FACULTY SALARIES ARE UP
The average increase for all ranks and all types of institutions was 3.6 per cent in 1998-99, more than twice the inflation rate: A16

• Fact File: charts and tables with details on faculty salaries at more than 1,800 institutions: A16-21

DEFENDING DAVID DUKE
A Florida State University professor is being criticized for writing a laudatory foreword to a book by the former Ku Klux Klan leader: A24

PEER REVIEW
Michael Eric Dyson is heading to DePaul University; some faculty members at Vanderbilt University wish their institution had made an offer. At Alabama A&M University, agriculture faculty members rally around their dean: A60

SOME MEMBERS of the American Philological Association have said the group should protest a Texas anti-sodomy law by not holding a meeting in the state: A16

AN ON-LINE DIRECTORY lists the research of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered scholars: A16

THE DENIAL of tenure to three Hispanic professors at St. Mary's University has raised ethnic tensions on the Texas campus: A24

AT TEACHERS COLLEGE of Columbia University, a faculty member's poem has fueled a debate over racial diversity: A24

THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN at Superior has the right to release a professor's personnel file under state public-records laws, a Wisconsin court has decided: A48

VINCENT SCULLY, a professor emeritus at Yale University and well-known lecturer on architecture, has criticized planned renovations at the institution: A14

BIAS IN SEX SURVEYS
In a new book, Julia A. Ericksen, a Temple University sociologist, says that the results are greatly influenced by researchers' preconceptions of what questions are important: A25

'SUPERSTRING' THEORIST
Columbia University's Brian R. Greene believes the notion that matter is composed of "strings" solves the contradictions of relativity and quantum mechanics, and he used a recent book tour to lay out his arguments. But other scientists are doubtful: A28

THE CRAFT OF MAKING BOATS
An American scholar is recording details of Yemen's ancient shipbuilding tradition, which soon may be cut off by modern economic forces: A14

HOT TYPE
Literary Imagination, the journal of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, makes its debut. Tom Wolfe is visiting Stanford University, which may be the setting for his next novel: A29

BIOLOGISTS have found the largest-known bacteria off the African coast: A26

ARTIFICIAL PIG ARTERIES have been grown in a simulated fetal environment: A26

ASTRONOMERS report finding the first-known planetary system other than the solar system: A26

FIVE ACADEMICS are among the winners of the 1999 Pulitzer Prizes: A14

A CORNELL UNIVERSITY psychology professor has designed sleep-enhancing dormitory rooms: A53

RESEARCHERS at the University of Washington have found that intervention reduces heavy drinking by students: A53

NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS: A30-32

• Nota Bene: Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta, by Thomas G. Dyer.

NEW BOOKS ON HIGHER EDUCATION: A32

THE WOODROW WILSON National Fellowship Foundation has announced the recipients of the 1999 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies: A61

THEME PARK IN CYBERSPACE
A Princeton University senior is championing what could be a visionary idea: a literary amusement park with virtual-reality rides. Now, if she can only get somebody interested: A35

THE 'MOST WIRED' CAMPUSES
In its 1999 rankings of the most technologically advanced colleges and universities, Yahoo! Internet Life gave the top spot to Case Western Reserve University: A36

STUDENT RIOTERS ON LINE
Police in East Lansing, Mich., set up a Web site to help identify Michigan State University students who took part in mayhem last month, but hackers quickly attacked the site: A38

HIGH-TECH SHOWPLACE
In a suburb of Washington, a computing consortium has created a center for projects that use high-speed research networks: A39

DIGITIZING 'DAVID'
As his laser scans Michelangelo's marble with quarter-millimeter precision, Stanford University's Marc Levoy plans to make his mark in both art history and computer science: B2

INTERACTIVE DESIGN
It's a field that will help to shape the future of education, communication, commerce, and the arts. Colleges and universities ought to develop programs to teach it, argues Janet H. Murray, a senior research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: B4

SOME COMPUTER GEEKS are asking, College? Who needs it?: A35

JARGON MONITOR: "Proximity learning": A35

VIRTUAL HOSPITAL, an on-line resource developed by the University of Iowa, informs medical students and patients: A41

A PROFESSOR at Wilkes University has created a World-Wide Web site on which Internet users can paint pictures using a remotely controlled robot: A12

AN ON-LINE DIRECTORY lists the research of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered scholars: A16

FOUR RESOURCES ON LINE, three new videos, and three resources on disk: A41

STUDENTS ON WELFARE
Lawmakers in a growing number of states are debating an easing of the rules that would allow full-time students to continue to receive public assistance while they pursue degrees: A42

UPSTAGING TRIO?
Participants in the federal government's decades-old program to help disadvantaged students get into and through college fear that a new program will elbow them away from limited resources: A43

NUCLEAR RESEARCHERS
Clashes over security concerns at federal weapons laboratories are raising problems for scholars at the University of California: A45

OMBUDSMAN FOR STUDENT LOANS
Seven months after the Education Department was directed by Congress to hire someone to help borrowers resolve complaints, the job remains open: A46

BEST SEATS IN THE HOUSE
Many college officials are worried about an Internal Revenue Service challenge to tax deductions for payments to lease skyboxes and luxury suites at university stadiums and arenas: A55

A KEY CONGRESSMAN wants a bigger fiscal-2000 budget increase for the National Institutes of Health: A42

A NATIONAL GROUP representing black colleges has hired a Washington lobbyist: A42

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA residents may get a tuition break wherever they attend college if a House of Representatives bill makes it through Congress: A44

