From the issue dated September 6, 2002
ONE YEAR LATER: A SPECIAL REPORT
A RETURN TO NORMALCY
Students at the University of Maryland at College Park find that September 11 didn't reshape their world as much as they had expected.
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- A COUNSELOR: Proximity to ground zero magnified problems that students already were having, and provided emotional, daily reminders of the attack.
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- AN INTERNATIONAL-STUDENT ADVISER: Rumors have been hard to dispel, and fears of prejudice have proved justified.
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- A PROFESSOR ACCUSED: Kenneth W. Hearlson was removed from the classroom last fall, after Muslim students charged that he was biased. He reflects on what he might have done differently.
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- A CIVIL LIBERTARIAN: Alan M. Dershowitz, of Harvard Law School, discusses torture, "collective punishment," and other ethical dilemmas raised by terrorism.
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- A RELIGIOUS-STUDIES PROFESSOR: The main challenge has been dispelling misconceptions about Islam among students who are largely evangelical Christians.
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- A PRESIDENT OF A HIGHER-EDUCATION GROUP: Caution concerning foreign students is understandable,
but the enrichment they bring to American campuses must not be forgotten.
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- PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN U. OF BEIRUT: There has been little change at an institution long accustomed to being surrounded by violence, but more foreign students seem to be applying.
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- A POLITICAL SCIENTIST: U.S. intervention in Afghanistan has been justified and necessary, but that rationale doesn't extend to the context of Iraq.
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- A UNIVERSITY-LIBRARY DIRECTOR: Staff members have been trained to follow new protocols for government information requests, but questions of confidentiality abound.
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- THE HEAD OF J. PAUL GETTY TRUST: The foundation's president says 9/11 shook philanthropists "awake in the middle of the night" and made them re-examine priorities.
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- A PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY: As students grappled with questions of good versus evil, they realized that their religious and philosophical beliefs were integral parts of their lives.
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- A POLICE CHIEF: At Emory, a chief of campus police says dealing with emergencies is what he does on a daily basis.
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- A HISTORY PROFESSOR: Religion needs the counterweight of secularism, but secularism needs the brake of religion as well.
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- A STUDENT COLUMNIST: An essay that suggested that America's foreign policy bore responsibility for the September 11 attacks provoked a barrage of hate mail. The writer evaluates those messages, and his own.
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- AN ROTC OFFICER: A 2nd lieutenant who is also a political-science student thought he would never see combat. Now he prepares for active duty.
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- A THEOLOGIAN: A journal's collection of essays criticizing U.S. policy since September 11 looks at religion's response and the use of language.
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- A LIBERAL-ARTS-COLLEGE PRESIDENT: Such institutions, as intellectual communities, are laboratories for discussing the effects and lessons of the terrorist attacks.
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- A THEATER STUDENT: A performance piece of "dance poems" about September 11 helped its performers connect with the events and transcend the TV-filtered images.
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- A PRESIDENT OF A WOMEN'S COLLEGE: The attacks have raised consciousness of the limits on women in other countries and greater awareness of diversity issues.
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- A PH.D. STUDENT FROM KUWAIT: She nearly left her program in the United States after experiencing bigotry but is forcing herself to continue.
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- A WRITING PROFESSOR: Students indicated hostility toward "others" in their essays, and mentioned September 11 when the topic was unrelated.
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- A PRESCIENT RESEARCHER: Long before September 11, a biology professor discussed the possibility that anthrax could be used as an agent of terrorism.
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- AN RA'S PERSPECTIVE: Students haven't forgotten the events of September 11, but they're not on the front burner.
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- A DOCTORAL STUDENT: The field of civil engineering is being reshaped as government officials seek models to assess risk and aid responses to terrorist attacks.
THE FACULTY
DON'T LEAD, JUST TEACH
Many community colleges are putting administrators rather than professors at the heads of academic departments.
TEAMWORK
Coaches in Pennsylvania's state-college system have formed a union for more bargaining power.
UNDER FIRE
The flap in North Carolina over a book on the Koran is a dangerous example of state legislators' muddying academic debates with budget ultimatums, writes Mary Burgan, general secretary of the American Association of University Professors.
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- SHOWDOWN IN TAMPA: The University of South Florida asked a state court to rule on its bid to fire a tenured professor it accused of terrorism.
