A Guide to the February 24, 1995, Issue
of The Chronicle of Higher Education

RESEARCH & PUBLISHING

A SELF-CONSCIOUS CRITIQUE OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Anna Tsing's highly praised ethnographic study of "marginality" and Indonesia combines story telling, personal reflection, and a heavy dose of theory: Page A10

FULBRIGHT AWARDS ANNOUNCED
A listing of more than 800 visiting academics, professionals, and independent scholars who lectured or conducted research in the United States in academic 1994-95: Pages A15-20

• SCIENTISTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA have created a plot of simulated Martian terrain to help them design a camera that will rove the surface of the red planet: A7

• AMERICAN STUDENTS DON'T STUDY because there isn't enough return on their investment, says John D. Owen, an economist at Wayne State University, in a new book: A8

• WHEN IT COMES TO LANGUAGE, women may be more apt than men to use both sides of their brains, according to a report in the February 16 issue of the journal Nature: A8

• HOT TYPE: A12
  • A new book, Shadow of Suribachi: Raising the Flags on Iwo Jima, maintains that the flag raising on the Pacific island in February 1945 was neither a particularly heroic deed nor a publicity stunt. The book is by Parker Bishop Albee, Jr., a historian at the University of Southern Maine, and Keller Cushing Freeman, a writer.

  • Topping the spring book list at the University of Minnesota Press is Professor Wellstone Goes to Washington, an account of the astonishing upset in the 1990 election that made Mr. Wellstone, a former professor, a Senator. The book's authors are Dennis J. McGrath and Dane Smith, reporters at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

• 37 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A12
  • Nota Bene: The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values, by Gertrude Himmelfarb, a professor emeritus of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

CONTROVERSIAL ACCREDITING PROPOSAL SPURNED
Members of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education voted overwhelmingly against requiring national accreditation for their programs: Page A23

FIGHT EXPECTED OVER ABORTION TRAINING
Roman Catholic educators attacked a new accreditation requirement that medical schools train residents in obstetrics and gynecology to perform abortions. The new rule was adopted by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education: Page A24

POETRY IN GLASS
Joseph Luisi, the head of a unique program at Salem Community College, says the trick to training students to be glass blowers is in the rhythm: Page A47

COLGATE'S CAMPUS SANCTUARY
For the last 35 years, Chapel House has been open to visitors seeking religious or spiritual insight: Page A7

• THE WIDOW OF A PROFESSOR at Middlesex Community-Technical College was shot to death while cleaning out her husband's office last week. A campus security guard, who had let her into the office and later reported finding her body, has been arrested: A7

• THE NATIONAL POLICY BOARD on Higher Education Institutional Accreditation, the author of a report proposing vast changes in accreditation, asked for feedback, and board members are getting it: A21

• MEMBERS OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION are being asked to condemn Bennington College for abruptly firing 26 professors last summer: A21

• TWO GRAPHS AND TWO TABLES depicting trends in faculty pay and the cost of living, median salaries of college administrators, and pension funds in the stock market: A22

• THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION last week arrested Kevin D. Mitnick, a suspect in a recent string of break-ins on the Internet: A25

• THE AT&T; FOUNDATION last week gave Pennsylvania State University $300,000 to train and excite professors about using technology for distance education: A25

• THE ARREST OF A MICHIGAN STUDENT for posting a tale of rape and torture on an electronic bulletin board has prompted widespread debate among network users: A27

• A FORMER STUDENT at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a list of a thousand colleges and universities that have World-Wide Web pages: A27

• THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA has published its first on-line book, Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts, by Michael Plunkett, director of special collections in the University of Virginia library: A27

• THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN'S School of Information and Library Studies has added nearly a dozen new resource guides to the collection that it maintains for network users: A27

• THE SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES PROJECT at Canada's University of Waterloo has developed a World-Wide Web page that enables users to connect directly to the organizations of their choice with a click of the mouse: A27

• FOUR NEW INTERNET MAILING LISTS: A27

• FOUR NEW COMPUTER PROGRAMS, three new optical discs: A28

• A state-court ruling last month has forced illegal immigrants to pay higher tuition at California State University campuses: Page A30

CLINTON VOWS TO PROTECT STUDENT AID
Speaking before the American Council on Education, President Clinton promised to veto a measure that would end the interest subsidy on student loans while the borrowers remain in college: Page A32

• Debate in Congress has heated up over how quickly to expand the system of making direct loans to college students: Page A32

QUESTIONING THE CHOICE FOR U.S. ARCHIVIST
President Clinton's reported nominee for the position, John W. Carlin, a former Governor of Kansas, has left scholarly groups such as the American Historical Association less than impressed: Page A33

MERGE THE EDUCATION AND LABOR DEPARTMENTS?
Several influential Republicans in the House of Representatives support the proposal, which is still being drafted: Page A33

• FEDERAL STUDENT-AID POLICIES intended to direct more financial support to the neediest students are actually providing less help, according to a study published last week by the Association of Community College Trustees: A29

• RUMOR TO THE CONTRARY, THE WHITE HOUSE never told the director of the National Institutes of Health to delay approving federal support for human-embryo research, says one official: A29

• UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA INSTITUTIONS will have their budgets cut if they enroll too many students from out of state, under a new policy adopted by the university system's Board of Governors this month: A31

• GOV. TOMMY G. THOMPSON HAS PROPOSED freezing the salaries of University of Wisconsin administrators who earn more than $100,000 a year: A31

