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THE FACULTY
A NEW SCHOLARLY ASSOCIATION
Academics are debating what the creation of the Historical
Society says about its founders and about the state of existing
groups for historians: A12
STILL STANDING AT NEW PALTZ
Susan Lehrer, the scholar behind last year's women's-studies
conference at the State University of New York that caused wide
controversy, says critics have missed the point of what went on
there: A10
- JUST A FEW HOURS after faculty members at California
University of Pennsylvania voted no confidence in their
president, the college's Board of Trustees renewed his
contract: A12
- THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION for the Advancement of Teaching has
announced plans to overhaul its influential "Carnegie
Classification" of colleges and universities: A12
- THREE FORMER LAW PROFESSORS at Regent University have
settled their lawsuits that charged the university's founder
and chancellor, the religious broadcaster Pat Robertson,
with defamation of character: A8
- A UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA professor has designed a
wooden gun that shoots rubber bands as a solution to an
insect problem: A10
- PEER REVIEW: A62
- The University of Oregon's noted creative-writing program
is losing both an up-and-coming novelist and its
director, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
- The resignation of an art historian has slowed Cornell
University's search for a visual-studies expert.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
MAPPING HISTORY
A comprehensive atlas of the ancient world, to be published
next year by Princeton University Press, will incorporate new
cartographic techniques and the latest research: A14
A GOLD MINE OF SCIENTIFIC RICHES
Working with a state of matter -- the Bose-Einstein condensate
-- that was identified only three years ago, physicists are
making discoveries and opening up new fields of study at a
feverish pace: A17
- SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVELOPED genetically engineered potatoes
that will deliver vaccines to people who eat them: A19
- THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY has notified the federal
government that it has doubts about the validity of an
AIDS-research project by its scientists: A19
- SCIENTISTS HAVE USED tissue from cloned cow fetuses to treat
a condition in rats that is similar to Parkinson's disease:
A19
- NEWLY DISCOVERED anatomical evidence suggests that human
speech evolved as long as 300,000 years ago: A20
- AN ANALYSIS of microscopic meteorites collected in
Antarctica indicates that some 2,700 tons of debris fall on
the earth every year: A20
- SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND the gene responsible for a rare
abnormality that prevents the development of kneecaps: A20
- HOT TYPE: A18
- The French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard was
reinventing himself before he died, say editors at the
University of Minnesota Press, which has published his
most important works in English.
- Douglas Armato has taken the reins as director of the
Minnesota press, succeeding the controversial Lisa
Freeman.
- 91 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A21-24
- Nota Bene: Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes, an
essay collection edited by Andrew Horton and Stuart Y.
McDougal, professors at Loyola University of New Orleans
and the University of Michigan, respectively. The book is
published by the University of California Press.
- THE AMERICAN ACADEMY of Arts and Sciences has announced the
election of 147 new fellows and 22 foreign honorary members:
A63-65
- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY has announced the recipients of the 1998
Bancroft Prizes for books of exceptional merit in history,
biography, or diplomacy: A65
- THE NATIONAL ACADEMY of Sciences has elected 60 members and
15 associates "in recognition of their distinguished and
continuing achievements in original research": A65
- THE NATIONAL PHYSICAL Science Consortium has awarded its
1998 Graduate Fellowships for Minorities and Women in the
Physical Sciences: A65
- PHI BETA KAPPA has named 13 visiting scholars for 1998-99:
A65
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
RESPONDING TO HACKERS
Electronic mischief on campus computer networks is usually the
work of novices -- not skilled and malicious hackers. Still, if
administrators don't keep a close eye on their networks,
experts say, they are asking for trouble: A27
QUESTIONING THE DIGITAL AGE
Speakers at a conference at Harvey Mudd College criticized
higher education for pushing the use of information
technology: A29
COMPUTERS AND HISTORY
A new organization will focus on the use of technology for
teaching and research in the discipline: A30
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
FEAR OF A VETO
Disagreements between Congressional leaders and the White House
intensified over how to cut the interest rates paid by
student-loan borrowers -- a key element in the debate over the
reauthorization of the Higher Education Act: A34
UNCERTAINTY IN NEW YORK
The Board of Trustees of the City University of New York,
facing pressure from politicians, students, and faculty
members, delayed a vote on whether to overhaul remedial
education: A37
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SHIFTS
Community-college presidents who attended their annual meeting
last week said that many of their institutions were under
pressure to undergo profound change: A37
A NEW KIND OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
The University of Wisconsin System is trying to develop a plan
to promote diversity, while avoiding reverse-discrimination
