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INTERNATIONAL
ETHNIC TENSIONS
A university in Romania has set off a debate by using a form
of affirmative action to create a legal program for
Hungarian-speaking students: A57
RECRUITING IN LATIN AMERICA
Colleges and universities in the United States have stepped up
their efforts to attract relatively affluent students who want a better education than they can get in their own countries: A58
SUPPORT FOR RUSSIA
The international financier George Soros plans to spend up to
$500-million to help improve education and social services: A59
GAY STUDENTS AND STUDY ABROAD
A few colleges in the United States are starting to pay
attention to the students' particular needs -- both while they
are picking a program and after they return home: A53
- THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME plans to establish a permanent
study center in Dublin to expand its Keough Institute for
Irish Studies: A57
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS at Urbana-Champaign and the
National Center for Scientific Research in Paris have
agreed to work on joint projects: A57
- NINE IN 10 UNIVERSITIES in Japan have broadened their
curricula since 1991, according to a survey by the Japanese
government: A57
- A FORMER OFFICIAL of the National Autonomous University of
Mexico has been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement: A61
- ACADEMICS FROM CANADA and the United States have volunteered
for a new project to modernize teaching in public schools
across Eastern Europe: A61
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA is scheduled to reopen next month
after a seven-month shutdown following riots on its campus:
A61
- VIETNAMESE UNIVERSITIES are dropping classes on Marx and
Lenin due to a lack of funds and a shortage of teachers
qualified to teach communist theory: A61
- ITALIAN STUDENTS staged demonstrations in Rome to protest
the government's failure to carry out education reforms: A61
- JOHN MAJOR, the former British Prime Minister, joined a game
of cricket during a visit to Franklin and Marshall College:
A10
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
A SCHOLAR ON FIRE
Stephen J. Pyne, an Arizona State University professor, has
published his fifth book in a series examining the role of
flames in the history of the world: A15
- An excerpt from Dr. Pyne's World Fire (Henry Holt, 1995):
A18
LEARNING FROM SCORPIONS
Lourival D. Possani, a biologist at the National Autonomous
University of Mexico, works with the arachnids' toxins to
understand how cells communicate: A18
NOTES FROM ACADEME
The journal Terra Nova: Nature and Culture, which David
Rothenberg of the New Jersey Institute of Technology puts out,
explores the terrain between art and environmental activism: B2
- A STUDY COMPARING the brain cells of rats that had frequent
sexual intercourse with those that did not suggests that
sexual activity affects brain cells: A19
- DOUGLAS S. MASSEY, chairman of the University of
Pennsylvania's sociology department, says U.S. immigration
policy toward Mexico has had the opposite of intended
results: A19
- DETAILED OBSERVATIONS of two colliding galaxies are
challenging long-held beliefs about the formation of
galaxies and star clusters: A22
- HOT TYPE: A22
- Joseph Litvak, a professor of English at Bowdoin College,
has written a most effusive acknowledgment in his new
book, Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and
the Novel, for his partner, Lee Edelman.
- Jay Watson, a University of Mississippi scholar, argues
for a forgotten Southern writer, Lillian Smith, in an
article in American Quarterly.
- 85 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A24-31
THE FACULTY
CAREER PATHS OUTSIDE ACADEME
Unable to land positions as professors, some Ph.D.'s have found
ways to keep their intellectual interests alive, as editors,
writers, schoolteachers, and elsewhere: A12
A DIVIDED LAW SCHOOL
A letter to faculty members from the law dean at St. John's
University, in New York, has set off a furious debate about
academic freedom and the abuse of power: A13
UNIONIZATION BID REJECTED
An official of the National Labor Relations Board has ruled
that medical residents at Boston Medical Center should be
considered students, not employees: A14
BRIDGING LANGUAGES
Yiyi Chen, a graduate student at Cornell University, hopes to
translate the Hebrew Bible into his native Chinese: A10
NOTES FROM ACADEME
The journal Terra Nova: Nature and Culture, which David
Rothenberg of the New Jersey Institute of Technology puts out,
explores the terrain between art and environmental activism: B2
- THE FALL ISSUE of Daedalus focuses on shifts under
way in the academic profession: A12
- NILS HASSELMO, who retired as president of the University
of Minnesota System in June, has been named president of the
Association of American Universities: A12
- A PROFESSOR at the University of Nevada at Reno has been
arrested for making threatening telephone calls to a dean
and a department chairman: A14
- THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA at San Francisco has settled a
sex-discrimination suit with a former medical professor: A14
- A NEW POLICY on the tenure process at the University of
Michigan is being revised after professors complained that
it gave too much power to administrators: A14
- FOUR ACADEMICS were honored last week as the 1997-98
"Professors of the Year" by the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching: A10
- PEER REVIEW: A62
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
WEB-COURSE CREATION
New businesses are helping professors who know little about
coding pages for the World-Wide Web put their classes on line:
A33
FREE SPEECH AND ON-LINE SALES
Boston University has sued eight companies for selling term
papers to students over the Internet: A34
FEMINISM AND DISTANCE EDUCATION
Cheyenne M. Bonnell, of Wyoming's Northwest College, wants
colleges that are designing on-line courses to consider gender
differences in learning styles: A36
BANNING SPAMMING
Harvard University is considering whether it should regulate
the sending of mass, unsolicited e-mail to its students: A37
THE LAWS OF CYBERSPACE
Colleges' computer-specific codes of conduct, often expressed
in long lists of "thou shalt nots," can do more harm than good,
writes Steven McDonald, an associate legal counsel at the Ohio
State University: A68
AN ON-LINE SABBATICAL
Using the Internet instead of traveling can bring unanticipated
opportunities, writes Robert P. DeSieno, a professor of
computer science at Skidmore College: B8
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
ALASKA'S LONG WINTER OF DISCONTENT
