A Guide to the January 20, 1995, Issue
of The Chronicle of Higher Education

RESEARCH & PUBLISHING

• Results of a new survey suggest historians themselves are uneasy about their profession: Page A18

AIDS VS. THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Two studies by scientists show a more ferocious and fast-paced battle than they had thought: Page A18

• THE NEW DIRECTOR OF THE U.S. HOLOCAUST MUSEUM is expected to expand the museum's research activities: A10

• A NEW COMET WAS DISCOVERED from the Kitt Peak National Observatory the night before the start of a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in nearby Tucson: A10

• THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW CLASS OF GALAXIES was announced at the American Astronomical Society meeting, but an astronomer claimed that he had identified them years earlier: A10

• HOT TYPE: A14
  • The January issue of The Yale Review features a never-before-published short story by William Faulkner.

  • The Journal of Interdisciplinary History marked its 25th anniversary with a symposium on the past and future of the field, held at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.

  • Times Books is planning a book on the debate over The Bell Curve. Its volume, The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions, will be published next month.

• 81 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A14
  • Nota Bene: History and Memory in African-American Culture, a collection of essays edited by Genevieve Fabre, of the University of Paris, and Robert O'Meally, of Columbia University.

DISPUTE OVER A LAW-SCHOOL APPOINTMENT
Northwestern University's handling of the case of a woman who sought a tenure-track position has raised issues of race and politics: Page A32

A FASCINATION WITH COPS AND CRIMINALS
Connie Fletcher, a professor at Loyola University of Chicago, lets police officers tell their own stories in her books: Page A8

• THE PRESIDENT OF OHIO UNIVERSITY, Robert Glidden, rappelled from the ceiling of its Convocation Center to see if the stunt was safe: A6

• A FORMER ADMINISTRATOR AT BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY, Tony Rodriguez, who resigned after being charged with embezzlement, has now been indicted: A6

• FOUR TOP ADMINISTRATORS at Northeast Texas Community College have been indicted on charges of misappropriating funds and altering records: A8

• A FEDERAL PANEL TO REVIEW LABOR LAWS has recommended that Congress take steps to restore the collective-bargaining rights of professors at private colleges: A30

• THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT at Carnegie Mellon University has been chosen to produce classical music for flights on USAir: A30

• ONLY 81 OF THE 289 PEOPLE who tried to become nationally certified schoolteachers passed a test prepared by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards: A30

POINT-CLICK SOFTWARE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a system that enables blind people to use "graphical user interfaces": Page A20

• SEVEN UNIVERSITIES AND SIX ART MUSEUMS will work together to lower legal and technical barriers that make it hard to use images as teaching tools on computer networks: A19

• SEVERAL COMMUNITY COLLEGES have embarked on a project to use distance-learning technologies to expand their reach: A19

• A "COMPUTER-AIDED SELF-APPRAISAL" that allows students to assess their personal and intellectual growth while in college has been developed by a New Jersey professor: A22

• FACULTY MEMBERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI can use a multimedia program to evaluate their teaching and that of their colleagues: A22

• SOFTWARE THAT HELPS PROFESSORS create examinations or exercises that can be completed on line has been created by an instructor at Babson College: A22

• THREE NEW COMPUTER PROGRAMS, two new optical discs: A21

NEW HURDLE FOR HUMAN-EMBRYO RESEARCH
As the U.S. government considers an end to the ban on such studies, many states have passed or may adopt laws that block them: Page A24

FINANCIAL FALLOUT IN A CALIFORNIA COUNTY
The fiscal crisis in Orange County has left four community-college districts in danger of severe cutbacks and even insolvency: Page A24

COLLEGES STILL EAGER FOR DIRECT LENDING TO STUDENTS
Despite Republican plans to limit or even dismantle the new federal program of student aid, many campus administrators remain enthusiastic about it: Page A26

SUPPORT GROWS FOR TAX BREAKS ON COLLEGE TUITION
President Clinton is campaigning for his proposal, designed to aid middle-class families, and the prospects for Congressional approval look good: Page A27

MANY COLLEGES FOUND TO VIOLATE U.S. TAX LAWS
Extensive audits by the Internal Revenue Service have revealed violations of rules on withholding and unrelated-business income: Page A28

HISTORIAN OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS FIRED
A week after being hired by Speaker Newt Gingrich, Christina Jeffrey was dismissed in a controversy over her 1986 comments on Holocaust education: Page A28

A CLASH OVER RULES FOR RESEARCH ON MENTAL PATIENTS
At a conference to discuss the adequacy of federal rules to protect human subjects of research, a debate over the mentally ill took center stage: Page A29

EDUCATION SECRETARY INTENDS TO FIGHT
In a Congressional hearing, Richard W. Riley, the U.S. Secretary of Education, said he will fight for education funds despite Republican calls for cutbacks: Page A29

• PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN TEXAS would not be able to name buildings after sitting members of their governing boards under legislation proposed by a state representative: A23

• THE GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA has reappointed a man indicted on federal bribery and mail-fraud charges to the state Board of Regents: A23

• AN ARKANSAS LAWMAKER HAS WARNED the University of Arkansas that it could face fiscal retribution if former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resumes her teaching there: A26

• PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES SHOULD BE ACCORDED "a generous measure of independence" in resolving disputes over academic standards, an Illinois appeals court has ruled: A26

