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The article reports that Rhode Island College was included a nationwide survey of institutions offering odd scholarships. The college was included for offering scholarships to chess players. Other institutions mentioned were Lake Erie College for offering several full scholarships to women whose twin sisters also attend the college and the University of North Alabama for offering full tuition scholarship to the winner of the Alabama Junior Miss Pageant.

The article presents news briefs on higher education in the U.S. as of April 1984. A tenured professor of English has been suspended for violating the sexual-harassment policy of Rhode Island College in Providence. The Kenneth L. Melmon, chairman of the department of medicine at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California has been charged of plagiarism for a chapter of a book he wrote. The Census Bureau reports that state tax revenues rise in fiscal 1983 at the smallest rate since 1958.

Corrections are presented to the articles "The Marketplace in Your Brain," by Gregory S. Berns, and "Journeys to the Ends of the Earth," by Russell Potter, both of which appeared in the September 28, 2012 issue.

At Rhode Island College, a freshman copied and pasted from a Web site's frequently asked questions page about homelessness -- and did not think he needed to credit a source in his assignment because the page did not include author information. At DePaul University, the tip-off to one student's copying was the purple shade of several paragraphs he had lifted from the Web; when confronted by a writing tutor his professor had sent him to, he was not defensive -- he just wanted to know how to change purple text to black. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents several college basketball games. Seton Hall against Virginia Tech; West Virginia against British Colombia; Rhode Island against Fordham.

Previews the 1998 college basketball playoffs in the United States, with emphasis on the playing performances of Rhode Island College, Temple University and Xavier University. Players to watch at the Northwest Conference; Teams to watch at the Ivy League; Players to watch at the Metro Atlantic game.

Reports that Ruben Patterson scored 27 points, to lead the University of Cincinnati's men's basketball team to a 88-82 victory over Rhode Island College on January 25, 1998. Highlights of the game.

Reports that Preston Murphy scored 21 points to lead Rhode Island College to a 96-89 victory over the University of Pennsylvania on December 30, 1997, in the third-place game of the Cable Car Classic in San Jose, California. Highlights of the game.

This article presents information on the first annual Spam art exhibition recently organized at Rhode Island College, Providence. Spam was the theme of the exhibit. A contest was organized wherein students were asked to use Spam as a medium of expression. The contest was a fun with its own attractions. According to Eric Portrais, one of the organizers of the exhibit, Spam is a word that despite saying nothing conveys everything.

The article reports on the election of a collective bargaining agent that will represent the faculty members of Rhode Island College. No bargaining agent received a majority of the votes. Another election will be held on February 1972 to decide between an affiliate of the National Education Association and a local of the American Federation of Teachers, two of the agents with the highest votes.

The article reports that Rhode Island College, a former state teachers college in Providence, Rhode Island, may become the nation's first state-controlled, four-year institution with a union bargaining agent for the faculty. The state labor relations board is studying a request by the union to schedule an election in early February 1968 to choose a bargaining agent for the liberal arts college.