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INTERNATIONAL
STUDENT JOURNALISM IN EASTERN EUROPE
A non-profit organization in the United States is helping to
set up and nurture newspapers on campuses throughout the
region, to the consternation of some university officials: A39
CONFUSION OVER REQUIREMENTS IN U.S.
Applications have dropped to the scholarship and the fellowship
portions of the National Security Education Program: A40
MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN AFRICA
There is much that American scholars can afford to do to
improve the quality of education and intellectual life in
Africa, writes Allan M. Winkler, a historian at Miami
University of Ohio: B6
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
An influx of students from the former Soviet Union, many of
them Jewish, is changing the face of several campuses in the
United States, among them Long Island University: A36
PHILOSOPHY IN FRANCE
A former academic has started a series of philosophical debates
at a Parisian cafe that give patrons more to chew on than
croissants: B2
- IN NORTHERN IRELAND, the breakdown in the peace process has
resulted in severe cuts to higher education: A39
- IN ISRAEL, an international coalition of students is urging
the government to end the ban on travel between Gaza and the
West Bank for Palestinian students: A39
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
THE NEW METHUSELAHS
Research on roundworms and monkeys is yielding information
about how animals age and what scientists can do to help them
-- and us -- live longer: A13
CLONING CONTROVERSY
As the research continued to attract more attention and
criticism, President Clinton barred the use of federal funds to
support it: A14
A RESEARCHER IS VINDICATED
Bernard Fisher, a University of Pittsburgh scientist who once
directed high-profile studies on breast cancer, has been
cleared of charges of scientific misconduct: A14
- SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED that the oldest flying vertebrate had an unusual wing anatomy: A16
- RESEARCHERS HAVE FOUND a link between the rise in the
incidence of cancer and the accident in 1979 at Three Mile
Island nuclear-power plant: A16
- HOT TYPE: A16
- A revamped second edition of For Crying Out Loud:
Women's Poverty in the United States, co-edited by two
scholars at the University of Massachusetts at Boston,
examines welfare's effects on women.
- A new biography of the writer May Sarton, written with
her cooperation by Margot Peters, a professor emeritus at
the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, sheds light on
the subject's love life.
- The new issue of October explores the legacy of the
Situationists, a Marxist art movement of the late 1950s
and 1960s in which the French cultural critic Guy Debord
was a key figure.
- 90 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A17-20
THE FACULTY
PLAYING NEW TUNES
Music schools in the United States are watching the University
of Rochester's Eastman School, which has broadened its
curriculum to train students for jobs other than with symphony
orchestras: A10
A HARVARD CHAIR, STILL EMPTY
The university appears to be having trouble choosing the first
holder of an endowed professorship on the Holocaust: A12
AN ARIA TO JACKIE O
Michael Daugherty, an associate professor of music composition
at the University of Michigan, mingles classical music with pop
sensibilities in his new opera about one of America's favorite
First Ladies: A9
- A DISSERTATION BY A STUDENT at the University of Maryland at
College Park charts the attrition rates in Ph.D. programs
and examines why graduate students drop out: A10
- A CORNELL UNIVERSITY professor of psychology has found that
his speaking style had a marked effect on how his students
evaluated him: A10
- A LAW PROFESSOR at the University of North Carolina has been
fired for shoplifting: A12
- A PROFESSOR AT CLARK COLLEGE in Washington has been
suspended for downloading pornographic images to a
college-owned computer: A8
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
GETTING WIRED
Voorhees College, a small, historically black institution in
South Carolina, used a professor's know-how and student
volunteers to hook up to the Internet: A21
LEARNING TO BE A WEBMASTER
Colleges are starting degree programs to train students how to
design and maintain pages on the World-Wide Web: A22
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
A NEW ATTACK ON RACE-BASED POLICIES
A lawsuit filed against Georgia's university system questions
admissions standards, the role of black colleges, and the use
of affirmative action to achieve desegregation: A25
PROFESSOR AND REGENT
A state ethics board has ruled that a faculty member can keep
his elected position as a regent of the University and
Community College System of Nevada: A26
ENDING THE "CULTURE OF SECRECY"
A federal panel has proposed changes in government policies
that would make it harder for historical records to be placed
off-limits to scholars and the public and would ease the
process of declassification: A28
A TOUGH SELL
President Clinton's tax plan to help families pay for college
ran into opposition on two Congressional committees last week
-- from both Democrats and Republicans: A30
- JOHN KASICH, the Ohio Republican who heads the House of
Representatives Budget Committee, has accused the American
Council on Education of discouraging a reporter from
