EDUCATION

The Seattle Times ran an article on a new book "Reinventing Public Education" co-authored by James Guthrie, professor of public policy and education. The book touts public schools that set themselves up as independent contractors and cut ties with school boards and central administrators.

Joseph F. Murphy, professor of educational leadership and chair of the department, was quoted in an article about schools with students from different backgrounds being measured by different academic standards appearing in The Florida Times-Union of Jacksonville.

David Mohning, director of undergraduate student financial aid, commented on the changing concept of financial aid in a Los Angeles Times story about America's private colleges' aggressive competition for good students in the present "buyer's market."

GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Ken Paulson, executive director of The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt, commented on Americans' First Amendment rights to free speech in a USA Weekend story on legislation that would grant Congress the power to prohibit flag desecration.

Wendy Hunter, assistant professor of political science, was quoted in a story in The Washington Times about the Clinton administration's decision to end a 20-year ban on sales of high-tech arms to Latin America.

BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

An academic report co-authored by William Christie, associate professor of management (finance), was noted in an article appearing in The Wall Street Journal about the Nasdaq Stock Market practice of allowing its stocks to be traded in 1/16-point increments. The Dow Jones News Service distributed the article to other news outlets.

The Miami Daily Business Review and Broward Daily Business Review noted that Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management and the business school at the University of Florida have launched a joint international executive masters of business administration degree program.

Rich Oliver, Valere Blair Potter Professor of Management, was quoted in a story in The Atlanta Journal and Constitution about Nashville's image changing in the wake of the city's snagging the NFL's Houston Oilers and a National Hockey League expansion franchise.

INSTITUTIONAL

The Nashville Banner and The Tennessean ran photographs from the second annual British Love Match at Hillwood Tennis and Country Club benefiting the John F. Kennedy Center's Susan Gray School. News and Public Affairs helped arrange the coverage. A reporter with WWTN radio interviewed Vanderbilt head men's tennis coach Ken Flach about his participation in the match.

LAW

A Wall Street Journal article on the provision of the recent landmark tobacco settlement that eliminates punitive damages for past industry conduct featured comments by Vanderbilt Law School Dean Kent Syverud. Syverud said the biggest test of the provision will be whether it violates the right to a jury trial guaranteed by the Constitution's Seventh Amendment.

Barry Friedman, professor of law, was quoted in an Associated Press story appearing in the Denver Post on the unusual number of high-profile constitutional cases facing the Supreme Court as it closes the 1996-97 term.

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Gary Polis, professor of biology, was interviewed by a reporter with WSMV-TV Channel 4 regarding the number of brown recluse spiders in Middle Tennessee.

In an article about the remote Mayan ruin Dos Pilas appearing in the Sunday Oregonian of Portland, it was noted that a Vanderbilt University team of scientists has been concentrating on the area since the late 1980s.

The Tennessean reported that Edward L. Thackston, professor of civil and environmental engineering and chair of the department, has won the state's Lifetime Environmental/Conservation Stewardship Award.

The Nashville Banner ran an article about the Dyer Observatory's first Photometry Summer School for a diverse group of educators, students and amateur astronomers. Douglas Hall, director of the observatory, was quoted in the piece.

TECHNOLOGY

The Atlanta Journal and Constitution noted Yahoo! Internet Life's ranking of Vanderbilt as one of the nation's 100 "most-wired colleges."

An article in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution on Web sites that pertain to television noted Vanderbilt's Television News Archive's Web site. The TV News Archive Web site was noted in The Orlando Sentinel's "Cybersene" column.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Richard A. Peterson, professor of sociology, was quoted in a Billboard magazine piece about early country music artist Jimmie Rodgers. The article also referred to Peterson's upcoming book, "Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity," as "one of the most important books ever written about a popular music form."

The Tennessean noted that Adjunct Associate Professor of Dulcimer David Schnaufer plays on two tracks on Cyndi Lauper's latest album, "Sisters of Avalon." Schnaufer accompanied Lauper on stage and performed during a song at the June 6 Tina Turner concert at Starwood Amphitheatre.

The latest exhibit at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, "Faux Post: Artists' Postage Stamps," was featured in the Nashville Banner. The exhibit was a critic's pick in the Nashville Scene.

Blair School of Music Dean Mark Wait appeared on CNN's "Parenting Today" for a story that featured a student enrolled in the Blair Suzuki violin program.

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