A GUIDE to the September 12, 1997, Chronicle

• Sabhal Mor Ostaig, on the Isle of Skye, is Scotland's only Gaelic-language college: A52

REFORMER AT BEIJING UNIVERSITY
Shang Dewen, a professor in the Economics Institute, is pushing a blueprint for political change: A53

REBUILDING A LANDMARK
The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo, was destroyed during the Balkan war and is now starting the process of replacing its lost collections: A54

FOREIGN FOCUS
Many business schools in the United States are promoting their efforts to internationalize their curricula, but critics are questioning the sophistication of the programs: A14

• THE SOROS FOUNDATION in Belarus has decided to close its doors, and blames government authorities for harassment: A51

• APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY is training middle- and high-school instructors from China in American teaching methods: A51

• A PALESTINIAN PROFESSOR who has been imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority for two months without charge has resumed a hunger strike: A54

• THE RECTOR of Humanitarian University, in Grozny, the capital of the Chechen region of Russia, has been kidnaped: A54

MONOGRAPHS ARE FLOURISHING
Claims of a decline stem more from anxiety about new directions in scholarship than from an accurate understanding of publishing, argues Ken Wissoker, editor in chief of Duke University Press: B4

PACKAGE DEALS
University librarians are divided over whether they should accept proposals by publishing companies that offer electronic access to all of their scholarly journals. Among the drawbacks of the access plans are their cost and limited options: A31

FISHING FOR NEUTRINOS
Scientists are braving Antarctic cold to search for ephemeral subatomic particles that may lead to new knowledge of the universe: A20

AREA STUDIES VS. RATIONAL CHOICE
Participants in the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association said the dispute between advocates of the two approaches may be overstated: A22

"WHY DO YOU STAY?"
Vicki A. Moss, a nursing professor at Viterbo College, is studying why some women stay in abusive relationships, and what eventually leads some of them to leave: A13

NOTES FROM ACADEME
An archaeological team from the United States and Canada spent six intense weeks this summer collecting the secrets of the past at a site in Carthage, Tunisia: B2

• A STUDY SAYS THAT CHILDREN with high blood-cholesterol levels face an additional threat if they live with people who smoke cigarettes: A23

• RESEARCHERS HAVE COMPLETED the genetic map for a strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli, commonly known as E. coli: A24

• DENMARK IS THE BEST PLACE in the world to live, according to a study that ranked the abilities of 160 nations to provide for the needs of their citizens: A24

• RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND that victims of assault are more likely to develop psychological and physical problems in later years: A24

• THREE STUDIES of biological communities show that increasing the diversity of species doesn't necessarily improve the health of the ecosystems: A24

• THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE'S Office of Research Integrity has found three researchers guilty of scientific misconduct: A41

• CONSTRUCTION WORKERS renovating an old dormitory at Bates College found six letters dating to the Civil War wedged in a second-story wall: A12

• HOT TYPE: A24

  • Lynn R. Davidman, a professor of sociology at Brown University, is writing a book on "motherloss" in adolescence. The book will be published by the University of California Press.

  • Graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania will hold a conference to focus on films by "Alan Smithee," a pseudonym that directors use for films they disown.

• 129 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A26-30

  • Nota Bene: Imagined Battles: Reflections of War in European Art, by Peter Paret, a professor emeritus of history at the Institute for Advanced Study. The book is published by the University of North Carolina Press.

