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INTERNATIONAL
IN AUSTRALIA, RETRENCHMENT ARRIVES
Deakin University is struggling to deal with cuts in government
support and with a mandate to increase faculty salaries: A47
IN THE UNITED STATES, A DISPUTE ENDS
The National Security Education Program's much-debated service
requirement has been eased: A50
ALSO IN THE U.S., BUYING INFLUENCE?
While some Korean-studies professors have welcomed grants from
the South Korean government, others worry that the money comes
with strings attached: A10
- ALSO IN THE U.S., the exiled Chinese activist Fang Li-Zhi,
of the University of Arizona, received the 1996 Nicholson
Medal for Humanitarian Service: A47
- IN CHINA, colleges are trying to prevent students from
protesting Japanese claims to a group of uninhabited
islands: A47
- IN SOUTH KOREA, 438 students were indicted for taking
part in illegal demonstrations calling for the reunification
of the North and South: A49
- IN SLOVAKIA, university rectors protested a new law giving
the government full authority to hire faculty members: A49
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
THE DEBATE ON POVERTY
The Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson, whose research
has been influential and controversial, has written a new book,
"When Work Disappears," on the absence of jobs in impoverished
areas: A12
THE OBSESSION WITH WEIGHT
In a controversial book, an exercise-physiology professor at
the University of Virginia, Glenn A. Gaesser, challenges the
conventional wisdom that obesity is a health problem: A13
PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL CONCERNS
STRINGS ATTACHED?
Some professors are worried about the impact of grants that
American scholars are receiving from a foundation created by
the South Korean government: A10
EQUITY IN FACULTY SALARIES
Virginia Commonwealth University has settled a lawsuit by male
professors who challenged a program that had given their female
colleagues extra pay: A11
- THE "WHITE GUYS COLLECTIVE," a group of graduate students at
the University of California at Berkeley, is holding
teach-ins in support of affirmative action: A10
- THE GERMAN PROGRAM at the State University of New York at
Albany is being eliminated: A12
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA has put a debate over its tenure
code on hold until a union election can take place: A12
- AN AUDIT of the Medical University of South Carolina has
uncovered 18 violations of federal anti-bias rules: A6
- GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY'S president has proved his ability to
stay the course by winning the "Grand Slam" of ultramarathon
competition: A6
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
ANONYMITY ON LINE
The Internet's ability to allow students and faculty members to
exchange ideas while shielding their identities is changing
scholarly discourse: A23
ERGONOMICALLY CORRECT
Researchers at Marquette University are evaluating whether
newfangled keyboard designs can reduce the incidence of
computer-related injuries: A25
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
GROWTH IN SOUTH TEXAS
Universities with large Hispanic enrollments are starting many
special programs for those students with funds provided by the
state Legislature: A29
A VICTORY FOR COEDUCATION
Bowing to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Virginia Military
Institute announced that it would admit women for the first
time -- but on its own terms: A30
POLICING LOAN-GUARANTEE AGENCIES
The U.S. Education Department has proposed new regulations for
the agencies' use of federal funds: A32
NEW RULES FOR STUDENT AID
Hundreds of proprietary schools, and a small number of
colleges, could lose their eligibility to receive aid under
regulations proposed by the U.S. Education Department: A32
A NEW SALLIE MAE?
