LAW SCHOOL WITH A CALLING
Thomas Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza, is starting a Roman Catholic institution with a conservative agenda, and with professors like Robert Bork to carry it out: A18

REVERSE DISCRIMINATION?
Five white faculty members have sued Livingstone College, a historically black institution in North Carolina: A20

PEER REVIEW
Hillsdale College, having lost its president in a sex scandal, reportedly considers a candidate who also had a sex scandal. ... Goddard College trustees extend the president's contract despite the faculty's no-confidence vote. ... A former baseball official makes his pitch to run the University of Florida: A14

INTERNET PIONEER
Leonard Kleinrock, a "semiretired" computer-science professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, never intended to be a teacher, but he loves the work and the freedom to develop the next big thing: A53

HELPING STUDENTS CATCH UP
The California State University System is using online courseware for remedial instruction in mathematics: A57

The American Association of University Professors offers a medical-insurance plan aimed at part-timers. Meanwhile, a forthcoming book says the group has become more like a union: A18

NEW LIFE AT BIOSPHERE 2
With management from Columbia University, the controversial research facility has a clear direction and is gaining credibility: A21

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SLEUTHING
In a new book, a medical sociologist recounts how her research team found the truth behind a deadly outbreak of anthrax in the Soviet Union in 1979: A23

HOT TYPE
A not-so-civil war has erupted among Abraham Lincoln scholars, one of whom accuses another of plagiarism: A23

'HIDDEN IN PLAIN VIEW'
Two scholars theorize that quilts made by American slaves contained a code that helped many reach freedom on the Underground Railroad: B2

BUMPER CROP OF PROBLEMS
Wes Jackson, who runs the Land Institute, in Kansas, is working on creative ways to avoid an environmental catastrophe brought on by the enormous successes of industrial agriculture: B11

New scholarly books: A26-30

• Nota Bene: The Passions of Law, by Susan A. Bandes.

• Verbatim: Social Authorship and the Advent of Print, by Margaret J.M. Ezell.

THE CLINTON BUDGET PLAN
In the last spending package of his term, President Clinton last week proposed increasing funds in the 2001 fiscal year for a variety of programs that would benefit colleges, students, and researchers: A31-40

• The maximum Pell Grant would increase by $200, and more money would be available for some loan programs, work-study, and black colleges: A31

• Community colleges are thrilled with a proposal for a big increase in spending on the Tech-Prep vocational-education program, but not with how to pay for it: A32

• The plan would trim the profits of lenders in the guaranteed-loan program, to the consternation of banks and G.O.P. lawmakers: A32

• For research and development, the president proposed his best budget in seven years, paying a lot of attention to the National Science Foundation: A34

• The AmeriCorps national-service program remains a Clinton favorite in budget plans: A38

• The president took one last shot at proposing big increases for the arts and humanities endowments: A40

• Fact File: Statistics on the 2001 budget plan for higher education and science: A36-37

NEW DEAL FOR VIRGINIA COLLEGES
A state panel has proposed an arrangement that could give public institutions more funds, while increasing government oversight: A42

PROMOTING INDEPENDENCE
A new report urges state and federal governments to provide better education and training to welfare recipients: A44

LEARNING TO WORK
As new laws shrink the rolls of welfare recipients, colleges are in a position to offer the best training for good jobs, write Anthony P. Carnevale, vice president for public leadership at the Educational Testing Service, and Kathleen Sylvester, director of the Social Policy Action Network: B6

QUALITY CONTROL
Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, the head of the new Congressional Commission on Web-Based Education, says distance education ought to remain self-regulating: A56

Bill Bradley, campaigning in Florida for the presidency, said the state's proposed ban on affirmative action was "a clear wrong": A31

The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities is pressing for more federal aid for needy students: A31

The University of Virginia has seen a steep reduction in the number of black applicants this year: A44

Arkansas has pulled a television advertisement for a state scholarship program off the air because it attracted too many applicants: A44

MARKET RESULTS
College endowments grew by 11 percent in 1999, down from 18 percent the previous year: A46

• Fact File: The values of 503 college and university endowments (large file -- approximately 109K): A47-48

AFTER A DREAM SEASON
Virginia Tech is trying to capitalize on the football team's run to the national-championship game, in an effort to gain an admissions bump and some new funds: A63

Fund raisers at the University of Pennsylvania landed a $10-million gift via e-mail: A46

A trustee who has served for 60 years earned "tenure" on LeMoyne-Owen College's board: A46

Prime Numbers: Millionaires rate the factors in their success: A14

Foundation grants; gifts and bequests: A51

INTERNET PIONEER
Leonard Kleinrock, a "semiretired" computer-science professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, never intended to be a teacher, but he loves the work and the freedom to develop the next big thing: A53

QUALITY CONTROL
Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, the head of the new Congressional Commission on Web-Based Education, says distance education ought to remain self-regulating: A56

AN EARLY START
Lehigh University is creating online courses for high-school seniors it has admitted: A56

HELPING STUDENTS CATCH UP
The California State University System is using online courseware for remedial instruction in mathematics: A57

SO MANY COURSES, SO LITTLE ADVICE
Assessing online education is difficult for consumers, who aren't getting much help from the government or accreditors: A59

Norwich University has rebuffed a proposal to buy one of its campuses by a new distance-education venture: A53

A "boot camp" helps new online students get oriented at Boise State University: A54

An instructor at Shawnee Community College uses several tricks to enliven her online courses: A54

A scholar at North Carolina State University says most studies have found distance and classroom education to be equally effective: A55

A professor at Augustana College in South Dakota has devoted a Web site to the ear: A56

Fund raisers at the University of Pennsylvania landed a $10-million gift via e-mail: A46

AID FOR ADDICTS
Texas Tech University offers scholarships to recovering alcoholics and former drug abusers, and helps them to stay the course: A60

NEVER PAY FULL PRICE
Many participants at a conference on tuition discounting said the practice upsets them, but they agreed that it is ubiquitous: A62

AN EARLY START
Lehigh University is creating online courses for high-school seniors it has admitted: A56

SITCOMS, BUT NOT ON TV
An evil clown and Enrico Fermi's personal trainer have found their way into essays by applicants to the University of Chicago. Here are two successful responses: B8

Student elections at Haverford College this month attracted a big turnout because they were held online: A60

The number of minority students earning college degrees rose in 1997, according to a new report: A60

Short Subjects: Yale sophomores reflect on their bad-hair days; Berkeley cafe honors Free Speech Movement; Kansas students protest plan to scrap campus bowling alley; Mount Holyoke students take lessons from stripper: A12

AFTER A DREAM SEASON
Virginia Tech is trying to capitalize on the football team's run to the national-championship game, in an effort to gain an admissions bump and some new funds: A63

A report by the state attorney general has faulted the University of Vermont's investigation of hockey-team hazing: A63

California State University, in a report released last week, documents its improved support for women's athletics: A65

Louisiana State University lost a Title IX case when a judge found that the institution had discriminated against female athletes: A65

The National Collegiate Athletic Association won a legal round in a civil-rights lawsuit over its eligibility rules: A65