Poison pen By Lawrence Osborne
The execution of writer Robert Brasillach for "intellectual crimes" during World War II raises questions we still don't know how to answer. (03/29/00)

Uninformed consent By Rachel Louise Snyder
What's missing from the fine print when students sign up as guinea pigs? (03/27/00)

Makin' out at Bob Jones U. By Daniel Kraus
I lied so I could sin. But I need to thaw in hell after Bob Jones' deepfreeze. (03/22/00)

The junior Nobel Prize pageant By Lucas Hanft
It was like a dream: One moment I'm in homeroom and the next I'm sipping Shirley Temples on a private jet. (03/20/00)

The Scrooge of science By Jennifer Ouellette
In his book "Voodoo Science," physicist Robert Park responds to alternative medicine and cold fusion with a resounding "Bah, humbug!" (03/15/00)

Trading places By Michael Alvear
When traditionally privileged professors are the campus minority, they turn into white panthers. (03/13/00)

The Tao of "Seinfeld" By James Nestor
A sitcom that forbade hugging and learning becomes a tool for teaching Aristotle. Not that there's anything wrong with that. (03/08/00)

Chains of love By Annie Murphy Paul
Always fall for losers? According to some evolutionary psychiatrists, the brain has little control over choices of the heart. (03/06/00)

Carrying justice By David Moberg
Why is the job of overturning wrongful death penalty convictions being left to a handful of students and academics? (03/01/00)

Slaves to science By William Speed Weed
For post-docs, finding a supernova is easier than finding a job. (02/28/00)

Priceline U. By Brian Braiker
Make me an offer: At eCollegebid.org, students name their price for tuition. You may get a cut-rate deal -- at a no-name school. (02/23/00)

Working-class zero By Beth Macy
President Clinton's College Opportunity Tax Cut plan offers tuition breaks -- but only to families who can already afford college. (02/16/00)

Suspicious minds By Annie Murphy Paul
In his new book, "The Dangerous Passion," psychologist David Buss proposes that jealousy is an evolutionary necessity. (02/14/00)

Pundits of pain By Andreas Killen
In the wake of Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo, academics turn trauma studies into a hot discipline. (02/11/00)

Buying time By Michael Scott Moore
Disability becomes fashionable among the prep-school set when it equals extra time on the SAT. (02/09/00)

The tedious life of a TA serf By James Nestor
I volunteered to TA so I could learn to teach. Pretty soon I was buying Chanukah presents for a tenured dinosaur's niece. (02/07/00)

"Rattling the Cage" By Susan McCarthy
In his new book, animal rights law professor Steven Wise argues that chimps are persons too. (02/04/00)

Ivory Tower: School days contest winner By Brian Stempeck
Education in 2100: A professor's memoir: Looking back at the good ol' days of 2000. (02/02/00)

Ivory Tower: Smashing violence By Annie Murphy Paul
Violence Studies is mobbed by students clamoring to shred Pulp Fiction and analyze suicide. But is this nascent field just intellectual rubbernecking? (01/31/00)

Ivory Tower: Trip lit By Jason Wilson
While scholars snip that travel writing doesn't merit inquiry, students like a vocation that screams vacation. (01/26/00)

Ivory Tower: Turning Japanese By Tom Bradley
An American teacher in Japan wonders why his students are hot for MTV and lukewarm on cold fusion. (01/24/00)

Ivory Tower: Skulls in the closet By Stephen Prothero
What does membership in a bastion of male privilege say about George W. Bush's character? (01/21/00)

Ivory Tower: Sex, lies and suicide By Jonathan Ellis
While championing family values, former Hillsdale President George C. Roche III was sleeping with his daughter-in-law. (01/19/00)

Ivory Tower: Who's your daddy? By Alisa Roth
The University of Virginia acknowledges it tracks applicants based on their parents' donor potential. (01/14/00)

Ivory Tower: Men in tights By Gillian Andrews
In the latest p.c. backlash, students named Little Hitler and the Beetle don spandex and pummel each other with sleds. (01/12/00)

Ivory Tower: History lesson By Michael Alvear
On a Southern campus, a Tiki torch can look a lot like a burning cross. (01/10/00)

Ivory Tower: Radical relics By Joyce Hackett
What message does an ivory ceiling send to female students? (01/07/00)

Ivory Tower: Future Smart By Annie M. Paul
Seventeen years ago, a Harvard psychologist proposed seven types of intelligences. His new book argues for eight and a half. (01/05/00)

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