Academe Today: Complete Contents

A GUIDE to the November 8, 1996, Chronicle

Items relevant to more than one category may appear more than once in this guide. To read the complete text of the article, click on the highlighted words.

INTERNATIONAL

ENDEMIC VIOLENCE
Clashes between rival student groups at Bangladeshi colleges caused more than 100 deaths in five years: A41

  • Campus leaders in Bangladesh mingle national politics with student life: A42

A DISSIDENT BEHIND BARS
A leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has been sentenced by a Chinese court to 11 years in prison: A42

A NEW GOVERNMENT
The woman expected to become Prime Minister of New Zealand made support for higher education a key plank in her election platform: A43

PROBLEMS WITH CONNECTIVITY
George Soros has linked a third Russian university to the Internet, but he foresees difficulties: A25

RESEARCH & PUBLISHING

RESEARCH SCANDAL
The director of the Human Genome Project has retracted five journal articles, saying they were based on data fabricated by a graduate student: A11

EAT FAT
A Cornell professor who won acclaim for his study of the cultural meaning of cigarettes has a new book that challenges Americans' obsession with weight: A14

UNUSUAL EVIDENCE
An entomologist at the University of Missouri uses insects to help solve murder cases: A9

NOTES FROM ACADEME
A social scientist from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks explains how Western sensibilities conflict with the way Greenlanders view sealing and whaling: B2

PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL CONCERNS

A BATTLE OVER PAY EQUITY
A dispute involving three scholars at Illinois State University has ballooned to include 350 female professors: A10

AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT CLARENCE THOMAS
A history seminar explores how his confirmation hearings affected America's attitudes toward race, gender, and power: A12

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY ON CREDIT
Western Kentucky University is using an unusual financing approach to improve its computer facilities: A21

  • Some colleges find it is more practical to lease computers than to buy them: A23
PROBLEMS WITH CONNECTIVITY
George Soros has linked a third Russian university to the Internet, but he foresees difficulties: A25

FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)

CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
Owners of proprietary schools gave generously to lawmakers who may play key roles in revising a law regulating student aid: A27

POLITICS AND SCIENCE
A key Democratic lawmaker has issued a blistering review of Republican-led Congressional hearings on environmental research: A28

QUESTIONS ABOUT SAFETY
Critics agree that the federalgovernment is not doing a good job monitoring research on humans, but they have yet to agree on a way to improve the situation: A29

A BIGGER SHIELD
The Supreme Court has given public colleges and universities new protection from lawsuits: A33

MONEY & MANAGEMENT

LEAKY CEILINGS
After years of putting off the task, Tufts University has embarked on a plan to repair its aging buildings: A35

TECHNOLOGY ON CREDIT
Western Kentucky University is using an unusual financing approach to improve its computer facilities: A21

  • Some colleges find it is more practical to lease computers than to buy them: A23

STUDENTS

TOO MUCH DEBT?
Colleges worry that students lack information to make informed decisions about credit cards: A37

CHEATING SCANDAL
Federal officials have charged a California man in a scheme to sell pencils encoded with the answers to graduate-school admissions tests: A38

REJUVENATING PHI BETA KAPPA
At a special meeting on the honor society's future, members said it should become more visible in high schools and colleges: A38

ATHLETICS

NOT EVERYONE INTO THE POOL
The case of a Michigan State University swimmer has become a rallying point for many learning-disabled students who think academic-eligibility rules are too inflexible: A39

OPINION & LETTERS

AMERICA'S SHRINKING FOREIGN SERVICE
As jobs in diplomacy disappear, colleges must design courses that approach international affairs as part of a larger web of commercial and cultural exchange: A52

RE-IMAGINING ART SCHOOLS
Young artists need colleges that will prepare them for the creative options and economic realities that await them in the next millennium: B8

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THE ARTS

PICTURING CHINA
Two scholars describe how they selected the images for a book that portrays a century of the country's turbulent history through photographs: B3

RE-IMAGINING ART SCHOOLS
Young artists need colleges that will prepare them for the creative options and economic realities that await them in the next millennium: B8

PAINTING THE PAST
Pat Conroy explores the autobiographical power of Jonathan Green's art in his book "Gullah Images": B84

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