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- TOP EARNERS: For the fourth consecutive year, professors of law were the highest-paid faculty members.
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- CULTURE WATCH: Our expert evaluates whether a new movie, Possession, accurately depicts two literature scholars at work.
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- PEER REVIEW: Two prominent writers on human-rights issues will share a professorship at Bard College. ... The new president of Antioch New England Graduate School is an unconventional choice. ... The acting dean of the Harvard Divinity School now has the job permanently.
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- SYLLABUS: Students get hooked on physics in "Music and Sound" at the University of Toledo.
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- BENEFITS DELAYED OR DENIED? A complaint has interrupted a $12-million settlement of a lawsuit in Washington State over adjuncts' retirement funds.
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- 'DISACKNOWLEDGMENTS': The University of California at Santa Barbara didn't violate a graduate student's rights in rejecting a thesis containing profane criticism of officials.
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- THE ULTIMATE TEST: Arkansas State University suspended an instructor who allegedly tried to force a student to have sex in exchange for a passing grade.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
AFRICA'S WRITTEN HISTORY
In Mali, scholars strive to preserve ancient collections of a rich recorded intellectual tradition long ignored by Western scholars.
POLI. SCI. AND POLICY
American political science has long associated itself with democracy and objectivity. But Ido Oren, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida, associates it more with U.S. foreign relations.
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- TOMORROW AND TOMORROW: Students who procrastinate also tend to have poor sleep, diet, and exercise habits, researchers have found.
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- VERBATIM: The author of Truth and Truthfulness discusses the difference.
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- NOTA BENE: One family's story is chronicled in Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920.
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- HOT TYPE: The sociologist whose much-publicized finding that Roman Catholic and evangelical-Protestant fathers have the most involvement with their children says the reality is considerably more complicated. ... The University of California Press gave its acting director permanent status.
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- NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
DEADLINE AMID CONFUSION
By January 30, the federal government expects colleges to comply with Sevis, a computerized system for tracking foreign students. Many college officials expect chaos.
CALIFORNIA'S MASTER PLAN
The document proposes to bolster community colleges and also to widen its scope to public schools, and has drawn mixed reviews.
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- NEW BOSS: The U.S. Education Department has named a former Sallie Mae official to head the Office of Federal Student Aid.
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- PARK PLACE: A new state law will bar ticket-writing quotas for law-enforcement officers on University of California campuses.
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- SEPARATION INTACT: A U.S. court of appeals ruled that a government agency in Tennessee can issue bonds to a sectarian university.
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- SENSITIVE RESEARCH: White House and college officials met to discuss limiting the publication of data that could aid terrorists.
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- CHANGES IN TITLE IX: For the first time in 30 years, a federal commission is discussing reinterpretations of the gender-equity law.
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
SEEING RED
Public colleges adapt to a new accounting procedure that gives many of them apparent deficits.
DON'T LEAD, JUST TEACH
Many community colleges are putting administrators rather than professors at the heads of academic departments.
DEADLINE AMID CONFUSION
By January 30, the federal government expects colleges to comply with Sevis, a computerized system for tracking foreign students. Many college officials expect chaos.
THOUGHT AND ACTION
For himself and his students, William V. Frame, president of Augsburg College, finds the value in Martin Luther's view of education as a path to vocation -- a called life of service.
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- BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD: Cornell University has parted ways with the architect it hired to design a new home for its architecture school.
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- SHOULDERING THE COSTS: A college-scholarship fund created to help the children and spouses of people killed on September 11 is nearing its goal of raising $100-million.
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- BELT-TIGHTENING: Dartmouth College plans to cut its budget this fiscal year and next to make up for losses in its endowment.
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- RULING REDUX: A federal judge said for the second time that a pharmaceutical company must pay the University of Colorado damages over a fraudulent patent.
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- SETTLEMENT REACHED: The University of California system will accept $40-million to settle claims against a defendant in the class-action lawsuit brought by investors who were burned by Enron's meltdown.
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- TWO GRAPHS DEPICT trends in faculty pay and the cost of living and pension money invested in the stock market.
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- FOUNDATION GRANTS; GIFTS AND BEQUESTS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
LOOSENING THE LIMITS
A rule that restricts distance education is close to being killed, but few institutions are planning to take advantage of its demise.
