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THE FACULTY
FACULTY COUPLES
More professors are working in the same departments as their
spouses -- a situation that raises professional and personal
issues for them and for their colleagues: A12
'PHANTOM STUDENTS'?
Months after being fired, a former professor at El Camino
College is continuing his battle against what he calls
unethical practices at the institution: A14
HELPING ACTORS PAY THE BILLS
Shirley Venard, of the University of Minnesota, draws on her
own experiences to teach theater students how to land jobs and
to market themselves: A10
A TORTUOUS JOURNEY IN ACADEME
Lennard J. Davis, a professor of English at the State
University of New York at Binghamton, writes that even though
his colleagues saw his tenure denial as unjustified and
lamentable, they still acted awkwardly toward him: B6
- A PROFESSOR at Connecticut College replied personally to a
student's critical evaluation, even though it was supposed
to be anonymous: A12
- A LOWER PROPORTION of people who received Ph.D.'s in English
last year landed on the tenure track, according to data from
the Modern Language Association: A12
- PEER REVIEW: A57
- Two leading economists will leave Yale University for the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- The president of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy
resigned, citing a run-in with police and a prostitute.
- Dartmouth College's provost will become its president.
- A Harvard University economist is moving to Columbia University.
RESEARCH & PUBLISHING
THE ECONOMICS OF ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
Bowing to a public outcry, the chancellor of the University of
Arkansas reversed his decision to close its university press,
which he had said was losing too much money: A16
SEPTUAGENARIAN IN SPACE
During his flight on a space shuttle in October, Senator John
Glenn, 77, will help conduct experiments, although none are
focused specifically on aging: A20
CREATING A NEW RESEARCH AGENCY
The National Science Foundation is resisting a Congressional
proposal to start a National Institute for the Environment: A40
PRESERVING HISTORY
A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Archivist "flagrantly
violated" his order barring the destruction of electronic
records generated by government agencies: A42
ASSESSING FRANCE'S PAST
The war-crimes trial of the Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon has
renewed scholars' efforts to gain more access to documents from
key periods in the country's modern history: A53
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
ACCOUNTING AT SEA
Old Dominion University offered courses last semester via
satellite to business students serving aboard the aircraft
carrier U.S.S. George Washington in the Persian Gulf:
A27
MENTORS ON LINE
A national program modeled on a project at Dartmouth College
uses e-mail to help female students majoring in science,
engineering, and mathematics -- three areas in which women are
underrepresented: A29
PROBLEM SOLVED
The group that sets technical standards for the World-Wide Web
has approved a new markup language that will make it easier to
display mathematical symbols and equations on Web pages: A30
TRUST FUND QUESTIONED
A federal judge has ruled that millions of dollars in a special
account to improve the Internet were collected illegally. The
ruling could imperil colleges' hopes of receiving some of those
funds: A31
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS (U.S.)
'DON'T FOOL WITH MY SCHOOL'
The residents of Peru, Neb., have rallied against a plan to
move Peru State College, a small, impoverished state
institution with a dwindling enrollment, but some educators say
that staying put will doom the college: A35
SUPPORT FOR STUDENT AID
Several populous states added little to their need-based
programs in 1996-97, while some smaller states added
considerably to their spending on such awards: A38
DEFENDING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
The White House wants college presidents to play more of a
role, but higher-education leaders are wary of a plan to
establish a group to coordinate such efforts: A38
CREATING A NEW RESEARCH AGENCY
The National Science Foundation is resisting a Congressional
proposal to start a National Institute for the Environment: A40
PRESERVING HISTORY
A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Archivist "flagrantly
violated" his order barring the destruction of electronic
records generated by government agencies: A42
MONEY & MANAGEMENT
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE U. OF ORLANDO
Disillusioned students are threatening to sue the unaccredited
law school, which was founded by an educator whose previous
experience was in trade schools: A45
- COLBY COLLEGE added a note of intrigue to its annual report
by writing it in the style of a pulp-fiction novel: A45
- TWO COLLEGES in Pennsylvania are offering their employees
incentives to live nearby: A45
- QUINCY COLLEGE is considering laying off as many as 21
full-time faculty members to close a budget gap at the
Massachusetts institution: A47
- A MASSACHUSETTS JUDGE has ordered the New England School of
Law to reinstall a plaque honoring a donor: A47
- A NEWSPAPER in St. Petersburg, Fla., has frozen a $1-million
pledge to the University of South Florida, saying that the
institution unfairly favors a rival newspaper: A48
- A STATE JUDGE halted the University of New Mexico's search
for a president, citing a violation of a 1991 agreement that
was based on the state's open-meeting law: A37
- A GEORGIA NEWSPAPER reported that the legal counsel at the
University of Georgia, who resigned in February, had her
employees perform personal tasks for her: A8
- THE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL at the Massachusetts College of
Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences was interrupted by five
fires set by an arsonist: A10
- LEHIGH UNIVERSITY has unveiled its restored pipe organ: A10
- FOUNDATION GRANTS; gifts and bequests: A48-49
STUDENTS
ADVOCATES OF SECULAR HUMANISM
Student groups on many campuses are providing support for
people who do not believe in God, and they are trying to
influence campus debate: A43
MENTORS ON LINE
A national program modeled on a project at Dartmouth College
uses e-mail to help female students majoring in science,
engineering, and mathematics -- three areas in which women are
underrepresented: A29
- A BOSTON UNIVERSITY official has been criticized for calling
bulimics' vomiting "disgusting" and "a great inconvenience
to others": A43
- WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY is offering its students a break on
tuition, room, and board if they attend summer programs to
insure that they graduate in four years: A43
- SIX STUDENTS at the City University of New York's College of
Staten Island were arrested as they protested the cancelling
of a campus appearance by Leonard Jeffries, Jr.: A8
- OHIO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS rioted for the second straight year
when bars closed an hour early because of the onset of
daylight-saving time: A8
- ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY will delay a planned tuition increase
as a result of student protests: A8
- ANTI-ABORTION STUDENTS at Pennsylvania State University
likened Planned Parenthood to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan in
a campus protest: A8
- COSMETOLOGY STUDENTS at South Seattle Community College
competed in a "Big Hair Day" contest that was judged by
local beauticians: A10
ATHLETICS
GAMBLING SCANDALS
The National Collegiate Athletic Association is encouraging
colleges to pay more attention to how athletes become involved
in point-shaving and betting: A51
- THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA is installing a new floor for its
basketball court, and fans will be able to buy pieces of the
old one: A51
- THE FOOTBALL COACH at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
and the state's Governor are engaged in a dispute over
whether the football stadium's turf should be real or
artificial: A51
- THE NATIONAL COLLEGIATE Athletic Association has put
Savannah State University on probation for four years for
rules violations in six sports: A52
- THE MEN'S BASKETBALL COACH at the University of Texas quit
after the grades of one of his players were leaked to a
radio station: A52
INTERNATIONAL
ASSESSING FRANCE'S PAST
The war-crimes trial of the Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon has
renewed scholars' efforts to gain more access to documents from
key periods in the country's modern history: A53
CALM IN SOUTH KOREA
After years of sometimes-violent protests against an
authoritarian government, students have a president they trust.
Observers say even radical students will stick to their
studies: A55
JAKARTA DIARY
Indonesia's economic crisis has given long-silent students and
scholars an opening to vent their frustration with the
repressive Suharto regime, writes Joseph Saunders, who runs the
academic-freedom program at Human Rights Watch, in New York
City: B8
- TURKEY IS CONSIDERING imposing limits on study abroad at
Islamic institutions, which the country's military regards
as breeding grounds for Islamic militants: A53
- MALAYSIA HAS ORDERED private colleges to provide Islamic
classes for their Muslim students: A53
- CHINA WILL ALLOW students applying to colleges to choose one
of the four entrance examinations they must take: A53
- A HUMAN-RIGHTS ACTIVIST who is also a researcher at the
University of Maryland at College Park was apparently
deported from China: A56
- QUEBEC HAS CUT its higher-education budget as part of
efforts to wipe out its deficit by the end of the decade:
A56
- CANADA'S SUPREME COURT, ruling on a case brought by an
instructor at a Christian college in Alberta, ordered the
province to include sexual orientation among the rights
protected by its human-rights code: A56
- TWO MEXICANS have been charged with swindling students who
sought admission to the National Autonomous University: A56
OPINION & LETTERS
A TOTALITARIAN AURA FOR THE ARTS
Putting the cultural destiny of the United States in the hands
of business executives is misguided, writes Jonathan Rosenbaum,
the film critic at the Chicago Reader, a weekly
newspaper: A64
FOSTERING TOLERANCE
Anthropologists must teach their students that culture -- not
race -- explains the differences in behavior that people see,
writes Mark Nathan Cohen, a professor of anthropology at the
State University of New York College at Plattsburgh: B4
A TORTUOUS JOURNEY IN ACADEME
Lennard J. Davis, a professor of English at the State
University of New York at Binghamton, writes that even though
his colleagues saw his tenure denial as unjustified and
lamentable, they still acted awkwardly toward him: B6
JAKARTA DIARY
Indonesia's economic crisis has given long-silent students and
scholars an opening to vent their frustration with the
repressive Suharto regime, writes Joseph Saunders, who runs the
academic-freedom program at Human Rights Watch, in New York
City: B8
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE ARTS
A TOTALITARIAN AURA FOR THE ARTS
Putting the cultural destiny of the United States in the hands
of business executives is misguided, writes Jonathan Rosenbaum,
the film critic at the Chicago Reader, a weekly
newspaper: A64
MOBILE ART
The Alexander Calder retrospective at the National Gallery of
Art features an array of mobiles, paintings, jewelry, portraits
rendered in wire, and sculptures: B2
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