Back issues of the GSJ, volume 21 for academic year 1996-97. Top stories listed for reference. Click on date to get texts of these articles and more.

• July 25-Aug. 28, 1997: Will Brown's computers crash in the year 2000?
  
• June 5-July 24, 1997: E. Gordon Gee named 17th president
  
• May 30-June 4, 1997: Nuala Pell, Clare Gregorian honored at Commencement; status of East Timor struggle for independence; six trustees join Corporation
  
• May 23-May 29, 1997: Parties in disciplinary case resolve disputes; OCR complaint withdrawn; ad hoc committee recommends changes to Brown disciplinary system; Brown scientists levitate frog embryos
  
• May 2-May 23, 1997: Faculty Honors Convocation; shock of disease leads student to create foundation for young adults with cancer; CIS newsletter; Royce Fellowship winners
  
• April 25-May 1, 1997: Brown files plan to meet court's gender ratio requirements for athletics; Supreme Court denies Brown request to hear Title IX appeal; campus celebrates Day of the Spanish Language; Off Hours with tenor Pamela Collet; Brown Derbies on 'GMA': medical student research on placebo response leads to national award; 13 win 'Brown Says Thank You' awards; two hospitals take part in anti-HIV vaccine trial
  
• April 18-24, 1997: BRown to digitize African-American sheet music; dancers choreograph music out of thin air
  
• April 11-17, 1997: Ticket to Brown's Class of 2001 hard to get; Patterson book wins Bancroft prize; Off Hours with guitar collector Eric Shoaf
  
• April 4-10, 1997: Nine amicus curiae briefs support Brown's Title IX appeal; anthropologist Fruzzetti works on ethnographic films; CIS newsletter; Staff Development Day
  
• March 28-April 3, 1997: Microscopic spheres may revolutionize oral drug delivery; new fraternity focuses on public service; magnetic fields used to levitate drop of helium; new community director program
  
• March 14-27, 1997:The State of the University address; new hope for patients with pancreatic and stomach cancer; Hong Kong's history of handling risk will help it weather China's rule; Off Hours with astronomer-photographer Bob Horton; the Met High School offers alternative; gift named for team member funds women's basketball coaching position
  
• March 7-13, 1997: Public affairs conference on economic prosperity; child molestation data; OIP brings international students to Brown; grad school a world apart for many students; CIS newsletter
  
• Feb. 28-March 6, 1997: Blood test may identify children with strep-related behavior disorder; Royce Fellowship takes student on journey through monastic life; smoking may be marker for potential drug abuse and depression in adolescents; Faculty Club changes; public policy program participants favor international cooperation; student internships
  
• Feb. 21-27, 1997: Tuition set for 1997-98; new webmaster arrives; Chancellor Way to step down; Title IX case heads to Supreme Court
  
• Feb. 14-20, 1997: Faculty and student research take root in greenhouse; Leadership Alliance progress; Engineering celebrates 150th anniversary; Brown Electronic Article Review Service
  
• Feb. 7-13, 1997: Women's ice hockey team possesses missionary zeal; education policy seminar; CIS newsletter; report from ACUP to Gregorian
  
• Jan. 31-Feb. 6, 1997: Secretary of Education will address policy issues; prime minister of Bangladesh will speak; Brown reactivates committee on investory responsibility issues
  
• Jan. 24-30, 1997: Imprisoned women with HIV turn over new leaf; Corporation establishes Presidential Search Committee; researcher explores brain's own marijuana-like substance; Marshall Scholars program selects three from Brown; Off Hours with astrologer Carolyn Egan; a look into the lab: exploding electron bubbles; hospital noise disrupts sleep for patients; new chief of P&S; Steinberg Festival of New Plays
  
• Jan. 17-23, 1997: Gregorian to leave Brown for Carnegie Corporation
  
• Dec. 6, 1996-Jan. 16, 1997: Split decision by First Circuit upholds lower court in Title IX appeal; materials research grant; Off Hours with playwright John DiMartino; Lewis Gordon raising blackness into being; CIS newsletter
  
• Nov. 22-Dec. 5, 1996: The state of research at Brown; what to do with coal ash
  
• Nov. 15-Nov. 21, 1996: Early applications top 3,000; the Writing Fellow project; BACH will vacate Carberry, Milhous; Safewalker project; professor's research breaks collective silence surrounding loss of a mother
  
• Nov. 8-Nov. 14, 1996: Asteroid strike 65 million years ago in Yucatan; skin-cancer educators make beachhead in behavioral change; campus Black-Jewish Alliance; expectant women with high blood pressure; economist takes different route toward assessig value of a life; Van Dam surveys three decades of computing
  
• Nov. 1-Nov. 7, 1996: Rose, Inman discuss semester's incidents; environmental studies branch out through TREES program; John Tomasi never thought he'd be in front of a classroom; Off Hours with Bigfoot tracker Charlie Perry; CIS newsletter
  
• Oct. 25-Oct. 31, 1996: Sen. Simon speaks on campus; parents come of age in Brown family; researchers examine medical costs of HIV patients; ethnic studies at Brown; that slice of sourdough gets started at 4 a.m.; letters home from Brunonia's halls
  
• Oct. 18-Oct. 24, 1996: Geologists' study describes dynamic moons of Jupiter; Richard Holbrooke talks about Bosnia; Risk Management tries to keep Brown safe
  
• Oct. 11-Oct. 17, 1996: Carolyn Dean named R.I. Professor of Year; campuswide strategic planning process begins; Election 1996; 'Being deaf makes me what I am and who I am,' says track star; campaign closes books at $534 million
  
• Oct. 4-Oct. 10, 1996: Nobel laureate will speak at MacMillan groundbreaking; bookbuyer Peter Sevenair; the Indiana Jones of mathematics; Athletics hires consultant; RIPTA passes on sale at Bookstore; CIS newsletter; JCB Library marks 150th anniversary
  
• Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 1996: Fit for Brown program; Lucia Trimbur wins public service award; students travel to JPL; revised guidelines for political activities on campus; Galileo team; Off Hours with Linda Collette, who studies right-wing groups; the gender-wage gap
  
• Sept. 20-Sept. 26, 1996: Swearer Center contract accommodates RISD students; Democrats campaign on campus; songbirds' diet during fall migration; IRS begins periodic exam; sound and light show on the Green; Women Writers Project
  
• Sept. 13-Sept.19, 1996: New Community Partnership Directory; new med school curriculum; inequality between Arabs and Jews a major theme in Goldscheider book; lounge converted into dorm room to accommodate overflow first-year students; Off Hours with Miss R.I. Elana Chomiszak
  
• Sept. 6-Sept. 12, 1996: Convocation coverage; Navah Perlman and her father team up for benefit concert; Brown selling Fox Point houses; police chief retiring; Concepcion's City Year route takes her from GED to class of 1999 and a speech at Democratic National Convention; CIS newsletter
  
• Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 1996: Class of 2000 arrives; Student at help of national College Democrats of America; summer news wrapup; annual campus crime report; maternal exposure to crack cocaine stresses newborns
  

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