIMES FOR COUNSELING CENTERS
Many campuses report that up to 20 per cent of their students
are seeking help for depression or stress: A32
DRUG TESTING UPHELD
A federal appeals court ruled that the Texas Tech University
Health Sciences Center did not violate the constitutional
rights of a medical resident by asking her to be tested: A33
PAGE CREATORS
Using students to design colleges' World-Wide Web sites is a
common practice, but some administrators would prefer that
professionals did the job: A22
- A STUDENT'S PARODY of a letter from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology's admissions office has been
circulating on line for three years: A32
- BINGE DRINKING ON CAMPUSES remains a widespread problem
despite declining alcohol use in the United States as a
whole, according to a new report: A32
- A GRADUATE STUDENT at Eastern New Mexico University has been
charged with faking an attack on herself after her name
appeared on an apparent anti-gay hit list: A6
- "OLD IRONSIDES," the world's oldest commissioned warship,
set sail last week for the first time in 116 years, with 17
college students aboard: A6
- WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of
best-selling books: A8
ATHLETICS
- THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Athletic Association has put the
men's-basketball team at the University of California at
Berkeley on probation for three years for rule breaking: A34
- CAMPUS POLICE at the University of Arizona are investigating
a possible illegal textbook-selling operation connected to
the athletics department: A34
OPINION & LETTERS
INFORMATION MISCONCEPTIONS
William Miller, president of the Association of College and
Research Libraries, warns professors and administrators not to
be deceived: A lot of important scholarly work is not available
electronically and may never be: A44
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
A national commission should be formed to scrutinize research
partnerships between universities and companies, writes Mildred
K. Cho, an assistant professor of bioethics at the University
of Pennsylvania: B4
EDUCATING CONGRESS ABOUT THE ARTS
For Michael Berube, a professor of English at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, there is no question that the
government should sponsor the National Endowment for the Arts:
B6
CORE SKILLS
Colleges must make deep reforms in the curriculum if they are
to prepare students to function in the world after graduation,
writes Robert M. Diamond, assistant vice-chancellor for
instructional development at Syracuse University: B7
THE "HANDOVER" OF HONG KONG
Raymond Wylie, a professor of international relations at Lehigh
University, reports that Chinese-American students and those
from the British colony witnessed its return to China with a
mixture of pride and anxiety: B8
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
CLASSIC ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE
A group of students from Lehigh University is spending a month
studying the public places and architecture of Italy's Veneto
region: B2
STEREOTYPES AND THEIR EFFECTS
Seventy paintings by Michael Ray Charles are on display at the
University of Houston: B52
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