"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This October 15, 2004 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Why Can't Young Scholars Write Their Second Books First" (Garber, Marjorie); (2) "Inadmissible Evidence: Terror, Torture, and the World Today" (Harpham, Geoffrey, Galt); (3) "Grading the Higher-Education Report Card"; (4) "Higher Education Isn't Meeting the Public's Needs" (Newman, Frank; Couturier, Lara; Scurry, Jamie); (5) "Medicine for Musicians" (Mangan, Katherine S.); (6) "65 Cuban Scholars Are Denied U.S. Visas" (Lipka, Sara); (7) "Mexico Cuts Scholarships for Studying Abroad" (Lloyd, Marion); (8) "Chili Moves Toward Voluntary Accreditation" (Ceaser, Mike); (9) "Japan Recognizes U.S. and Other Foreign Universities on Its Soil" (Brender, Alan); (10) "Controversial Harvard Scholar Gets Frosty Reception in Mexico" (LLoyd, Marion); (11) "Degrees of Separation" (Bollag, Burton); (12) "NCAA Considers Longer Football Season and More Money for Women's Sports" (Suggs, Welch); (13) "Declaring His Independence" (Lipka, Sara); (14) "Thinning the Flock of Early Birds" (Hoover, Eric); (15) "Swarthmore Students Win Court Case against Voting-Machine Company" (Young, Jeffrey R.); (16) "Federal Court Strikes down Law-Enforcement Powers Expanded by Patriot Act" (Carlson, Scott); (17) "You're Fired!" (Mcgarry, Gerald); (18) "Midtier Mojo" (Jackson, Andy); (19) "More Professors Teach by Using other Colleges' Online Courses" (Carnevale, Dan); (20) "Utah State University Scholar Faces Attacks over Assessment of CBS's Bush Memos" (Glenn, David); (21) "University of Texas System Overhauls Pay of Endowment Managers" (Strout, Erin); (22) "A Database Return" (Selingo, Jeffrey); (23) "Real Fear, Virtually Overcome" (Monaghan, Peter); (24) "The Stipend Gap" (Smallwood, Scott); and (25) "State Regents: Should They Be Elected or Appointed?" (Hebel, Sara).