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INTERNATIONAL
UNREST IN KENYA
The government shut down several university campuses last week,
amid mounting violence spurred by pro-democracy protests: A37
- IN HIS FIRST COMMENTS about higher education, the new leader
of Hong Kong, Tung Chee-hwa, said he would push local
universities to increase business-related research: A37
- THE OPEN SOCIETY ARCHIVES, said to be the largest collection
of documents on the history of Communism and the Cold War,
has moved to its new, permanent home in Budapest: A37
- STUDENTS AND STAFF MEMBERS from universities in Oklahoma and
California were among those trapped in Cambodia as fighting
between rival factions continued: A38
- TEN ARAB SCIENTISTS will receive grants for doctoral and
postdoctoral studies at Israeli universities under a new
program sponsored by Israel's Ministry of Science: A38
- THE ONLY MAN TO HOLD the post of "women's officer" at an
Australian university was forced to resign in June, after
students decided the job must go to a woman: A38
- SLOVAKIA HAS WITHDRAWN a history textbook from its schools
following protests by scholars who said it minimized the
persecution of the country's Jews during World War II: A38
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
TO CLONE OR NOT?
In the months since an adult sheep was successfully cloned,
philosophers and theologians have offered some provocative
ideas about the ethics and morality of duplicating a human
being: A13
THE ETHICS OF HUMAN CLONING
Scientists must convene a body of experts immediately to
discuss the issues raised by the creation of a genetic copy of
a sheep, writes Edward Berger, a professor of biological
sciences and dean of the faculty at Dartmouth College: A44
THINKING SMALL, GOING FAR
The outstanding success of the first two missions in the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Discovery
series has won praise from space scientists: A14
- THE OPEN SOCIETY ARCHIVES, said to be the largest collection
of documents on the history of Communism and the Cold War,
has moved to its new, permanent home in Budapest: A37
- BASED ON GENETIC TESTS, researchers have concluded that
Neandertals were not the ancestors of modern human beings:
A15
- CAUTIOUS FATHERS RAISE better-educated sons, according to
a study at the University of Michigan and Northwestern
University: A15
- IMMATURE FIREFLIES use their blinking posterior to ward off
predators, researchers at the University of Delaware report:
A15
- A STUDY CONDUCTED at Cornell University Medical College has
revealed how the brain organizes languages an individual has
learned: A15
- A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS ORDERED American Cyanamid to pay
$45-million to the University of Colorado and two of its
researchers for stealing a method to improve a vitamin: A33
- ANIMAL-RIGHTS ADVOCATES staged a protest last week over the
use of primates in medical research at the University of
Washington: A6
- WILLIAM MAXWELL, a former fiction editor of The New Yorker,
has donated his personal papers to the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his alma mater: A8
- HOT TYPE: A15
- Rowman & Littlefield has hired Maureen MacGrogan as its
new philosophy editor, and the Free Press has appointed
Elizabeth Maguire as its new editorial director.
- Jane Marcus, an English professor at the City University
of New York, has signed with Rutgers University Press to
write a book on Nancy Cunard, the controversial editor
of the 1934 book Negro: An Anthology.
- 103 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A16-19
- 124 SCHOLARS have been honored with awards; all of them are
listed in this issue of The Chronicle: A40-41
THE FACULTY
UNSPOKEN DUTIES
Some graduate students question the many non-academic tasks --
from gardening to walking the dog -- that their faculty
advisers ask of them. Others say the work helps them build
rapport -- and friendship -- with their mentors: A10
TURMOIL AT HELLENIC COLLEGE
Many on the campus outside Boston are upset over the dismissal
or reassignment of four scholars and administrators at the only
Greek Orthodox college and seminary in the United States: A11
A CONTROVERSIAL RESEARCH PAPER
David G. Kern, a medical professor, has charged Brown
University and an affiliated hospital with failing to protect
his academic freedom: A12
MIND OVER MATTER
Marianne Miserandino, a professor at Beaver College, teaches a
month-long summer course, "Vienna's Psychologists: Freud,
Adler, and Frankl," in the Austrian capital: B2
- A GROUP FORMED by humanities professors in 1991 to counter
charges of political correctness, Teachers for a Democratic
Culture, has run out of money: A10
- EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK, a founder of gay studies, will split
her time between Duke University and the City University of
New York: A10
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
FOCUS ON VIRTUAL REALITY
Carl Loeffler, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University,
works on computer projects ranging from remote-controlled
devices to the simulation of ancient Egyptian temples: A21
ON-LINE APPLICATIONS
Some colleges and universities are starting to allow
high-school students to complete parts of the admissions
process on the World-Wide Web: A22
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
THE FATE OF THE ARTS ENDOWMENT
Amid intricate legislative maneuvering, the House of
Representatives took up a bill that could lead to the agency's
elimination: A25
TAXES AND TIAA-CREF
Some observers are questioning predictions by the huge pension
company about the effect that a measure passed by the House of
Representatives would have on many faculty members: A26
CRUCIAL NEGOTIATIONS
Compromise legislation to balance the federal budget could make
it more difficult for welfare recipients to remain in college:
A26
RACIAL CLASSIFICATION
A federal panel's recommendations may lead to changes in the
way colleges gather and report information on the race of their
students and faculty members: A27
EASING THE TRANSFER PROCESS
Many states are enacting laws or setting policies that would
enable community-college graduates to move more quickly into
