Should You Hide Your Thesis?

Internet chatter about Hillary Clinton's "Hidden Thesis" from her senior year at Wellesley College has some students worried about having their work at such an early age available for pubic scrutiny. But Bryn Mawr's English lecturer Anne Dalke thinks it's not a problem, and that making such work public can be a boon to students, academics, and others.

DePauw Ensemble Eyed for 3 Grammy Awards

eighth blackbird, a contemporary classical music group that is DePauw University's ensemble-in-residence for this academic year, has been nominated for three Grammy Awards at Sunday's ceremony.

News Sources: Super Tuesday

Voters in 24 states from coast to coast are making Feb. 5 a truly "Super Tuesday" for presidential aspirants. Some of the biggest prizes of the primary season -- California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Missouri and Georgia -- are up for grabs. More than four-fifths of the 2,025 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination and more than 1,000 of the 1,191 necessary delegates on the Republican side are at stake. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges and universities, including the following (click on names for contact information):

Myron A. Levine - Professor of Political Science, Albion College - Levine is an internationally renowned expert on presidential elections (U.S. and abroad) and political strategies in the U.S. He regularly comments on current events and politics in newspapers, radio and television. A former Fulbright lecturer, he also is an expert on NATO expansion, political issues of American cities, national urban policies and volunteerism. Levine is the author of Presidential Campaigns and Elections and Urban Politics: Political Power in Metropolitan America.

Tari Renner - Professor and Chair of Political Science, Illinois Wesleyan University -Renner conducts research on public opinion polling, electoral behavior, election systems and urban political structures. He also directs Illinois Wesleyan's statewide political polling center. Renner is a former Director of Survey Research for the International City/County Management Association in Washington, D.C.

Raymond Seidelman - Professor of Political Science, Sarah Lawrence College - Seidelman is an expert on voting and non-voting in America, the politics of labor, political economy and the politics of suburbs. He has been a contributor to leading newspapers, magazines and journals and has appeared on NPR and been consultant to Rainbow (PUSH) Coalition.

African Poverty Linked to Agricultural Technology

People in Africa are poor because their labor as farmers has not yet been improved by science, including modern biotechnology. That's the overall conclusion of a new book by Wellesley College professor of political science Robert Paarlberg. He says U.S. foreign assistance to agricultural science in Africa has fallen by 75 percent in the past two decades, he notes, and the foreign assistance of European governments is now often predicated on staying away from modern agricultural science.

The Real "Dogs of the Dow?"

There is no sure thing in the stock market, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average has long been used as a bellweather index for investors. Even so, research by Pomona College professor Gary Smith shows that stocks dropped from the Dow average since 1928 have actually outperformed the stocks that replaced them. Smith says this bucks conventional wisdom by showing "out-of-favor stocks" generally outperform whatever happens to be popular at the moment.