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INTERNATIONAL
OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN IN INDIA
More female students are enrolling than ever, and the
curriculum is changing, but sexual harassment remains a major
problem on campuses: A49
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CHINESE RULE IN HONG KONG
A member of the Beijing-appointed legislature has called on
universities to promote "patriotic education" and to rid the
local education system of colonial influences: A51
DELAYS AT PALESTINIAN UNIVERSITIES
Israeli security measures have blocked the scheduled start of
the fall semester: A51
KEEPING ISRAEL'S MINISTRY OF SCIENCE
Researchers are circulating a petition objecting to a plan to
dismantle the agency: A51
HOW TO EVALUATE PROFICIENCY
Traditional standards for judging writing may not be the best
way to assess the progress of students who are first-generation
immigrants, writes Marc Ward, acting director of the English as
a Second Language program at Lehman College of the City
University of New York: B8
- THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S stance on the student protests in
Tiananmen Square in 1989 will not change, officials say: A49
- STANFORD UNIVERSITY is modeling a scholarship program for
Asian on the University of Oxford's Rhodes Scholarships: A49
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
MAKING IT RAIN
Roelof T. Bruintjes, an American scientist at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research, is leading a cloud-seeding
project in an arid Mexican state: A15
TIME ON THEIR HANDS?
Despite common perceptions, Americans have more leisure now
than at any time in the last 30 years, two scholars say: A16
THE FATE OF THE MONOGRAPH
Professors, librarians, and university-press officials met
in Washington, D.C., this month to assess the health and the
value of the specialized scholarly books: A18
STUDYING EDUCATION IN LITTLE ROCK
A team of scholars from the University of Arkansas examined the
local school district, 40 years after the forced desegregation
of Central High School: A11
NOTES FROM ACADEME
Knut Krzywinski, a botanist at Norway's University of Bergen,
takes his students on week-long boating excursions to study the
vegetation of archipelagos along the Atlantic coast: B2
2 HISTORIANS FACE THE MUSIC
Richard Beeman and Gary B. Nash, historians at the Universities
of Pennsylvania and California at Los Angeles, respectively,
describe a lecture tour of Montana during which they discussed
the ties between late-18th-century insurgencies in the United
States and the militia movements of today: B6
- FOSSILS from what may be the largest tyrannosaur yet found
have been uncovered in Montana: A20
- A TEAM OF SCIENTISTS has reported in Science that
several man-made mounds in Louisiana are the oldest human
structures in the Western Hemisphere: A20
- ASTRONOMERS ARE INVESTIGATING a huge burst of gamma rays
from a distant galaxy: A20
- AN ON-LINE ARTICLE by a San Diego State University professor
features animations that show how a forest might grow and
change over a 1,000-year period: A27
- HOT TYPE: A20
- Sandra Bem, a psychologist at Cornell University, has
written an amusing book about how she brought up her
children to disregard gender stereotypes and how her
unconventional parenting went over in suburbia.
- A quilt crafted by elementary-school students that is
featured on a book cover has sparked a demand for a
recall because of the way it portrays African Americans.
- 107 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A22-26
- NEWCOMBE DOCTORAL DISSERTATION Fellowships have been awarded
to 35 graduate students for research and writing on ethical
or religious values: A53-55
THE FACULTY
MOVING TO THE BIG APPLE
Universities in New York City are finding that their location,
once seen as a detriment, is helping them recruit top scholars:
A12
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- Institutions in the city have used visiting and
part-time professorships to enhance their faculties and
to attract new stars: A13
"THE PHILOSOPHICAL GOURMET REPORT"
Brian Leiter, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin,
has attracted a wide following for his on-line review of
graduate programs in philosophy: A14
HOT SEAT
Lino Graglia, a law professor at the University of Texas at
Austin, has been under siege for saying that cultural attitudes
explain why not all black and Hispanic students can compete with
white students: A33
- A REPORT issued by the Institute for American Values has
criticized college textbooks on marriage and family life,
calling them "a national embarrassment": A12
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA has agreed to reconsider the
dismissal of a humanities professor from its international
campus: A12
- THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of University Professors said in a
report that there is a "climate of oppression" at Brigham
Young University due to infringements on academic freedom:
A11
- A WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY faculty committee has cleared two
professors of scientific-misconduct charges in connection
with a patent-infringement case: A43
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
CRUNCH TIME
The growth of campus computer networks has turned up the heat
on colleges' technical-support staffs at the start of the fall
semester: A27
COMPUTER SECURITY
Colleges are using classes, rules, and publicity to try to
impress security-conscious procedures upon students: A28
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
WINNERS AND LOSERS IN TEXAS
A court ruling last year that barred affirmative action has had
a major impact on the state's colleges, but the new enrollment
patterns are not as clear-cut as many had predicted: A32
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- Civil-rights leaders and minority students last week
protested comments by a University of Texas at Austin law
professor that they perceived as racist: A33
CUTTING COMMUNITY-COLLEGE COSTS
Massachusetts is considering a plan that would combine federal
and state programs to virtually eliminate charges for
low-income students: A34
AN AID PROGRAM SURVIVES
The U.S. Education Department backed off of a plan to kill the
Perkins Loan Program after an outcry from college officials:
A36
ARTS ENDOWMENT GETS REPRIEVED
The Senate rejected proposals to eliminate the National
Endowment for the Arts or to have its funds distributed
directly to the states: A38
BILLIONS AT STAKE FOR BORROWERS