ALLEGATIONS OF RACIAL BIAS
The University of Michigan faces lawsuits from three former professors -- one who was in its business school and two who were in its medical school: A15

SCHOLARS, ARTISTS, AND WORKERS
An organization was formed on Labor Day to promote ties between academe and labor: A16

INVESTIGATING DISSENT
The Vatican has issued new rules to govern procedures for judging the work of dissident theologians: A16

• THE UNIVERSITY of Notre Dame has issued a statement welcoming gay and lesbian people, but it has not added sexual orientation to its non-discrimination policy: A14

• THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE among new recipients of doctorates in mathematics has dropped, but tenure-track jobs are still hard to come by: A14

• SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING doctorates are spending more time in temporary, low-paying postdoctoral jobs, according to a report: A17

• A NATIONAL SURVEY has found that recipients of doctorates in the humanities earned a median income of $45,000 in 1995: A17

• A FEDERAL JURY has awarded $275,000 to a former department chairwoman at Kennesaw State University who said she was demoted and fired for raising concerns about anti-Semitism on the campus: A17

• A CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE canceled a controversial seminar on the assassination of John F. Kennedy after receiving more than 200 angry telephone calls: A17

• FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY professors agreed to a tentative contract, ending their eight-day walkout: A12

• A FEDERAL JURY FOUND Kansas Wesleyan University guilty of sex bias and harassment in its treatment of a male student enrolled in its nursing school: A12

ELECTRONIC EXPERIMENTS
Academic presses are trying new approaches to putting monographs on line -- and profiting from them -- as debate over the future of scholarly books continues: A18

THE HEALTH CHANNEL
Baylor College of Medicine's new television operation features continuing-education courses, news reports on medical breakthroughs, and documentaries: A33

• YALE UNIVERSITY'S director of technology advised freshmen in a letter not to purchase Macintosh computers: A31

• A MEDICAL RESEARCHER at the Johns Hopkins University has developed a system to help diagnose retinal disease by e-mail: A31

• THE U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT has won a delay in a judge's decision to allow a University of Illinois at Chicago professor to publish his work on computer encryption: A34

• A FEDERAL JUDGE has ruled that prosecutors can proceed in their case against a former student at the University of California at Irvine who sent threatening e-mail messages to Asian-American students and professors: A34

• THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM is considering a proposal for a "telecampus" to market its distance-education efforts: A34

• 7 SOFTWARE PROGRAMS, 9 new videos, and 15 other Internet resources: A35

PRESERVING A JOB-TRAINING PROGRAM
A Senate panel is preparing to take up legislation that would keep separate streams of federal money for programs run by many community colleges: A38

PROTECTING HUMAN RESEARCH SUBJECTS
The National Bioethics Advisory Commission is considering a proposal to create an independent government office to provide oversight. The plan's critics fear a new layer of bureaucracy: A39

BACKLOG OF TENS OF THOUSANDS
The U.S. Education Department has stopped allowing borrowers to refinance their student loans in the direct-lending program, owing to a backlog of some 135,000 applications to do so: A40

PREFERENCES IN CLASS REGISTRATION
The University of Illinois at Chicago plans to end a controversial affirmative-action program that sparked a lawsuit: A41

DELAY OF BAN DENIED
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block the enforcement of California's ban on the use of racial and ethnic preferences by colleges and other state agencies: A42

• SEVEN PRIVATE COLLEGES in the South have joined in an effort to increase prepaid-tuition plans nationwide: A37

• THE ABSENCE of the executive director of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission from a legislative hearing on college funds aroused a prickly reaction: A37

• THE U.S. TAX COURT has reaffirmed that revenue from Mississippi State University's "affinity" credit cards is not taxable: A41

• THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE'S Office of Research Integrity has found three researchers guilty of scientific misconduct: A41

• THE PENSION FUND for employees of state universities in Illinois has agreed to pay a fine to the Federal Election Commission for making illegal campaign contributions: A42

• PAUL CELLUCCI, the Acting Governor of Massachusetts, said he opposes tenure at the state's public colleges, but would not seek to end it: A42

• STATUS OF PENDING FEDERAL LEGISLATION: A40

TOP DOLLAR FOR A HARVARD BLAZER
Two Ivy League universities are making money by licensing the sale of products bearing their names in foreign markets, particularly in Asia: A44

ALLEGATIONS OF KICKBACKS AND FRAUD
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is examining how facilities contracts were awarded by the Johns Hopkins University: A47

