MORE SUPPORT FOR FEWER PH.D.'S
Doctoral programs across academe are cutting enrollments in order to offer the remaining students financial inducements that, increasingly, amount to full support: A12

SALTY TALK IN CLASS
An English professor at Macomb Community College faces suspension over his use of coarse language in class. He cites the First Amendment; his college calls the comments obscene: A14

REDUCING A BENEFIT
Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have cut the size of the tuition grants they give to children of employees, in response to a change in federal regulations: A14

HOW MARRIAGES WORK
John M. Gottman, a psychology professor at the University of Washington, subjects couples to minute observation to see not only what pulls them apart, but also what keeps them together: A9

ON-LINE COURSE PORTFOLIOS
An English professor at Georgetown University, Randy Bass, is gaining attention after earning tenure by using the World-Wide Web to demonstrate his electronic teaching experiments: A24

COMPETING FOR TOP PROFESSORS
Many state higher-education systems see this year's legislative sessions as an opportunity to find more money for faculty salaries -- to catch up or keep up with rival institutions in other states: A28

CATHOLICISM AND THE CAMPUSES
In their response to draft guidelines by U.S. bishops, Roman Catholic universities have a precious opportunity to save pluralism in American higher education, says Alan Wolfe, a professor at Boston University: B6

RIGOBERTA MENCHU, the Guatemalan human-rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has acknowledged that her popular autobiography describes some events that she did not witness or that did not happen: A12

SCHOLARS WILL JOIN labor activists at a New York University conference this spring on coalition politics: A12

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT professors are objecting to a budget proposal by Gov. John G. Rowland that would make them assume bigger course loads: A34

PEER REVIEW: A44

• Concord University School of Law, the first on-line law school, has appointed a veteran professor at Harvard to its faculty advisory board.

• The University of California at Berkeley's new vice-chancellor for university relations is an English professor and scholar of efficiency.

• The University of New Orleans's chancellor has taken on the job of interim superintendent of the local schools.

THE SHRINKING SCHOLARLY BOOK
Publishers, seeking a broader market, are forcing academic authors to be concise: A15

• Some scholars manage to buck the trend and to publish books that run many hundreds of pages: A16

THE THREAT OF BIOTERRORISM
Scholars and government officials agreed at a conference last week that the United States was poorly prepared to handle biological attacks with anthrax and smallpox: A18

HOW MARRIAGES WORK
John M. Gottman, a psychology professor at the University of Washington, subjects couples to minute observation to see not only what pulls them apart, but also what keeps them together: A9

BIOCOMPLEXITY STUDIES
Rita R. Colwell, the new National Science Foundation director and a microbiologist, wants $50-million for research that examines how human activities affect and damage plants, animals, and their habitats: A30

NEW RESEARCH is said to rebut claims that Neandertals could talk: A19

SCIENTISTS SAY they have the first evidence that an animal -- mallard ducks -- can simultaneously control sleep and wakefulness in different parts of its brain. The ducks stay half awake to watch for predators: A19

HOT TYPE: A19

• Jay Parini, the novelist and writing professor at Middlebury College, is having trouble getting the German translation of his novel on Walter Benjamin published.

• The new issue of Critical Inquiry is devoted to papers from a conference on Benjamin.

NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS: A20-22

• Nota Bene: Saturday Morning Censors: Television Regulation Before the V-Chip, by Heather Hendershot, an assistant professor of media studies at Queens College of the City University of New York. The book is published by Duke University Press.

A SENSE OF VIRTUAL TOUCH
New devices, called "haptic interfaces," are allowing computer users to feel with their hands the physical properties of objects displayed on their screens: A23

ON-LINE COURSE PORTFOLIOS
An English professor at Georgetown University, Randy Bass, is gaining attention after earning tenure by using the World-Wide Web to demonstrate his electronic teaching experiments: A24

POCKET-SIZED WEB SERVER
A computer created by a Stanford University computer scientist is smaller than a business card yet is capable of sending images, sounds, and text to World-Wide Web surfers around the world: A25

ACADEMICS and policy makers gathered at a recent conference to examine the social impact of the Internet, in particular whether it is exacerbating inequalities: A23

A REPORT prepared by budget analysts for the California Legislature questions whether the state should be involved in a project to build a joint city-university library in San Jose, Cal.: A25

A NEW BOOK by a scholar at the University of Southern California examines the computer hacker in popular culture, and concludes that the image is far from accurate: A27

JARGON MONITOR: "Back-seat mouser": A23

SEVEN RESOURCES ON LINE, four new videos on information technology, and one resource on disk: 27

COMPETING FOR TOP PROFESSORS
Many state higher-education systems see this year's legislative sessions as an opportunity to find more money for faculty salaries -- to catch up or keep up with rival institutions in other states: A28

POLICING SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT
The federal Office of Research Integrity won a key battle when an appeals panel of the Department of Health and Human Services upheld its finding against a researcher at the Baylor College of Medicine: A29

BIOCOMPLEXITY STUDIES
Rita R. Colwell, the new National Science Foundation director and a microbiologist, wants $50-million for research that examines how human activities affect and damage plants, animals, and their habitats: A30

IMPROVING TEACHER TRAINING
Education Secretary Richard W. Riley has called on university presidents to focus more attention on their colleges of education: A31

CRACKDOWN ON LOAN DEFAULTERS
The Clinton Administration and Republicans in Congress want tougher enforcement, but some experts question the assumptions behind the effort: A32

EVALUATING FEDERAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS
A new study suggests ways that a peer-review system could be developed to measure the effectiveness of government efforts: A34

MANY REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS criticized in two letters a plan by the National Institutes of Health to support research on embryonic human stem cells: A28

ARIZONA LAWMAKERS used a controversial theatrical performance at Arizona State University to question whether the state should provide funds for women's studies: A28

