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INTERNATIONAL
A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Webster University, originally based in St. Louis, has set up
campuses in six countries. Its goal is to have each of them
educate students from the United States and other nations: A43
IMPROVEMENTS IN PERU
The nation's Congress has extended the term of a panel charged
with reorganizing two of Peru's prominent but troubled public
universities: A44
AFROCENTRIST IN AFRICA
An associate professor at a Senegalese university brings his
students' idyllic picture of the United States down to earth in
his course on racism: B2
- A BUSINESS PROGRAM at Lehigh University has attracted
students from four continents: A43
- A U.S.-POLISH FOUNDATION will award $1-million in grants and
scholarships this year: A43
- THE NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY of Music hopes to attract
students from China with new scholarships honoring the
cellist Yo-Yo Ma: A43
- AN ARGENTINE UNIVERSITY is investigating reports that grades
and examinations were for sale at its medical school: A44
- A PANEL IN INDIA is urging the use of special tribunals
rather than courts to settle disputes between academics and
the universities that employ them: A44
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
THE CURSE OF CAIN
A new book by Regina Schwartz, an English professor at
Northwestern University, has stirred controversy by arguing
that the Bible has set the stage for ethnic hatred and violence
because of the intolerance inherent in monotheism: A15
FOE OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
Irwin A. Hyman, a Temple University psychologist whose research
has played a role in changing many state laws, is now shifting
his attention to discipline imposed by parents: A7
THE FACULTY
LAGGING BEHIND INFLATION
Faculty members took home an average raise of 3 per cent in
1996-97, according to a comprehensive survey by the American
Association of University Professors: A8
CONFLICT OVER CHURCH LAW
The Vatican has asked bishops in the United States to clarify a
statement they prepared about the proper relationship between
the Roman Catholic Church and colleges affiliated with it: A14
BUCKING THE NATIONAL TREND
Columbia College Chicago has adopted its first tenure system at
a time when many universities are considering alternatives: A14
AFROCENTRIST IN AFRICA
An associate professor at a Senegalese university brings his
students' idyllic picture of the United States down to earth in
his course on racism: B2
- CORNELL UNIVERSITY HAS LURED the prestigious School of
Criticism and Theory, offered during the summer, away from
Dartmouth College: A8
- THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA at Berkeley has hired Linda
Williams to fill a film-studies professorship: A8
- AN ARREST WARRANT has been issued for the man who police say
duped many academics by posing as the sports sociologist Harry
Edwards: A7
- POLICE HAVE BEEN ASKED to reopen an investigation into the
death of a researcher at the University of Wisconsin at
Madison in 1977: A6
- THE PROFESSORS, a musical group comprising faculty members
at three New Jersey universities, mixes blues, rock, and heavy
metal with original lyrics -- on subjects they know well: A6
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
INTERNET LAW STRUCK DOWN
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency
Act was an unconstitutional limit on free speech: A21
- The full text of the majority opinion, written by Justice
John Paul Stevens, and of an opinion that concurred in
part and dissented in part, by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
BUDGET LEGISLATION ADVANCES
Bills afoot in Congress would provide billions of dollars in
new tax breaks for college costs and would cut spending on
student loans: A29
- Teaching hospitals would take big cuts in the amount of
federal reimbursements for costs incurred in training
physicians, under proposed legislation: A30
- A House of Representatives panel voted for level spending
on AmeriCorps for fiscal 1998 and an increase in support
for the National Science Foundation: A30
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
A controversy at Kennedy-King College, a community college in
Chicago, centers on readings of Bible passages during
broadcasts of the campus's radio station: A31
DEMANDING A VOICE
Civil-rights groups are asking a federal court to allow them to
intervene in a lawsuit over affirmative-action policies and
historically black colleges in Georgia: A32