• ANGRY OVER DILAPIDATED BUILDINGS and deficit spending at Highland Park Community College, Gov. John Engler of Michigan is calling for the elimination of state support for the 77-year-old institution: A31

• THE CHAIRMAN OF A KEY CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE last week endorsed the idea of providing federal arts-and-humanities support only to institutions, not individuals: A34

• THE U.S. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT and the United Negro College Fund last week announced the creation of an institute to prepare more minority students for careers in foreign service: A34

• THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, the University of Utah, and a private company have settled a patent dispute over who should get credit for having identified a defective gene linked to some cases of breast and ovarian cancer: A34

• LISTINGS OF 1 new federal regulation, 4 new bills in Congress, and 17 Congressional hearings scheduled between now and May 5: A33

ALUMNAE GROUP OPPOSES COLLEGE'S PRESIDENT
Saying that the head of Trinity College in Washington, D.C., "seized" their alumnae association, nine members are pressing for her resignation: Page A36

• THIEVES HAVE STRUCK THREE NEW HAMPSHIRE colleges in the last month, stealing more than 80 books worth thousands of dollars: A6

• THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AUXILIARY SERVICES has asked its members who have deals with soft-drink makers to send in their contracts so that other members in negotiation with the companies can see the terms: A35

• OF THE COUNTRY'S UP-AND-COMING COMPANIES, fewer than half have used colleges as resources to strengthen their businesses, says a new report by Coopers & Lybrand: A35

• 16 FOUNDATION GRANTS; six gifts and bequests: A36

ALLEGATIONS OF ANTI-WHITE BIAS
A branch of Evergreen State College that was founded to expand opportunities for minorities is in an uproar over charges that it is hostile to white students: Page A38

STUDENT NEWSPAPER CENSURED
The Mercer Cluster at Mercer University has been sanctioned for publishing news of a student's disciplinary troubles, but its editors say they didn't violate the Buckley Amendment and the information was already public knowledge: Page A38

• TWO STUDENTS OF AERODYNAMICS at Wichita State University have been using the institution's wind tunnel to help a cyclist train for the 1996 Olympics: A6

• SIX STUDENTS AT TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY were detained by campus police after refusing to leave a tent city they had built to protest the university's decision to admit men: A6

• FIREWORKS AND DRAGON DANCES were among the events at Golden West College during its 13th annual Vietnamese festival: A6

• A 26-YEAR-OLD FEMALE STUDENT WAS SHOT in the head on Cuyahoga Community College's Eastern campus by a non-student male who reportedly had been stalking her. He then shot himself, and both later died of their wounds: A7

• ENGINEERING STUDENTS AT HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE competed with each other to build a device that would turn pages for a man who is a quadriplegic. The winning team's model uses static electricity and a small motor to turn the pages: A7

• AFTER TWO DAYS OF SIT-INS BY MINORITY STUDENTS at Duke University this month, President Nannerl O. Keohane reinstated a vice-presidency for minority issues: A37

• WESTMINSTER COLLEGE IN MISSOURI will try to shorten the time its students spend in college by offering them free classes if they don't graduate in four years: A37

LAST-MINUTE SAVE
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is expected to rescue two Division II men's tournaments, in ice hockey and lacrosse, that would otherwise be cut after this year: Page A40

• A BILL INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS last week would probably put an end to pay-per-view telecasts of college sports: A39

• BROWN UNIVERSITY SAID IN COURT PAPERS filed this month that it would have to "cut, cap, or eliminate men's teams" if it is found to have discriminated against female athletes: A39

• THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION has placed Virginia State University on two years' probation for violations in its now-defunct wrestling team: A40

• VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY has agreed to a proposed settlement of a sex-bias lawsuit filed against the institution last year: A40

ETHNIC TENSIONS IN MACEDONIA
Classes began at a private, Albanian-language university in the former Yugoslav republic last week, in spite of a government ban: Page A43

• THE UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON IN ENGLAND has undertaken a major campaign to alert students to the consequences of plagiarizing: A41

• AUSTRALIA'S BUSY PROFESSORS and students' ready access to computer data bases are among the reasons plagiarism and other forms of academic fraud are on the rise, says a lecturer in business at Curtin University of Technology: A41

• A STUDY BY A RESEARCH INSTITUTE in Nurnberg has found that graduates of German universities are far more likely to hold jobs appropriate to their qualifications than graduates of vocational or training schools: A41

STUDENT-TEACHER AFFAIRS
Many sexual encounters are initiated by female students, even the most sheltered of whom are less naive than their would-be protectors seem to believe, says David R. Pichaske, a professor of English at Southwest State University in Minnesota: Page B1

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• Harassment furor at Cornell University: B4
  
• Freedom of speech on the Internet: B5
  
• Corporate buzzwords infect colleges: B5
  
• Libraries are key players in the on-line world: B6
  
• People of color at the University of Cincinnati: B6
  
• The threat of public broadcasting: B6
  
• Gay students' risk in leaving "the closet": B6
  
• Saints and angels are not the same: B6
  

DIVINE ILLUMINATIONS
A collection of devotional books and manuscripts from the Middle Ages is on display at the University of Michigan Museum of Art through March 26: Page B64

• 76 APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS on U.S. campuses: A44-46

• DEATHS of 23 people in academe: A46

DETAILS OF MORE THAN 1,060 AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research positions in higher education, administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside academe: B7-63

LISTINGS OF 1,057 EVENTS, MEETINGS, AND DEADLINES this spring and summer, with 593 sponsoring organizations, plus a colorful guide to the delights of San Francisco: C4-54

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

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