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Describes the dilemma faced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts in running its online archive for research called DSpace as of June 25, 2004. Total number of items contained in the archive; Concerns of MIT professors about online archive; Strategy adopted by the university to build support for DSpace. INSET: Colleges Retain Their Part of the Broadcast Spectrum.

Reports on the move of the authors for a health journal to withhold their articles in protest to the refusal of Elsevier to publish a paper about the occurrence of cancer among IBM workers. Results of the data analyzed by Richard W. Clapp, a professor of environmental health at Boston University in Massachusetts, and private consultant Rebecca A. Johnson on the risk of cancer for IBM workers; Response of IBM to the analysis of data supplied to the authors; Reason for Elsevier's rejection of the article for the special issue.

Reports on the dismissal of the lawsuit filed by the Boston University against the five online term-paper companies. Reason for the decision of Judge Patti B. Saris; Why the university argued that the mills violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO); Comment from Robert Smith, lawyer for the university.

Reports on researchers' debate over a jury's decision to declare the University of Boston as the legal owner of papers deposited there by Martin Luther King, Jr. Reinforcement of the `status quo'; Testimony of Taylor Branch, author of `Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1964; King estate versus Blackside Inc.; Lack of an archivist; Symbolism and convenience.

Reports the acquisition of Graham Greene archive and library by the John J. Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections of the Boston University. Details of the negotiation; Collection of the library.

Presents two brief articles related to student life at colleges. Monica Lewinsky's career at Lewis and Clark College, and its relevance to President Bill Clinton; Order that Harvard University students be provided with two-ply toilet paper, rather than one-ply.

Focuses on the efforts of philosophy professor Alexander George to stop the use of sheepskins for diplomas at Amherst College. Reason for the opposition; Comparison of the cost of diplomas made from sheepskin and paper.

Discusses findings by researchers at Boston College in Massachusetts that show that students who have been taught to write using a computer do not perform as well on composition exams that use paper and pencil. Study conducted on elementary and secondary schools led by Michael Russell; Grant provided by the Massachusetts Department of Education.

Reports that paintings by such masters as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Manet and Homer will be transferred to Harvard University's center for works on paper. Construction of the Agnes Morgan Center which is expected to be completed by late 1992.

Provides news briefs of interest to those in higher education. Law professor Charles R. Nesson's approach to a controversial tenure case at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; His assignment of the case, involving denied tenure to Peter Berkowitz, to his students; Comments from Nesson and a university spokesman; `Contemporary Understandings of Liberal Education,' an Association of American Colleges and Universities discussion paper critical of undergraduate education reform.

Presents information on higher education for January 1998. Westminster College of Salt Lake City, Utah using the slogan `Ivy League Tradition in the Spirit of the West,' on its literature; `The Spectator' conservative paper of Amherst College losing its allocation of funds from the student government due to its conservative views.