From the issue dated August 3, 2001
THE FACULTY LESS WHINING, MORE TEACHING A devoted part-timer recommends that adjuncts adopt a new attitude. A TALE OF TWO SCHOLARS Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Henry Kissinger emerged from academe under similar circumstances. So why has one become a revered statesman while the other's reputation is under siege? Michael Nelson, a professor of political science at Rhodes College, explains. 'LAME-FOOT THE KING' Sophocles' Oedipus Rex had taught itself for so many years that when it didn't, a professor had forgotten how to teach it. Bob Blaisdell, an assistant professor of English at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, explains. ENTREPRENEURIAL IQ Yes, Professor Sour Grapes, many business titans are vapid, narrow, dull, and egotistical, writes Dinesh D'Souza, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. And guess what -- they know something you don't. TRAINING VIDEOJOURNALISTS The TV news crew is giving way to a single reporter-technician. We can prepare students for those combined responsibilities, writes Alan Schroeder, an associate professor in Northeastern University's School of Journalism.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING DEBATE OVER RWANDA Scholars are clashing over who was responsible for the massacre of at least 500,000 Rwandans in 1994. THE HIGH LIFE Have people who live at extreme altitudes evolved to thrive in the thin air? Scientists are studying Tibetan and Andean populations to find out.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS COMMUNITY-COLLEGE CLOUT Increased lobbying by the institutions is yielding payoffs in legislatures and Congress, and significantly more federal earmarks.
MONEY & MANAGEMENT POVERTY WAGES As colleges deal with student protests over custodians' salaries, officials have had to weigh practicality against social justice. THE WHOLE WORLD ISN'T WATCHING More students protested last year, winning some surprising concessions. But their fledgling movement is struggling with ideology, apathy, and whether their causes are the right ones. COMMUNITY-COLLEGE CLOUT Increased lobbying by the institutions is yielding payoffs in legislatures and Congress, and significantly more federal earmarks.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LOVE THE IBOOK, NOT THE COMPANY Apple's latest laptop computer may have many admirers, but few believe its maker will ever regain prominence in higher education.
STUDENTS THE WHOLE WORLD ISN'T WATCHING More students protested last year, winning some surprising concessions. But their fledgling movement is struggling with ideology, apathy, and whether their causes are the right ones. LA DOLCE VITA On a hilltop in Italy, students from the University of Washington learn about a tiny village's architecture and history -- and about themselves. NO QUICK FIX Campus health services should help students on drugs like Ritalin develop a broader understanding of their lives, write Gertrude Carter and Jeffrey Winseman, both officials in charge of psychological services at Bennington College.
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INTERNATIONAL REBIRTH IN EAST TIMOR The effort to build a university in the soon-to-be-independent territory shows a young country's hunger for higher education. DEBATE OVER RWANDA Scholars are clashing over who was responsible for the massacre of at least 500,000 Rwandans in 1994. LA DOLCE VITA On a hilltop in Italy, students from the University of Washington learn about a tiny village's architecture and history -- and about themselves.
THE CHRONICLE REVIEW YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN Mr. Arbuthnot, the cliche expert, is back, and keeping it real. Ben Yagoda, an English professor at the University of Delaware, translates. INWARD JOURNEY Memoirists find themselves, and readers find them too, only through the reliable voice of an evolved and searching persona, writes Vivian Gornick, a writer and former creative-writing instructor at two universities. A TALE OF TWO SCHOLARS Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Henry Kissinger emerged from academe under similar circumstances. So why has one become a revered statesman while the other's reputation is under siege? Michael Nelson, a professor of political science at Rhodes College, explains. 'LAME-FOOT THE KING' Sophocles' Oedipus Rex had taught itself for so many years that when it didn't, a professor had forgotten how to teach it. Bob Blaisdell, an assistant professor of English at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, explains. ENTREPRENEURIAL IQ Yes, Professor Sour Grapes, many business titans are vapid, narrow, dull, and egotistical, writes Dinesh D'Souza, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. And guess what -- they know something you don't. TRAINING VIDEOJOURNALISTS The TV news crew is giving way to a single reporter-technician. We can prepare students for those combined responsibilities, writes Alan Schroeder, an associate professor in Northeastern University's School of Journalism. DATA AT A CRAWL Tracking the beach nesting of sea turtles is a gradual task, but gradually, it seems to be showing results, writes Malcolm G. Scully, The Chronicle's editor at large. 'APOCALYPSE NOW,' AND THEN An expanded version of Francis Ford Coppola's epic illuminates the ambivalent director in the ambivalent 1970's, writes David Sterritt, a film critic and a professor of theater and film on the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University. LOCAL HEROES A book and exhibition highlight 12 citizens' groups that are bettering their communities. NO QUICK FIX Campus health services should help students on drugs like Ritalin develop a broader understanding of their lives, write Gertrude Carter and Jeffrey Winseman, both officials in charge of psychological services at Bennington College.
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