• STATES MUST PRESERVE AND ENHANCE historically black colleges, according to a report released last week by the American Association of University Professors: A26

• THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION may become a target of Republican lawmakers seeking to shrink or eliminate federal agencies: A27

• FEDERAL SCIENCE AGENCIES should work with businesses to help offset probable budget cuts, according to the new chairman of the House of Representatives Science Committee: A27

A "BREAKDOWN IN CONTROLS"
Texas A&M; University wasted millions of taxpayers' dollars, according to a tough report from the state auditor: Page A42

• A MOOSE TRAMPLED A MAN TO DEATH at the University of Alaska at Anchorage: A6

• EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY has warned an alumni group to stop using an Indian mascot that the institution abandoned in 1991: A8

• A GRADUATE OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY has been commissioned to turn a dead tree on the campus into a work of art: A8

• DELTA AIRLINES HAS TEAMED UP with Clayton State College to train students as reservation agents -- right on the campus: A8

• CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AT NORTHRIDGE says it is recovering nicely from a destructive earthquake one year ago: A41

• A STUDENT WHO GAVE BIRTH in Cleveland State University's bookstore has been given a scholarship to cover the cost of her books for the rest of the academic year: A41

• A PROJECT AT SMITH COLLEGE to improve the teaching of mathematics to elementary schoolchildren has received a $25,000 grant: A41

• EIGHT FOUNDATION GRANTS; three gifts and bequests: A42

• STUDENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND'S introductory course in engineering had only to boil eggs to pass the final, but they had to do it with solar power: A6

• PURDUE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS helped modify an airplane on exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry so it simulates the stages of a flight: A6

• THE MONEY SPENT ON MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS is growing faster than the amount based on financial need: A43

• A NEWSLETTER THAT SAID CONDOMS COULD BE REUSED has apologized and said it was only joking after an outcry at Humboldt State University: A43

• TWO STUDENTS WHO HAD CONDUCTED A LONG-DISTANCE ROMANCE since junior high school will soon be a lot closer together. Both won Rhodes Scholarships to study at Oxford next fall: A43

• A summary of current academic requirements governing the eligibility of freshman athletes, and new rules that will take effect over the next two years: Page A34

• Roll calls listing how colleges, universities, and athletic conferences voted on standards for freshman athletes: Page A35

• Summaries of 82 rules changes adopted at the meeting: Pages A36-37

• The association's new president, Eugene F. Corrigan, is well known and well liked, and he's done nearly everything there is to do in college sports: Page A38

• In his annual address, Cedric W. Dempsey, the executive director, endorsed efforts to overhaul governance and called for an enhanced role for college presidents: Page A38

• Reporters' Notebook: lobbying for men's gymnastics; sports scholarships and financial need; a Congresswoman plans to continue her efforts to monitor college sports: Page A39

• POLICE IN FLORIDA HAVE ARRESTED a sports agent involved with athletes at Florida State University: A34

• A RECORD NUMBER OF PEOPLE attended college football games last fall: A34

• A FORMER FOOTBALL PLAYER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI has filed a second lawsuit against the institution: A34

AN "ETHNICALLY PURE" UNIVERSITY IN BOSNIA
Almost all the Muslims and Croats on the staff of a university in a Serb-controlled region have been forced to leave: Page A46

ETHNIC ALBANIANS PRESS FOR UNIVERSITY IN MACEDONIA
Organizers plan to start classes this month despite a government order declaring the institution illegal: Page A46

• AN AMERICAN PROFESSOR WILL BE TRIED in absentia by the government of Singapore, which has accused him of criminal contempt for a newspaper article he wrote: A45

• FEMALE MUSLIM STUDENTS IN FRANCE have protested efforts by universities to prevent them from wearing traditional head scarves in class: A45

BUILDING PRISONS, SLIGHTING COLLEGES
Politically popular get-tough policies toward criminals take funds from higher education and will not curb crime rates, writes Stephen Gottfredson, a professor of public and environmental affairs and associate dean of academic affairs in the Indiana University system's School of Public and Environmental Affairs: Page B1

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• Political scientists and the midterm elections: B3
  
• State humanities councils and research: B3
  
• Research on genetics and race: B4
  
• Governance at the University of Bridgeport: B4
  
• Cultivating parents as donors: B4
  
• New editors of an anthropology journal: B4
  
• The new president at Bennington College: B5
  
• Using e-mail as a teaching aid: B5
  
• Black male students and Malcolm X: B5
  
• The worlds of history and politics: B5
  

STREET HARDWARE AS INDUSTRIAL ART
Manhole covers are celebrated as a singular body of design in a book from the M.I.T. Press: Page B72

• 55 APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS on U.S. campuses: A47-49

• DEATHS of 15 people in academe: A49

• 96 COMING EVENTS of interest to the men and women of academe: A49-52

• 76 DEADLINES -- for fellowships, grants, institutes, workshops, and the submission of papers: A52-55

DETAILS OF MORE THAN 1,040 AVAILABLE POSTS, including teaching and research positions in higher education, administrative and executive jobs, and openings outside academe: B8-71

INFORMATION provided by a select group of companies and organizations, this week including
• Fidelity Investments,
  
• Lotus Development Corporation,
  
• TIAA-CREF,
  
• and the Annenberg/CPB Project.
  

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