Lenders have been thwarted in an effort to block a change in
the way interest rates are calculated on loans: A38
LOAN-CONSOLIDATION PROBLEMS
Members of the House of Representatives expressed outrage over
how the Education Department has treated borrowers who have
faced significant delays in consolidating their loans: A39
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
SAVINGS FROM DEREGULATION
Colleges have more options -- and face harder decisions -- in
purchasing electricity, one of their largest expenses: A40
A COSTLY GIFT
The Georgia Institute of Technology is spending millions on a
swimming facility it received after the 1996 Olympics: A42
CONTROL OF A FOUNDATION
The University of Alabama is seeking a court order to remove
the trustees of a deceased donor's foundation, saying that they
are not carrying out his wishes: A42
CRUNCH TIME
The growth of campus computer networks has turned up the heat
on colleges' technical-support staffs at the start of the fall
semester: A27
- A PRIVATE HOTEL DEVELOPER has built and will run a new
"residential village" for Dowling College students. The
facility is due to open in October: A40
- A FOOD-SERVICES COMPANY is cooking up new menus for 44
colleges, sans a one-time staple of cafeterias --
Salisbury steak: A40
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI has received a gift worth
$60-million to support international studies: A43
- A WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY faculty committee has cleared two
professors of scientific-misconduct charges in connection
with a patent-infringement case: A43
- LARRY KRAMER, a gay activist and Yale alumnus angry over the
university's rejection of his proposed multimillion-dollar
gift, may reconsider donating his papers to the institution:
A43
- A CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY-COLLEGE board is considering removing
its president, who has been called anti-Semitic over his
plans for a seminar on the killing of John F. Kennedy: A10
- FIFTY YEARS after a bell clapper was stolen from Ohio
Wesleyan University, it was returned, accompanied by a note
signed Eggplant Bloomingdale III: A11
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A43-44
STUDENTS
NEW YORK CITY AS A COLLEGE TOWN
Applications to private colleges are surging because of the
drop in crime and the wide availability of internships and
cultural opportunities: A46
A GOOD YEAR FOR ENROLLMENT
Public and private colleges around the country are reporting
increases, and administrators are crediting both recruitment
strategies and demographic trends: A47
- DUKE UNIVERSITY is considering a revised plan to curb grade
inflation. An earlier version of the plan drew fire from
students: A46
- OFFICIALS AT THE UNIVERSITY of Massachusetts have spelled
out the rules for student demonstrations on the campus, and
have promised to enforce them from now on: A46
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI has dropped its proposal to
permit overnight visits in dormitories by members of the
opposite sex: A48
- A PLANE CRASH killed two Purdue University students and
their instructor during a training flight that was part of
the university's aviation-technology program: A10
- THE SAFETY OF A SHIP used in a Semester at Sea program has
been questioned by federal authorities: A11
- A KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE has begun requiring random drug
tests for arts and humanities students who receive
scholarships: A11
- LAWSUITS CHARGING Princeton Review, a test-prep company,
with false advertising were filed by a competitor and by
the sponsor of the Graduate Management Admission Test: A10
- WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of
best-selling books: A48
ATHLETICS
A COSTLY GIFT
The Georgia Institute of Technology is spending millions on a
swimming facility it received after the 1996 Olympics: A42
- CURRENT AND FORMER football players at the University of
Texas at El Paso are being investigated for possible tax
fraud by the Internal Revenue Service: A45
- A FEMALE PLACE-KICKER has charged Duke University with sex
discrimination because she has been kept off the football
team's roster: A45
- THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA'S Steve Spurrier has become the
highest-paid coach in college football: A45
OPINION & LETTERS
ARE YOU SMART ENOUGH?
We ignore the most crucial part of education when we value the
mere demonstration of intellect more than we do its
cultivation, writes Alexander W. Astin, director of the Higher
Education Research Institute at the University of California at
Los Angeles: A60
CLONING AND THE PRESS
News organizations need to find better ways to deal with
pressing moral issues in science, argues Leigh Turner, a
research associate at the Hastings Center, which focuses on
issues of biomedical ethics: B4
2 HISTORIANS FACE THE MUSIC
Richard Beeman and Gary B. Nash, historians at the Universities
of Pennsylvania and California at Los Angeles, respectively,
describe a lecture tour of Montana during which they discussed
the ties between late-18th-century insurgencies in the United
States and the militia movements of today: B6
HOW TO EVALUATE PROFICIENCY
Traditional standards for judging writing may not be the best
way to assess the progress of students who are first-generation
immigrants, writes Marc Ward, acting director of the English as
a Second Language program at Lehman College of the City
University of New York: B8
THE ROLE OF FILM REVIEWERS
They are struggling to regain some of their lost cultural
authority, says Robert Sklar, a professor of cinema studies at
New York University: B9
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
THE ROLE OF FILM REVIEWERS
They are struggling to regain some of their lost cultural
authority, says Robert Sklar, a professor of cinema studies at
New York University: B9
PORTRAYING YBOR CITY
The Florida town is the focus of the work of Ferdie Pacheco, an
artist and writer, in a book to be published next month by the
University Press of Florida: B76
- A CENTRE COLLEGE SPOKESMAN who doubles as an Appalachian
folk singer has written and published a children's book,
Bright Blue Rooster (Down on the Farm), derived from one of
his songs: A10
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE
"BULLETIN BOARD": 64 PAGES OF JOB OPENINGS
DETAILS OF MORE THAN 900 AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching
and research positions in higher education, administrative
and executive jobs, and openings outside academe: B12-75
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