A Guide to the July 5, 1996, Issue
of The Chronicle of Higher Education
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INTERNATIONAL
IN THE UNITED STATES, GOING ABROAD
Despite strict labor laws that prohibit American students from
earning money abroad, a soaring number of undergraduates are
blending their desire to live overseas with their need to
enhance their resumes: A43
IN FRANCE, A TIME OF REFORM
Francois Bayrou, the Minister of Education, has issued a plan
to reduce the high rate of failure by undergraduates: A45
IN UKRAINE, A QUESTION OF CONTROL
Private universities in the country are angry about a new law
that grants the government broad powers over them: A45
IN AUSTRALIA, A BUDGET BATTLE
A committee of higher-education leaders has urged Prime
Minister John Howard to abandon plans to cut university
budgets: A45
- IN SERBIA, the philanthropist George Soros's grant-making
foundation will once again be permitted to operate: A43
- IN THE UNITED STATES, New York University has started a new
"Language in the Dorms" program to interest more students in
foreign cultures and countries: A43
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
WAR AND PEACE
Some scholars of political science and political philosophy are
questioning the widely held belief that democracies do not go
to war against one another: A6
DARWIN AND THE ECONOMY
Scholars are using the theory of evolution to explain how
economic behaviors stem from biologically based instincts to
cooperate, to trade, and to bargain: A8
- A NEW STUDY OF LAW FIRMS suggests that the market forces
that should determine hours and wages of young lawyers break
down because of the firms' "rat race" environments: A6
- AN ANTHROPOLOGIST at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
Lawrence H. Keeley, is trying to debunk the myth of the
peaceful "noble savage" of prehistoric times: A6
- HOT TYPE: A10
- 97 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A9-11
- 69 SCHOLARS have been honored with fellowships; all of them
are listed in this issue of The Chronicle: A12
PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL CONCERNS
DYNAMIC DUO
A troubled elementary school in San Francisco got a new lease
on life when two education professors from San Francisco State
University joined forces as its co-principals: A13
VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE
A clinic staffed by professors and students at Harvard Law
School played a key role in a court's recent decision to grant
asylum to a woman who feared that her genitals would be
mutilated if she returned to Togo: A5
IN THE RAIN FOREST
Bill Stott, an ornithologist and former president of Ripon
College, led students and nature tourists on a recent trip
through a stretch of Amazon jungle: A51
VICTORY FOR A SCIENTIST
In a case dating back to 1986, a federal appeals panel has
cleared the name of Thereza Imanishi-Kari, a Tufts University
biologist who had earlier been found guilty of 19 counts of
scientific misconduct: A22
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA has awarded its own "genius
grants" to 10 faculty members: A13
- TWO ADMINISTRATORS at Antioch College may be the first
married couple to share a chief academic officer's post: A13
- THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION has censured Yale University
for its treatment of graduate students who are trying to
form a union: A14
- THE UNIVERSITY of the District of Columbia is being sued by
its faculty union for barring union members from serving in
the University Senate: A14
- A FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY administrator has been convicted
of embezzlement: A5
- A RECORD NUMBER of graduate and professional students are
going into debt to finance their education, a new report
says: A25
- THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT cannot intervene in a tenure dispute
at Catholic University, a federal appeals court has
ruled: A25
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
PROTECTING THEIR RIGHTS
Publishers and universities are facing off over licenses to
determine who has access to electronic materials and what those
users may do with the information: A15
COMPUTER BARGAINS
A sharp drop in the price of memory chips is prompting colleges
to upgrade their computer equipment more than they thought they
could afford: A17
INFORMATION WARFARE
The United States plans to develop an emergency-response team
to capture malevolent hackers and to respond to attacks on the
nation's computer networks: A19
FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)
END OF THE RAT LINE?
The Supreme Court ruled last week that the Virginia Military
Institute's policy of denying admission to women is
unconstitutional: A21
THE MESSAGE OF V.M.I.
