Drug-related sexual assaults on college campuses are more frequent than are forcible assaults and are most frequently preceded by voluntary alcohol consumption.

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There are many criticisms of the manuscript review process but few systematic studies of the referees' comments on manuscripts they review. The authors examined comments on a sample of first submission manuscripts reviewed by the American Sociological Review (ASR), 1977–1981. Positive and negative comments were classified into twelve categories: topic, theory, review of literature, design, data, sample, measurement, analysis, results, style, ad hominem, general. No manuscripts received unequivocally favorable reviews, but some reviews were less negative than others. Referees were more critical of manuscripts in comments to the editor than in comments to authors. Authors did not see comments to the editor nor did they know the referees' recommendations concerning their manuscripts. Thus, editors had more information than authors, and authors may complain that they got mixed messages from two or more referees. However, there were surprisingly few actual contradictions in referees' comments. While most comments (both positive and negative) were general, a substantial number were about theory and analysis. Reviews of the same manuscript by different referees yielded surprisingly few contradictions, most of those about theory. The biggest difference between the comments by referees recommending publication and by those recommending rejection was praise. Referees were equally critical of all manuscripts, but were more likely to praise those recommended for publication.

The purpose of this study was to gauge the attitudes of internal medicine (IM) physicians and hospice nurses on the hospice programs in a Southeastern US county. A postal survey sought views on the following issues: (1) the level of control that hospice affords dying patients; (2) health care professionals' education and communication involving the dying process; (3) the hospice referral process; (4) characteristics of a ''good death''; and (5) gender versus professional role regarding hospice attitudes. The data revealed that occupational role in hospice care has a more significant function in the development of cognitive attitudes than of gender regarding hospice programs and that professional education needs more emphasis on the study of end-of-life issues, as well as open communication between health care professionals and patients during the dying process. Physicians were less likely than nurses to agree that patient control was important. Additionally, what constitutes a good death was similar to previous studies.

Authors' professional status, subfields within sociology, types of analysis, and sources of data were compared between two categories of manuscripts submitted to three editors of the American Sociological Review: those manuscripts about which authors complained and those randomly selected. Thirteen percent of the authors who complained succeeded in having the decision reversed and their manuscripts accepted for publication.