A Guide to the July 12, 1996, Issue
of The Chronicle of Higher Education

IN EASTERN EUROPE, THE STATE OF SCIENCE
In some of the formerly Communist countries, scientific research has collapsed for lack of government support. In others, it is surviving with help from Western sources: A40

• In Russia, Michael Boris Evgen'ev, a geneticist, has found a way to advance his research despite the economic problems that plague scholars in his country: A40

• IN LONDON, the president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, will receive honorary doctorates from eight universities in three days this week: A39

• IN SHARJAH, a state of the United Arab Emirates, a new American university is being planned with the help of the American University of Beirut: A39

• IN VIETNAM, American students from the State University of New York at Buffalo are immersing themselves in the country's language and culture this summer: A39

• IN HONG KONG, the government has decided to cut the pay of future vice-chancellors of its three research universities. The universities' current leaders will not be affected: A41

• IN ISRAEL, a commission has concluded that Bar-Ilan University -- where the assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was studying at the time of the killing -- does not have an atmosphere that produces murderers: A41

• IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC, Palacky University has won the second annual Hannah Arendt Prize for its efforts to reform higher education: A41

• Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research are starting a study of intense thunderstorms and how they interact with the atmosphere: A14

THE IMPACT OF DIVORCE
A study by two Cornell University economists has found that children of parents who split up are far less likely to enroll at selective colleges: A35

• ANALYSIS OF A MARTIAN METEORITE indicates that the red planet was once hotter and drier than previously believed, according to two geologists: A8

• THREE AMERICAN SCHOLARS have won Kyoto Prizes, Japan's highest awards for lifetime achievement. Each prize is worth $460,000: A8

• HOT TYPE: A12
  • Princeton and Cambridge University Presses are publishing books that bring a host of art-historical theories and methods of analysis to bear on individual masterpieces.

  • Robert A. Fradkin, a professor at the University of Maryland at College Park, has written The Well-Tempered Announcer, a pronunciation guide for music buffs.

• 33 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A11-12
  • Nota Bene: Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health, by Judith Walzer Leavitt, a professor of women's studies and the history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The book is published by Beacon Press.

SPURNED JOB APPLICANT
A white professor of journalism has sued Bowling Green State University and its journalism department's accreditor for race and sex bias. He says a less-qualified black woman got a job he applied for because of the accreditor's hiring quota: A16

FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT
Kevin D. Henson, a visiting assistant professor of sociology at Bowdoin College, has published Just a Temp, a scholarly analysis of his time as a temporary worker while he was a graduate student at Northwestern University: A7

HISTORY OF A MILL TOWN
The canals and waterworks of Holyoke, Mass., tell the story of its transformation, and Jill A. Hodnicki, a Mount Holyoke College administrator, can tell you all about it: A47

• THE PRESIDENT of the City University of New York's Faculty Senate was quoted in a newspaper as saying she had highly recommended a CUNY official to a Northeastern University search committee in hopes of speeding his departure: A15

• A NEW UMBRELLA GROUP created to oversee accreditors met for the first time last week, appointing a chairman and setting an agenda: A15

• A NEW TENURE CODE proposed for the 11-campus North Dakota University System would allow professors to help chart their own paths to tenure, emphasizing teaching and service over research: A16

• TWO ACADEMICS at the University of Denver have created a billboard that assesses the fuel efficiency and general condition of vehicles as they pass through an infrared beam: A7

• HAVERFORD COLLEGE'S W. Bruce Bumbarger leads one of only a handful of bookbinding programs in American higher education: A7

INTERNET INDECENCY
The Justice Department announced that it would appeal to the Supreme Court a ruling that struck down a new law restricting "indecent" or "patently offensive" material on line: A23

ANCIENT PAPYRUS
Six universities are collaborating to create a World-Wide Web site that will provide access to tens of thousands of ancient texts and documents: A23

• ANOTHER VIRUS HOAX centered on e-mail is making the rounds on the Internet, and experts are trying to allay users' fears that e-mail can be the source of such viruses: A19

• THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is asking corporations, state and local governments, and colleges and universities to pitch in on the $20-billion task of connecting schools to the Internet: A19

• A PROJECT at the University of Virginia enables Internet users to immerse themselves in the history of the Civil War through the words and artifacts of people who lived through it in Chambersburg, Pa., and Staunton, Va.: A22

• FOUR STUDENTS at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a computer program that they promise will prevent the display, or even the downloading, of on-line advertisements: A23

• INDIANA UNIVERSITY'S Victorian Women Writers Project is making available on line the works of eight British women who were active between 1860 and 1910: A23

• 8 SOFTWARE PROGRAMS, 14 Internet mailing lists, and 11 other Internet resources: A20

RESPONSES TO A SUPREME COURT RULING
Facing a decision that declared the Virginia Military Institute's all-male policies unconstitutional, the Citadel said it would admit women. But V.M.I. officials are still weighing other options, including going private: A28

• Mary Baldwin and Converse Colleges hope to keep open the programs they created for women as alternatives to the Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, respectively: A28

