A Guide to the February 3, 1995, Issue
of The Chronicle of Higher Education

RESEARCH & PUBLISHING

GRAHAM GREENE ARCHIVE BOUGHT BY BOSTON COLLEGE
The institution paid a reported $1.5-million for the British author's 3,000-volume personal library and 60,000 of his papers and letters. Greene died in 1991: Page A12

• TWO ENGINEERING PROFESSORS at the University of Michigan are using lasers, high-speed imaging, and a tank of water to study the dynamics of waves as they break: A5

• THREE TEAMS OF SCIENTISTS are getting clues about AIDS from people who have been infected with H.I.V. for a long time but have remained healthy: A6

• RESEARCHERS ARE ANALYZING DNA SAMPLES from thousands of tiny parchment fragments of Dead Sea scrolls to determine which pieces came from the same original scroll. Figuring that out will help in their decipherment: A6

• HOT TYPE: A8
  • Herbert Braun, a Colombian and a historian at the University of Virginia, has written Our Guerrillas, Our Sidewalks: A Journey Into the Violence in Colombia, a personal account of his brother-in-law's kidnaping by Marxist guerrillas in 1988, and subsequent release.

  • Columbia University Press has announced a new series, "Popular Culture, Everyday Lives," that will deal with topics ranging from graffiti to California surfing music to discos -- anything that shows how people refashion diverse cultural practices as their own.

  • The feminist-studies journal Signs is moving from the University of Minnesota to the University of Washington, where its new editors work. The journal's publisher, the University of Chicago Press, chooses new editors for it every five years.

• 109 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A8
  • Nota Bene: The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, by Christopher Lasch, who taught history at the University of Rochester until his death in February 1994. The posthumous book is published by W.W. Norton.

A SCATHING REPORT ON TEACHER PREPARATION
The Holmes Group, a coalition of 80 schools of education, says they and other institutions have failed to make meaningful reforms, and should either shape up or shut down: Page A17

THE ACCIDENTAL EMISSARY
Diane Roazen, a part-time history professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, befriended the President of Chechnya two years ago. Now she's his chief spokesman in the United States: Page A5

• A FORMER PRESIDENT OF MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE, W. Lewis Nobles, Jr., was arrested in San Francisco by the F.B.I. after missing a hearing scheduled in his trial on embezzlement and other charges: A4

• A TRUSTEE OF WORCESTER STATE COLLEGE plans to resign to protest an invitation to Anthony Martin, a controversial black-studies professor, to speak on the campus: A4

• A CLASSICS PROFESSOR AT SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE of California is getting a hands-on education in the maritime warfare of ancient Greece, as an oarsman on a replica of a trireme: A4

• A WEEK AFTER JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY'S president, Ronald E. Carrier, announced major restructuring plans, including the discharge of all physics professors, the faculty voted no confidence in him: A14

• DRAMA STUDENTS AT STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY are acting out scenarios of sexual harassment to help faculty and staff members understand what constitutes the offense: A14

• THREE WHITE PROFESSORS who say they were discriminated against by administrators at the historically black Texas Southern University have won $169,000 in back pay and damages: A18

• AN ANONYMOUS GROUP OF PROFESSORS at Winthrop University claims that the faculty there has received much lower raises than the administration, and is among the lowest-paid faculties in the state: A18

• A SEX-DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT against two male officers on a training ship used by Texas A&M; University has rocked the institution's maritime campus: A18

• SIX NEW BOOKS on higher education: A17

• Information on how to obtain advisories on security issues from the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center: Page A21

• TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM voted last week to proceed with plans to convert a distance-learning network into a degree-granting institution: A19

• TWO SYSTEMWIDE COMMITTEES of the 64-campus State University of New York have issued reports on issues of policy, planning, and coordination posed by the advent of distance learning: A19

• ONE NEW COMPUTER PROGRAM, one new optical disc: A21

• What they said about the endowments, then and now: quotations by William J. Bennett and Lynne V. Cheney, both former chairmen of the National Endowment for the Humanities: Page A23