A FEDERAL JUDGE has affirmed that the Bakke decision is still valid and will be a basis for deciding an affirmative-action lawsuit against the University of Washington's law school: A32

A GROUP of black Mississippians has asked a federal judge to block a planned expansion of a University of Southern Mississippi campus, saying it would divert funds from the state's historically black colleges: A32

THE BOARD OF REGENTS of Texas Southern University has fired the institution's president, James M. Douglas, just months after it extended his contract: A34

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT professors are objecting to a budget proposal by Gov. John G. Rowland that would make them assume bigger course loads: A34

NEW BILLS IN CONGRESS: A33

FINANCIAL CARROTS
The University of Florida is using a new system for providing extra money to colleges that meet key goals for productivity and academic quality: A35

REDUCING A BENEFIT
Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have cut the size of the tuition grants they give to children of employees, in response to a change in federal regulations: A14

A TEACHING HOSPITAL that resulted from a merger by the University of California at San Francisco and Stanford University faces an $11-million deficit: A35

AN UNUSUAL PLAN involving employee "stock options" would enable faculty and staff members at the University of Pittsburgh's business school to cash in if the institution performs better: A35

ADMINISTRATORS' salaries have risen 4.5 per cent in 1998-99: A36

IVY LEAGUE STUDENTS joined demonstrators on other campuses in staging protests against the use of sweatshop labor to manufacture university-licensed merchandise: A36

FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A36

THE BATTLE OVER DARTMOUTH'S FRATERNITIES
Greek leaders are rallying and organizing to oppose a plan to make their houses coeducational: A37

CAMPUS PROTESTS, 1999
A new generation of student activists is using more conciliatory, less ideological tactics to achieve its locally oriented goals, writes Arthur Levine, president of Teachers College at Columbia University: A52

STUDENTS AND ALUMNI at the University of Chicago are protesting the institution's plan to increase its enrollment and pare back its rigorous core curriculum: A37

STUDENTS FROM EVERY STATE are scrambling to find financial aid after promised college scholarships evaporated: A37

FACT FILE: a list of the top 46 colleges and universities in terms of their numbers of National Merit Scholars: A38

SNOW COLLEGE has changed its policies for mentally ill students after it was charged with discrimination: A8

TWO STUDENTS, one at the State University of New York at Geneseo and the other at the University of Missouri at Rolla, were killed in fires at off-campus houses: A8

A TEAM OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS at Purdue University won a Rube Goldberg prize for creating a complex machine to tee up a golf ball: A8

A STUDENT at Elmira College who has set planetarium shows to music, Yoshi Kunimoto, has been honored by having an asteroid named after him: A8

A JUNIOR at Wake Forest University, Matthew Phillips, chimes in as the campus's official carillonneur: A9

IVY LEAGUE STUDENTS joined demonstrators on other campuses in staging protests against the use of sweatshop labor to manufacture university-licensed merchandise: A36

WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of best-selling books: A9

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT of Health and Human Services has reopened an inquiry into whether the National Collegiate Athletic Association sponsors an equitable number of championships for women: A39

A FORMER COACH at Macalester College has sued the institution, charging that it fired him in retaliation for his allegations about gambling and sex discrimination in its athletics department: A39

A QUEST FOR MONEY
Leaders from universities around the world gathered for a meeting at New York University, and found that they shared a common problem -- inadequate funds: A41

ISRAELI LAW AND ORDER
Many students and scholars are rallying to back the authority of the Supreme Court, which is under attack by ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups: A42

CUTS IN NEW ZEALAND
The conservative government has announced a controversial plan to reduce tuition subsidies to the country's richer universities: A43

HELSINKI'S SLAVONIC LIBRARY
Far from the chaos that accompanies the process of doing research in Russia, scholars find a trove of prerevolutionary volumes at a modern university in Finland: B2

MEXICO'S National Autonomous University has announced a tuition hike, from two cents a year to $102 per semester: A41

CANADA'S new budget includes an additional $150-million (Canadian) for university research: A41

BRITAIN'S university leaders plan to investigate the reasons behind a drop in the number of older students: A43

IRANIAN STUDENTS and professors demonstrated this month to protest the beating of students at an earlier rally: A43

CAMPUS PROTESTS, 1999
A new generation of student activists is using more conciliatory, less ideological tactics to achieve its locally oriented goals, writes Arthur Levine, president of Teachers College at Columbia University: A52

'DO IT AGAIN, WALLY'
Writing fiction is a solitary endeavor, but Wally Lamb, in struggling to follow up on his successful first novel, acknowledges plenty of helpers, including some in unexpected places. The author is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Storrs: B4

CATHOLICISM AND THE CAMPUSES
In their response to draft guidelines by U.S. bishops, Roman Catholic universities have a precious opportunity to save pluralism in American higher education, says Alan Wolfe, a professor at Boston University: B6

REVAMPING POLLUTION RESEARCH
Universities were central to past successes in pollution control, but they must address new obstacles, both scientific and managerial, to play such a role today, argues Donald F. Kettl, director of the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a non-resident senior fellow in governmental studies at the Brookings Institution, in Washington: B8

MARGINALIA: A8

MELANGE: B9

QUOTABLE: B11

• The underlying causes of the epidemic of cheating in college classrooms: B3

• Too many Ph.D.'s, too few jobs: B10

• DoubleTake magazine looks for a new home: B11

• "The presumption of innocence": B11

• Multiple submissions to journals: B11

IRELAND'S 'HOLY GRAIL'
A show at the University of California at Berkeley features contemporary paintings that focus on what "Irishness" means: B88

CENTRE COLLEGE has released lists of the top 100 artists, musicians, novels, and movies of the past 100 years: A8

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