programs that grant four-year degrees: A28
- MEMBERS OF CONGRESS are taking the side of teaching
hospitals that are under investigation for allegedly
overbilling Medicare: A25
- A STUDY BY THE AMERICAN Association of State Colleges and
Universities has found that states' prepaid-tuition programs
typically help higher-income families: A25
- IN A SPEECH at the University of Pittsburgh, Vice-President
Gore promoted the Clinton Administration's plan to provide
tax credits for college costs: A27
- SEVERAL LAWMAKERS have criticized the National Science
Foundation for sponsoring a study on why potential
candidates for Congress decide not to run: A27
- A TENNESSEE BANK accused of falsifying records to collect
insurance money on defaulted student loans has agreed to pay
the federal government $2.75-million: A27
- THE OHIO SUPREME COURT has ordered Miami University to turn
over the records of campus disciplinary proceedings to the
student newspaper: A29
- THE NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT has ruled that a parent's
obligation to pay for his or her child's college education
may continue after the parent has died: A29
- TWO DEMOCRATIC SENATORS in Alabama have alleged that they
were being blackmailed into voting for the Republican
Governor's nominees to the Auburn University Board of
Trustees: A29
- THE EDUCATION COMMISSION of the States is pushing public
colleges to work with elementary and secondary schools to
prepare students for the work force: A29
- A FEDERAL JURY HAS ORDERED Sisseton-Wahpeton Community
College to pay more than $300,000 to two former employees
who said it had discriminated against them based on race: A8
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
NEW DUTY FOR DEANS
A post that once was focused on academic issues increasingly
involves efforts to raise money: A31
DONATION REJECTED
Yale University has turned down a proposed gift by the author
and activist Larry Kramer, who wanted to endow a professorship
in gay studies: A32
REVERSAL AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Bowing to alumni and other protesters, President George Rupp
hired back Austin E. Quigley as dean of the main undergraduate
division, a few days after forcing him out: A33
- NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, which has valued its reputation for
offering a good education at a cost lower than comparable
institutions, has raised its tuition: A31
- OBERLIN COLLEGE HAS RECEIVED $6-million, its largest cash
gift ever, from an anonymous donor in Hong Kong: A31
- THE W.M. KECK FOUNDATION has announced that it will give
$50-million to help establish an Institute of Applied Life
Sciences at the Claremont Colleges: A33
- A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS ORDERED American Cyanamid to pay
$45-million to the University of Colorado and two of its
researchers for stealing a method to improve a vitamin: A33
- VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY has removed the name of John E. du Pont
from its sports arena. The millionaire helped finance the
arena but was convicted of murder earlier this year: A6
- A MASSACHUSETTS JURY has awarded more than $2.5-million to a
former security guard at Harvard University who accused the
university of ethnic discrimination: A6
STUDENTS
A COLLEGE FOR THE HOME-SCHOOLED
The planned two-year institution, for which land has been
purchased in northern Virginia, would focus on preparing
its graduates for jobs: A34
WHO IS NO. 1?
U.S. News & World Report is altering the methodology of
its college rankings in a way that will result in many more
dead heats among institutions: A34
MARCHING ALONG
The bagpipe-and-drum band of Simon Fraser University, in
British Columbia, Canada, has been judged the best in the
world, and it plans to stay that way: A8
DIGITIZING ADMISSIONS
Administrators are responding to widespread interest among
college-bound students in being able to fill out applications
on line: A22
- THE OHIO SUPREME COURT has ordered Miami University to turn
over the records of campus disciplinary proceedings to the
student newspaper: A29
- A STUDENT AT RICE UNIVERSITY has collected more than 1,000
pairs of used running shoes to donate to Kenyan children: A6
- THE PARENTS OF A HIGH-SCHOOL student who committed suicide
have blamed his death on Lamar University, where he was
enrolled in a program for talented youth: A6
- A FEDERAL JUDGE HAS RULED against a former medical student
who said that the University of New Mexico had discriminated
against him by not recognizing his "test anxiety"
disability: A6
ATHLETICS
ON PROBATION
A list of 23 colleges and universities that have had penalties
imposed on them by the National Collegiate Athletic
Association: A35
- VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY has removed the name of John E. du Pont
from its sports arena. The millionaire helped finance the
arena but was convicted of murder earlier this year: A6
OPINION & LETTERS
THE ETHICS OF HUMAN CLONING
Scientists must convene a body of experts immediately to
discuss the issues raised by the creation of a genetic copy of
a sheep, writes Edward Berger, a professor of biological
sciences and dean of the faculty at Dartmouth College: A44
TALKING DRUGS
The cultural-studies movement could help to break the
intellectual and pedagogical silence on illicit drugs, writes
Mark Edmundson, a professor of English at the University of
Virginia: B4
A CONSPIRACY TO LOWER STANDARDS
Schools and colleges -- two levels of education with no
coordination between them -- share a mutually harmful alliance,
argues Roger Shattuck, a professor at Boston University: B6
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
HARDER THAN A STILL LIFE
Students at the Pratt Institute, bored by drawing the same
subjects over and over again, try to improve their skills by
using horses as models: B8
THE INTENSITY AND PURITY OF SURFING
Photographs that depict this way of life on the Southern
California coast are on display at the University of California
at Riverside: B52
- GRADUATE STUDENTS at the State University of New York at
Binghamton have created a mural at a public-housing complex
that charts the lives of local immigrants: A8
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