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INTERNATIONAL
BORDER CROSSING
Canadian universities, which boast low tuitions and safe
campuses, are stepping up their efforts to recruit students in
the United States: A63
SCREENING STUDENT-VISA APPLICANTS
A report says that the United States does not pay sufficient
attention to applicants from countries that support terrorism:
A64
QUALITY CONTROL
A new certification process, similar to accreditation, has been
designed for programs that colleges and universities offer in
other countries: A65
AN ABORIGINAL UNIVERSITY
Australia's Higher Education Council has called on the
government to finance a study of how such an institution should
be developed: A65
- A LEADING CANCER-RESEARCH charity in Britain plans to
withhold grants from scholars and institutions that accept
money from tobacco companies: A63
- PRESIDENT CLINTON announced that the United States would
increase the number of Fulbright scholarships for Venezuelan
students to study energy and the environment: A63
- THE UNITED STATES Information Agency has set up a center to
foster peace between the Greek and Turkish communities on
Cyprus: A63
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
AN ECONOMIC DEBATE
Today's combination of low inflation and low unemployment in
the United States should not be possible, according to
advocates of the "natural rate" theory: A13
NEW NOBEL LAUREATES
Eight researchers won awards for their achievements in physics,
chemistry, and economics: A14
PROBING THE PAST
Erick Langer, a historian at Carnegie Mellon University, is the
premier archive hunter in Bolivia. He is prodding young
Bolivian historians to dig into their nation's past: B2
JUST AROUND THE CORNER
Courses and scholarly work on the millennium, apocalypticism,
and millenarian beliefs are proliferating as 2000 approaches:
A10
INFORMED CONSENT
New rules for experiments on patients in emergency settings are
frustrating both researchers, who criticize them as vague, and
regulators, who say they aren't being enforced: A30
- TWO AIDS EXPERTS on the editorial board of The New England
Journal of Medicine resigned over an editorial that
attacked drug trials in the third world: A15
- A SUBSTANCE IN TOMATO SAUCE offers substantial protection
against heart attacks, a study says: A15
- RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND that rats favor one side of their
brains for particular tasks, just as human beings do: A15
- UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES around Ohio have been victimized by
vandalism in which photographs of boys have been cut from
the pages of books: A6
- HOT TYPE: A15
- 59 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A16-20
- Nota Bene: Notes From Underground: Zines and the Politics
of Popular Culture, by Stephen Duncombe, a professor of
American studies at the State University of New York at
Old Westbury. The book is published by Verso.
THE FACULTY
JUST AROUND THE CORNER
Courses and scholarly work on the millennium, apocalypticism,
and millenarian beliefs are proliferating as 2000 approaches:
A10
CONTROVERSY AT A BRANCH CAMPUS
The University of Arizona has struck a deal with a well-known
professor whose dismissal from an experimental campus worried
many faculty members: A12
HARASSMENT CASE
A federal judge has allowed a transsexual graduate student to
proceed with a sexual-harassment lawsuit against New York
University: A12
CLUES IN THE BONES
Kathleen J. Reichs, an anthropology professor at the University
of North Carolina at Charlotte, has become a best-selling
mystery writer with the publication of Deja Dead: A8
- A LIBRARIAN at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary was
fired for insubordination after writing a letter to the
denomination's leader: A10
- JOEL P. SMITH, a former official at Stanford University,
writes of his battle with depression in the autumn issue of
The American Scholar: A10
- WILLARD R. DAGGETT, president of the International Center
for Leadership in Education, delivered a warning about the
education of American students to community-college
officials at a conference in Atlanta last week: A21
- PEER REVIEW: A66
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
THE LATEST FASHIONS
"Wearable" computers, such as eyeglasses that can send e-mail,
may be the next hot trend in technology: A21
CUSTOM-DESIGNED WEB
The University of California at Los Angeles offers personalized
World-Wide Web pages that can link students to a range of
academic resources: A22
QUESTIONING THE MOTIVES
Fans of Apple Macintosh computers are criticizing a
$2.7-million grant from the Intel Corporation to Yale
University: A23
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
NEW CHALLENGE TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Two white students who were denied admission to the University
of Michigan have filed a class-action lawsuit against the
institution, citing its allegedly race-based policies: A27
- The National Association of Scholars and three law
