A GUIDE to the May 1, 1998, Chronicle

THE FACULTY

TENURED PROFESSOR FIRED
A faculty member at East Carolina University says his right to due process was violated by the institution's chancellor, who cited the professor's behavior toward colleagues in dismissing him: A13

TRAINING SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS
Two professors at the University of Dayton have developed a program that is helping public-school districts deal with a difficult and age-old problem: A10

BAD ADVICE FROM 'MS. MENTOR'?
A new book may confirm the worst fears of graduate students and new professors about academe, writes Penny Schine Gold, a historian at Knox College: B7

• MOST PROFESSORS at the University of Colorado at Boulder are Democrats, according to the Rocky Mountain News: A12

• NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE has settled a lawsuit with a professor who said he had been discriminated against because he is heterosexual: A14

• A TENURED ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington quit after his academic credentials were questioned by a local newspaper: A14

• THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN is facing another race-bias lawsuit, this time over the denial of tenure to a professor specializing in third-world cinema: A14

• PROFESSORS AT NEW MEXICO Highlands University have voted to unionize: A14

• GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY'S president has reversed his decision to replace the institution's law-school dean, who will now stay on for at least five more years: A8

• A FORMER MARKETING INSTRUCTOR at San Diego Mesa College has been convicted of selling grades and course certificates to Middle Eastern students to help them remain in the United States: A10

• AN ADMISSIONS COUNSELOR at the University of California at Davis who wore a kilt on National Tartan Day and was told that the garb was inappropriate has won vindication: A10

• PEER REVIEW: A61

  Critics are saying that Grambling State University's president-elect, Steve Favors, lacks academic credentials that are required for the post.

  The University of Chicago, which has struggled for 12 years to fill its chair in Norwegian studies, may now have found the scholar it seeks.

RESEARCH & PUBLISHING

By delving into jazz, researchers examine the social and political dimensions of African-American music: A16

Scholarly study of country music had little legitimacy until recently, but is now growing rapidly: A18

Salsa music, a hybrid form, allows scholars to learn about diaspora communities and the globalization of culture: A19

• THE PUBLISHERS of Nature have begun a new neuroscience journal: A12

• THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE has experienced this decade its three warmest years in the last 600, scientists say: A24

• ASTRONOMERS working in three independent teams have reported evidence of the formation of planets surrounding stars: A24

• TWO GROUPS of early-American colonists from Britain faced devastating droughts, which may explain the colonies' troubles, according to an analysis of tree rings: A24

• A PETITION OPPOSING a climate treaty was printed in the form of a paper in a prestigious scientific journal published by the National Academy of Sciences, irritating the N.A.S.: A24

• HOT TYPE: A26

  Stories of antiwar protesters spitting on Vietnam veterans are an "urban legend," says a sociology professor at the College of the Holy Cross.

  A collection of essays by black writers on "whiteness" is the latest in a recent surge of books on the topic.

• 101 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A25-31

  Nota Bene: Symptoms of Culture, by Marjorie Garber, a a professor of English at Harvard University. The book is published by Routledge.

• THE AMERICAN ACADEMY in Berlin has announced the names of its first 17 fellows: A62

• THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL Association has honored three scholars: A62

• THE GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION has awarded fellowships to 168 artists, scholars, and scientists: A62

• NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY has announced the recipients of the Nemmers Prizes in economics and mathematics: A63

• THE WOODROW WILSON NATIONAL Fellowship Foundation has announced the eight winners of the 1998 Woodrow Wilson-Johnson & Johnson Dissertation Grants in Women's Health: A63

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

• EDUCAUSE, the new academic-computing group being formed out of the merger of EDUCOM and CAUSE, has selected a leader: A33

• THE INSTRUCTIONAL Telecommunications Council has updated its guide to distance learning: A33

• GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS demonstrated a technology that creates an "express lane" on the Internet and so avoids network traffic jams: A35

• AN ON-LINE "EXPO" based at Georgetown University highlights American-studies resources: A36

• A COMPUTER MISHAP wiped out data at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business while servers were being moved: A36

• A WORLD-WIDE WEB SITE at the University of Texas at El Paso aims to dispel myths about Texas-Mexico border area: A39

• ONE SOFTWARE PROGRAM, nine Internet lists, and eight other Internet resources: A39

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)

J. Stephen Perry, chief of staff to Louisiana's Governor, Mike Foster, has played a key part in pushing through changes in the state's higher-education policy: A42

TRYING TO FIND $1-BILLION
A dispute over attempts to lower interest rates on student loans is delaying Congressional consideration of a bill to extend the Higher Education Act: A46

INCENTIVES FOR EARLY RETIREMENT
Proposed federal legislation that would make it easier for colleges to get older professors to retire has won backing from many colleges but drawn strong opposition from the American Association of Retired Persons, a powerful lobby: A47

A COALITION UNRAVELING?
Some experts fear that scholars and state officials will soon be stepping up their competition for funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities, now that its survival seems more assured and its supporters have new leadership: A48

• A REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN from California, Frank Riggs, said he would seek a vote on an anti-affirmative-action measure he has attached to a bill reauthorizing the Higher Education Act: A40

• PRESIDENT CLINTON will address graduating students on three campuses this spring, and Vice-President Gore will speak on two: A40

• TEXAS IS CONSIDERING appealing a recent ruling in the landmark Hopwood case on affirmative action: A42