• Details of the U. Plan, including eligibility standards, how colleges will participate, how Massachusetts will manage, how parents will be involved, and more: Page A24

UNIVERSITY SUSPENDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR BLACKS
The University of Maryland at College Park has determined that it must wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to review the restricted awards, which were struck down by an appeals court last year, before it might offer them again: Page A26

COLLEGES FEAR THREAT TO PUBLIC BROADCASTING
Universities that are homes to public radio and television stations are afraid of losing government funds for them, if Congress ends federal support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Page A28

COURT UPHOLDS V.M.I.'S ALL-MALE STATUS
Clearing the way for the Virginia Military Institute to continue to admit only male students, a federal appeals court has ruled that a state may have good reasons for operating a single-sex college: Page A28

• GOV. J. FIFE SYMINGTON, an Arizona Republican, has suggested that he would rather subsidize citizens who are studying out of state than pay for new facilities: A22

• THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA'S CITY COUNCIL is considering a study of all exemptions from local taxes, including those enjoyed by Washington's universities, to deal with a large budget deficit: A22

• THE BAYLOR COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY, a private institution, has asked to become a public one by merging with the Texas A&M; University System: A25

• TWO FORMER EDUCATION SECRETARIES, both Republicans, told a House of Representatives subcommittee last week that the U.S. Department of Education was stifling American schools and should be eliminated: A27

• THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE issued a new rule last week that prohibits colleges from receiving grants from the department, or signing contracts with it, if they bar the military from recruiting on their campuses: A27

• THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE'S Office of Research Integrity has found two researchers guilty of scientific misconduct at, respectively, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Pittsburgh: A27

• OFFICIALS AT THREE COLLEGES in Massachusetts and Missouri have had only limited success in driving away thousands of birds that have been roosting on their campuses: A4

• A QUILT COMMEMORATING THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY of the University of Houston at Clear Lake has won top honors in a national quilting competition: A4

• GOLDEN WEST COLLEGE HAS RECEIVED more than $6,700 from 18 local artisans who have sewn and raffled off four quilts since 1989 and donated the proceeds to the college: A29

• THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO recently received a gift of 25,000 science-fiction, adventure, and pulp-fiction books and magazines: A29

• A SOUTH CAROLINA BUSINESSMAN HAS ESTABLISHED a scholarship at the University of South Carolina in memory of two young boys whose mother now stands accused of their murder: A30

• TWO TOP OFFICIALS AT BAKER COLLEGE OF MUSKEGON recently said they would give Grand Valley State University two radio stations they own, but Grand Valley says it might sell the stations: A30

• 23 FOUNDATION GRANTS; five gifts and bequests: A30

• A Fact File listing crime data from 796 colleges and universities for 1992-93 and 1993-94. The data include numbers of arrests for drug, liquor, and weapons violations, as well as reported incidents of murder, rape, robbery, and other crimes: Pages A32-41

• A table summarizing the crime statistics from 796 campuses: Page A31

• A GUNMAN WHO HAD KILLED TWO PEOPLE near the University of North Carolina's campus in Chapel Hill was disarmed by a student who is a Marine veteran of the Gulf War: A4

• MORE THAN 300 STUDENTS AT HIRAM COLLEGE are forgoing their usual Thursday dinners this winter and supping on soup and bread instead. The money Hiram saves goes to charity: A4

• A CALENDAR WITH PICTURES OF WOMEN at Miami University of Ohio features not bikini-clad coeds but female students, professors, and administrators at work and play: A5

• FOUR LAW STUDENTS AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY have successfully challenged what they say is a routine form of discrimination against women: hair salons that base their prices on the customer's sex: A31

• STUDENTS AT NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY can now find out whether professors are more likely to hand out A's or F's. Computer listings show the proportion of students who earned each letter grade in classes with more than 50 enrolled: A31

• HARVARD UNIVERSITY THINKS IT KNOWS what made 225 of its students violently ill in December: a virus in the "Norwalk" family: A31

