Window to the Past, a book that explores the amazing preservative powers of ancient, hardened tree sap. HOT TYPE A spoof of contemporary literary theory by Alan Sokel, a New York University physicist, has set off a firestorm among editors of journals, among them Social Text, which published Mr. Sokel's hoax. The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial 'Downsizing,' by David M. Gordon, a late professor of economics at the New School for Social Research. The book is published by the Free Press. As John Synodinos retires after eight years as Lebanon Valley College's president, many people on the campus are marveling at the progress the institution has made with him at the helm.
Professors have mixed reactions to it.
The data bases' financing runs out June 30. More and more states are establishing prepaid-tuition programs to make it easier for parents to afford a higher education for their children. The U.S. Treasury Department has announced plans to issue a new type of bond to help parents save money for their children's college tuition. A prominent lawyer threatened last week to sue Georgia for maintaining a racially segregated system of higher education and for the state colleges' affirmative-action practices. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that Colorado could not bar units of state government, including public colleges, from prohibiting discrimination against gay people.