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INTERNATIONAL
MERGERS IN HUNGARY
The government is pushing universities to combine in order to
save money and to accommodate more students: A43
PROTESTS IN SLOVAKIA
Students fear that a government plan to create three new
universities threatens existing institutions and their
autonomy: A45
SCHOLARSHIPS IN JAPAN
The education ministry plans to increase spending on aid
programs to attract foreign students to the country: A46
- IN RUSSIA, the World Bank has announced it will give a
$71-million loan to reform the nation's schools and
universities: A43
- ALSO IN RUSSIA, the Hungarian-American philanthropist George
Soros is helping to bring the Internet to the country's
universities: A43
- IN HONG KONG, the University of Michigan Business School has
opened an office to meet the growing demand for business and
management programs for local corporate executives: A43
- IN INDIA, two student leaders were assassinated within a
week of each other, and students and faculty and staff
members on several campuses protested the killings: A46
- IN ISRAEL, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is punishing
two student political groups for using violence to prevent
people from attending a controversial speech: A46
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
HYSTERICAL EPIDEMICS
A new book by Elaine Showalter, a literature professor at
Princeton University, is infuriating many people who suffer
from chronic-fatigue syndrome or Gulf War-related illness: A15
GROWING INFLUENCE
The ideas of the German intellectual Walter Benjamin are widely cited in criticism. Now they
are likely to attract more attention because of a project to
translate his writings: A16
THE NIXON PAPERS
Historians are angry over a proposed agreement in which the
federal government would turn over documents related to
Watergate to the late President's library in California: A35
- EUROPA, ONE OF JUPITER'S MOONS, may have an icy ocean,
according to scientists studying photographs recently
transmitted by the Galileo space probe: A18
- PRESIDENT CLINTON will formally apologize to survivors of
the government's infamous Tuskegee experiment, in which
treatment for syphilis was withheld from 399 poor black men
who were infected with the disease: A18
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND in Baltimore County has taken
delivery of what it says is the most powerful
nuclear-imaging device at any American university: A10
- HOT TYPE: A21
- 68 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A19-21
- 47 SCHOLARS have been honored with fellowships and other
awards; all of them are listed in this issue of The
Chronicle: A48
THE FACULTY
TURMOIL AT TEMPLE
Scholars in the nation's first Afrocentric Ph.D. program are
divided over the leadership of Molefi Kete Asante, its outgoing
chairman, and the university is cutting enrollment: A12
STUDENTS OR EMPLOYEES?
Treating the classroom work of graduate teaching assistants as
employment would be educationally unsound, writes Thomas
Appelquist, a physicist who is dean of the Yale University
Graduate School: B6
- ALAN HALE, a co-discoverer of the Hale-Bopp comet, has been
looking for a job since earning his Ph.D. in 1992: A12
- MICHAEL AWKWARD, a professor of English and black studies at
the University of Michigan, again awaits final approval of a
tenured post at the University of Pennsylvania: A12
- YALE UNIVERSITY may stop paying graduate students to teach
undergraduate courses if a campus panel's recommendations
are instituted: A14
- THREE GROUPS of teaching assistants at the University of
California have formally told the state of their plans to
unionize: A14
- AN ENGINEERING PROFESSOR is suing Texas A&M University over
the denial of his tenure bid. He says he was denied tenure
because of a dispute over a grade with the head of his
department: A14
- THE UNION REPRESENTING clerical workers at New York
University has started an advertising campaign aimed at
reopening negotiations with the university's president: A10
- GONZAGA UNIVERSITY has been ordered to pay $1.1-million to a
former graduate student who said the university had ruined
his chances for a teaching career: A10
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
PAYING FOR INTERNET 2
Backers of the project to build a fast network for researchers
took their case to Congress, where they found interest last
week but some skepticism about the government's role: A23
FRANKENSTEIN MEETS MULTIMEDIA
In a course at Mount Holyoke College, a professor is using Mary
Shelley's classic tale of horror to teach students how to
express ideas with new technologies: A24
WHO WILL LEAD H-NET?