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- FIGHTING FUNGUS: A Harvard University medical professor's Web site discusses the basics of recognizing, diagnosing, and treating fungal diseases.
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- FAKEDEGREES.COM: Officials of several colleges have demanded that a company that sells phony diplomas over the Internet stop listing the institutions' names on its Web site.
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- TRILLIONS SERVED: Software designed to guarantee the Internet's continued growth is running on Abilene, the Internet2 backbone network.
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- OFF-THE-SHELF SUPERCOMPUTERS: A $60-million deal with three companies will help Cornell University expand a center on high-performance computing.
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- 'LEAPFROG STRATEGY': Despite budget troubles, Virginia will build an $18-million academic-technology center to spur economic development in the southern part of the state.
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- CURTAINS FOR PUBSCIENCE? Government officials want to shut down an Energy Department Web site for researchers, arguing that it duplicates commercial services.
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- BOOKMARK: A new CD-ROM focuses on the movement for Hawaiian secession.
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- ELITE ALLIANCE: A nonprofit distance-education company supported by Stanford, Yale, and the University of Oxford has begun offering online courses to the general public.
STUDENTS
A PROVOCATIVE ASSIGNMENT
At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, incoming freshmen read and discussed a book about the Koran, despite attempts by a Christian group to halt the seminars.
UNDER FIRE
The flap in North Carolina over a book on the Koran is a dangerous example of state legislators' muddying academic debates with budget ultimatums, writes Mary Burgan, general secretary of the American Association of University Professors.
A RETURN TO NORMALCY
Students at the University of Maryland at College Park find that September 11 didn't reshape their world as much as they had expected.
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- IRATE IN INDIANA: Princeton Review's annual ranking of the top "party schools" drew strong criticism from No. 1 on the list.
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- ROLL OUT THE BARREL: A student association at the University of California at San Diego wants to create beer gardens on the campus to lift school spirit.
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- HOLDING STEADY: The average SAT score was roughly unchanged from last year to this, while the average ACT score dropped slightly.
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- FALLOUT OF A SCANDAL: The two top people will leave Princeton University's admissions office over a series of break-ins at a Yale University Web site.
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- REMEMBER WHEN? Beloit College has released its fifth annual "Mindset List" to help professors better understand freshmen.
ATHLETICS
TEAMWORK
Coaches in Pennsylvania's state-college system have formed a union for more bargaining power.
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- BACK TO THE ARENA: One of the authors of The Game of Life, which offered a quantitative critique of elite colleges and their sports programs, says a more in-depth sequel is in the works for next fall.
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- CHANGES IN TITLE IX: For the first time in 30 years, a federal commission is discussing reinterpretations of the gender-equity law.
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- A-MAZING: A family of University of Missouri alumni have carved the image of Mizzou's tiger mascot into a cornfield and turned it into a vast labyrinth.
INTERNATIONAL
A HOME IN QATAR?
The Arab emirate is offering millions to a few American colleges to open campuses there.
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- WORLD BEAT: Chinese students in Beijing protest U.S. Embassy's visa policies. ... The University of Rome La Sapienza uses circus tents to ease classroom overcrowding.
THE CHRONICLE REVIEW
REFLECTIONS ON FRACTURED LANDSCAPES
- JAY PARINI: One Year After September 11, Where Is the Dissent?
PRESSED
Lee C. Bollinger wants to rethink Columbia's journalism program. Maybe there's more to what he says than critics have assumed, writes Jay Rosen, chairman of the department of journalism and mass communication at New York University.
THOUGHT AND ACTION
For himself and his students, William V. Frame, president of Augsburg College, finds the value in Martin Luther's view of education as a path to vocation -- a called life of service.
POLI. SCI. AND POLICY
American political science has long associated itself with democracy and objectivity. But Ido Oren, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida, associates it more with U.S. foreign relations.
WOMEN'S HISTORIES
New and emerging women's museums speak feminism in a range of accents, writes Julia M. Klein, a cultural reporter and critic.
TIME-LAPSE
The antiquarian avant-garde of photography reimagines the lens's objects and objectives.
UNDER FIRE
The flap in North Carolina over a book on the Koran is a dangerous example of state legislators' muddying academic debates with budget ultimatums, writes Mary Burgan, general secretary of the American Association of University Professors.
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