A GUIDE to the September 19, 1997, Chronicle

TRACKING FOREIGN STUDENTS
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is testing a new system in which much more information is gathered about students from abroad who are studying in the United States: A49

ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN IRAN
Hojatolislam Muhammad Khatami, the nation's new president, is encouraging universities to be open to ideas from outside the country: A50

AVOIDING TUITION IN BRITAIN
Universities have received a flood of late applications from students who are scrambling to begin work on degrees this year and thereby to avoid paying fees: A51

CONCERN IN AUSTRALIA
Educators are alarmed by a sharp decline in the number of fee-paying Asian students who are coming to study in the country: A52

HELPFUL NEIGHBORS
Colleges along the border between Mexico and the United States have joined forces to help disadvantaged communities in the region: A52

• PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL of the Czech Republic has been chosen the winner of the 1997 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding: A49

• A GROUP OF EDUCATORS has published a guide that offers advice to colleges and universities in the United States on insuring the quality of their programs abroad: A49

AN ARBITER OF "MIDDLEBROW" CULTURE
A new book about the Book-of-the-Month Club by Janice Radway, a literature professor at Duke University, explores popular reading habits -- and her own intellectual growth: A17

PIDGIN LANGUAGE
Peter Galison, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, emphasizes instruments and communication among scientists in his new history of physics: A18

ANSWERING THE BELL CURVE
Joseph L. Graves, Jr., an Arizona State University professor and the ranking black evolutionary biologist in the United States, is writing a reply to a controversial best seller: A12

• A STUDY HAS FOUND that a sense of closeness with others at home and at school helps protect teen-agers from engaging in risky behavior: A20

• SCIENTISTS SAY women's ability to bear children after the age of 40 may indicate a genetic predisposition for long life: A20

• THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL Association urged the U.S. government last week to stop collecting data categorized by race, which it called pseudo-scientific: A20

• HOT TYPE: A24
  • The University of California Press has helped to turn Susan Bordo from an academic philosopher into a cultural critic.

  • John C. Torpey, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine, just signed with Cambridge University Press for a book on the history of the passport.

  • In Media Culture and the Religious Right, a book forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press, scholars analyze the Christian right's savvy marketing strategy.

• 99 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A22-27
  • Nota Bene: Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions That Matter in Right-Wing America, by Linda Kintz, an associate professor of English at the University of Oregon. The book is published by Duke University Press.

A CONTRARIAN'S CREDO
In Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber, David Gelernter, a computer scientist at Yale University, tells about his physical struggles to recover from the bomber's attack and lashes out at modern American society: A14

LOOKING FOR WORK
On the Market: Surviving the Academic Job Search, edited by two Ph.D.'s who lack jobs, features first-person accounts of successful and unsuccessful searches: A15

A CHARGE OF HERESY
A report to the Georgia Baptist Convention says the president of Mercer University failed in his "spiritual fiduciary responsibility" in a book he published last year: A16

• JOHN M.J. MADEY, a physicist who invented the free-electron laser, has been removed as director of a laboratory he founded at Duke University: A14

• THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Southwestern Medical Center hopes to attract young biomedical researchers with generous grants from a special $50-million endowment: A14

• YALE UNIVERSITY HAS AGREED to reconsider its decision to deny tenure to Diana Kunz, a historian of diplomacy: A16

• A FEDERAL APPEALS PANEL ruled that the University of Texas at San Antonio did not discriminate against a female professor when it denied her a promotion: A16

• AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has accused the institution of academic censorship: A16

• NICOLAUS MILLS, a professor of American studies at Sarah Lawrence College, took students on a running tour of some of Manhattan's historical and cultural landmarks: A10

INTERNET "OUTSOURCING"
When colleges hire companies to create their World-Wide Web sites, they face tough decisions about their audiences and how to handle maintenance: A29

INFORMATION ON INFORMATION
Finding educational material on the World-Wide Web could get easier with a new labeling system created by a consortium that includes academic groups: A30

