Once again, the AmeriCorps national-service program is fighting for its survival, after a House of Representatives panel voted Thursday night to eliminate it. But the panel's chairman said he expected that money for the program would be restored in a compromise bill with the Senate. The student contended that the agency had illegally discriminated against him on the basis of race in its Minority Graduate Research Fellowship Program. This is the second article in a series on the university's requirement that all its students have computers by 1999. A number of proposals to overhaul the student-loan system are based on the idea of letting economic forces play more of a role.
Most students disagree.
Colleges must consider financial and public-relations issues when deciding what to do about promised gifts that never materialize. A new biography, by Occidental College's Nina Rattner Gelbart, explores the life of an 18th-century Frenchwoman who campaigned tirelessly to reduce the rate of infant mortality. Experts in sports medicine are paying a lot of attention to a white powder called creatine that appears to increase strength and muscle size.