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…UUs NrLSON-t Understanding the obligations of celebrity: Jimmy Carter gamely carries on despite the onlookers at Emory support two other academics-professors who are not drawn away by outside lectures, consulting contracts and publicity tours. "When you hire these stars, in effect you're saying to the rest of the department, 'You're doing the dishes'," com- plains the Berkeley professor. Rather than build up a whole department, universities s...…

…windfall from the late Coca-Cola magnate Robert W. Wood- ruff and its private status. In return, Carter was awarded the special status of university distinguished professor, which carries no specific course load but allows him to choose the classes he wishes to attend as guest lecturer two or three days a month. Carter has spoken with M.B.A. candidates about deregulation and to theology students about the involvement of ministers in public aff...…

… HENRY HILLIARD-PICTURE GROUP A balancing act: Sheldon Glashow in his Harvard office harsh on creationists, whom he regularly describes as "fools" and "jerks." He is also irate with gawkers who interrupt his lectures and campus strolls. "People don't realize how intolerable it is for somebody who thought he had privacy to learn people are watching him," he says. Prominence does have its ad- vantages. Gould pays grad assistants out of his speak...…

… { Teaching through mesmerization: Barbara Jordan at the LBJ cle Physics that is a choice in the core curriculum for under- graduates. Students rate him a solid and even entertaining instructor, but Glashow says he finds the experience frus- trating at times. "I find it more exciting to work on my own research than to teach undergraduates who are a somewhat hostile audience," he says, noting that while 500 students jostled for places in his i...…

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… America's Scientist a Sagan teaches on campus and off Carl Sagan may be Cornell's David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences, but he is really Amer- ica's Scientist. Sagan-who also directs the Labora- tory for Planetary Studies at Cornell-is that rarest of celebrities, an academic known worldwide for doing what he does. Ask many people to name the world's greatest living scientist, and they will mention Sagan-and stop. Scientist...…

…If you think the best way to pay for college is to put it off for a few years and join the military, you're half right. Because with the New GI Bill, you can join the Army National Guard and get a guaranteed minimum of $18,000 for college. But best of all, you serve two days a month and two weeks a year. Which means you can go to school full-time. Right now. On us. So the question you have to ask yourself is not, can you afford college. The qu...…

…, JOHN FICARA-NEWSWEEK The best-known face: Testifying in Washington ate defenders. Dina Vitkauskas, an '87 grad who majored in Biology and Society and wants to become a science writer, is a self-avowed Sagan groupie. She came to Cornell because of him, crashed a graduate seminar her first semester (Sagan let her stay in the class) and covered him for the Cornell Daily Sun. "He's in his office more than most people think," says Vitkauskas, w...…

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… kind of guys who will bet their Spock ears on naming every ac- tor who has played Dr. Who. For starters, the campus is not just guys: woman make up more than one-third of MIT's enter- ing freshmen this year. The school also strives to promote racial and ethnic diversity: last year its administration berated itselfin anextraordinary public report that said minority stu- dents had suffered prejudice throughout MIT's history. The mea culpa and n...…

… of the engineer is rooted in the society," says MIT president Paul E. Gray. The institute also figures that better communicators not only will promote technology more effec- tively but also will promote themselves into management. "Broadeningtheireducation will, in fact, maximize their careers," pre- dicts Samuel J. Keyser, associate provost for educational programs and policy. These goals, while lofty, sparked contro- versy. Angry students q...…

… zCHO IC Montana's Big Checkout Line Students at the University of Montana are fighting budget cutbacks by the state legislature in a highly vis- ible way. In order to make merchants-and legislators- aware of the school's financial impact, the student govern- ment has distributed 250,000 small white stickers that read, "I am a student of the Univer- I /19 ~ ru~n io r '$3; .Dot LARS Playing Fair With Freshmen For most freshmen, orien- t...…

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…New England's Crate Escape t may not constitute a ma- jor crime wave, but to the A New England dairy indus- try it's the moral equivalent of highway robbery. The crime: theft of milk crates. The chief culprits: college students who use the crates to store books and records. Calling for a crackdown on crate snatchers, dairy lobbyists got a bill intro- duced in the Maine Legislature to stiffen the punishment for milk-crate theft from a $250 fine...…

…COLLEGE L FE ARCHITECTURE STUART BRATESMAN Museum between two impossibly contradictory styles Bridging the Romanesque and the modem: Dartmouth placed its Hood Showing Art With Style New campus museums attract working artists, donors-and students When Williams College opened the doors of its renovated and expanded art museum last fall, the halls were jammed with glittering, black-tie ce- lebrities. Artists, dealers, critics and col- lecto...…

… pus could not have occurred in the last century, when neither the art museum nor art itself was welcome on most Ameri- can campuses, nor even early in this century, when the public rarely visited. The first genu- ine campus museum was the ungainly Trumbull Gallery at Yale, built in 1831-32 for $5,000. The designer was none other than the benefactor, Col. John Trumbull, whose own paintings formed the core of the collection. Yale's indulgence s...…

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…How to write a personal letter 4 by Garrison Keillor and every time I do you make me smile. We need to write, otherwise nobody will know who we are. They will have only a vague impres- sion of us as A Nice Person, because frankly, we don't shine at conversa- tion, we lack the confidence to thrust our faces for- ward and say, "Hi, I'm Heather Hooten, let me tell you about my week." Mostly we say "Uh-huh" and "Oh really." People smile and loo...…

