A GUIDE to the March 28, 1997, Chronicle

INTERNATIONAL

THE LURE OF ROME
Almost all sophomores at the University of Dallas spend a semester in Italy studying classical culture: A53

UNREST IN ALBANIA
Two of the country's universities have been damaged by looting, and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln has suspended a program it has run there: A54

• IN CENTRAL AMERICA, private colleges have established an accreditation system to win respect at home and abroad: A51

• IN NORWAY, the village that played host to the 1994 Winter Olympic Games now is home to a study-abroad program on Scandinavia and the Baltic nations: A51

• IN THE UNITED STATES, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received $25-million to develop a scientific university in Malaysia: A54

• ALSO IN THE UNITED STATES, F.W. de Klerk, the former president of South Africa, has announced that he will not accept an honorary fellowship from Yale University: A10

RESEARCH & PUBLISHING

MALE AGGRESSION
In a new book, Demonic Males, a Harvard University scientist and a science writer theorize that human violence may have its origins in animal behavior: A15

STUDYING CHANNELERS
Michael F. Brown, an anthropologist at Williams College, has written a book that explores how a subculture of the New Age movement has gained standing among middle-class Americans: A16

• ONE OF THE LARGEST ARCHIVES on the Vietnam War will be moved from the University of California at Berkeley to Texas Tech University: A12

• NEW EVIDENCE from a Martian meteorite backs the claim that the red planet once had life, scientists said last week: A18

• A SCHOLAR HAS CHALLENGED the notion that legal studies is a "scientific" body of thought: A18

• RESEARCHERS HAVE REPORTED that 80 per cent of physicians performing colorectal-cancer tests failed to obtain proper consent or to provide genetic counseling afterward: A18

• THE AMERICAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION has chosen a University of Chicago economist as the next recipient of its prestigious John Bates Clark Medal: A18

• TWO SCHOLARS HAVE DEBUNKED a case study from the 1970s that was widely considered to prove that human infants are born sexually "neutral": A18

• HOT TYPE: A22
  • A collection of essays edited by Cornell West, a Harvard University professor, and Jack Salzman, a Jewish Museum official, explores the history of black-Jewish relations.

  • Andrew Ross, director of the American-studies program at New York University, will take a leave to live in a Disney-owned community in Florida and write about it.

  • Oprah Winfrey plugged Stones From the River, by Ursula Hegi, on her talk show, making the book by the Eastern Washington University professor an instant best seller.

• 81 NEW SCHOLARLY BOOKS, briefly described: A19-22
  • Nota Bene: Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature, by Rosemarie Garland Thomson, a professor of English at Howard University. The book is published by Columbia University Press.

THE FACULTY

THE INVISIBLE FACULTY
On California State University's Hayward campus, tenured professors are divided over the institution's growing reliance on lecturers who are paid little and don't stay long: A12

OPPOSITE RULINGS ON BENEFITS
A New Jersey appeals court denied a bid by gay professors at Rutgers University to win benefits for their partners, but Alaska's Supreme Court approved such assistance: A13

BIAS AT TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
A federal appeals court ruled that three white professors had been discriminated against at the black college, but it found that their free-speech rights had not been violated: A14

POLICY ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT
The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear an appeal by San Bernardino Valley College, whose procedure for handling a professor's in-class sexual discussions was ruled unconstitutional: A14

RIGHTING OLD WRONGS
An essay in the Oregon Historical Quarterly has raised anew questions about Reed College's decision, during the McCarthy era, to fire a tenured professor for his political views: A10

• TOBIAS WOLFF, a professor of creative writing at Syracuse University since 1980 and a best-selling author, will move to Stanford University next fall: A12

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

ON THE TRAIL
Two undergraduates are helping track down the hacker who planted racial and other slurs on the National Collegiate Athletic Association's World-Wide Web site: A30

INTERNET "INDECENCY"
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a suit challenging a law that would restrict on-line communications: A33

• A NEW CATALOGUE SYSTEM at the University of Rochester's library has been expanded to include on-line resources: A29

• NINE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY students spent their spring break on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, helping elementary- and middle-school students use the Internet: A29

• UNIVERSITIES' COMPUTER administrators were scrambling to update their software last week, after hackers attacked more than 200 Usenet servers: A30

• THE MURDEROUS SUPERCOMPUTER from the 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" is the inspiration for a World-Wide Web site at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: A30

• 8 SOFTWARE PROGRAMS, 20 Internet lists, and 8 other Internet resources: A34-35

FEDERAL & STATE GOVERNMENTS (U.S.A.)