The House of Representatives has voted to allow the Student
Loan Marketing Association to become a private business, but
the bill's fate in the Senate is unclear: A33
ETHNIC HOUSING
The U.S. Education Department has dropped charges that Cornell
University violated anti-bias laws by maintaining dormitories
with black and Hispanic themes: A45
- CYNTHIA KALDOR almost lost out on a position as president of
the North Dakota Board of Higher Education because she is
married to the state's Democratic nominee for governor: A29
- SENATOR ALAN SIMPSON, a Wyoming Republican, envisions a
bright future for the National Endowment for the Arts and
the National Endowment for the Humanities: A29
- GOVERNOR KIRK FORDICE of Mississippi has nominated a new
group of trustees for the board that oversees the state's
public colleges. His first slate was rejected: A31
- DAVID DUKE'S APPEARANCE in a debate over affirmative action
led to a heated protest last week at California State
University at Northridge: A31
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA regents have been criticized for
excluding unions from hospital-merger talks: A31
- REPUBLICAN LEADERS in Congress stripped a major bill of a
controversial clause that would have denied illegal
immigrants access to public education: A33
- A PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY BOARD has urged the Clinton
Administration to continue supporting historically black
colleges: A33
- AMERICORPS SURVIVED a four-month budget battle, receiving
a $402.5-million appropriation for the 1997 fiscal year: A33
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
LONG-LOST MONEY
Asset-retrieval companies offer colleges the chance to obtain
bequests that fund raisers did not know existed, but the
service comes at a price: A35
- JEFFERSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE is taking some heat for
accepting money from the tobacco company Philip Morris: A35
- UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ALUMNI want to help choose the
institution's next president: A35
- DUKE UNIVERSITY has received $10-million from Robert M. and
Anne T. Bass to develop undergraduate education: A37
- TWO BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS returned an anonymous
$50,000 gift after learning that the donor had links to
conservative groups: A37
- A RARE BOOK containing a letter by Christopher Columbus has
been donated to the University of Southern Maine: A6
- A BANK OFFICIAL who was also a campus volunteer has been
arrested for vandalizing Hazard Community College: A8
- BRIEFLY NOTED: A lawsuit over the name "Columbia" has been
scheduled for trial in January: A37
STUDENTS
PAYING THE BILLS
Tuition rates increased by an average of 5 per cent this year,
according to a survey released by the College Board: A38
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ETHNIC HOUSING
The U.S. Education Department has dropped charges that Cornell
University violated anti-bias laws by maintaining dormitories
with black and Hispanic themes: A45
ILL-PREPARED JOURNALISM GRADUATES
A committee sponsored by the television journalist Jane Pauley
has sharply criticized the education provided in universities'
broadcast-journalism programs: A45
BREAKING OUT OF POVERTY
San Antonio College sends recruiters to public-housing projects
and offers residents a range of social services to encourage
them to pursue a higher education: A8
- CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY is upset by a student production of the
play "Angels in America": A38
- RICKS COLLEGE has decided that an admissions lottery is too
big a gamble for a Mormon institution: A38
- POLICE KILLED A GUNMAN at the University of Northern
Colorado who had taken four female students captive: A6
- SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE in Michigan is instituting a new
policy: Students caught drinking, using drugs, or having
overnight guests in dormitory rooms will lose their housing
privileges: A6
- FRESHMEN AT HOPE COLLEGE pulled their weight in the annual
tug-of-war contest on the campus: A8
ATHLETICS
VANQUISHING HARVARD
Centre College is marking the 75th anniversary of its greatest
football victory -- one that experts say symbolized a change
in amateur-sports history: A46
- A COURT HAS RULED that Northwestern University cannot keep a
student off the basketball team just because he has a heart
condition: A46
- THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO hopes tailgate parties will bolster
attendance at football games: A46
- MIAMI UNIVERSITY will retire "Redskins" as its sports teams'
nickname, but it will keep its Indian-chief logo: A8
- BRIEFLY NOTED: Free admission to Hamilton College sporting
events; Macon College withdraws from intercollegiate
competition: A46
OPINION & LETTERS
THE ISSUE OF REMEDIATION
If educators can raise the literacy level of elementary- and
secondary-school students, the need for remedial courses at the
college level will drop significantly, writes Clifford Adelman,
a researcher at the U.S. Department of Education: A56
AGING GRACEFULLY
Researchers who focus on the problems of old age should spend
more time examining the strengths of America's older people,
argues Laura L. Carstensen, an associate professor of
psychology at Stanford University: B3
THE DEBATE OVER WELFARE REFORM
Donna E. Shalala, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human
Services, says welfare reform will work only if all sectors of
society assume responsibility for its success: B5
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- The best way to reduce the number of people on the
welfare rolls is to require aid recipients to work in
return for assistance, insists Lawrence M. Mead, a
politics professor at New York University: B6
- Welfare reform and its emphasis on work requirements are
sadly out of touch with the reality of poor women's
lives, according to Kathleen Mullan Harris, a sociologist
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: B7
- Welfare reform cannot cure such social ills as
illegitimacy and single parenthood, says Gary Sandefur, a
sociologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison: B7
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
LOVE OF THE WORD
The writing program at Washington College, on Maryland's
Eastern Shore, includes one of the nation's few remaining
letterpress printshops: B2
HOMESPUN TRUTHS
Chile's most marginalized group -- the wives and mothers of the
"disappeared" -- used needle and thread to record the
oppression of their people during the Pinochet regime: B10
GOOD HAIR, BAD HAIR
Bill Gaskins's photographs, currently on display at the
University of Missouri at Kansas City, explore the symbolic
value of African-American hair styles: B76
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