The Cincinnati Enquirer, Sunday, January 9
The Enquirer's Board of Economists discuss the protest of the World Trade
Organization, the U.S. role in world trade and the impact of the Internet.
James Brock (economics), a member of the Board, says the U.S. has some
leverage, but "it's how we mobolize it and exercise it."  Brock,
disagreeing with another member who feels any technology-driven growth in
productivity may soon be over, also says, "We're just beginning to scratch
the surface of figuring out how to use this stuff.  In a lot of ways, it
seems to be working to make it a much more intensive competitive economy,
pushing things in the direction more of a textbook picture of
competition--almost perfect information."
And:
"Moonlight over the Millennium...A Celebration of Miami's Tradition" is the
theme for this year's Miami Univesity Charter Day Ball on Feb. 4.
And:
Calendar items for Hiestand Gallery and Miami University Art Museum
exhibits and the Bach Anniversary Recital presented by Steve Shumway
(music).

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Saturday, January 8
Building projects at Xavier University, the University of Cincinnati and
Miami University Middletown took honors at this year's Cincinnati Design
Awards.  One of the projects KZF Inc. won for was Miami's new Levey Hall
Solence Building for sciences.

Journal-News, Monday, January 10
Miami University's Hefner Zoology and Limper Geology museums, the Miami
Indian Trekkers Volksmarch Group and Miami's Center for Black Culture and
Learning are sponsoring a hike around Acton Lake to be held on Martin
Luther King Day.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, January 10
"Get to it" column includes the Sheela-Na-Gigs/Nancy Spero and Phillip
Joseph-New Directions exhibits at Hiestand Gallery.

The Middletown Journal, Friday, Dec. 31
Story about some people's most memorable moments of the last century says
the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 was the impact event in the
life of James Ewers Jr. (student affairs, Middletown campus).  Ewers says
he hopes "King's philosophy of nonviolence and respect for others will hold
an even deeper meaning for all of us."

Journal-News, Saturday, January 8
Megan Gassert, who graduated from Miami in December, wore a gown that was
first used in 1919 at the graduation of her friend's father.  Gassert's
friend, Maryellen Johnson, loaned her the gown which Johnson's father wore
to his Miami graduation and that Johnson wore to her own Miami graduation
in 1974.


Elsewhere in education:

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, January 10
A new alliance of state colleges and computer-tech firms wants to put Ohio
at the center of the next Internet revolution.  The group, known as the
Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center, plans to tap a very new, very fast
computer network which links research centers at 158 universities in the
United States, including the University of Cincinnati.
And:
Ohio State University will sponsor a forum Tuesday for views from students,
faculty members and others about the school's latest proposal to encourage
more diversity.

The New York Times, Friday, January 7
A bidding war for teachers is spreading from coast to coast.  Two years
ago, as the nation began to feel effects of a virtually unprecedented wave
of teacher retirements, Baltimore offered special education teachers
starting salaries equivalent to those of teachers with four years'
experience, as well as reduced-rate mortgages and reimbursement of moving
expenses, and during the same period, El Paso, Texas, lured new math
teachers with $2,000 signing bonuses.  Such offers have multiplied and
intensified in recent months.

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