• Many oceanographers believe that a powerful Senator has insured that the University of Hawaii will win a competition to manage a $45-million research ship: A37

• A college-by-college list of earmarks awarded by Congress in fiscal 1997: A37-41

INTERPRETING A COURT RULING
A U.S. Education Department official has questioned the reach of a decision widely regarded as barring Texas colleges from considering race in admissions: A41

A RIFT OVER LOAN PROGRAMS
Lobbyists for guarantee agencies have attacked President Clinton's proposals for their operations, but some agency officials like the plan: A42

FRAUDULENT AID APPLICATIONS
A U.S. Education Department report has found that many students receive Pell Grants on the basis of lies about their parents' income: A42

ROTC RETURNS TO A CAMPUS
Faced with a possible loss of federal funds, San Jose State University has decided to let the Reserve Officers Training Corps return to its campus: A43

COMPETITION IN THE KEYSTONE STATE
Pennsylvania State University's expansion plans for 14 of its regional campuses have other colleges in the state -- public and private -- worried: A44

• COLLEGE OFFICIALS have proposed few changes for a reauthorized Higher Education Act: A36

• THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION has recruited college presidents to promote a bill on student aid: A36

• CIVIL-RIGHTS GROUPS are alleging bias in the University of California's graduate-school admissions policy: A43

MONEY & MANAGEMENT

• A MARYLAND COUPLE has endowed Salisbury State University's School of Education and Professional Studies: A45

• A BOOK BY THREE COLLEGE administrators and a professor has advice to colleges that are trying to raise money: A45

• SMITH COLLEGE'S Board of Trustees has voted to divest the institution's endowment of tobacco-company stocks: A46

• THIRTEEN UNIVERSITY PRESSES have been accused of illegal pricing by the National Association of College Stores: A46

• AN AUDITOR AT ALABAMA A&M University has alleged that the wife of the institution's president falsified payroll records to collect $33,500 from the university: A10

• THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI has become entangled in a fight between William Faulkner's daughter and Oxford, Miss., which is seeking to erect a statue of the author: A8

STUDENTS

FREEDOM OF THE STUDENT PRESS
Campus journalists in Texas are worried by the way university officials are interpreting a 1988 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court about high-school newspapers: A48

• TWO NATIONAL FRATERNITIES have announced plans to ban alcohol from all their houses within three years: A47

• TWO STANFORD UNIVERSITY seniors have created a service to let students try their hand at parenting: A47

• SEVEN FORMER FRATERNITY members at the University of Texas at Austin have been charged with hazing and assault: A8

• STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL of the Museum of Fine Arts have formed a cheerleading squad that pokes fun at itself: A8

• A STUDENT WAS CRITICALLY injured and two laboratories were destroyed in an explosion at the University of Massachusetts at Boston: A8

• WHAT THEY'RE READING on college campuses: a list of best-selling books: A10

ATHLETICS

SHUTTING OUT THE COMPETITION?
Four U.S. Senators have asked the federal government to investigate whether the College Bowl Alliance is violating antitrust laws by ignoring some football conferences: A50

ON THE TRAIL
Two undergraduates are helping track down the hacker who planted racial and other slurs on the National Collegiate Athletic Association's World-Wide Web site: A30

• THE STUDENT INSIDE the winged mascot of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia keeps his arms flapping in exchange for a full scholarship: A49

• THE MEN'S-BASKETBALL TEAM at Louisiana Christian University returned from winning a championship to find that its gymnasium had been sold: A49

OPINION & LETTERS

DEALING WITH TOMORROW'S SCANDALS
Denying that scientific misconduct occurs will not make ethical lapses disappear, argues C.K. Gunsalus, the associate provost at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: B4

LETTING GO OF THE PAST
It will not be easy for academics in the United States and Vietnam to put their shared history behind them, but it's worth the effort, writes Linda K. Kerber, a historian at the University of Iowa and the president of the Organization of American Historians: B6

• MARGINALIA: A8

• What role should the Modern Language Association play in the hiring process for faculty jobs?: B3
• Teaching: mature industry or art?: B10
• Shakespeare: to require or not to require: B10
• Higher education perpetuates inequality: B11
• Some missed the point about college discipline: B11
• Sacrificing artists on the altar of grades?: B11
• The debate about "natural law" theory: B11

THE ARTS

NOTES FROM ACADEME
A scholarly priest wrote two librettos while breathing new life into the University of Malta: B2

IMAGES OF MYSTERY AND REVERIE
The Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition, a biennial competition, features works by 113 artists: B68

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