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The article reports on the use of recycled paper in the general catalog for the University of California at Irvine. The catalog boasts a simple design and a corrugated paper cover. As a result, according to university officials, 200 trees as well as 15% of the usual cost to taxpayers have been saved.

The article provides a series of news briefs concerning higher education. The article reports that the University of Wisconsin will delay issuing grades for students who purchased term papers from a company that sold term papers. The article reports that California Governor Ronald Reagan has decreased the 12.5 percent salary increase of University of California faculty members to 7.5 percent; the increase had been approved by the state legislature.

The article reports that policemen from Palo Alto, California searched the office of the student newspaper at Stanford University in search of photographs of demonstrators taken during a clash with police at the Stanford Medical Center. University president Richard W. Lyman called the search "a threat to full freedom of the press."

The article reports on a seminar on the significance of the Pentagon Papers that will be conducted by Tom Hayden, founder of the Students for a Democratic Society, at the Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, California in 1971.

The article reports on the warning of the California state college professors on the possible occurrence of hostile political climate in California. The warning was directed to the faculty members to be aware of the political conflict in the state. The academic senate of the 18 state colleges has adopted a position paper stating that prospective teachers must be told that the political climate in the state is no longer friendly to the ideals of democratic higher education.

The article reports on the increase in Judaic studies in nondenominational colleges in the United States during the 20 year period since the end of World War II, according to the 67th annual edition of the American Jewish Year Book published by the American Jewish Committee. The paper was prepared by Arnold J. Band, associate professor of Hebrew at the University of California, Los Angeles.