lawsuits: A40
- EDUCATION SECRETARY Richard W. Riley is reportedly under
consideration to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland:
A34
- THE PRESIDENT of the National Academy of Sciences attacked
standardized tests as "boring": A34
- THE AMERICAN COUNCIL on Education has picked a new
spokesman: A34
- THE MASSACHUSETTS state auditor will review all deals that
convey to private companies the rights to inventions created
with taxpayer money by state workers, including college
researchers: A39
- A KENNESAW STATE COLLEGE professor who plans to run against
House Speaker Newt Gingrich lost her bid to have a judge
block a state law that requires her to take a leave of
absence during the campaign: A39
- THE ATTORNEY GENERAL of Texas said he would not appeal a
recent ruling in the Hopwood affirmative-action case,
but he invited the University of Texas to do so: A41
- CONGRESS WAS POISED to pass an emergency-spending bill that
did not slash the AmeriCorps national-service program's
budget cut. The bill also paved the way for consideration of
an agriculture-research bill: A42
- THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE has issued guidelines covering
the tax status of revenue from college-sponsored tours for
their alumni: A42
- ONE-FIFTH OF ALL THE MONEY spent on research and development
in the United States is spent in California, according to
the National Science Foundation: A42
- THE U.S. LABOR DEPARTMENT has fined Emory University's
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center for safety
violations in connection with the death of a laboratory
worker: A8
- STATUS OF PENDING FEDERAL LEGISLATION: A42
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
ASSUAGING ANGRY ALUMNI
Fund raisers face an unusual set of challenges at single-sex
institutions that become coeducational: A45
A $100-MILLION GIFT
Cornell University has received its largest donation ever,
which will support research at its medical college: A47
- AN INDUSTRY SHAKEUP would create the largest
executive-search company and have implications for colleges
that are seeking new leaders: A45
- HOUGHTON COLLEGE has bought a bookshop in Rochester, N.Y.,
from alumnae of Bryn Mawr College: A45
- THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION for the Advancement of Teaching has
announced plans to overhaul its influential "Carnegie
Classification" of colleges and universities: A12
- THE MASSACHUSETTS state auditor will review all deals that
convey to private companies the rights to inventions created
with taxpayer money by state workers, including college
researchers: A39
- THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE has issued guidelines covering
the tax status of revenue from college-sponsored tours for
their alumni: A42
- TROY STATE UNIVERSITY will name a library and a museum for
the civil-rights activist Rosa Parks: A8
- A FORMER DEAN at the State University of New York College at
New Paltz has been indicted for allegedly stealing $21,000
from a university fund he controlled: A10
- THE PRESIDENT of California State University at Chico could
always fall back on his glass-blowing skills if he were to
quit his day job: A10
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A47
STUDENTS
THE SCOPE OF CAMPUS CRIME
A Chronicle survey found a 10-per-cent increase in
arrests for alcohol violations and a 5-per-cent increase for
drug offenses in 1996: A48
- Some colleges are using undercover sting operations as a
way to arrest people who sell drugs on campuses: A50
- Data on crime collected by The Chronicle from 487
universities and colleges: A51-57
- Most colleges do not include information on hate crimes
in the reports of campus crime they are required to
compile, and only a handful say that such crimes have
taken place on their campuses: A57
WARNINGS ABOUT THE 'CAMPUS CARD'
Colleges and some government officials say that high-school
seniors are being misled into buying a product that they do
not need: A58
THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF GRADING
Inflation isn't the most serious problem with college policies,
writes Lee Clark Mitchell, chairman of the English department
at Princeton University: A72
- A UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA at Las Vegas student who is carrying
64 credit hours this semester is now pushing the university
to create an ombudsman position: A48
- UNIVERSITY OF OREGON students have voted to drop the use of
student-activity fees to support an outside public-interest
group: A48
- NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY students rallied to show their
support for a student leader who had received death threats
over his stance on gay rights: A8
ATHLETICS
- THE PRESIDENTS of the New England Small College Athletic
Conference have voted unanimously to allow its championship
teams, except football, to compete in postseason play: A43
- A UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO football player has been charged
with the attempted murder of a track athlete there: A43
- THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Athletic Association has again
penalized the University of California at Los Angeles, this
time for infractions in its men's basketball programs: A43
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNALISM EDUCATION IN POLAND
Several programs have opened to train students for the popular
occupation, but the quality of some new, private institutions
is being criticized: A59
BUDGET GROWTH IN CANADA
Most provinces will provide modest increases for universities
next year, reversing a recent trend of cutbacks: A60
HELPING ASIAN STUDENTS
The Institute of International Education said that a U.S.