• TWO FEDERAL APPEALS COURTS have issued conflicting rulings on the extent to which the 11th Amendment protects public universities from federal lawsuits: A42

• IDAHO HAS SETTLED a lawsuit over a grant it rejected for a study of gay communities in the Pacific Northwest: A43

• A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT has ruled that the Internal Revenue Service owes additional interest to Michigan's prepaid-tuition program: A43

• COLLEGES ARE URGING Congress to approve a higher cap on the number of visas that may be issued to foreign academics: A46

MONEY & MANAGEMENT

ETHICAL DILEMMA
Belmont Abbey College returned a gift it had received from Philip Morris to protest a cigarette advertisement that the college's president said encouraged premarital sex: A52

SEEKING EDITORIAL FREEDOM
The heads of about 175 alumni magazines have proposed a statement of professional standards that would also protect their freedom from censorship: A52

M.B.A.'S THAT FOCUS ON HEALTH CARE
Graduate schools that offer the hybrid degree are finding that it is popular, attracting doctors, nurses, and business students: A12

NEW COMPETITION
Small, private colleges fear that other institutions' distance-learning programs could lure away continuing-education students, and so remove a key source of tuition revenue: A33

• CONSUMER ADVOCATES have asked the Clinton Administration to investigate whether a product developed at a federally financed, university-run laboratory is being suppressed by a company seeking to protect its market share: A49

• A FORMER SWIMMER at the University of California at Davis has given the institution $1-million for a new pool: A49

• CARSON-NEWMAN COLLEGE has changed the way its trustees are selected in order to gain more autonomy from the Tennessee Baptist Convention: A51

• ONE OF FURMAN UNIVERSITY'S original buildings is being sold off in pieces, which are being converted into furniture and into a memorial for the building on the campus: A8

• FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A52

STUDENTS

• A PRINTING ERROR in some copies of the Medical College Admission Test baffled students and prompted the test's sponsor to allow students to retake it: A53

• A STUDENT at the University of Florida won a defamation lawsuit against a campus group that he said had called him a child molester during a student-government campaign: A53

• SIX VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY students were injured when a tornado tore through a park where they were picnicking near the campus: A8

• WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY students are rallying to protest a new campus policy that is keeping a favorite pet dog from setting foot in the university's mathematics lab: A8

• BLACK COLLEGE REUNION WEEKEND, in Daytona Beach, Fla., turned violent last month, when a man exchanged gunfire with police on a crowded street: A10

• WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of best-selling books: A54

ATHLETICS

• NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY recently recruited five men's basketball players and a coach from Northern Illinois University, which is dropping its team: A55

• ATTENDANCE MAY BE DOWN at the National Collegiate Athletic Association's next convention: A55

• THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Athletic Association has voted to let Division I athletes work for pay during the academic year: A56

• A FORMER MEN'S BASKETBALL player at Northwestern University has admitted to his role in a point-shaving scandal: A56

INTERNATIONAL

EXILED FROM CHINA
Wang Dan, who had been imprisoned for his role in the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy student movement, was freed and sent to the United States: A59

DEREGULATION OPPOSED IN AUSTRALIA
Faculty and student groups say that a government commission's proposals would mean an end to a public-university sector committed to access and equity: A60

• THE PEACE ACCORDS in Northern Ireland prompted the formal approval of the creation of a "peaceline university" in Belfast: A57

• THE AMERICAN STUDENTS and faculty members who were assaulted in Guatemala in January returned to that country to help investigators: A57

• REPORTS OF ATTACKS on foreign students in Moscow spurred the U.S. Embassy to issue a warning to Americans: A59

• THE AMERICAN ACADEMY in Berlin has raised a third of its planned $34-million endowment and just named its first class of fellows: A60

OPINION & LETTERS

LIBERAL ARTS IN AN AGE OF INFO-GLUT
The strongest reason to cultivate enduring knowledge is to anchor a reckless and lightweight culture whose main value is marketability, writes Todd Gitlin, a professor of culture, journalism, and sociology at New York University: B4

GENDER BULLIES
We have made a great mistake in equating sexual harassment with sexual gestures and overtures, writes Susan Bordo, a philosophy professor at the University of Kentucky: B6

BAD ADVICE FROM 'MS. MENTOR'?
A new book may confirm the worst fears of graduate students and new professors about academe, writes Penny Schine Gold, a historian at Knox College: B7

• MARGINALIA: A8

• When students are rude in class, professors and administrators may share the blame: B3
• A closer look at alternative medicine: B8
• An experiment in selling a data base: B9
• Limits on federal aid for foreign students: B9
• An academic couple at Johns Hopkins: B9
• Is on-line archive fair use?: B9

THE ARTS

By delving into jazz, researchers examine the social and political dimensions of African-American music: A16

Scholarly study of country music had little legitimacy until recently, but is now growing rapidly: A18

Salsa music, a hybrid form, allows scholars to learn about diaspora communities and the globalization of culture: A19

CELEBRATING FILM
The book Poster Art from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema shows work in the Agrasanchez Film Archive of Mexican Cinema, in Harlingen, Tex.: B64

A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE

• APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS on U.S. campuses.

• DEATHS of people in academe.

• COMING EVENTS: conferences, workshops, and seminars.

• DEADLINES for fellowships, grants, the submission of papers, and more.

"BULLETIN BOARD": JOB OPENINGS

• DETAILS OF AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research positions in higher education, administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside academe.

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