A GUIDE to the December 12, 1997, Chronicle

THE FACULTY

"ADULT THEMES AND TOPICS"
A psychology professor at Oakland Community College faces a sexual-harassment complaint for a disclaimer he provided about the content of a class he teaches: A14

HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE
A program at Tulane University requires business students to analyze the stocks of local companies -- and real investors are paying attention to the analyses: A39

UNEQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN
The time has come for colleges to renew their commitment to eliminating the gender gap in salaries, writes Yolanda Moses, president of City College of the City University of New York: A60

• THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL Association has formed a committee to study ethnicity, gender, and class in academe: A12

• BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY will hold a conference on the political, social, and economic status of Jewish women in their home countries: A12

• A FORMER EMPLOYEE of the University of Louisville has accused a psychiatry professor of making anti-Semitic and sexist remarks, and of carrying a gun to work: A14

• THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT has ruled that part-time instructors in the state's two-year colleges can seek tenure after working for three years: A14

• PEER REVIEW: A50
  • The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, a tradition-minded competitor of the Modern Language Association, has begun to run job advertisements in its newsletter.

  • Harvard University's president, Neil Rudenstine, was "ambushed" at this year's Harvard-Yale football game by a radio commentator with questions about university policies.

  • Moving on.

RESEARCH & PUBLISHING

PLACEBOS IN AIDS RESEARCH
A controversy over research on women in developing nations who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus has continued since critics raised ethical questions last spring: A15

"KIWIFIED" WORDS
The new edition of the New Zealand Pocket Oxford Dictionary is the first put together specifically from that country's perspective: A17

FAITH AND THE CIVIL-RIGHTS MOVEMENT
A new book by a professor at Loyola College in Maryland examines a much-studied period of American history, but with a focus on the religious beliefs of the key figures: A10

A RECORD OF ANCIENT LIFE
For 25 years, Andrew M.T. Moore, a graduate-school dean at Yale University, and his colleagues have been studying the results of a hastily excavated archaeological site in Syria: B8

CRISIS IN RESEARCH LIBRARIES
The failure to maintain spending levels for university libraries is leading to a serious decline of collections at leading research institutions, writes James Shapiro, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University: B4

• THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL Association has formed a committee to study ethnicity, gender, and class in academe: A12

• A DETAILED STUDY has cast further doubt on claims that worm-like structures in a meteorite found in Antarctica could be remnants of ancient life on Mars: A18

• RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND that the female hormone estrogen in males gives sperm cells their reproductive punch: A18

• THE DISCOVERY of mammal fossils in Madagascar and India supports the plate-tectonic theory: A18

• A HARTWICK COLLEGE professor and his team of researchers have found a connection between parasitic flatworms and deformed frogs: A8

• A STATE JUDGE has dismissed a lawsuit against the University of California at San Francisco over research by a professor of medicine who is a critic of the tobacco industry: A8

• PRESIDENT CLINTON has vetoed $6-million in earmarks for five research projects at universities: A35

• HOT TYPE: A18

  • A new journal, the International Review of Modernism, aims to help faculty members and graduate students stay current on European literary and cultural studies.

  • Margaret Rosenthal, an associate professor of Italian at the University of Southern California, has handed over her work on Veronica Franco, a 16th-century courtesan, to Hollywood.

• 123 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A19-22
  • Nota Bene: Snow in America, by Bernard Mergen, a professor of American civilization at George Washington University. The book is published by Smithsonian Institution Press.

• THE J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT Foreign Scholarship Board and the United States Information Agency have announced the names of 700 recipients of Fulbright awards for 1997-98, all of whom are listed in this issue of The Chronicle: A51-57

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

QUESTIONING MICROSOFT
University officials at the annual meeting of CAUSE, an association of college computing administrators, had harsh words for the company's new policy for licensing software: A25

ACCESS TO COMPUTERS
A project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks to put low-income people on line and to study how they use the technology: A30

• WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY plans to open its virtual doors next month: A23

• THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER has created an on-line data base that chronicles "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland: A23

• 9 SOFTWARE PROGRAMS, 14 Internet lists, and 9 other Internet resources: A28-29

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)

LEGAL FIGHT OVER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
A faculty member's lawsuit against the University of Nevada at Reno may give the U.S. Supreme Court another chance to consider the legality of racial preferences in higher education: A32

• The University of Michigan was hit with a class-action lawsuit over the role that race plays in admissions to its law school: A32

MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT DIRECT LENDING
Two internal reports conducted by the U.S. Education Department have cited "flaws" that could hinder the student-aid program's efficiency: A33

PLANS FOR THE HUMANITIES ENDOWMENT
William R. Ferris, Jr., the agency's new chairman, hopes to rebuild Congressional support and to revive some grant programs that were dropped for budgetary reasons: A34

• SENATORS MAY BE questioning Marshall S. Smith, the nominee for Deputy Education Secretary, on his regular meetings with lobbyists: A31

• THE U.S. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT is once again accepting applications from students who would like to consolidate multiple student loans into single direct loans: A31

• THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE has reduced the amount of data that colleges will be required to provide on students who claim eligibility for new tuition-related tax breaks: A35

• PRESIDENT CLINTON has vetoed $6-million in earmarks for five research projects at universities: A35

• TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY supporters fear that state officials want to strip the institution of its autonomy: A35

MONEY & MANAGEMENT

CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS
Despite a favorable court ruling in a Pennsylvania case, private colleges everywhere must remain wary of challenges to their tax-exempt status, writes Brian C. Mitchell, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania: B6

• THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE has reduced the amount of data that colleges will be required to provide on students who claim eligibility for new tuition-related tax breaks: A35

• THE FORMER PRESIDENT of Spelman College, Johnnetta B. Cole, will oversee a diversity plan at a Wall Street investment company: A36

• DILLARD UNIVERSITY is giving its finance students an inside look at how it plans to issue $26-million in bonds: A36

• MERCER UNIVERSITY'S Board of Trustees has decided to maintain its ties with the Georgia Baptist Convention: A38

• A STATE APPEALS COURT has ruled that the University of California cheated two professors out of royalties on a key medical technology: A38

• NORWEGIAN OFFICIALS asked Luther College to donate a 35-foot Norway spruce on its campus to Washington, D.C., for use as the capital's official Christmas tree: A8

• JOHNSON AND WALES UNIVERSITY has opened an expanded equine center for its riding program: A10

• UPDATES on six capital campaigns: A38

• FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A38

STUDENTS

FIRST AMENDMENT WORRIES
A federal judge has ruled that college students' publications can be restricted by university administrators, citing a Supreme Court decision that permitted censorship of high-school students' newspapers: A40

DRAMATIC PERSON
As he studies acting at Carnegie Mellon University, Ramon de Ocampo hopes to perform in Shakespearean plays but also wonders if he might go into television or movies: B2

• HARVARD UNIVERSITY students have lifted a 1992 ban on grapes from California and Chile in their dining halls: A39

• CREDIT-CARD COMPANIES are paying students at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania to persuade their classmates to apply for cards: A39

• SIENA COLLEGE officials have pulled the plug on heavy-metal and hard-rock music on their student-run radio station: A8

• A STUDENT at the Rochester Institute of Technology has been charged with counterfeiting U.S. currency: A8

• STUDENTS at Wheaton College in Massachusetts have built replicas of the first microscopes, which were invented in the 17th century by a Dutch scientist: A10

• THE ADVISER to a student newspaper at Glenville State College suffered a broken leg and other injuries during an altercation with a student reporter who had been fired: A10

ATHLETICS

• INDIANA UNIVERSITY at Bloomington has removed two varsity football players from a class for disrupting it: A41

• A WRESTLER at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse died after a four-hour workout to bring his weight down for a competition: A41

• AN ASSISTANT BASKETBALL COACH at Marist College has been charged with cocaine trafficking: A41

INTERNATIONAL

• Foreign enrollment at colleges in the United States rose 0.9 per cent from 1995-96 to 1996-97, to 457,984, continuing a trend of modest growth: A42

• Statistics on foreign students attending U.S. colleges in 1996-97, by country of origin, by state, by institution type, and more: A43

• A total of 89,242 American students earned academic credit for studies abroad in 1995-96, an increase of 5.7 per cent over the previous year: A44

• Statistics on American students studying abroad in 1995-96, by country destination, institution of origin, program type, and more: A45

• The number of foreign scholars doing research or teaching at doctoral-degree-granting universities in the United States rose in 1996-97 from the year before: A47

• Statistics on foreign scholars working at U.S. universities in 1996-97, by country of origin, institutional destination, field of study, and more: A47

• Intensive English programs are becoming profitable for many colleges in the United States: A48

PROTEST IN GERMANY
More than 100,000 students demonstrated across Germany last week to publicize their demand for more government spending on higher education: A49

• FEMALE GRADUATES of Tel Aviv University will continue to receive degrees in the male gender: A42

• PRAGUE'S CHARLES UNIVERSITY has begun celebrating the 650th anniversary of its founding: A42

• THE UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING has named the TV actress Diana Rigg to the ceremonial post of chancellor: A42

• THE COCA-COLA FOUNDATION plans to award $125,000 worth of scholarships annually to future teachers in China: A42

• THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER has created an on-line data base that chronicles "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland: A23

OPINION & LETTERS

CRISIS IN RESEARCH LIBRARIES
The failure to maintain spending levels for university libraries is leading to a serious decline of collections at leading research institutions, writes James Shapiro, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University: B4

CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS
Despite a favorable court ruling in a Pennsylvania case, private colleges everywhere must remain wary of challenges to their tax-exempt status, writes Brian C. Mitchell, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania: B6

NOT JUST "FAST THINKERS"
Contrary to popular belief, academics can communicate ideas -- searching, provocative ideas -- on television, writes Mark Kingwell, an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto: B7

A RECORD OF ANCIENT LIFE
For 25 years, Andrew M.T. Moore, a graduate-school dean at Yale University, and his colleagues have been studying the results of a hastily excavated archaeological site in Syria: B8

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