NEXT GENERATION INTERNET
A key Republican lawmaker blasted the Clinton Administration at a Congressional hearing last week for taking too long to provide details on its proposal for a faster network: A31

• A COURSE AT SALVE REGINA University teaches students how criminals are using modern technology to commit age-old crimes: A29

• TWO PROFESSORS of instructional technology have created a World-Wide Web site to help moderators of e-mail discussion lists do their work: A29

• THE COUNCIL FOR AID to Education, which tracks private giving to higher education, has created a World-Wide Web site that allows fund raisers to compare facts and figures -- for a fee: A41

• 8 SOFTWARE PROGRAMS, 16 Internet lists, and 8 other Internet resources: A32

THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT
For proprietary schools, one of the most important issues Congress will consider in revising this key law will be how institutions with high loan-default rates are treated: A34

• Trade-school officials are continuing their practice of contributing funds to the campaigns of key members of Congress: A35

LARGER PELL GRANTS
The Senate has approved a fiscal-1998 appropriations bill that would increase the maximum to $3,000: A36

OVERHEAD COSTS
The White House has proposed changes in the rules that govern how universities are reimbursed for the indirect costs of federally sponsored research: A37

ANTITRUST PROBLEMS
The Justice Department is demanding changes in an accrediting rule used by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to bar its members from accepting some transfer credits: A38

CITIZENSHIP TESTING
The federal government is investigating "irregularities" in a program at Houston Community College's Southeast campus: A38

TUITION INDEXING
Politicians have embraced plans that link increases to other measures, such as changes in per-capita income, but some college officials have reservations about the practice: A40

NEXT GENERATION INTERNET
A key Republican lawmaker blasted the Clinton Administration at a Congressional hearing last week for taking too long to provide details on its proposal for a faster network: A31

• THE COST OF COLLEGE has been the focus of the television show "The McLaughlin Group" and of a panel convened by Congress: A34

• SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING groups are lobbying Congress and the Clinton Administration to double the federal research budget over the next 10 years: A34

• TO STIMULATE COMPETITION, the Energy Department has twice extended the deadline for applications to manage its troubled Brookhaven National Laboratory: A38

• THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE for Governor of Virginia stated that he opposed "quotas and other forms of preferences," setting off a debate on affirmative action in the commonwealth: A39

• A FEDERAL JUDGE REJECTED a request by Alabama to alter a 1985 settlement in which the state agreed to create a test for aspiring schoolteachers that black and white applicants would pass at about the same rate: A39

• THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL Association urged the U.S. government last week to stop collecting data categorized by race, which it called pseudo-scientific: A20

LIFTING THE CAP
Many private colleges have new options for construction on their campuses, thanks to the tax law enacted this summer by Congress. It removed a limit on the tax-exempt bonds they could issue: A41

STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE
Leaders of Sue Bennett College say that their former president kept information to himself about the financial difficulties facing the institution: A42

INTERNET "OUTSOURCING"
When colleges hire companies to create their World-Wide Web sites, they face tough decisions about their audiences and how to handle maintenance: A29

HANDLING REMEDIAL EDUCATION
Some colleges are turning over their basic-skills curricula to professional tutoring companies, which say they can do the job better: A44

OVERHEAD COSTS
The White House has proposed changes in the rules that govern how universities are reimbursed for the indirect costs of federally sponsored research: A37

HELPFUL NEIGHBORS
Colleges along the border between Mexico and the United States have joined forces to help disadvantaged communities in the region: A52

• THE COUNCIL FOR AID to Education, which tracks private giving to higher education, has created a World-Wide Web site that allows fund raisers to compare facts and figures -- for a fee: A41

• OFFICIALS AT THE UNIVERSITY of Central Florida and Georgia State University are giving alumni the chance to avoid the annual fund-raising telephone call: A41

• ROBERT K. ADAMS, a former president of the Medical Foundation of East Carolina University, was indicted on 16 charges of embezzlement: A43

