MARTYRS OR PARIAHS?
Personal disputes, controversial research, and unconventional views have led some scholars to be shunned personally and professionally by their colleagues and institutions: A12

BITTER DISPUTE AT BAYLOR U.
A Texas jury has awarded $153,788 to a former professor who charged that he had been fired for criticizing the institution's president: A14

PEER REVIEW
An economist and a gay-studies scholar are Stanley Fish's latest catches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Robert J. Sokol has resigned as medical dean at Wayne State University: A39

GRUELING AND GRUESOME
Alison Galloway, of the University of California at Santa Cruz, is one of only a few dozen certified forensic anthropologists in the United States: A11

IMPROVING INSTRUCTION
The Pew Charitable Trusts will spend $8.8-million to help U.S. colleges and universities use computers to reshape their academic programs: A23

ADVANCING THE HUMANITIES
For the benefit of society, newly tenured humanists are no less deserving of long-term support from colleges and grant makers than are young scientists, argues John H. D'Arms, president of the American Council of Learned Societies: B6

MEMO TO SEARCH COMMITTEES
Michael Loyd Gray, off to write a screenplay, is no longer chasing a tenured job. But he leaves behind some heartfelt advice to those who treat candidates like cattle: B9

GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANTS on eight University of California campuses have now voted to unionize: A12

FACULTY MEMBERS at the University of Connecticut Health Center have voted not to unionize: A10

STUDYING 'BEAUTY CULTURE'
In several recent books, scholars examine the human quest for physical perfection and what the boom in aesthetic surgery says about history and psychology: A15

HOW INSECTS FLY
Michael H. Dickinson, of the University of California at Berkeley, has devised Robofly, a pair of 10-inch-long wings modeled on those of the fruit fly, to gain a new understanding of entomology: A17

GRUELING AND GRUESOME
Alison Galloway, of the University of California at Santa Cruz, is one of only a few dozen certified forensic anthropologists in the United States: A11

HOT TYPE
A physics professor at Florida State University has stopped reviewing journal articles to protest the cost of subscriptions. In a new book, two scholars explore the origins of, and divisions within, Christian pop music: A18

EVERYDAY MUSLIM LIFE
Christopher Taylor, on leave from Drew University, haunts the ancient cemeteries and libraries of Egypt in an effort to record the oral tradition that has sustained the religion for centuries: B2

SCIENTISTS SAY that a mating strategy explains why women's menstrual cycles affect their assessment of the attractiveness of men's faces: A16

A KEY STRUCTURE in the human brain related to memory and learning is smaller among people who suffer from depression, researchers say: A18

THE QUALITY of preschool day care is crucial to children's early academic success, according to a team of scientists: A18

CARDIAC PATIENTS who need exercise most are least likely to engage in it, researchers have found: A18

BIOLOGISTS at Washington University have unearthed the cassava's evolutionary roots: A10

RESEARCHERS at the University of Illinois at Chicago have given three peregrine-falcon chicks a new lease on life: A11

NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS: A19-20

• Nota Bene: Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society Since Gorbachev, by Adele Marie Barker.

• Verbatim: Art Subjects: Making Artists in the American University, by Howard Singerman.

THE JOHN D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the names of 32 new recipients of fellowships: A41

THE NATIONAL ACADEMY of Education has announced the names of 33 Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows for 1999-2000: A41-42

VIRTUAL WAREHOUSES
Micah Beck, a University of Tennessee at Knoxville professor, is promoting an idea that he says could greatly speed up the flow of large amounts of data on the Internet: A21

NEW RESOURCE IN BIOLOGY
An electronic data base, called BioOne, will include dozens of important journals in the biological sciences, many of them going on line for the first time: A22

TECHNOLOGY PRIORITIES
Adding and upgrading computer equipment for students are the top budget items for information-technology spending by state universities, a new report says: A23

IMPROVING INSTRUCTION
The Pew Charitable Trusts will spend $8.8-million to help U.S. colleges and universities use computers to reshape their academic programs: A23

SOCIAL SCIENTISTS have been told they need to create guidelines for on-line research with human subjects to protect the interests of both scholars and subjects: A21

A WORLD-WIDE WEB SITE allows users to track solar-powered cars in 1,300-mile "Sunrayce": A25

SIX RESOURCES ON LINE and reviews of information-technology stories in five magazines: A25

HOW 'PERFORMANCE FUNDING' WORKS
South Carolina has transformed the way it makes appropriations to colleges, but some say the system is not as fair or objective as its creators had hoped: A26

TESTING CONTROVERSY
A U.S. Education Department official has told Congress that guidelines on the use of standardized examinations will not overly burden colleges: A30

MAKING IT HARDER TO SUE
A trio of U.S. Supreme Court rulings will give public colleges more protection from lawsuits over alleged violations of federal law: A30

LIMITS ON A FEDERAL LAW
In three other rulings, the Supreme Court narrowed the scope of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which some students and employees have used to sue their institutions for alleged discrimination against disabled people: A31

EQUITABLE BORROWING
The U.S. Education Department is re-evaluating a policy that prevents students at more than 100 health programs nationwide from receiving as much in loan funds as other students can get: A32

FINANCIAL AID: WHOSE RULES?
As tuition tax credits and merit scholarships increase competition for more-affluent students, Michael S. McPherson, president of Macalester College, and Morton Owen Schapiro, a dean at the University of Southern California, suggest a return to need-based aid: A48

ATTACK OF THE CIVIL-RIGHTS WONKS
The Education Department's guidelines on standardized tests will coerce colleges into maintaining preferences, and will cheat students, too, write Roger Clegg, general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, and Lenore Ostrowsky, a Washington lawyer: B8