CENTRAL STATE U. SURVIVES
Ohio lawmakers approved a plan that would allow the
historically black institution to continue operating, but they
demanded financial and academic improvements: A32
- THE APPOINTMENT OF A NEW MEMBER to the City University of
New York's Board of Trustees has sparked controversy in the
state's government: A29
- THE NATIONAL HISTORICAL Publications and Records Commission
has voted to give top priority to documentary projects on
the Founding Fathers, along with state documents and
electronic records: A29
- THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Appropriations Committee voted
to slash the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts
by 90 per cent, which would essentially kill the agency: A31
- A FEDERAL JUDGE has allowed the University of California at
Los Angeles to consider the race of applicants to its
laboratory elementary school: A31
- THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE has passed a bill to authorize the
establishment of a community-college system: A32
- THREE CURRENT AND FORMER professors and two former student
aides at Laney College have been indicted on charges of
defrauding the U.S. government of $3.8-million: A7
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
TEACHING HOSPITALS UNDER PRESSURE
Despite the financial risks, many universities say that they
have no choice but to start their own health-maintenance
organizations: A33
- Of the two bills that would cut Medicare payments,
hospital administrators say the Senate's would be
workable but the House of Representatives' would be
devastating: A30
CONTROVERSY OVER GAY CEREMONIES
Emory University has temporarily banned all weddings from
taking place in its non-denominational chapels, while Princeton
University limited who could sign a chapel registry: A34
STUDENTS
LESSON ON A HILLSIDE
Some students at Utah State University learn the skills of
forestry -- using time-tested exercises -- during six weeks
every summer: A36
SCANDALS AT ANNAPOLIS
A special panel that reviewed the U.S. Naval Academy called for
changes in the midshipmen's honor code but said the institution
was "fundamentally sound": A38
GOING GLOBAL
A student body composed of citizens from every country is the
goal of Webster University, which is based in St. Louis but has
five campuses overseas: A43
- MANY STUDENTS in June took the Graduate Management Admission
Test, which was given on paper for last time. Starting in
October, the test will be administered by computer only: A36
- A NEW BOOK relates experiences of minority students in fact
and fiction: A36
- NEARLY ONE MILLION college students may be armed on
campuses, a survey has found: A6
ATHLETICS
NEW DATA ON GRADUATION RATES
An annual survey by the National Collegiate Athletic
Association found men's-basketball players lagging but female
athletes doing well: A39
- A table compares graduation rates of athletes with those
of other students at 306 Division I institutions: A40-41
POSTSEASON FOOTBALL
Division I leaders remained skeptical of a push toward a
playoff. Meanwhile, the Bowl Alliance moved to mollify some of
its critics: A41
- THE DIRECTOR of sports media marketing at Saint Joseph's
University in Pennsylvania is coach of the Croatian national
baseball team: A39
- BAYLOR UNIVERSITY, a Southern Baptist institution, is in a
bind over the Baptists' new boycott of the Walt Disney
Company, because the Disney Channel has the contract to
televise Baylor football games: A39
OPINION & LETTERS
SEEING TO THE SEAS
John C. Ogden, director of the Florida Institute of
Oceanography, calls for the careful examination of any proposed
scientific experiment involving the oceans -- a resource that
is invaluable and irreplaceable: A48
COUNTERTERRORISM IN A FREE SOCIETY
The need for government surveillance is more legitimate than
current public attitudes would suggest, writes Susan Rosenfeld,
an independent historian, a consultant, and the author of a
biography of J. Edgar Hoover: B4
GOING OUTSIDE ACADEME
A number of factors have led Robert Baldock, an acquisitions
editor at Yale University Press, to look for manuscripts from
talented, well-educated journalists instead of scholars: B6
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
CHILD PRODIGY NO MORE
Aliki Barnstone, a Bucknell University professor whose poetry
was first published when she was 12, has produced what she
calls her "first adult book": B8
PASSING TIME
Linda Adlestein's manipulated photographs are on exhibit at
Albright College: B52
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