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Reports on the settlement of the legal battle between the University of Southern California and the heirs of composer Arnold Schoenberg. University's agreement to give up collection of musical scores and papers by Schoenberg; Schoenberg family's agreement to allow the university to use the Schoenberg Institute's recital hall for performances, rehearsals and lectures that are not connected to the composer.

Reports that a basketball player at California State University at Fresno has filed a lawsuit against the school's newspaper, `The Fresno Bee.' Charge that the newspaper libeled him; Amount of money that Dominick Young is seeking from the school; Details on what the newspaper reported; Comments from Nicholas Wagner, Young's attorney, and J. Keith Moyer, executive editor of the newspaper.

Reports on the August 2002 ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on a free-speech case between former graduate student Christopher T. Brown and the University of California in Santa Barbara, California. Decision of the university to reject Brown's masters degree thesis; Claims of Brown regarding the alleged violation of his free-speech rights.

The article comments on various news stories related to colleges and universities in the United States. Dr. Laura Schlessinger has reportedly donated a $2.3-million yacht to Orange Coast College's School of Sailing and Seamanship. The article reports that Riccardo Green, a former martial-arts instructor at North Seattle Community College, filed a lawsuit against the school accusing them of using photographs of him in promotional materials without his permission. Green's lawsuit requested that the school pay him "one hundred billion dollars and zero cents." The U.S. District Court ruling over the case dismissed the lawsuit.

Reports that a judge has dismissed a suit against the University of California campus in San Francisco over the work of Dr. Stanton A. Glantz, a medical researcher who has been an outspoken critic of the tobacco industry. Details on the lawsuit filed by Californians for Scientific Integrity; Co-authorship of the book `The Cigarette Papers,' by Glantz; Reaction to the decision.

Reports on the lawsuit filed by the University of California in San Francisco against Genentech Inc. Claims of the university that Genentech is in patent violation of one of the world's first genetically engineered growth hormones, Protopin; History of the case; The deadlock decision of the case; The next stage of the lawsuit; Examples of conflicting testimonies; Implications of the case.