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Wanting and Not Wanting to Hit Each Other
Terry Caesar explores the ever looming threat of violence -- physical, emotional or legal -- on campus today.
Reading, Writing and Representing
The graduate students and young professors who teach writing have a unique role to play in fighting attacks on academe in general and English in particular, write Frank Gaughan and Peter Khost.
Education in Two Cultures
A team-taught course leaves Linda Brigham considering the inadequate interactions between the humanities and the sciences.
Professional Correctness
Scott McLemee interviews a sociologist about "identity dissonance" in professional schools.
Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Novelist
Jenny White finds that a not-yet-published piece of fiction threatens to overwhelm two decades of scholarship.
Earning Your Trophies (or Not)
The culture of youth soccer is hurting higher education, writes James Ricky Cox.
Minding the Student Client
If we want more minority Ph.D.'s in the sciences, we need to start listening to minority graduate students, writes Daryl E. Chubin.
Brain Drain Is Not Inevitable
American colleges should place more emphasis on educating those foreign students who will help their home colleges, writes Joan Dassin.