testifying at a hearing on college costs: A25
- A COALITION OF arts-advocacy groups is heading to Capitol
Hill to fight for the National Endowment for the Arts: A25
- TWO MEDICAL SCHOOLS in Alabama plan to sue tobacco companies
for the cost they have incurred in treating low-income
patients who suffer from smoking-related illnesses: A27
- THE UNIVERSITY of Washington's law school has been sued over
allegedly race-based admission policies: A27
- TWO REPORTS by the National Association of Independent
Colleges and Universities claim that increasing federal aid
to colleges does not lead to rising tuition rates: A29
- THE HEAD OF THE NATION'S largest loan-guarantee agency
resigned after being convicted of resisting arrest: A29
- REPRESENTATIVE BART GORDON, a Tennessee Democrat, has
charged that a student-loan-repayment plan is a taxpayer
rip-off: A29
- A FORMER PROFESSOR at the University of Missouri at Columbia
has been found guilty of falsifying data in a study
sponsored by the National Institutes of Health: A29
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
THE POWER OF MONEY
Allen Lee Sessoms, the new president of Queens College of the
City University of New York, says the institution must focus on
raising funds from private sources to cope with a series of
state budget cuts: A31
STUDENTS
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING
An influx of students from the former Soviet Union, many of
them Jewish, is changing the face of several campuses in the
United States, among them Long Island University: A36
NO MORE FRATERNITIES
Bowdoin College plans to disband its Greek system and, in place
of fraternities, create a "house system" that will feature
lectures and concerts -- and keg parties: A37
ERRONEOUS RANKINGS
U.S. News & World Report has been forced to revise its
listing of the top law schools after finding errors that threw
off many of the rankings: A38
- TWO PROFESSORS have found that, during spring-break trips,
students disproportionately indulge in the "high" life: A36
- STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY of Maryland at College Park can
get a card good for discounts at local stores if they sign
the university's honor pledge: A36
- UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS at Amherst students seized an
administration building to protest slow progress in the
recruitment of minority students and professors there: A8
- IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY will issue letters of reprimand to
student leaders as punishment for their unsanctioned rally
last fall: A8
- LAW STUDENTS AT YALE UNIVERSITY are protesting the decision
to honor F.W. de Klerk, a former South African president: A8
- PROFESSIONAL JAZZ MUSICIANS and students at Elmhurst College
jammed together at the institution's 30th-anniversary jazz
festival: A8
- A RACIST LETTER signed by an anonymous white-supremacist
group and distributed at Trinity College in Washington,
D.C., has angered students there: A9
ATHLETICS
- THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Athletic Association has retracted
its threat to deny press credentials for its basketball
championships to newspapers that print gambling "tip sheets"
on college games: A35
- THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA has been put on N.C.A.A. probation
for recruiting violations in its football program: A35
- BLACK STUDENTS AT GOUCHER College are condemning what they
say is a racist comment by the men's-basketball coach: A35
OPINION & LETTERS
PASSING JUDGMENTS
Cultural-studies scholars must challenge students to think
about the value of the texts, music, and films they are
studying, says Simon Frith, a professor of English at
Scotland's Strathclyde University: A48
FIGHTING MISINFORMATION
What students think they know can be more problematic than what
they don't, argues Diane F. Halpern, a psychology professor at
California State University at San Bernardino: B4
MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN AFRICA
There is much that American scholars can afford to do to
improve the quality of education and intellectual life in
Africa, writes Allan M. Winkler, a historian at Miami
University of Ohio: B6
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
OUT OF INDIA
Meena Alexander, a professor of English and women's studies at
Hunter College of the City University of New York, stitches
together the bits and pieces of her cultural identity through
her poetry and fiction: B8
PLAYING NEW TUNES
Music schools in the United States are watching the University
of Rochester's Eastman School, which has broadened its
curriculum to train students for jobs other than with symphony
orchestras: A10
AN ARIA TO JACKIE O
Michael Daugherty, an associate professor of music composition
at the University of Michigan, mingles classical music with pop
sensibilities in his new opera about one of America's favorite
First Ladies: A9
OSCAR BOUND
The spate of success that independently produced films are
enjoying has a long and complicated history, writes Robert
Sklar, a professor of cinema at New York University: B7
LANDSCAPE AS MEMORIAL
In his new book of photographs, Joel Sternfeld, a professor at
Sarah Lawrence College, explores sites in America that have
been marked by violence: B88
- AN EXHIBIT at Illinois Center College honors a 79-year-old
man who has modeled for art classes since 1982: A9
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