Sounds Kind Of Familiar, Doesn't It?

A world-class scholar of medieval history at Stanford University who was turned down in his second tenure bid has said he may leave academics and would not recommend that anyone go into the field right now.

He told The Stanford Daily that no medieval scholar, no matter how accomplished, could be approved for tenure in the university's history department.

Assistant Professor Stephen Ferruolo cited Stanford's competitive attitude toward comparably ranked schools as one reason he was denied tenure.

Ferruolo said since Harvard had recently turned down a top American historian, Stanford turned him down to show that they can also turn down leading scholars and maintain standards as high as Harvard's.

The history faculty is also more reluctant to make intradepartmental tenure appointments, preferring to make tenure offers to outsiders, Feruolo said.

The winner of the 1982 Dinkelspiel Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching said that at Stanford there is an attitude that "if you're a good teacher you're not a serious scholar, that they're somehow incompatible."

"Good teaching is a negative factor in tenure cases," Ferruolo said.

But members of the history department have discounted Ferruolo's claims to having been cheated and said that his charges are the same as those of other who have been denied tenure.

More College Women Want Their Men To Be Virgins

Perhaps because of the AIDS threat, more college women value virginity in their men, according to a new study by Blotnick Associates, a New York polling firm.

Many more women said that they wanted their next lover to be a virgin--22 percent this year, up from 9 percent in 1977. In both surveys, 10 percent of the men wanted their next lover to be a virgin.

The study, conducted from January to March, also found that fewer men exaggerated their sexual activities than 10 years ago. Only 34 percent of the men who responded said that they lied about the times they had sexual contact, as opposed to 61 percent in 1977.

About 11 percent of the women said that they exaggerated, as opposed to 9 percent in 1977.

"These guys are interested in protecting the image of `Mr. Clean,'" the poller, Srully Blotnick, told The Associated Press.