FOREIGN FOCUS
Many business schools in the United States are promoting their efforts to internationalize their curricula, but critics are questioning the sophistication of the programs: A14

• LIBRARY OFFICIALS at Colorado State University are asking for help to replace 400,000 books and journals that were destroyed in a flash flood in July: A43

• AN ALUMNA of Miami University of Ohio who served for 17 years as a dormitory adviser there and who died at the age of 98 has left the institution $6.5-million: A43

• TIAA-CREF, the nation's largest pension fund, has unveiled its own line of mutual funds: A45

• THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES at Aims Community College decided that questionable expenditures by two top officials, including a trip to Las Vegas, did not constitute a "wrongful action": A45

• LEADERS OF MEREDITH COLLEGE have reached an agreement to loosen its ties with the State Baptist Convention of North Carolina: A45

• THE U.S. TAX COURT has reaffirmed that revenue from Mississippi State University's "affinity" credit cards is not taxable: A41

• RICHARD JEWELL, the security guard once suspected in the bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games, has settled a lawsuit against Piedmont College for an undisclosed amount: A13

• FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A47

HOUSING REQUIREMENTS
Five Orthodox Jewish students say that Yale University's rule that they must live in campus housing infringes on their right to the free expression of their religious beliefs: A50

SHARED INTERESTS
Ethnic housing serves the same purposes as those served by fraternities and sororities, honors dormitories, and all-female halls, writes Rebecca Lee Parker, director of the Ohio Unions at the Ohio State University: B6

• U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT revised its rankings of the colleges that offer the "best values" after discovering that two institutions had provided incorrect data: A49

• QUEENS COLLEGE in North Carolina announced a plan to cut its tuition by 27.5 per cent: A49

• THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY is denying a diploma to a former student who pleaded guilty in the shooting death of another student, even though the gunman had completed his degree requirements: A12

• A FORMER LAW STUDENT at Duquesne University has sued the institution, charging that its grade-curving policy constituted a breach of contract: A13

• WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of best-selling books: A13

• A RECENT VICTORY by the North Carolina State University football team saved the Ontario Lottery Corporation from a big payout after it posted an erroneous point spread: A48

• WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY and the University of Idaho are discussing whether to play their football games in the same stadium: A48

• THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII'S football coach, Fred vonAppen, has been criticized by Governor Ben Cayetano for not doing enough fund raising: A48

MONOGRAPHS ARE FLOURISHING
Claims of a decline stem more from anxiety about new directions in scholarship than from an accurate understanding of publishing, argues Ken Wissoker, editor in chief of Duke University Press: B4

SHARED INTERESTS
Ethnic housing serves the same purposes as those served by fraternities and sororities, honors dormitories, and all-female halls, writes Rebecca Lee Parker, director of the Ohio Unions at the Ohio State University: B6

STUDENTS' REVENGE?
Undergraduates expect to assess their instructors, and they use all critical methods, including Freudianism, Marxism, and deconstruction, writes Joel J. Gold, a professor of English at the University of Kansas: B8

HANGZHOU DIARY
Naomi Woronov, a professor of English at Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York, writes of her return to Zhejiang University, where she taught 15 years ago, and encounters the institution's modernization firsthand: B9

• MARGINALIA: A12

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• The strands of gender studies and academic feminism: B3
• Moral arguments about cloning: B10
• Activist protests at the New School: B10
• Troubled departments: finding help: B11
• Colleges as assets to their communities: B11
• The future of a historical society: B11
• Borrower benefits for all students: B11

A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE

• APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS on U.S. campuses: A55-56

• DEATHS of people in academe: A56

• COMING EVENTS of interest to the men and women of academe: A56-61

• DEADLINES for fellowships, grants, the submission of papers, and more: A61-63

"BULLETIN BOARD": 56 PAGES OF JOB OPENINGS

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