THE CHRONICLE has won two journalism awards, for the best on-line service produced by a U.S. weekly newspaper and for a package of articles about Microsoft's reach in higher education: A12

FACING MORTALITY
As Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a star in gay studies, has fought breast cancer, her focus has shifted beyond academic work to art and to writing a memoir: A14

KEEPING THE FACULTY IN LINE
When professors at the Virginia Military Institute objected to the students' pick for this year's graduation speaker -- G. Gordon Liddy, the Watergate felon and talk-show host -- a dean responded with a frank memorandum: A16

TEACHING FROM EXPERIENCE
In a course at Barat College, two veterans -- one who enlisted and one who was drafted -- are offering very different perspectives on the Vietnam War: A12

LEGAL PROTECTION FOR ON-LINE SCHOLARS
The University of Maryland at College Park has become the official publisher of a World-Wide Web site devoted to Romanticism, but some observers worry about the loss of control in such arrangements: A25

GENDER RELATIONS ON THE CAMPUSES
Female students expect to have a career after marriage, yet male students imagine their wives will stay at home. Trouble lies ahead, notes Barbara Kerr, a professor of counseling psychology at Arizona State University: B7

RADCLIFFE COLLEGE'S Bunting Institute will admit men, out of a concern that the existing policy will draw gender-bias lawsuits: A14

SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT State University will hold a campus forum on Islamic history this month, following a Muslim student's complaint that a Christian professor had attacked her faith: A16

THE UNIVERSITY of Pennsylvania will appeal a jury verdict that it pay $5-million to a tenured veterinary professor for violating his employment contract: A16

A TENURED PROFESSOR at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln retired one day before the university's Board of Regents was to consider firing him: A16

PEER REVIEW: A50

• Three notable finalists are vying to lead Duke University's English department, which several star academics have recently left.

• A feminist professor at Boston College has refused to make her women-only classes coeducational, despite an order from the college to do so.

QUESTIONS ABOUT GAMBLING RESEARCH
Critics worry about the impact that industry money is having on the way scholars are studying addictions to wagering: A17

'ONE CASE AT A TIME'
A new book by the University of Chicago's Cass Sunstein argues that, although the Supreme Court appears to be ducking big issues by making narrow rulings, the Justices are doing their jobs well: A19

LEGAL PROTECTION FOR ON-LINE SCHOLARS
The University of Maryland at College Park has become the official publisher of a World-Wide Web site devoted to Romanticism, but some observers worry about the loss of control in such arrangements: A25

KNOWING THE WHOLE ANIMAL
Frans B.M. de Waal, who works with chimpanzees, writes that scientists should not try to distance themselves from the animals they study. The author is a professor of psychology and director of the Living Links Center at Emory University: B4

A TEAM OF SCIENTISTS has linked cardiac disease to infections with the Chlamydia bacterium: A18

A MINERAL found in volcanic ash on a Caribbean island can cause lung disease, scientists say: A18

HOT TYPE: A20

• In a new biography of Walt Whitman, Jerome Loving posits that the poet has been "Freudianized" and made to "fit current political and literary ideologies." Meanwhile, another new work provides encyclopedic information on Whitman.

• The author of a new book on Andre Gide says it is the first scholarly biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author.

NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS: A22-23

• Nota Bene: Henry Steele Commager: Midcentury Liberalism and the History of the Present, by Neil Jumonville, a professor of history at Florida State University. The book is published by the University of North Carolina Press.

LEGAL PROTECTION FOR ON-LINE SCHOLARS
The University of Maryland at College Park has become the official publisher of a World-Wide Web site devoted to Romanticism, but some observers worry about the loss of control in such arrangements: A25

INTERNET-USE POLICY
Students and faculty members at Southern Utah University are debating campus rules on access after a student was kicked out of a computer laboratory for viewing World-Wide Web sites devoted to Hitler and to pornography: A27

SPENDING ON COMPUTING RESEARCH
A panel of technology experts appointed by President Clinton has called for significant budget increases: A27

STUDENT JOURNALISTS at the University of California at Berkeley are trying to restore the on-line archives of The Daily Californian after an unexplained hacker attack: A25