THE BUDGET RESOLUTION approved by Congress does not include an increase for financial aid: A47

A DISPARITY in federal support for science and technology may hurt research, a report warns: A47

BEAUTY SCHOOLS have lost a legal challenge to Education Department rules on loan-default rates: A47

THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN at Superior has the right to release a professor's personnel file under state public-records laws, a Wisconsin court has decided: A48

A TEXAS JUDGE has prohibited the private South Texas College of Law from affiliating with Texas A&M; University, a public institution: A48

MISSISSIPPI'S SUPREME COURT has ruled that Hinds Community College is not liable for a plane crash at its airport: A48

ALABAMA VOTERS will decide this fall whether to establish a lottery to pay for college scholarships and other education programs: A48

A REPORT has criticized the diversity plans at Colorado's public colleges: A48

GOV. GRAY DAVIS of California plans to make community service a requirement for graduation from the state's public universities and community colleges: A48

HISTORIC PRESERVATIONISTS have scored a victory over colleges in Connecticut: A48

THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE has issued final rules requiring tax-exempt organizations, including colleges, to make their tax returns more easily available to the public: A50

SOLICITING FOREIGN ALUMNI
More and more small colleges and big public universities are following the model of large private institutions in looking abroad for financial support: A49

BILL GATES has announced that he will give $20-million to a computer lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: A49

MONTGOMERY COLLEGE has received a $1.3-million gift, the largest ever to the Maryland community college: A49

AN ETHICS PANEL has cleared three officials at the University of South Alabama Foundation: A50

THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE has issued final rules requiring tax-exempt organizations, including colleges, to make their tax returns more easily available to the public: A50

THE FOUNDER of Domino's Pizza is financing a new Roman Catholic law school: A50

TRUSTEES of Auburn University have voted to cut six degree-granting programs: A12

FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A51

BACKLASH AT BOALT HALL
In a new book of essays, conservative students at the University of California at Berkeley's law school complain of being bullied into silence by overzealous supporters of affirmative action: A53

A CORNELL UNIVERSITY psychology professor has designed sleep-enhancing dormitory rooms: A53

RESEARCHERS at the University of Washington have found that intervention reduces heavy drinking by students: A53

THE ANNUAL Black College Reunion clogged traffic in Daytona Beach, Fla., and more than 300 revelers were arrested: A12

A STUDENT at the University of Richmond has won a campus competition with a new twist on an old philosophical question: A12

HUMAN-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS and supporters of China scuffled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, during a visit by the Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji: A12

EIGHT STUDENTS were arrested for detonating or planting bombs on two campuses: A14

BEST SEATS IN THE HOUSE
Many college officials are worried about an Internal Revenue Service challenge to tax deductions for payments to lease skyboxes and luxury suites at university stadiums and arenas: A55

PLAN TO PAY A $55-MILLION BILL
A National Collegiate Athletic Association committee has proposed a plan to collect assessments from each Division I institution to settle a lawsuit by coaches: A56

LOUISIANA LAWMAKERS are considering making it illegal for college athletes to accept inducements from boosters: A55

A FOOTBALL COACH, injured by a trash can dropped from the upper deck of West Virginia University's stadium, has settled with the state: A55

RECRUITING PROFESSORS IN ISRAEL
The country's universities need more faculty members to meet a goal of doubling, within five years, the number of its citizens who hold degrees in high-technology fields: A57

PIONEERING ANTARCTIC STUDIES
New Zealand's University of Canterbury has started several new programs in the field, which bridges science, law, social science, and public policy: A58

AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION DISPUTE IN INDIA
One of the country's top medical schools has seen violent clashes over a quota system that reserves 22.5 per cent of enrollment slots for members of the so-called backward classes: A58

SOLICITING FOREIGN ALUMNI
More and more small colleges and big public universities are following the model of large private institutions in looking abroad for financial support: A49

BRITAIN has established a scholarship program for Malaysian and Thai students: A57

ECUADOR'S University of the Pacific is promoting an exchange of students and professors among Pacific Rim colleges: A57

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO will offer a labor-relations program at Poland's University of Gdansk: A57

ONE STUDENT was killed in a campus brawl at the University of Karachi: A59

ASIAN-AMERICAN LEADERS
People of Japanese, Chinese, and other Pacific heritages, although highly represented among the professoriate and the student body, are absent from leadership roles, writes Roy H. Saigo, chancellor of Auburn University at Montgomery: A72

INTERACTIVE DESIGN
It's a field that will help to shape the future of education, communication, commerce, and the arts. Colleges and universities ought to develop programs to teach it, argues Janet H. Murray, a senior research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: B4

BEYOND FEMINISM'S STEREOTYPES
A cluster of recent books and a documentary film shed light on the anguished history of feminist ideas, and raise new questions for scholars, writes Linda K. Kerber, a professor of history at the University of Iowa: B6

MARGINALIA: A12

• Adding instruction in oral communication to courses across the curriculum: B3

• The future of affirmative action: B9

• Sabine "rape" in context: B9

• In defense of Mary Daly: B9

• Troubled universities in South Africa: B9

• Willamette party at Oregon Capitol: B9

• Values, not wealth, shape children's lives: B9

DIGITIZING 'DAVID'
As his laser scans Michelangelo's marble with quarter-millimeter precision, Stanford University's Marc Levoy plans to make his mark in both art history and computer science: B2

'ART AND REVOLUTION'
An exhibition of paintings by Diego Rivera, whose work ranged from Hollywood portraits to pungent social commentary, is at the Cleveland Museum of Art: B72

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