Lingua Franca invites you to reminisce about the themes and trends, the most heated controversies, and the most surprising scandals of the academy's past decade. Assembled below, by year, is an informal round-up of many stories you'll surely remember, as well as some you may wish you could forget.
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an unofficial guide to academia in the 1990s
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President Richard Berendzen of American University resigns after making obscene
phone calls
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As Congress debates obscene art, Purdue removes nude drawing of
university president from campus wall
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Simon & Schuster gives Harold Bloom six-figure advance for
The American Religion
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Cliffs Notes
publishes hardcover anthologies; notes to Malcolm X's
autobiography
included
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Debut of
pioneering
e-zine
Postmodern Culture
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Washington University
eliminates
sociology
department
Parody journal Misrepresentations created by Berkeley grad
students
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Clayborne Carson reveals that Martin Luther King Jr.
plagiarized
parts of his
dissertation
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Publishers sue Kinko's for
copyright
infringement in copying of course packs
American Association of University Presses announces steep decline in monograph sales;
history sales
especially poor
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Hopi Indians
object to
professor's
publication
of secret ritual
President Chase N. Peterson of University of
Utah announces retirement in
aftermath of
cold-fusion scandal
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Roger Kimball,
Tenured Radicals
Zone Books,
Fragments for a History of the Human Body
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