TOUGHER ADMISSIONS STANDARDS
Historically black colleges in Mississippi are nervously awaiting statistics on their new freshman classes, the first to be admitted under stiffer, court-ordered requirements: A30

• Mississippi's new higher-education commissioner, Thomas D. Layzell, has won support with a softer touch and a more open approach than his predecessor had: A31

• A NEW BILL IN THE SENATE would encourage states to sue tobacco companies and would turn over a portion of any damages collected to the National Institutes of Health to help finance cancer research: A25

• THE MEMBERS of the National Academy of Engineering have voted to oust their president, Harold Liebowitz, a professor of engineering at George Washington University: A25

• FEDERAL OFFICIALS say they have uncovered an illegal scheme in which more than 500 military veterans, in conjunction with employees of Laney College, defrauded the government of at least $5-million: A26

• THE SENATE'S COMMITTEE on Appropriations has voted to include $100-million for research on prostate cancer in the Defense Department's budget for the 1997 fiscal year: A26

• SEVERAL MEMBERS of Congress are upset over a proposal to disband a panel that advises the National Institutes of Health on policies regarding recombinant DNA: A26

• THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE'S Office of Research Integrity has found Eric T. Fossel, a former radiologist at the Harvard Medical School, guilty of scientific misconduct: A26

• VICTOR MORALES, the Texas Democrat running for the Senate seat held by Phil Gramm, and his wife have reached an agreement with federal authorities to pay back a 15-year-old college-scholarship debt she incurred: A27

• ELIZABETH C. DOLE has turned down an invitation from the University of Toledo to debate Hillary Rodham Clinton about the role of the Presidential spouse in American politics today: A27

• THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY is touting in a national advertising campaign President Clinton's proposed $1,500 tax credit for people who pay college tuition: A27

• THE EXPECTED APPOINTEE as interim chancellor of the State University of New York withdrew his candidacy after reports surfaced that he had been criticized by federal investigators for mismanaging an educational center: A32

• A MISSISSIPPI JUDGE ruled last week that Gov. Kirk Fordice, a Republican, had acted illegally when he circumvented the state Senate and appointed four members to the board that oversees the state's public universities: A32

• GOV. GEORGE V. VOINOVICH of Ohio, a Republican, said last week that he would appoint a new Board of Trustees for embattled Central State University: A32

• THE U.S. ARMY HAS TRANSFERRED the head of its Reserve Officers Training Corps program at the University of Connecticut amid allegations that he allowed classes to be run like a boot camp: A6

• AN AMERICAN INDIAN arts and cultural institute in New Mexico is laying off half its faculty to cope with federal budget cuts that have devastated its enrollment: A7

A RECORD FOR BLACK COLLEGES
Spelman College completed a fund-raising campaign last month, having collected $114-million -- the largest amount ever raised by a historically black college: A34

• THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM has created a company to oversee the investment of its endowment, much as several other well-endowed universities have done: A33

• COLLEGES SHOULD NOT underestimate the earning power of their housing, parking, bookstore, and food-service operations, a new report suggests: A33

• PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, which used to be known as the College of New Jersey, is trying to assert its legal right to the name, which Trenton State College recently adopted: A6

• A JUDGE HAS THROWN OUT a jury's order that Columbia University pay $450,000 in a six-year-old sexual-harassment case that concerned the university's liability for the actions of an employee: A6

• THE ABC NEWS PROGRAM "Prime Time Live" sent bogus applications to several selective colleges this spring as part of an investigation into how well admissions offices detect fraud: A35

• A JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY student claims that his arrest in the fatal shooting of another student is no reason for the university to withhold his diploma: A35

• SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY has unveiled a new mural of Malcolm X, two years after an earlier version sparked charges by Jewish students that it was anti-Semitic: A6

• THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN at Madison has ordered its women's basketball coach to stop including an optional religious program in the summer camp she holds on the campus: A37

• FRESHMAN ATHLETES at Purdue University this fall will be able to take a one-credit course on making the transition to college life: A37

• THE FOOTBALL COACH at the University of Miami, Butch Davis, has suspended five players, including four who were arrested in alleged assaults last month: A38

• AUBURN UNIVERSITY has imposed a series of penalties on its men's basketball program for violations committed in recruiting two players: A38

• MEMBERS OF CONFERENCE U.S.A. have reached an agreement to allow two universities into the league without expelling the University of Louisville: A38

• THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Athletic Association and Texas Tech University are investigating claims that an assistant football coach and a former academic counselor at the university helped a student athlete to cheat: A38

SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS
Universities should develop new master's degrees to expand the career paths open to young scientists, say Sheila Tobias and Daryl E. Chubin, two experts on education reform: B1

• MARGINALIA: A6

• The widening gap in higher education: B3
  
• The drawbacks of distance learning: B6
  
• The contributions of black artists: B6
  
• Questioning the merits of diversity: B6
  
• What made this story newsworthy?: B6
  

DYING WITH GRACE
"Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry," a collection of photographs illustrating hospice care in the United States, is on exhibit through August 4 at the Ohio State University: B44

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