Last week's Supreme Court ruling sends a clear warning that
sexual stereotypes may not be used as a rationale to limit the
educational opportunities of women, write Marcia D. Greenberger
and Deborah L. Brake, of the National Women's Law Center: A52
VICTORY FOR A SCIENTIST
In a case dating back to 1986, a federal appeals panel has
cleared the name of Thereza Imanishi-Kari, a Tufts University
biologist who had earlier been found guilty of 19 counts of
scientific misconduct: A22
THE FAILURE OF THE SCIENCE POLICE
An appeals panel's reversal of a finding of research fraud --
thus exonerating a Tufts University researcher after a 10-year
ordeal -- teaches key lessons about how the government should
handle cases of alleged misconduct, says Daniel J. Kevles, of
the California Institute of Technology: B1
CHARGES OF INTIMIDATION
Some educators say that Rep. Howard P. (Buck) McKeon, a
California Republican, inappropriately pressured an accrediting
group to rescind its decision to revoke an ailing college's
accreditation: A23
NO AGAIN ON EMBRYO RESEARCH
The House of Representatives' Appropriations Committee voted
last week to extend a ban on the use of federal funds to
conduct the controversial research: A24
FUNDS CUT FOR AMERICORPS
The House of Representatives stripped all money for the
national-service program from an appropriations bill for fiscal
1997: A24
CRIME AND COLLEGES
A bill in the House of Representatives would require colleges to
make annual reports to the Education Department about criminal
activity on their campuses: A24
QUESTIONS ABOUT SPENDING
Alvin H. Bernstein, the top candidate to be interim head of the
State University of New York, has been criticized by the
Pentagon for mismanaging one of its educational centers: A25
- THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION for the Advancement of Science is
developing a dramatic television series about scientists in
hopes of spurring public interest in the field: A21
- GOV. GEORGE ALLEN'S new appointees to the board of George
Mason University tilt the Virginia institution's board to
the right: A21
- THE SUPREME COURT ruled last week that the U.S. Merchant
Marine Academy does not owe damages to a student it
illegally expelled: A23
- A RECORD NUMBER of graduate and professional students are
going into debt to finance their education, a new report
says: A25
- THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT cannot intervene in a tenure dispute
at Catholic University, a federal appeals court has
ruled: A25
BUSINESS & PHILANTHROPY
MONEY ON THE GREEN
More colleges and universities are building golf courses as a
way to raise funds. But not all of them are finding it easy to
recoup the courses' large construction costs: A37
HELPING "UNDERENDOWED" COLLEGES
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced
unrestricted grants to six liberal-arts institutions: A38
- THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA has softened its stance
against an ex-student who was convicted of stealing research
notebooks from the university and, until recently, was doing
time on a chain gang: A37
- THE TREASURER OF NEVADA'S public-college system, Janet S.
MacDonald, has resigned because of a conflict with the
chancellor over financial policies: A37
- A TRUSTEE HANDLING the bankruptcy of the Foundation for New
Era Philanthropy has proposed a settlement. He's also filed
a $100-million lawsuit against Prudential Securities: A38
- MCGRAW-HILL HAS SETTLED all its claims over books it had
published but not sold and had consigned to another company
for destruction. Somehow, the books ended up for sale: A4
- NORTHEAST MISSOURI State University has changed its name to
Truman State University, after the state's only U.S.
President: A4
- AUSTRIAN-AMERICAN FAMILIES raised money for 17 years to pay
for an Austrian Nationality Room that recently opened at the
University of Pittsburgh: A5
- SERBIA WILL AGAIN PERMIT the philanthropist George Soros's
grant-making foundation to operate within its borders: A43
STUDENTS
TOUGH COMPETITION FOR ANIMAL LOVERS
The number of students applying to veterinary colleges is
rising, but the number of spaces available for them is not: A39
STUDENTS HEAD OVERSEAS
Despite strict labor laws that prohibit American students from
earning money abroad, a soaring number of undergraduates are
blending their desire to live overseas with their need to
enhance their resumes: A43
- KENNESAW STATE COLLEGE students are teaching lab classes to
minority middle-school students at the campus's science
camp: A4
- SIX STUDENTS at the University of Kentucky used their
verbosity to raise money to study abroad: A4
- TO CELEBRATE the bicentennial of Cleveland, seven Case
Western Reserve University students transformed a
graffiti-covered wall into a 145-foot-long mural: A5
- NEW YORK UNIVERSITY has started a new "Language in the
Dorms" program to interest more students in foreign cultures
and countries: A43
ATHLETICS
WHICH ATHLETES GRADUATE?
An annual survey by the National Collegiate Athletic
Association has found that male basketball players in Division
I lag behind their fellow students, but those participating in
other sports fare better: A40
WORRIES ABOUT FREE SPEECH
The University of Wisconsin at Madison and Reebok International
Ltd. have removed a controversial provision from a $7.9-million
sports-equipment contract between them: A42
- JAMES R. CHASTEEN, the head of the National Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics, is resigning: A40
- SAVANNAH STATE COLLEGE is paying the price for mistakenly
scheduling two football games on the same day: A40
OPINION & LETTERS
THE MESSAGE OF V.M.I.
Last week's Supreme Court ruling sends a clear warning that
sexual stereotypes may not be used as a rationale to limit the
educational opportunities of women, write Marcia D. Greenberger
and Deborah L. Brake, of the National Women's Law Center: A52
THE FAILURE OF THE SCIENCE POLICE
An appeals panel's reversal of a finding of research fraud --
thus exonerating a Tufts University researcher after a 10-year
ordeal -- teaches key lessons about how the government should
handle cases of alleged misconduct, says Daniel J. Kevles, of
the California Institute of Technology: B1
WORK AND DEMOCRACY
To rebuild their sense of citizenship, Americans must ask how
their labor, whether paid or unpaid, furthers the public good,
argue Harry C. Boyte, of the University of Minnesota, and Nancy
N. Kari, of the College of St. Catherine: B3
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
SEDUCED BY BOOKS
Library: The Drama Within, with photographs by Diane Asseo
Griliches, will be published in August by the University of
New Mexico Press: B44