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…C OLiLvEGE LT a FiE A Thriving Trade in F~ake ID's As the drinking age rises, students seek new 'proof' they're 21 When the University of California clamped down on underage drink- ing at its San Diego campus two years ago, senior Mark Kelly* got back into the phony-ID business. No razor blades or ink remover for Kelly; his product was a masterpiece of the amateur counterfeiter's art, which he perfected in high school. With the help of a frie...…

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…C Studying Womankind At all-male Wabash, females are the one-week sex What kind of college would encourage students to spend more time think- ing about the opposite sex? Try Wa- bash, a small liberal-arts institution in Crawfordsville, Ind., which has an all-male student body and a group of feisty female employees. Two years ago women who worked at Wabash-as professors, admin- istrators and secretaries-decided the campus consciousness needed...…

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…Making Doctors Human Universities revise both preparation and curricula for med schools ... Alcoholics, down-and-outers, weren't supposed to have eyes that sparkled. Mary's did... Iwanted to hold her, to tell herthat a bad dream was ending, that we were going to make her problem our problem. But we weren't. She had come to the wrongplace to be helped. The emergency room would pro- vide only "episodic" care focusing on to- day's symptoms. Live...…

…C A R E E R S find needed information, mostly by com- puter. Harvard's curriculum is one of the most radically revised. The 24 students who started the reform as an experiment two years ago learn through the case meth- od instead of lectures. In their first class, for instance, students plunged into cellular biology by playing sleuth; exactly how had a real-life spy died from a poison pellet shot into his leg? They also considered the reac- t...…

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…ESR MS S R ES UMES .AF..Ti,,a Wofl Wanted: Many Good Women At 26, Purdue graduate Mica Endsley designs airplane cockpits for the Northrop Corp. in Hawthorne, Calif. Endsley is a rarity-a female engineer. For women like her, mathematically and technically inclined, the demand is ex- traordinary. Although their ranks have increased dramatically in the last two dec- ades, women engineers are still outnum- bered by men 7 to 1. Nor do matters app...…

…A New Guide to Nonprofit Gold Off the corporate path fJim Clarkwanted tosay "just oneword" to"The Graduate" today, it would proba- bly not be "plastics." Instead, he might say "nonprofit," referring to employment opportunities with public-interest and so- cial-service organizations. As executive di- rector of a new job-listing service called Access, Clark can match career interests- in fields like political lobbying, community service, environ...…

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…ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT_ MOVIES 'The Big Easy' Does It A gritty role makes Dennis Quaid a star Forget"The Right Stuff" forasecond and Dennis Quaid's funny, sexy turn as flying ace Gordo Cooper. Forget this summer's "Innerspace" and Quaid's dashing performance as a micronaut injected into Martin Short's GI tract. Forget even "The Big Easy," on screen right now, in which he gives the performance of his life as a New Orleans police detective who ca...…

… whose prevailing spirit is often summed up in the slogan Laissez le bon temps rouler- Let the good times roll.) When a grinning Remy tells the starched lawyer played by Barkin, "Relax, cher, folks got a different way of doin' things down here," it's both a seduction and a rationalization: sure, he's corrupt. Everybody else is, too. "There's a system down there," Quaid says. "Out here in L.A. there's no room for the particular kind of corrupti...…

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…BOOKS Two Hotshot Authors Aim for More Fame Bret and Tama write fashionably, if not well hey are the "next big thing" in litera- ture, the most fashionable of a new wave of young writers who are trendi- er than Bermuda shorts in October or peach champagne. Bret and Tama. (That's Bret Easton Ellis, author of "Less Than Zero," and Tama Janowitz, author of "Slaves of New York," for those of you who are, like, totally out of it.) And for those ...…

…ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT so fragmented-some of the narrators are completely undeveloped-that "Rules" ends up feeling like endless MTV videos strung together. There is no story here- just the depressing flotsam of a spoiled generation. While striving to be just as hip, Tama Janowitz is much less serious than Ellis. (At least he hasn't made an Amaretto ad yet.) In fact, she may be the first true "lite" novelist-all fizz and no substance. Unlike Ell...…

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…a TELE VISION A Tasty New Role Actor-comedian Tim Reid comes naturally to his character as career-switching Frank Parrish Sometimes art actually does imitate life. Take the case of Tim Reid, the actor-comedian best known for his role as deejay Venus Flytrap on "WKRP in Cincinnati." In the early '70s, a few years out of college, he was a successful business- man for Du Pont. He made good money. He had a wife and a son and a three-bedroom hou...…

…I- I THE CALL, ROBERT R. McELROY-NEWSWEEK Appetite for the unexpected: Seal was chosen from among1,200students who tried out MTV's New Anarchic Force Giving up engineering for the video limelight I our average man will shave before a job interview, but Kevin Seal is not your average man. As the tape rolled for his audition to be a veejay on MTV, he smeared himself with shaving cream. Then, shaving wildly, he spread the stuff around his fac...…

…M Y T U R N l Its Not a Dream World No longer is college a time for idealism; it is becoming just a time to acquire marketable skills BY JOHN BURKMAN Jr. of NEWSWEEK, and near the end, somewhere be- Last week I happened to be glancing over an old issue tween Axthelm and Will, was a promo for NEWS- WEEK ON CAMPUS. In the background of the ad, fittingly, was a picturesque view of a campus. Never has a single photo conveyed a more idyllic impr...…