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Focuses on a University of Pennsylvania report that faults the campus police for response to the students' taking of `The Daily Pennsylvanian' school paper. Involvement of black students; Claimed constitutional right; Racist editorials and articles; Recording students' names.

Reports on the revival of the student paper if the Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. End of circulation of the newspaper due to debt; Publication's competition with an alternative newspaper published by the former staff.

Reports on the University of Pennsylvania administrators' decision not to punish the black undergraduates who threw away copies of student newspapers as part of a protest in April 1993. Controversy of racial tensions in colleges; Black Student League's organization of the protest; Freedom of press issue.

Describes the Library Information System at Carnegie Mellon University, an electronic model of the library of the future. At present, the electronic library contains a catalog that can be searched from computers on the campus or at home over the campuswide network, 13 data bases and other reference materials. Comments from William Y. Arms on his vision of an electronic library; University cannot afford materials in both electronic and paper form; Unlimited capacity.

Informs on the censorship complaints by student newspaper editor Chris Lilik against the Pennsylvania-based Roman Catholic institution, Villanova University. University's confiscation of all copies of an issue of the paper `The Conservative Column'; Paper's publication of a mock advertisement that showed an aborted fetus; Statement from the university.

Reports plans by colleges and universities in the United States to provide newspaper to students. Success of the plan at Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania; How the plan provides the papers and charges them to students' housing costs; Statistics on the number of college students reading newspapers; Increase in newspaper circulation; Criticism by some members of the College Media Advisers.

Reports on the United States appeals court upholding of a Pennsylvania law that prohibits alcohol advertisements in campus publications. Argument of the `The Pitt News' that the statute violates the student newspaper's constitutional rights to free speech and cuts revenue by restricting amount of news published; Possibility that Vic Walczak, defender in the paper's case, may seek a review by the US Supreme Court.

Reports on the use of Next Inc. computers in expository-writing program at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Embedding of voice messages in student papers through the computer's built-in sound digitixer; Positive response of students to spoken than written comments; Advantages over traditional instructional approach.

Reports on various Internet developments relating to higher education in the United States as of April 26, 1996. Temple University school paper's use of online publishing to avoid financial ruin; San Jose State University students' creation of a system for selling used books.