"Rather than focus on a few good, scholarly resources to begin their research, some students will literally gather everything they can find -- no matter what its quality or depth -- before they even begin to read any of it. A three-page article on [William] Faulkner in a Saudi-American literature journal, which they discovered in a database search, shares equal weight with any number of substantive critical volumes from Yale or Harvard University Press."
-- Frederick M. Muratori, librarian, discussing resources available on the Internet, in the Washington Post, Oct. 27.
"A state ought to require tenured teachers to get recertified on a regular basis."
-- James A. Gross, professor of industrial and labor relations, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 29.
"It's very exciting. This use of a bacterial gene is something that could never have been accomplished with standard plant breeding. This is only one example of what might be done to improve cotton fibers with foreign genes. Dye-binding properties and greater stability of the fabric are going to appear in the next generation."
-- Charles J. Arntzen, president of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, commenting on a new strain of genetically altered cotton plants in the Washington Post, Nov. 12.
"A new party structure that survives Perot would be an historical precedent."
-- Theodore J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, in Business Week, Sept. 30.
"You have some significantly brilliant people, running first-class factories. These same people could act as mentors for other factories, to help show the rest of management how it's done."
-- Anil Nerode, professor of mathematics and director of the Mathematical Sciences Institute and member of Puerto Rico Blue Ribbon Council, quoted in Caribbean Business, Oct. 3.
"Everyone would concede there's a substantial public interest -- the public health. I would hope, as Justice Tom Clark said, that there is no war between the Constitution and common sense."
-- Steve Shiffrin, professor of law, on the legality of a ban on television advertising of alcohol, in an Associated Press story, Nov. 22.
"The amount of corruption discovered is a function of the resources put into its discovery."
-- Martin Shefter, professor of government, discussing FBI investigations into corruption in Kansas City, quoted in an Associated Press story, Nov. 25.
"Happily, longevity is not the only criterion of a good life. You'd live longer if you only ate root vegetables, but who'd want to do that?"
-- Richard Klein, professor of French and Romance studies, in the Washington Post, Nov. 27.