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Reports on the filing of a lawsuit against term-paper company Research Assistance by the State Attorney General's office and the California State University System for allegedly selling its research papers to college students.

Describes the papers given to Stanford University, in California, by Apple Computer. The collection for the university's Green Library; The collection from Apple's corporate library; Comments of Dr. Henry Lowood, Stanford's library curator.

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 on the closure of the Saratoga University School of Law, a virtual law school in California owned by former lawyer Michael Narkin. Background on the virtual law school; Number of students enrolled in the school every year; Cost of tuition spent by law student Gerald S. Meder for his education at Saratoga.

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 that the resurgence of the Communist Party in Russia is threatening to end a project that has given scholars access to the archives of the former Soviet Union. Negotiations between project participants the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Palo Alto, California with the Committee on Archival Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Describes the capabilities of the paper `prototyper,' or Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM) supercomputer at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). The mechanized creation of three-dimensional objects by a device that uses a laser to cut pieces of paper, which are then laminated in layers; Comments from Michael J. Bailey, a senior staff scientist at UCSD; Plans to enable the federally funded LOM to take orders for objects via the Internet.

Presents February 1997 news briefs about universities in the United States. The position that Kenneth Starr will reportedly take at Pepperdine University; Starr's involvement in the Whitewater investigation; Why Columbia University has indefinitely suspended the John Jay Papers Project; What will happen to the papers.

This article reports that the Public Library of Science, also known as PLoS, is starting a freely accessible online journal called PLoS Clinical Trials. Like other PLoS journals, it will not charge for subscriptions but will ask authors to pay a fee if their papers are accepted. It will make its debut in March. Open access, says Emma Veitch, the new journal's publications manager, makes it possible to publish the sorts of trials which otherwise might not get out there. In contrast, journals that rely on subscriptions to pay the bills, she says, will feel the pressure to publish high-profile studies that will attract readers' attention.

The article reports that an anti-abortion organization has accused researchers at the University of California at San Francisco of bias for not revealing their ties to abortion-rights groups in a paper about fetal pain published in late August in the "Journal of the American Medical Association." But the researchers argue that no conflict of interest exists. The article promptly became a flashpoint in the debate over abortion because the conclusion could be read as minimizing the fetal trauma that is central to the arguments of some anti-abortion groups.

Presents information on a dispute regarding a fund-raising letter from the Emma Goldman Papers Project at the University of California in Berkeley. Background of anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman; Reason behind the censorship of a fund-raising letter; Details of the fund-raising letter.

Reports that the University of California-Berkeley officials suspended a student-run course on male sexuality in February 2002, after reading a report from 'The Daily Californian.' Activities reported by the paper, which included sexual activities of students and instructors; Comment from Ian Bach, a student instructor, on the course.

Describes the Triangulating Shakespeare, a Web site created by Steven Marx, an English professor at California Polytechnic State University, to house video recordings of student performances of Shakespeare. Contribution of digital technology to the video reconfiguration; Description of the students' papers posted on the Web site.

Covers information on United States university researches as of August 27, 2001. Review of the book `Three Strikes: The Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century,' by Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, and Robin D.G. Kelley; Effort taken by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in retracting a 1999 paper upon knowing their mistakes.

Focuses on the research collections held by several universities in the United States. Snowglobes at University of Cincinnati; Eyeglasses worn by celebrities at the Ohio State University; Shopping bags made of paper, plastic or cloth at the University of California at Davis.

Focuses on Christopher T. Brown, a masters student who attached a 'disacknowledgements' section to his master's thesis that presented vulgar criticism and insults regarding many people at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Reasons for the stunt; How the school may not let him graduate unless he removes the section; Comment that personal attacks do not belong in a scientific paper to which victims cannot respond.

Reports on the demand of Wayne Karr, a student at the California-based Los Angeles City College, for the dismissal of a professor who expressed concerns about handling his papers after he told the class that he had AIDS.

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.

Highlights developments in higher education. Saroyan Foundation's turning over of William Saroyan papers to the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley; Significance of Clara Wieck Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensen in the history of music.

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.