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Reports on the charges by the Mississippi University for Women's `The Spectator' newspaper that administrators are to blame for several incidents that have hampered the paper. Mysterious disappearance of several bundles of the newspaper; Removal of William F. Wright as paper adviser; Changed locks on the doors of the communications building.

The article addresses the University of Mississippi's monopoly on cultivation of marijuana for medical research. A nonbinding decision by an administrative judge recommends that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reverse its 2004 decision to deny the University of Massachusetts (UMass) at Amherst permission to grow its own marijuana for research. UMass Amherst professor of plant and soil sciences Lyle E. Craker, who would cultivate the cannabis there, calls the decision a victory for science, medicine, and the public good. Craker accuses the government of denying requests for Mississippi's marijuana unless they are meant for study of the harmful effects of the drug. He believes that further study of its pharmaceutical uses.

The article discusses a studio art course offered at Mississippi University for Women, which taught students the ins and outs of mural making from inception and design to application of the final glaze. The four-and-a-half-week summer course culminated in a 12-by-30-foot mural celebrating the history of the city's Tombigbee River.

The article highlights the work of Robert C. Khayat, chancellor of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), as he leads an institution with an emotionally charged history involving the Civil War and the civil-rights movement, through a period of unprecedented change. Although Khayat has successfully altered the image of the university, many people on the campus say more time must pass for the old wounds to heal. However, the strong consensus is that Ole Miss is moving in the right direction under his guidance, and according to some, the burden of history has helped the university speed its transformation.

Focuses on the concerns of some professors at the University of Southern Mississippi on the plan of the university to pay bonuses to faculty members who attract outside research grants and use some of the grant money to pay a portion of their salaries. Details of the plan; Concerns on requirements for merit pay raises; Implications of the plan.

Focuses on issues regarding the comments of Judge Neal B. Biggers Jr. of Oxford, Mississippi toward the proposed settlement of a college desegregation case filed by Jake Ayers Sr. Criticisms posed by Biggers to the proposal; Cost implications of the proposal.

Presents issues concerning university students in the United States as of October 6, 2000. Details on a one-man protest held by Arthur Baker of the University of Mississippi in Oxford; Information on the arrest of Sean Rudolph, graduate student of the New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.

Reports education-related United States court decisions for April 23, 1999. Wisconsin ruling on the accessibility of a University of Wisconsin professor's personnel file to a local newspaper and radio station; Texas ruling on South Texas College of Law's plan to affiliate with Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University; Mississippi ruling that Hinds Community College cannot be held liable for a fatal plane crash caused by the negligence of the company that managed the institution's airport.