As two professors compete to lead the hugely popular network of
e-mail lists in the humanities and social sciences, tempers are
fraying among some subscribers: A25
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
A DEFEAT FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
A federal appeals court upheld an amendment to the California
Constitution that bars public colleges and other state agencies
from using racial or gender preferences: A28
CAMPAIGN FINANCE
In at least six states, political-action committees raise money
for candidates on behalf of colleges and universities: A29
A FIGHT OVER COMMUNITY COLLEGES
The University of Kentucky is opposing a plan by Governor Paul
E. Patton, a Democrat, to create a new system to run the
institutions: A30
STAYING PUT
Some colleges and universities that could have joined the
direct-lending program are sticking instead with the
guaranteed-loan system: A32
PRIORITIES FOR NIH RESEARCH
Some members of Congress are pushing for more spending on
diseases that are most prevalent. At issue is whether
politicians or scholars are best suited to decide research
priorities: A34
THE NIXON PAPERS
Historians are angry over a proposed agreement in which the
federal government would turn over documents related to
Watergate to the late President's library in California: A35
COMPETITION VS. FORMULAS
Farm legislation now before Congress has renewed a debate over
how best to distribute federal funds for research on
agriculture: A36
DISPUTE OVER RESEARCH COSTS
New York University has agreed to pay the federal government
$15.5-million to resolve charges that it submitted false
information to obtain inflated reimbursements: A36
- ONE YEAR AFTER a key court ruling that barred affirmative
action at Texas universities, statistics show plummeting
levels of minority applications and admissions: A28
- A NEW GROUP, College Parents of America, has been formed to
lobby on behalf of students' parents: A28
- NORTH DAKOTANS will vote next year on whether to delete
references to specific colleges from the state's
constitution: A31
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
WINNING FOUNDATION GRANTS
The biggest grant recipients, year after year, constitute a
relatively small group of prestigious colleges and
universities: A39
- SPELMAN COLLEGE'S presidential-search committee has narrowed
the field to three candidates: A39
- IN SAN JOSE, CAL., the city and San Jose State University
are planning construction of a joint library that would open
early next century: A39
- ADELPHI UNIVERSITY has named James A. (Dolph) Norton as its
interim president. He replaces Peter Diamandopoulos, who was
fired by the new Board of Trustees: A41
- GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY has privatized its financially
troubled medical center: A41
- THE STATE UNIVERSITY of New York at Stony Brook has awarded
full scholarships to sextuplets who were recently born at
the institution's hospital: A11
- ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY plans to honor Ernest Hemingway's
100th birthday by buying and restoring a home in which he
wrote portions of A Farewell to Arms: A11
STUDENTS
LITTLE PROGRESS AGAINST HAZING
Experts say that dozens of state laws and many policy changes
adopted by fraternities and colleges have failed to curb the
problem: A37
"SOMNOLENT SAMANTHA"
Boston University's president, Jon Westling, has admitted that
a story he told about a woman who dozed in class and claimed to
have a learning disability was not based on a real person: A38
NECESSARY MADNESS
Jenn Crowell, a sophomore at Goucher College, is receiving
unusual attention in literary circles for her first novel: A11
- A PROFESSOR OF JOURNALISM'S new book offers a revealing look
at college students' life: A37
- WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY gave away five scholarships in a
drawing at its "Sophomore Launch" party, which honored this
year's freshmen for completing their first year: A37
- THREE BLIND STUDENTS are challenging in federal court the
Law School Admission Council's testing procedures, which
they say are biased against them: A10
- AT VASSAR COLLEGE, the inclusion of a satirical "Ebonics
Dictionary" in a student newsletter led to the resignation
of two of the publication's editors: A10
- OHIO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS rioted after local bars closed
half an hour early because of daylight-saving time: A11
ATHLETICS
CONTROLLING NCAA PANELS
The Division I Board of Directors has rejected a request from
two major football conferences that it alter the composition of
key committees: A42
OPINION & LETTERS
GUIDE TO FIGHTING SEXUAL HARASSMENT
New policy statements by the U.S. Department of Education
should help educators design sensible rules, say Verna Williams
and Deborah L. Brake, senior attorneys at the National Women's
Law Center: A56
FACULTY FODDER FOR THE NEWS MEDIA
Unwary academic "experts" can find themselves part of a
cacophony of voices on radio and television. Paul Boyer, a
historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, describes
his experiences as an "expert" on the Heaven's Gate cult: B4
STUDENTS OR EMPLOYEES?
Treating the classroom work of graduate teaching assistants as
employment would be educationally unsound, writes Thomas
Appelquist, a physicist who is dean of the Yale University
Graduate School: B6
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
NOTES FROM ACADEME
Lloyd Burlingame, the retiring chairman of the set-design
program at New York University, has maintained an active
academic career despite losing most of his sight: B2
MAD ABOUT THE TANGO
Simon Collier, a historian at Vanderbilt University, is the
co-author of a scholarly history of the dance that developed in
poor areas of Buenos Aires in the 1880s: B8
VISUALIZING POETRY
Contemporary works of art inspired by the poems of Emily
Dickinson are on display at the Mead Art Museum, at Amherst
College: B68
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