LOUISIANA LAWMAKERS have passed legislation to crack down on diploma mills: A26

A LOBBYING GROUP in North Carolina is pushing for a referendum on a $3-billion higher-education bond issue that would not otherwise need public approval: A26

FLORIDA LAWMAKERS have passed legislation to allow community colleges to offer B.A.'s in collaboration with four-year colleges and universities: A29

CHURCH-STATE WATCHDOGS are working to sink an effort by Regent University to get state help in financing bonds: A29

THE CHANCELLOR of the University of Texas System, William H. Cunningham, will step down in 2000: A29

THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT has ruled that Pennsylvania State University may owe millions in back taxes from which it claimed it was exempt: A31

THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT has found that state legislators did not have the power to extend the Michigan open-meetings law to public universities' presidential searches: A31

THE SENATE COMMITTEE on Appropriations approved modest increases for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities: A32

AT A CONGRESSIONAL HEARING, lawmakers discussed compromise over differing bills to provide tuition benefits to District of Columbia students: A32

THE RETIRING PRESIDENT of Dickinson College, A. Lee Fritschler, has been nominated for a top Education Department post: A32

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
John Brooks Slaughter is retiring as president of Occidental College, having achieved the goal of making the institution much more diverse: A33

TECHNOLOGY PRIORITIES
Adding and upgrading computer equipment for students are the top budget items for information-technology spending by state universities, a new report says: A23

THE PRESIDENT of Eastern Kentucky University has his own talk show on the campus radio station: A33

A COLLEGE DESIGNED for home-schooled students has adopted Patrick Henry's name for its own: A33

ROBERT MORRIS COLLEGE'S Chicago campus has moved into a former Sears, Roebuck store: A10

FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A34

NEW COMPETITION IN COUNSELING
Promoting its services to students who want to win admission to top colleges, a California company plans to go national, where it may compete with two big test-preparation businesses: A35

MILLS COLLEGE has opened a dormitory to students, including men, from the University of California at Berkeley, which is suffering a housing crunch: A35

HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE is building a health-science center as part of a major construction campaign to deal with its booming enrollment: A35

WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of best-selling books: A11

SERVING NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS
Britain's universities are pushing to broaden their recruitment pool, but some educators say outdated policies are hindering the efforts: A37

EVERYDAY MUSLIM LIFE
Christopher Taylor, on leave from Drew University, haunts the ancient cemeteries and libraries of Egypt in an effort to record the oral tradition that has sustained the religion for centuries: B2

AUSTRIA HAS PLEDGED more than $500,000 to help rebuild Kosovo's University of Pristina: A37

ISRAELI SCHOLARS say that technology-transfer programs should serve research before profits: A37

TOP EDUCATION OFFICIALS from 29 European countries have issued a declaration that encourages compatibility among the continent's higher-education institutions: A38

FINANCIAL AID: WHOSE RULES?
As tuition tax credits and merit scholarships increase competition for more-affluent students, Michael S. McPherson, president of Macalester College, and Morton Owen Schapiro, a dean at the University of Southern California, suggest a return to need-based aid: A48

GLOBAL WARMING, COLD LOGIC
Because we do not yet know enough to predict the phenomenon's extent, the best responses are those that favor the practical over the strict, write Warwick J. McKibbin, a professor of international economics at the Australian National University, and Peter J. Wilcoxen, an associate professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin: B4

ADVANCING THE HUMANITIES
For the benefit of society, newly tenured humanists are no less deserving of long-term support from colleges and grant makers than are young scientists, argues John H. D'Arms, president of the American Council of Learned Societies: B6

ATTACK OF THE CIVIL-RIGHTS WONKS
The Education Department's guidelines on standardized tests will coerce colleges into maintaining preferences, and will cheat students, too, write Roger Clegg, general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, and Lenore Ostrowsky, a Washington lawyer: B8

MEMO TO SEARCH COMMITTEES
Michael Loyd Gray, off to write a screenplay, is no longer chasing a tenured job. But he leaves behind some heartfelt advice to those who treat candidates like cattle: B9

HUMOR BORN OF DEEP PAIN
In several films by directors from Balkan nations, Andrew Horton discovers what's so funny about war, hatred, and misunderstanding. The author is a professor of film and video studies at the University of Oklahoma: B11

LEARNING TO ACT
In an age when language has been devalued, drama students need a solid grounding in classical theater before they can really know their craft, argues Louis Scheeder, director of the Classical Studio in New York University's department of drama: B12

MARGINALIA: mistakes, foibles, and other amusements on the lighter side of academe: A10

MELANGE: selections from recent books and journals of interest to academe: B10

• When Hollywood goes to college: real students and Felicity: B3

• The use and misuse of test scores: B13

• West's policies unsuited for developing world: B13

• New tuition policy in Washington State: B13

• Kresge's partner on black-college project: B13

A RURAL SPIRIT IN THE CITY
The exhibition "El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles" is at the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, in New York City: B60

HUMOR BORN OF DEEP PAIN
In several films by directors from Balkan nations, Andrew Horton discovers what's so funny about war, hatred, and misunderstanding. The author is a professor of film and video studies at the University of Oklahoma: B11

LEARNING TO ACT
In an age when language has been devalued, drama students need a solid grounding in classical theater before they can really know their craft, argues Louis Scheeder, director of the Classical Studio in New York University's department of drama: B12

HAMPTON UNIVERSITY is displaying a donated collection of sculptures by Richmond Barthe, an artist who flourished during the Harlem Renaissance: A10

• APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS on U.S. campuses.

• DEATHS of people in academe.

• COMING EVENTS: conferences, workshops, and seminars.

• DEADLINES for fellowships, grants, the submission of papers, and more.

DETAILS OF AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research positions in higher education, administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside academe.