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Randy Pausch (above), a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon who is dying of cancer, talks to the standing-room-only crowd in his Mad Hatter hat at Carnegie Mellon U.'s McConomy Auditorium. He used props and humor in his speech. (Photograph by Glenn Brookes) — Read story
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Faculty members at Tri-State University, in Indiana, are hot under the collar about a stringent new "personal-appearance policy" for professors and staff members. Critical Mass: Women and Hip-Hop Few Conservatives but Many Centrists Found in American Academe Academic Group Seeks to Re-Found the Modern University University Wants No Part of Inviting Archbishop Syllabus An anthropology professor at Washington and Lee University escorts students six feet under. — (Previous columns) The Arts & Academe A world-class, $100-million concert hall under construction at Sonoma State University raises some jeers. ... Duke University celebrates Thelonious Monk. ... 1950s-vacation nostalgia appears in New York City, courtesy of a professor at the State University of New York College at Purchase. — (Previous columns) Notes PEER REVIEW: A well-known admissions officer has become "kind of a roving ombudsman," he says ... A bond analyst for colleges leaves for greener pastures ... A Virginia scholar and state climatologist says the state tried to quiet his views on global warming. FAMILY PERKS: A lawsuit filed by three former professors at Oral Roberts University outlines some unusual privileges extended to the president's children. TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS: Five universities will begin training doctoral faculty from other departments to teach in graduate business programs, which are experiencing a shortage of professors.
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