A NEW OPERATING SYSTEM for computers renders its error messages in haiku: A25

THE U.S. DEPARTMENT of Energy has issued new rules that will broaden scholars' access to its largest unclassified supercomputer facilities: A27

FEMALE ROLE MODELS, including astronauts and entertainers, are featured in on-line chat sessions on a World-Wide Web site run by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration: A29

FOUR RESOURCES ON LINE, five new lists related to information technology, and three resources on disk: A29

SETBACK FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Citing recent court rulings, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst has decided to stop giving a significant edge in admissions to minority applicants, a decision that has spurred protest on the campus: A30

TIGHTENING CONTROL AT SUNY
The State University of New York's politically appointed board of trustees has adopted tough procedures for evaluating the performance of campus presidents: A31

CANCER AND MINORITY POPULATIONS
Members of Congress are pushing the National Institutes of Health to support more research on diseases that afflict some groups more than others, and on why such racial disparities persist: A32

DISPUTE OVER GUARANTEE AGENCY
A state judge has issued an order that blocks an attempt to fire the board of the entity that backs student loans in California: A33

PREVENTING LOAN DEFAULTS
Guarantee agencies are furious at the Education Department for a policy they say will prevent them from using a valuable approach with borrowers: A34

'ONE CASE AT A TIME'
A new book by the University of Chicago's Cass Sunstein argues that, although the Supreme Court appears to be ducking big issues by making narrow rulings, the Justices are doing their jobs well: A19

SPENDING ON COMPUTING RESEARCH
A panel of technology experts appointed by President Clinton has called for significant budget increases: A27

AID TO RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS
A report produced for the U.S. Congress charges that government funds to help unemployed Russian researchers are being misused to subsidize people who work on nuclear and other weapons: A48

A SNAFU at a conference on rules for the federal government's higher-education programs left several college administrators stranded last month in Washington: A30

THE UNIVERSITY of Mississippi is creating a leadership institute named for the Senate's majority leader, Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican with two degrees from the university: A30

FACT FILE: the 100 top colleges and universities in federal research-and-development expenditures, 1996 and 1997: A34

THE SENATE has approved a substantial increase in education benefits under the GI Bill: A36

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS said they would support larger increases in the National Institutes of Health's budget than President Clinton has proposed: A36

A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT has upheld the University of Oregon's policy for collecting and disbursing mandatory student fees: A36

THE UNIVERSITY of California at Davis extended an appropriate degree of accommodation to a learning-disabled student before it dismissed her for poor performance, a federal appeals court has ruled: A36

A U.S. COURT has paved the way for the University of South Alabama to reopen a lawsuit it filed against tobacco companies in 1997: A36

THE MONTANA SUPREME COURT has overturned an amendment to the state Constitution, approved by voters in November, that many colleges feared would stifle state support for higher education: A36

PROTESTS OVER SWEATSHOP LABOR
A growing student movement is calling for better working conditions in overseas factories that make apparel bearing colleges' names, but critics have questioned the protesters' approach and what it portends for colleges on a host of ethical and practical issues: A38

LEGAL PROTECTION FOR ON-LINE SCHOLARS
The University of Maryland at College Park has become the official publisher of a World-Wide Web site devoted to Romanticism, but some observers worry about the loss of control in such arrangements: A25

AN ALUMNUS of the University of Connecticut is giving $21-million to its education school, the largest gift ever to a college of education: A38

THE DU PONT COMPANY is donating patents worth $64-million to three universities, which hope to convert the ideas into commercially viable products: A38

FACT FILE: median salaries of college administrators at different types of colleges and universities, 1998-99: A41

FACT FILE: the 100 top colleges and universities in federal research-and-development expenditures, 1996 and 1997: A34

A NEW POSTAL CARD honors the 250th anniversary of Washington and Lee University: A12

TWO GRAPHS and a table depict trends in faculty pay and the cost of living, one-year increases in median salaries of college administrators, and pension money invested in the stock market: A40

FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A40

ENROLLMENT BOOM AT CHRISTIAN COLLEGES
More students -- many of them participants in home schooling or youth ministries -- are seeking alternatives to secular institutions: A42

PROTESTS OVER SWEATSHOP LABOR
A growing student movement is calling for better working conditions in overseas factories that make apparel bearing colleges' names, but critics have questioned the protesters' approach and what it portends for colleges on a host of ethical and practical issues: A38

THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of Engineering Societies is trying to draw more interest among students, particularly women, to enter the field: A42

MONTHS AFTER Christopher Newport University banned alcohol sales on its campus, the 18-year-old son of the institution's president was charged with underage drinking at a party held in the president's house: A42

A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT has upheld the University of Oregon's policy for collecting and disbursing mandatory student fees: A36

THE UNIVERSITY of California at Davis extended an appropriate degree of accommodation to a learning-disabled student before it dismissed her for poor performance, a federal appeals court has ruled: A36

THE UNIVERSITY of Rochester has acceded to protesters' demands that it recruit more minority students and faculty members. The decision followed a sit-in by 200 students: A10

STUDENTS, faculty members, and local residents last month protested the University of Pittsburgh's refusal to extend health benefits to partners of its gay and lesbian employees: A10

HISPANIC STUDENTS at Michigan State University held 5,000 books hostage in a protest that demanded the creation of a Hispanic-studies major and the hiring of more Hispanic professors: A10

ALL 17 FRATERNITIES at Case Western Reserve University banned alcohol at parties for six weeks after a pledge died of alcohol-induced injuries: A10

OBERLIN COLLEGE students can rent genuine works of art by such artists as Renoir and Picasso: A12

TITLE IX DISPUTE
The Supreme Court ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association should not be subject to a federal law barring sex discrimination simply because it collects dues from colleges that are covered by the law: A45

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY escaped stiff penalties by the National Collegiate Athletic Association by imposing its own harsh punishments: A45

A BRAWL with a fraternity will cost the Bryant College football team a game next season: A45

A LIST of 20 institutions that are under various sanctions imposed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association: A46

ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN CHINA
The government's attitude toward free expression and dissent swings back and forth between tolerance and repression, and scholars learn which topics to avoid: A47

AID TO RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS
A report produced for the U.S. Congress charges that government funds to help unemployed Russian researchers are being misused to subsidize people who work on nuclear and other weapons: A48

AUSTRALIA IS TRYING to lure graduate students from the United States with 60 scholarships: A47

WEBSTER UNIVERSITY said a branch campus in Thailand will open this fall: A47

PROFESSORS at India's top medical school and teaching hospital have gone on strike over their pay: A48

A NEW DEAN at the University of Belgrade has softened his predecessor's hard line: A48

'THE OLD MAN AND THE FLEA'
As international merger mania overtakes the publishing industry, two Amherst College professors imagine the eventual outcome -- a truly global literature. Lawrence Douglas is an assistant professor of law, jurisprudence, and social thought, and Alexander George is an associate professor of philosophy: A60

KNOWING THE WHOLE ANIMAL
Frans B.M. de Waal, who works with chimpanzees, writes that scientists should not try to distance themselves from the animals they study. The author is a professor of psychology and director of the Living Links Center at Emory University: B4

GENDER RELATIONS ON THE CAMPUSES
Female students expect to have a career after marriage, yet male students imagine their wives will stay at home. Trouble lies ahead, notes Barbara Kerr, a professor of counseling psychology at Arizona State University: B7

ASSAULT FROM THE WORLD OF WORDS
Teaching English to freshmen who have chosen art school over college can be both a daunting and an enlightening experience, reports Thad Ziolkowski, an assistant professor of English and humanities at the Pratt Institute: B9

MARGINALIA: A10

• Will academic jobs be more plentiful or even scarcer in the future?: B3

• Designing Web sites for donors: B12

• Universities support university presses: B12

• Academic job hunters who quit too easily: B12

• Gender-equity issues in college sports: B13

• Graduate students miss the point: B13

• New Speaker's record on higher education: B13

• How to report crimes on campuses: B13

A SHOWCASE FOR RODIN
Stanford University has the largest collection of the artist's sculptures outside Paris, and has just reopened the art center that houses them: B2

'THE INVENTIVE HAND'
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, prevented from practicing architecture in 18th-century Rome, instead exercised his imagination in works on paper, which are now on display at Columbia University: B10

A CHILD'S-EYE VIEW
Photographs by Abelardo Morell, who has spent years intrigued by children's perspectives, are on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston: B100

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