• FIVE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES have announced the beginning or completion of capital campaigns: A43

• A FEDERAL JUDGE has upheld the firing of a technical-college president in Alabama who sued the college for racial bias after he was dismissed for financial misconduct: A10

• A FORMER STAFF MEMBER at South Dakota State University has been convicted of distributing drugs on the campus and of raping male students: A12

• FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A43

HANDLING REMEDIAL EDUCATION
Some colleges are turning over their basic-skills curricula to professional tutoring companies, which say they can do the job better: A44

TRACKING FOREIGN STUDENTS
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is testing a new system in which much more information is gathered about students from abroad who are studying in the United States: A49

• A NEW STUDY CONFIRMS reports that affluent parents are increasingly sending their children to four-year public universities: A44

• GRADUATES of William Woods University who attended full time and who completed their degrees in four years can now receive tuition rebates: A44

• A FRESHMAN AT LOUISIANA State University has sued the institution, a campus fraternity, and local bar over a night of binge drinking that left one student dead: A10

• A UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA graduate, who in 1993 was charged with violating a campus racial-harassment policy, has settled his lawsuit against the university: A10

• MEDICAL STUDENTS at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center are no longer being required to perform experiments on live dogs: A12

• A STUDENT AT MARLBORO COLLEGE successfully petitioned administrators to build a 2,400-square-foot aviary to house more than 35 birds he brought there to study: A12

BEING NO. 1
The debate over holding a championship game in college football reflects broader questions about the control of intercollegiate athletics: A46

IMPACT OF ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Black and low-income students are being hardest hit by the more rigorous rules imposed in recent years by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, according to preliminary results of an N.C.A.A. study: A48

• EVERYONE WHO SHOWS UP for football practice at Mount Union College makes the team and gets to play in either varsity or junior-varsity games: A46

• DUTCH BAUGHMAN, the former athletics director at Oregon State University, has become the director of the Ranch Management Institute at Texas Christian University: A46

CONSERVATIVE FOUNDATIONS
In contrast to the findings of a recent study, they have had a beneficial effect on public-policy debates, writes Charles W. Bray, president of the Johnson Foundation, in Racine, Wis.: A64

RELIGION IN THE ACADEMY
Universities increasingly are finding that a century-old truce between the forces of faith and the demands of knowledge is no longer holding, writes Alan Wolfe, a professor at Boston University: B4

WHEN DISCOURSE OFFENDS
Even if a college administrator erred in a free-speech case at the University of Minnesota at Duluth, imposing a monetary penalty hardly seems justified, writes Robert M. O'Neil, a law professor at the University of Virginia: B6

GLOSSY AND GRAINY WORLDS
The news media today affect us more like a drug-delivery system than as a relayer of information and ideas, writes Susan Bordo, a professor of philosophy at the University of Kentucky: B8

NOTES FROM ACADEME
Childhood memories of reading Rudyard Kipling, E.B. White, and Patrick Dennis help a writer find a voice: B2

• MARGINALIA: A10

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• Grade inflation and academic standards: B3
• The persistence of racism: B12
• Reform teaching, not curriculum: B12
• Libraries must meet users' needs: B13

THE ART OF CAMPANOLOGY
Kalamazoo College is one of only three institutions in the United States that boasts a set, or "ring," of English tower bells, which you may hear on Academe Today: B10

ACTS OF FAITH
"Fish and Wine," an exhibition of photographs celebrating people responsible for two major products of Portugal, is on display at Lafayette College: B72

• FOUR FACULTY MEMBERS at the University of Michigan have fused dance, sculpture, astronomy, and computer science to create a stage performance: A10

A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE

• APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS on U.S. campuses: A53-54

• DEATHS of people in academe: A54

• COMING EVENTS of interest to the men and women of academe: A54-62

• DEADLINES for fellowships, grants, the submission of papers, and more: A62-63

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