From the issue dated September 8, 2000
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THE FACULTY
NASCENT STARS: FIVE HOT NEW PH.D.'S
A philosopher, a geneticist, an astronomer, an economist, and a film expert didn't have to look far for their first positions: A14-17
- Stanford University found places for both Tamar Schapiro, a philosopher, and her husband, Dmitri A. Petrov, a geneticist, and it's tough to tell which one was the "spousal hire": A14
- Xiaohui Fan discovered the most distant quasar yet detected, and won a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Advanced Study: A15
- Markus M. Mobius, an economist who uses theory to explore real-world problems, did his doctoral work at and drove across town for his job at Harvard University: A16
- Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, an expert on early black film, landed six job offers before deciding to stay at the University of Chicago: A17
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- Peer Review:
Another big player has joined the lineup at the University of Illinois at Chicago -- Sander L. Gilman, a polymath professor from the University of Chicago: A12
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- Syllabus:
In "Matter & Interactions I," at Carnegie Mellon University, students devise three-dimensional computer models of reality to learn about physics: A14
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- Teaching Online: Experts say distance-education instructors should learn to play to the camera: A51
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- Woolly Victory: An animal-sciences professor won a $44,000 judgment against Utah State University, which had withheld pay for some of his research: A12
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
NOWHERE MEN
Did the Neandertals die out? Interbreed with Cro-Magnons? Or did our ancestors kill them?: A18
NEW PUBLISHING NICHE
University presses capitalize on the popularity of Chinese fiction, but scholars who do the translating can't count it as scholarship: A22
TALES OF A TROPICAL BIOLOGIST
William Laurance, a senior research scientist with the Smithsonian Institution, went to Australia in the 1980's to study the impact of rainforest fragmentation on native species, but became trapped between preservationists and loggers: B12
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- Animals and Society: After two years of debate, the American Sociological Association has approved a controversial new section: A20
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- Verbatim: G. Pascal Zachary, author of The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge: Picking Globalism's Winners and Losers, discusses the connections between cultural identity and economics: A18
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- Hot Type: Scholarly presses have begun publishing an eclectic group of books about war-crimes tribunals and "truth commissions": A24
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- Nota Bene: Ethnic lobbies have grown in influence since the end of the cold war, writes Tony Smith in Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign Policy: A26
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- New Scholarly Books: A26
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- What they're reading on college campuses: a list of best-selling books: A12
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
THE TIES THAT BLIND?
At a government meeting, academic and corporate officials debated when scientists should reveal a financial interest in research on human subjects: A31
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
Vice President Al Gore, accepting the presidential nomination, vowed to make college more affordable and promised more federal spending on research: A34
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- Campaign Promises: George W. Bush proposed big increases in spending on Pell Grants and historically black colleges: A38
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- Stem-Cell Research: The Clinton administration cleared the way for the use of federal funds in the controversial field: A38
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- Defining Disability: A federal appeals court rejected a student's bid for extra time on a medical-licensing test: A40
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- After Affirmative Action: Florida's public universities, having ended the use of racial preferences in admissions, see a rise in minority enrollments: A40
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- Student Aid in California: Gov. Gray Davis and legislative leaders agreed to nearly double a need-based program: A40
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- Back to Class: Louisiana's 70-year-old governor, Mike Foster, is attending law school part-time at Southern University: A31
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- Lobbyist Watch: The National Direct Student Loan Coalition is for the first time employing a full-time lobbyist: A31
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
THE PEARSON EMPIRE
The publishing giant and its affiliates are helping colleges create programs, market them, and provide materials for students: A43
- Pearson may be the heavyweight, but it isn't the only educational publisher in the ring: A44
REVISING THE REVISED CARNEGIE SYSTEM
John V. Lombardi, a professor of history at the University of Florida, says college classifications and rankings can be improved with reliable data: B24
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- Dear Diary: A new Web site is posting the views of college presidents on subjects like values and ethics: A43
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- Paying the Bills: A nonprofit organization is raising money to renovate Western Kentucky University's dormitories through a bond issue: A43
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- Doctored Invoices: A major book wholesaler, accused of overcharging schools and libraries, settled a lawsuit for $15.5-million: A48
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- Campaign Update: 7 colleges announce news of fund drives: A48
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- Returning Graduates: Texas Tech University invited the Class of 1970 to come back for a commencement 30 years after its was called off: A10
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- Two graphs depict trends in faculty pay and the cost of living and pension money invested in the stock market: A46
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- Foundation grants; gifts and bequests: A46
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BETWEEN A HARD PLACE AND ROCK
Campus officials are bracing for the return of Napster, the song-swapping software that students love and record companies want to kill: A51
ACCREDITING STANDARDS
The six bodies that review colleges are near agreement on guidelines for evaluating distance-education programs: A58
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- Fathom Grows: Four prominent institutions have joined the for-profit distance-education Web site owned in part by Columbia University: A56
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- Privacy vs. Security: The U.S. Justice Department plans to select a university to test an online-surveillance system: A57
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- Publisher's Virtual College: Harcourt General is ready to offer degree programs in its new distance-education effort: A59
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- Dot-Com Shakeout: The online-learning portal Hungry Minds has been bought by Books Worldwide, publisher of the Dummies self-help series: A60