After years of budget cutbacks, the university system says it
is starving, but state officials say the real problem is a
bloated administration: A41
- The university system hopes that a bill to give it
750,000 acres of land will be approved by Congress: A42
AUDITS OF TEACHING HOSPITALS
The House of Representatives wants to call off the
investigations, but some Senators think they should continue:
A45
RULES ON NEW TAX CREDITS
The U.S. Treasury Department plans to require colleges to
report less information about potential recipients in 1998 than
college administrators had feared: A46
GOING UNDER
A federal panel urged Congress to lift a ban that prevents
student-loan borrowers from declaring bankruptcy for seven
years after they end their studies: A46
RACE-BASED SCHOLARSHIPS
The U.S. Education Department's handling of a complaint at a
Virginia community college may signal a tougher stance by the
agency: A47
- A GROUP OF STUDENT-LOAN officials has created a political
action committee, "Friends of Higher Education," to support
politicians who protect the guaranteed-student-loan program:
A41
- THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION threatened to veto a bill that
would allow borrowers in the direct-loan program to
refinance their loans as guaranteed loans: A48
- A FEDERAL JUDGE ruled that the National Archives and Records
Administration acted illegally when it allowed government
agencies to destroy electronic records: A41
- THE LAW SCHOOL at the University of California at Berkeley
has been sued by an alumnus who says the school purposely
circumvented Proposition 209, the statewide ban on racial
and gender preferences: A44
- THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI must follow Ohio's
competitive-bidding laws for a $69-million conference
center, a judge ruled: A44
- A FEDERAL JUDGE has agreed to hear a lawsuit by a professor
and two students who say that Idaho State University
violated the U.S. Constitution by giving college credit for
church-sponsored religion classes: A44
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
THE BOOKSTORE OF THE FUTURE
Follett College Stores, the largest operator of campus stores
in the United States, is testing many high-tech concepts in a
$4-million facility near the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign: A49
RECRUITING IN LATIN AMERICA
Colleges and universities in the United States have stepped up
their efforts to attract relatively affluent students who want a
better education than they can get in their own countries: A58
- EMORY UNIVERSITY'S endowment reached $4.3-billion this
summer thanks to the high price for shares of Coca-Cola
stock, but a recent downturn has illustrated the risks of
having one stock dominate a portfolio: A49
- EMORY RANKED FOURTH among non-profit fund raisers in 1996,
according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy: A49
- PROFESSORS AT HARVARD University are questioning how the
administration handles the money it gets from the
university's nine schools: A52
- ALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGE, a Roman Catholic institution, fired
an openly gay dean, two months after he identified himself
in a newspaper as a priest: A8
- HUNDREDS OF CLERICAL WORKERS at Columbia University went on
strike after negotiations failed to resolve disputes over
wages, benefits, and job security: A8
- THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON spinoff company that created
the new Internet tools "Jango" and "Metacrawler" has been
bought for $35-million: A39
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A52
STUDENTS
GAY STUDENTS AND STUDY ABROAD
A few colleges are starting to pay attention to the students'
particular needs -- both while they are picking a program and
after they return home: A53
TOLERATION OF CHEATING?
Some students at Howard University's law school say officials
there have not adequately responded to recent allegations of
cheating: A54
ATHLETICS
IN THE BIG LEAGUES
Many colleges and universities think they will gain valuable
exposure by paying the costs necessary to move to Division I,
the top competitive level of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association: A55
- HEIRS HAVE SETTLED a squabble over a pair of season tickets
to University of Michigan football games: A55
- A WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY soccer player became the first woman
to play in a college football game, as a place kicker: A55
- A JURY FOUND that a Texas Christian University football
player who was paralyzed during a 1974 game was ineligible
for workers' compensation benefits: A56
OPINION & LETTERS
THE LAWS OF CYBERSPACE
Colleges' computer-specific codes of conduct, often expressed
in long lists of "thou shalt nots," can do more harm than good,
writes Steven McDonald, an associate legal counsel at the Ohio
State University: A68
GERMANY'S HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
James E. Young, a professor of English and Judaic studies at
the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, finds himself
sitting on an official commission after commenting from the
sidelines on the complexities of a raging debate: B4
PROTECTING ENDANGERED SPECIES
Federal laws should be modified in a few simple ways that would
not be a burden on the U.S. budget, says Andy Dobson, an
associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at
Princeton University: B6
AN ON-LINE SABBATICAL
Using the Internet instead of traveling can bring unanticipated
opportunities, writes Robert P. DeSieno, a professor of
computer science at Skidmore College: B8
A SCHOLAR-EXILE
Wade Tarzia, a technical writer and an independent scholar,
answers ritual questions. A job in academe? That's an untested
hypothesis sunk like Atlantis and now more mysterious than
ever: B9
DISPLAYING OUR OWN WORST FEARS
The portraits in the exhibition "Facing Death: Portraits from
Cambodia's Killing Fields" raise fundamental questions about
photography, writes Thomas Roma, director of photography and an
associate professor of art at Columbia University: B10
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
DISPLAYING OUR OWN WORST FEARS
The portraits in the exhibition "Facing Death: Portraits from
Cambodia's Killing Fields" raise fundamental questions about
photography, writes Thomas Roma, director of photography and an
associate professor of art at Columbia University: B10
SHELTER AND ETERNITY
Elysium -- A Gathering of Souls, a book about the
cemeteries of New Orleans, has been published by Louisiana
State University Press: B96
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE: PAGES A62-67
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