professors took opposing views in briefs filed with the
Supreme Court on a key affirmative-action case: A28
MILITARY RECRUITERS BACK ON CAMPUS
Facing a loss of federal funds, at least a dozen law schools
have ended military-recruiting bans they enacted to protest
Pentagon policies on gay people: A29
INFORMED CONSENT
New rules for experiments on patients in emergency settings are
frustrating both researchers, who criticize them as vague, and
regulators, who say they aren't being enforced: A30
DEFINING THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE
The National Science Board is reviewing how federal agencies
can contribute to improvements in graduate education: A32
A SPLIT ON STUDENT AID
Virginia's gubernatorial candidates both want more money for
students, but they differ on how it should be used: A34
SCREENING STUDENT-VISA APPLICANTS
A report says that the United States does not pay sufficient
attention to applicants from countries that support terrorism:
A64
SAINTS AND SINNERS
A new study shows that affirmative action gives qualified
individuals an opportunity to succeed, write Peter Dreier and
Regina Freer, both professors of politics at Occidental
College: B6
- A STUDY HAS FOUND that students admitted to the University
of California at Davis's medical school under affirmative
action had similar rates of graduation and levels of
postgraduate achievement to other students: A35
- LOUISIANA'S SUPREME COURT is looking into the role of a law
clinic at Tulane University in an environmental dispute: A27
- THE U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT is meeting with college
administrators to explain colleges' role in carrying out the
new tax credits for tuition payments: A27
- GOVERNOR PETE WILSON of California vetoed a measure that
would have guaranteed a minimum level of spending for
state universities: A31
- THE U.S. SUPREME COURT refused to hear arguments by the
Student Loan Marketing Association to stop paying a fee to
the government on new loans it acquires: A31
- THE HIGH COURT also declined to hear an appeal by an
epidemiologist who had accused scientists at the University
of Alabama at Birmingham of stealing her research: A33
- PRESIDENT CLINTON used his line-item veto to eliminate
federal spending, through the defense-appropriations bill,
on projects at two universities: A33
- NORTHERN VIRGINIA Community College has agreed to stop
awarding race-based scholarships: A33
- TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ended its 1996-97 fiscal year with
a budget surplus of $5-million, defying predictions of a big
deficit: A35
- A HISPANIC ADVOCACY GROUP has sued the Texas Education
Agency over the exit examination taken by high-school
students in the state: A35
- REGULATORS IN CONNECTICUT rejected a controversial proposal
by three hospitals to create a new ambulatory-care center.
The University of Connecticut had withdrawn from the plan:
A35
- STATUS OF PENDING FEDERAL LEGISLATION: A33
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
WHAT THEY EARNED
A Chronicle survey on the pay of top officials of private
colleges found that Northeastern University's outgoing
president, John A. Curry, had the highest compensation in
1995-96 -- $958,358: A36
- The Internal Revenue Service has new tools to punish
colleges and other non-profit groups that award
extravagant salaries to their leaders: A38
- A list of the best-paid employees at 477 private colleges
and universities: A37
- TWO PROFESSORS at the University of Mississippi Medical
Center are seeking to patent the medicinal use of turmeric,
a plant used to make curry: A36
- THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY has licensed its name and logo for
use by a new theme restaurant: A36
- THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA has hired the nation's
largest real-estate-management business to run its on-campus
and off-campus properties: A59
- WESTMAR UNIVERSITY plans to close on November 21 because it
cannot pay $1.3-million in bills: A59
- RAYMOND A. HICKS resigned as president of Grambling State
University amid criticism that he had failed to solve
financial and administrative problems: A6
- A MICHIGAN JURY HAS ORDERED Kirtland Community College to
pay $100,000 in damages to a former employee who alleged
that his supervisor had retaliated against him after both
were attracted to the same woman: A8
- THE U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT is meeting with college
administrators to explain colleges' role in carrying out the
new tax credits for tuition payments: A27
- A LEADING CANCER-RESEARCH charity in Britain plans to
withhold grants from scholars and institutions that accept
money from tobacco companies: A63
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A59
STUDENTS
CURBING EXCESSIVE DRINKING
Some colleges are finding success when they publicize
statistics that show that most of their students do not binge
but drink only moderately: A61
NEW LEGAL TOOL FOR FRATERNITIES?
