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Like most other major federal grant recipients, Harvard handles most cases on a contract-by-contract basis, rather than fighting federal policy as a whole, University officials said. "Most cases we've been able to negotiate in a very quiet way," said Patricia R. Benfari of Harvard's office of Sponsored Research...
...official in the Office for Sponsored Research, Patricia R. Benfari, disagrees. Benfari says the problem has been greater under the current Administration. Harvard negotiators have been successful in working out clauses which, if grants were accepted, would violate the Faculty's guidelines, but "It's harder to deal with Washington agencies now. It takes longer, and they're more rigid," she says. Last year, Benfari's negotiating team had to modify between 25 and 30 sponsorships to bring them up to Faculty standards of academic freedom...