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- Logging In With: Morteza A. Rahimi of Northwestern University is leading an effort to wire the college's dormitories for online video instruction: A60
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- DeVry Goes Online: The commercial provider of courses in business and information technology receives accreditation for distance-education programs: A61
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- Marketers to Merge: Student Advantage, which serves companies vying for college-age consumers, will buy an ailing rival, CollegeClub.com: A61
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- Reconsidering a Partnership: At the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, a debate rages over ties to the International Business Machines Corporation: A62
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- Link for Latin America: A new Internet gateway will connect the region to high-speed research networks: A62
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- Infrastructure in India: The government's new telecommunications policy should help providers and users of distance education: A63
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- Teaching Online: Experts say distance-education instructors should learn to play to the camera: A51
STUDENTS
CLOSING THE BACK DOOR
With more applicants than ever before, public universities are reducing programs that allow second-chance admissions: A65
REMEMBERING FRANCONIA
More than 20 years after the experimental college shut down, former students and professors gathered to consider its impact on their lives: A104
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- Remember When? This Fall's Freshmen May Not :
Beloit College has released its third annual "Mindset List" to help professors better understand freshmen. This year's list notes that most members of the Class of 2004 were born in 1982, the year the Equal Rights Amendment was defeated, C-SPAN was born, and fighting AIDS was first designated by federal officials as a top priority: A10
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- Gay-Bias Policy Reversal:
A day after banning discrimination based on sexual orientation, Texas A&M; University undid the change, infuriating gay students: A67
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- Test Results: The average mathematics score on the SAT improved, while SAT verbal scores and ACT averages held steady: A68
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- Rankling Ranking: Louisiana State University is not thrilled at being named the top "party school" by the Princeton Review: A65
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- The "Mindset List": Beloit College issued an annual compilation to help professors better understand their freshman students: A10
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- Quiet Student: A freshman at William Paterson University of New Jersey has taken a voluntary one-year vow of silence: A10
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- Orientation Game: The State University of New York at Buffalo used a jigsaw-puzzle campus map to orient its new students: A10
ATHLETICS
FOCUS ON FINANCES
The newly reconstituted Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics started its work with some tough questioning: A69
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- Fighting Over the Flag: The National Collegiate Athletic Association and the University of Mississippi continue
to grapple with the Confederate symbol's effect on athletes: A71
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- Gender Equity at Last: After six years of monitoring, U.S. Department of Education gave Colorado State University a clean bill of health: A72
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- On the Rebound: The Black Coaches Association plans to issue a "report card" on minority hiring in athletics: A69
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- People in Athletics: A70
INTERNATIONAL
ENGLISH EVERYWHERE
In universities around the world, academics are tending more and more to instruct in a single language: A73
EDUCATING WOMEN IN THE THIRD WORLD
Once they are empowered in India and everywhere else, nothing will be the same, argues Martha Nussbaum, a professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago: B16
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- Reconsidering a Partnership: At the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, a debate rages over ties to the International Business Machines Corporation: A62
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- Link for Latin America: A new Internet gateway will connect the region to high-speed research networks: A62
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- Infrastructure in India: The government's new telecommunications policy should help providers and users of distance education: A63
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- World Beat: Russia's president called for cooperation between scientists and the government to end a brain drain; an International Adult Literacy Survey put New Zealand on top; Arab-Israeli antipathy prompted the postponement of a conference on "Women, Sexuality and Social Change": A73
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- Out of Jail: A sociologist at the American University in Cairo was released by Egyptian authorities after being detained for five weeks: A77
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- Lagging Down Under: Australia is falling behind in its support for science, a report says: A77
OPINION & LETTERS
IN, BUT NOT OF, THE ACADEMY
Why do nonacademics choose to live and work in the groves of academe? Rachel Toor, a former book editor and admissions officer at Duke University, explains: B5
FAITH, SOCIOLOGY, AND BALLOTS
The United States has experienced a religious revival that earlier scholars could not have predicted, writes Alan Wolfe, director of the Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. Still, Americans don't allow their beliefs to determine their votes: B7
MAD GENIUSES
Carlin Romano, the literary critic of The Philadelphia Inquirer, explores the paradox of intellectual brilliance and mental breakdown that characterized two leading thinkers: B10
TALES OF A TROPICAL BIOLOGIST
William Laurance, a senior research scientist with the Smithsonian Institution, went to Australia in the 1980's to study the impact of rainforest fragmentation on native species, but became trapped between preservationists and loggers: B12
QUESTIONS OF ETHICS
Troubled by your acts of plagiarism, lying, or cheating? Bring your dilemmas to the academic ethicists, Lawrence Douglas, an associate professor of law, and Alexander George, an associate professor of philosophy, both at Amherst College: B15
EDUCATING WOMEN IN THE THIRD WORLD
Once they are empowered in India and everywhere else, nothing will be the same, argues Martha Nussbaum, a professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago: B16
'LIVING IN THE LIGHT OF DEATH'
In a PBS documentary, some remarkable people show us how to think about the unthinkable, writes John Lantos, an associate professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Chicago: B18
REVISING THE REVISED CARNEGIE SYSTEM
John V. Lombardi, a professor of history at the University of Florida, says college classifications and rankings can be improved with reliable data: B24
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- Melange: selections from recent books of interest to academe: B4
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- Counterpoint: how exotic species seriously threaten our environment: B20
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
CLIMB ABOARD NOHA'S ARK
A fanciful retelling of the biblical flood, with text and illustrations, is on display at Williams College: B23
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