foundation had created a multimillion-dollar fund to provide
emergency loans to students whose studies in the United States
might be cut short by economic turmoil in their homelands: A60
REQUIRED TEST IN AUSTRALIA
The government plans to require the country's university
students to take standardized examinations before they can
graduate: A61
GERMAN DYEING EXPERT IN TURKEY
For two decades, Harald Bohmer, a German chemist at Marmara
State University, has helped Turkish carpet makers rediscover
the art of using natural dyes: B2
- BEIJING UNIVERSITY'S centennial celebration prompted alumni
to ask for the release of former students who are now in
prison: A59
- UNIONIZED FACULTY MEMBERS at Ontario's community colleges
scheduled a strike vote as contract talks stalled: A59
- ROMANIA'S New Europe College, a small institution in
Bucharest, won the Hannah Arendt Prize for reform: A61
- THIRTEEN POLISH UNIVERSITIES are collaborating to set up a
system to accredit individual departments and faculties: A61
- BRITISH UNIVERSITIES have been urged to establish policies
that would enable staff members to blow the whistle on cases
of wrongdoing they witness: A61
- AN ISRAELI WRITER'S remarks at a Memorial Day ceremony at
Tel Aviv University prompted some members of the audience to
walk out: A61
- A HISTORIAN FROM MEXICO was detained by U.S. immigration
authorities without explanation, making him miss a speech he
had been invited to give at Harvard University: A61
OPINION & LETTERS
THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF GRADING
Inflation isn't the most serious problem with college policies,
writes Lee Clark Mitchell, chairman of the English department
at Princeton University: A72
CORPORATE BEHAVIORAL STUDIES
Businesses are finding that anthropologists can help them learn
what working people know, but ethical issues abound, writes
Marietta L. Baba, chairman of the anthropology department at
Wayne State University: B4
CONTESTED CULTURAL PROPERTY
Rita Bornstein, president of Rollins College, discusses the
issues that arose when the institution found itself embroiled
in an international incident over a World War II trophy that
had been presented to it: B6
WOODY ALLEN'S MISOGYNY
The intellectual director's latest film, Deconstructing Harry,
is an ugly, unlikable movie, a hate letter to every woman he's
ever known, writes Steven Vineberg, an associate professor of
theater at the College of the Holy Cross: B8
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
WOODY ALLEN'S MISOGYNY
The intellectual director's latest film, Deconstructing Harry,
is an ugly, unlikable movie, a hate letter to every woman he's
ever known, writes Steven Vineberg, an associate professor of
theater at the College of the Holy Cross: B8
TEACHING ANIMATION FROM AFAR
At San Jose State University, interactive video allows
professionals to train students in traditional skills: B9
A LIFE TO BE UNDERSTOOD
The exhibition "Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen" is at the art
museum on the main campus of Rutgers University and will travel
to other locations: B64
A HIGHER-EDUCATION GAZETTE
"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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