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THE FACULTY
EDUCATING 'THE WHOLE HUMAN BEING'
Professors have conflicting views of Jane Tompkins, a professor
of English at Duke University who is proselytizing for a new,
personal, emotional, and spiritual approach to teaching: A8
'EVERYDAY COURAGE'
A new book by Niobe Way, an applied-psychology professor at New
York University, draws on interviews with urban youths whose
worries are not all that different from those of suburban
youths: A7
KICKED OFF THE LIST
A queer-studies e-mail group has suspended a man who has been
staging hoaxes to draw attention to his criticism of
scholarship in the field: A20
- PROFESSORS IN NEW JERSEY are fighting a proposal by the
for-profit University of Phoenix to open a campus in the
town of Roseland, N.J.: A8
- WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY is trying to figure out why it
has trouble retaining its minority faculty members: A8
- THE VATICAN ISSUED an apostolic letter designed to rein in
dissent in the Roman Catholic Church, but several liberal
theologians said that the letter would not change their
views: A10
- TEMPLE UNIVERSITY has decided to retain Joyce A. Joyce as
head of its black-studies department, despite the complaints
of some of her colleagues: A10
- UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO professors and professional
employees have the right to form unions and bargain
collectively, the state Supreme Court has ruled: A10
- THE RECENTLY FORMED Teacher Education Accrediting Council
has named its first president: A6
- HELLENIC COLLEGE has been told by two accrediting groups
that it must change its governance procedures and strengthen
its faculty's role: A7
- PEER REVIEW: A36
- Stanley Fish, a professor of English and law at Duke
University, is leaving for the University of Illinois at
Chicago. His wife, Jane Tompkins, also a Duke professor,
will join him.
- The University of Virginia has hired yet another Civil
War historian.
- The University of Hartford's new president has a
background in public relations.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
EXPLORING GENETIC VARIATION
Scientists are using technology developed for the Human Genome
Project to identify genes whose variable forms may play key
roles in causing disease: A11
ASIAN-AMERICAN STUDIES IN AN UPROAR
The scholarly association for the discipline is facing
criticism from many authors for rescinding its book award for a
novel that some people charged was bigoted against
Filipinos: A13
'EVERYDAY COURAGE'
A new book by Niobe Way, an applied-psychology professor at New
York University, draws on interviews with urban youths whose
worries are not all that different from those of suburban
youths: A7
SEEKING LOWER COSTS FOR JOURNALS
The American Chemical Society and a group of university
libraries will produce a new organic-chemistry publication that
will compete with one put out by a for-profit company: A20
SURVEY OF GAY LITERATURE
Byrne Fone, a professor emeritus at City College of the City
University of New York, has compiled an 800-page anthology of
poems, essays, and other writings, and Columbia University
Press has published it: B2
ONE OF FRANCE'S DARKEST HOURS
Northwestern University's "Siege of Paris and Paris Commune
Collection" includes a wealth of material from a brutal era of
19th-century France: B8
- PREHISTORIC FOOTWEAR, dating back 8,300 years, has been
unearthed in a Missouri cave: A12
- A SCOTTISH STUDY has found that women who are allowed to use
post-coital emergency contraceptives without a prescription
are more apt to avoid unintended pregnancies than women who
have to get a prescription: A12
- ASTRONOMERS SAY that erosion on Mars may be due to "dust
devils" -- small tornado-like phenomena -- that race across
the planet's surface: A12
- HOT TYPE: A13
- A committee's plan to preserve the University of Arkansas
Press has won the endorsement of the university's
chancellor.
- At the Association of American University Presses' annual
meeting, people were discussing why the head of the Johns
Hopkins University Press had quit.
- NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A14-15
- Nota Bene: Paper Tangos, by Julie Taylor, an associate
professor of anthropology at Rice University. The book is
published by Duke University Press.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
GOING NATIONAL
A network of leading community colleges is starting a new
venture in distance learning with an extensive marketing
campaign this summer: A16
SEEKING LOWER COSTS FOR JOURNALS
The American Chemical Society and a group of university
libraries will produce a new organic-chemistry publication that
will compete with one put out by a for-profit company: A20
PAYING FOR IMPROVED NETWORKS
California State University is abandoning an effort under which
some services in the 23-campus system would have been turned
over to a partnership with technology companies: A20
KICKED OFF THE LIST
A queer-studies e-mail group has suspended a man who has been
staging hoaxes to draw attention to his criticism of
scholarship in the field: A20
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
'STANDARDS REVOLUTION' IN NEW YORK
Conservative trustees of the State University and City
University of New York systems say they want to make public
higher education work better, but critics accuse them of
limiting access: A21
- A conservative thinker in Albany runs several groups that
provide ideas and ammunition for those trying to reform
New York's university systems: A23
THE HIGHER-EDUCATION LOBBY
Constance Ewing Cook, a higher-education professor at the
University of Michigan, has just published the broadest look in
two decades at how colleges seek to influence policy in
Washington: A25
ORDERS FROM CONGRESS
A Senate bill has research lobbyists worried that lawmakers are
becoming too specific in their demands for how the budget of
the National Science Foundation should be spent: A26
SETTING SCIENTIFIC PRIORITIES
We have no clearly defined values for research that are
sufficiently visionary to justify the public support that
scientists seek, says Rep. George E. Brown, Jr., the ranking
Democrat on the House of Representatives Committee on Science:
B4
- THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE has announced that it will raise
mailing rates for colleges and other non-profit groups by up
to 25 per cent next year: A21
- THE U.S. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT will lower for three months
the interest rate paid by borrowers who consolidate their
student loans in the direct-loan program: A21
- FIVE TWO-YEAR COLLEGES in Wyoming have sued the state's
community-college commission over its allocation of funds
for salary increases to two other community colleges in the
state: A24
- THE TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION Coordinating Board has blocked
Texas A&M University's bid to create a law program in
partnership with the South Texas College of Law: A24
- U.S. LAWMAKERS have voted to keep support level for overseas
advising centers that provide information to students about
attending college in the United States: A33
- STATUS OF PENDING FEDERAL LEGISLATION: A24
- NEW BILLS IN CONGRESS: A26
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
DOWNSIZING AT ST. OLAF
The college says it needs to position itself for competition to
come, but many faculty members question why cuts are needed
now: A27
ACADEMIC BRAINPOWER
Universities had a hand in nine of the 100 most important
inventions of 1997, as selected by R&D Magazine: A29
STUDENTS
A NEW DRUG ON CAMPUSES
College officials are trying to combat the spread of "Liquid
G," known more formally as gamma hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB:
A31
- U.S. CENSUS DATA show that women and young black adults have
made important education gains in comparison to white males:
A31
- THE ALCOHOL-RELATED DEATH of a student at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology has prompted a national campaign
against underage drinking: A31
ATHLETICS
- THE RUTGERS UNIVERSITY alumni magazine has rejected an
advertisement from a group of alumni who want the university
to stop awarding athletics scholarships: A6
INTERNATIONAL
A UNIVERSITY REBOUNDS IN PERU
San Cristobal de Huamanga National University, which just a
few years ago was caught in the vortex of Peru's violent
civil war, is on the upswing: A33
CLINTON IN CHINA
The President used a speech at Beijing University to call for
freedoms that he said were "the birthrights of people
everywhere": A34
MORE ASIAN STUDENTS TO GET HELP
The Institute of International Education has broadened access
to a multimillion-dollar fund that will provide loans to some
Asian students in the United States: A35
- U.S. LAWMAKERS have voted to keep support level for overseas
advising centers that provide information to students about
attending college in the United States: A33
- A LIBEL CASE involving a New Zealand academic and a former
Prime Minister of the country has been appealed to London:
A33
- AUSTRALIA WILL FINANCE a Youth Ambassadors for Development
program that will send young people to work in other
countries of the Asia-Pacific region: A35
- A JAPANESE PANEL has urged the government to institute
reforms that would make universities more like those in the
United States: A35
- KENYAN STUDENTS staged a protest against apparent sales of
phony degrees: A35
- ISRAELI ARCHAEOLOGISTS demonstrated against further limits
on excavations that were reported to have been imposed by
the government: A35
- ISRAEL'S BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY plans to file a formal
complaint about a television report concerning the
institution's ties to a women convicted on charges related
to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin: A35
OPINION & LETTERS
THE PREVALENCE OF MEMOIRS
Jay Parini, a professor of English at Middlebury College,
argues that autobiographical nonfiction may offer
more-important lessons than novels nowadays: A40
SETTING SCIENTIFIC PRIORITIES
We have no clearly defined values for research that are
sufficiently visionary to justify the public support that
scientists seek, says Rep. George E. Brown, Jr., the ranking
Democrat on the House of Representatives Committee on Science:
B4
TRACKING LEXICOGRAPHY
Electronic data bases of newspapers and magazines allow for
longitudinal studies of the use of voguish words and cliches,
writes Ben Yagoda, an associate professor of English at the
University of Delaware: B6
HOLLYWOOD TRIES POLITICAL SATIRE
Steve Vineberg, an associate professor of theater at the
College of the Holy Cross, finds some admirable satirical
elements in Wag the Dog and Primary Colors, but none in
Bulworth: B7
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
'A SUBTERRANEAN THUNDER'
The Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi: Glory and Destruction,
by Ghigo Roli, describes how the great building suffered
several earthquakes in 1997: 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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