A federal appeals court has ruled that Hamilton College's
policy requiring students to live in campus housing is subject
to antitrust law: A62
BORDER CROSSING
Canadian universities, which boast low tuitions and safe
campuses, are stepping up their efforts to recruit students in
the United States: A63
- FOUR ORTHODOX JEWISH STUDENTS have sued Yale University over
its requirement that freshmen and sophomores live on the
campus: A61
- SAINT FRANCIS COLLEGE of Indiana will offer free tuition to
seniors who have attended the institution for their first
three years of undergraduate study: A61
- AN OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY fraternity has agreed to pay
$1-million to settle a lawsuit filed by parents of a pledge
who was killed in an accident after a fraternity party: A6
- A GAY-RIGHTS GROUP at Quinnipiac College has charged that
officials attempted to suppress a "coming-out day" because
it coincided with an open house for prospective students: A6
- NEARLY 100 STUDENTS at the University of California at
Berkeley camped out on the campus to protest the
institution's ban on affirmative action in admissions: A6
- A FEDERAL JUDGE has ordered a couple who ran a fraudulent
scholarship-search service to pay $6.1-million in
restitution to thousands of students and their parents: A8
ATHLETICS
- STANFORD UNIVERSITY has prohibited its marching band from
appearing at football games against the University of Notre
Dame following an "offensive" show this month: A60
- THE UNIVERSITY of Michigan has fired Steve Fisher, the men's
basketball coach who led his team to the national
championship in 1989: A60
- A REPORT in The Kansas City Star has raised questions
about the benefits that officials of the National Collegiate
Athletic Association receive: A60
- OFFICIALS AT THE UNIVERSITY of Arizona are investigating
charges of special treatment for a star basketball player,
Miles Simon: A60
OPINION & LETTERS
BRINGING INQUIRY TO A HALT
The idea of culture has become a powerful lens for scrutinizing
society, but it can hinder the understanding of human thought,
says Patricia Nelson Limerick, a professor of history at the
University of Colorado at Boulder: A76
THE HUMAN-RIGHTS DEBATE
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, a professor of history at Indiana
University, asks whether recent scholarship can provide a
useful perspective on the situation in China today: B4
SAINTS AND SINNERS
A new study shows that affirmative action gives qualified
individuals an opportunity to succeed, write Peter Dreier and
Regina Freer, both professors of politics at Occidental
College: B6
NEED HELP WITH YOUR CAREER?
In this tweed-eat-tweed world, many academics will welcome the
assistance of Acme Tenure Inc., say Lawrence Douglas and
Alexander George, both professors at Amherst College: B11
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
INSTANT ANTIQUITY
Tony Mendoza, an associate professor of art at the Ohio State
University, left Cuba in 1960, when he was 18. He returned last
year, while on a sabbatical, to satisfy his curiosity about
life in the socialist country: B8
REMEMBERING ALLEN
The exhibition "Allen Ginsberg and Friends" is at the Brush Art
Gallery and Studios, in Lowell, Mass., through November 16: B76
- RENOVATORS at the University of Pittsburgh have uncovered a
27-foot-long mural that was hidden behind a wall of mirrors:
A8
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE: PAGES A66-75
"BULLETIN BOARD": 64 PAGES OF JOB OPENINGS
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