ATHLETICS

GOLDEN ARCHES AT GEORGIA TECH
The institution has signed a $5.5-million sponsorship arrangement with McDonald's that will give the fast-food chain more than just an arena concession: Page A44

• THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI'S new football coach, Butch Davis, will receive an extra year of guaranteed salary for every year the institution might spend on N.C.A.A. probation, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported: A43

• THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY HAS SUSPENDED, with pay, the coach of its women's synchronized-swimming team for improprieties such as extra benefits given to the athletes: A43

• TWO HIGH-PROFILE COACHES of men's basketball teams are taking the rest of the season off, illustrating the pressure and pace of big-time college basketball: A43

• THE U.S. SUPREME COURT has refused to review a lower-court ruling that had affirmed a college's right to drop a men's varsity team but keep the same sport for women. The case involved the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: A44

• SETON HALL UNIVERSITY HAS DENIED ADMISSION to a top basketball recruit who, after being admitted, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of sexual abuse: A44

• VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University will use mediation to resolve their dispute with their athletics conference, which has sought to expel them: A44

MEXICO'S EDUCATION SECRETARY IS FIRED
After only 53 days on the job, Fausto Alzati was dismissed for lying about his academic credentials. It turned out he had neither the doctorate nor the undergraduate degree he claimed to possess: Page A46

FLAP IN AUSTRALIA OVER FACULTY ASSESSMENT
Up to a third of Australia's universities could be penalized for failing to develop and introduce a system of assessing professors' performances that was mandated by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission: Page A47

• THE U.S.-JAPAN FOUNDATION IS FINANCING a commission that will examine the decline in the number of Americans studying in Japan, compared with the much larger number of Japanese who study in the United States: A45

• IMMIGRANT SCIENTISTS IN ISRAEL, many from the former Soviet Union, who enrolled in university-organized teacher-training programs have become successful high-school teachers, according to a recent study: A45

• TWO MEMBERS OF THE ISRAELI KNESSET, or parliament, have formed a grass-roots movement to open up admissions to the country's universities: A47

• LAST MONTH'S DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE in Kobe, Japan, damaged universities there to varying degrees, and some have closed for the semester: A47

• IN THE FACE OF STUDENT PROTESTS that included a three-day sit-in, one of Paris's most academically elite universities, the Institute for the Study of Politics, has dropped plans to replace student grants with a loan program: A47

• A ONE-DAY STRIKE BY CANADIAN STUDENTS last week attracted far fewer protesters over proposed tuition increases than organizers had expected: A47

POLITICAL AND PUBLIC ATTITUDES ABOUT TECHNOLOGY
Americans' hitherto enduring faith in science and technology is steadily giving way to skepticism and even pessimism, yet both major parties have ignored this sea change, writes Howard P. Segal, a professor of history and director of the Technology and Society Project at the University of Maine: Page B1

VALUING THE AESTHETICS OF ART
Howard Risatti, a professor of 20th-century art and criticism at Virginia Commonwealth University, says that formal and aesthetic aspects of artwork still matter, despite recent trends in scholarship and pedagogy that stress the political content of art: Page B2

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• The alienation of white male students: B4
  
• The proposed standards for teaching American history: B5
  
• The professionalism of adjunct professors: B5
  
• The myths and realities of orphanages: B6
  
• The "level of agreement" among intelligence researchers: B6
  
• Education is a casualty of the war in Bosnia: B6
  
• How do we determine success by college presidents?: B6
  
• A source of funds for Princeton University Press: B6
  
• Political correctness and waterbeds: B6
  

• 77 APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS on U.S. campuses: A49-50

• DEATHS of 23 people in academe: A50

• 143 COMING EVENTS of interest to the men and women of academe: A50-52

• 101 DEADLINES -- for fellowships, grants, institutes, workshops, and the submission of papers: A52-55

• DETAILS OF MORE THAN 900 AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research positions in higher education, administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside academe: B7-71

INFORMATION provided by a select group of companies and organizations, this week including:
• TIAA-CREF,
  
• the Annenberg/CPB Project,
  
• Fidelity Investments,
  
• and Lotus Development Corporation.
  

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