Word: bio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laboratories, for example, has acted as a liason between SftP and the Harvard Employees Organizing Committee (HEOC), of which she is also a member. This relationship supports HEOC's drive to secure representation on the Branton Committee charged with setting safety standards for the recombinant DNA experiments at the Bio Labs...
...rare example of a Harvard professor following this lead is E.O. Wilson, who contributes the 60 cents in royalties he makes on each copy of "Life on Earth" from students in Bio 1 (amounting to about $100) to the Harvard scholarship fund. "Of course, I don't regard this as something I would expect others to do," Wilson says...
...Harvard scientists opposing the ban damaged their case critically long before entering the City Council chamber. They did so by insisting that the lab containing this potentially dangerous research be built in the antediluvian Bio Labs, in the middle of one of the nation's most crowded cities. A simple, political, but not necessarily correct decision, would have been to void that choice, and propose a new facility built from scratch...
...boards within the University. If a resident had been involved in 1965, perhaps the potential dangers of the accelerator that exploded may have been more easily recognized. And, if a resident had been on the biohazards committee at its inception, perhaps the proposal to place the facility within the Bio Labs would have been recognized as being outlandish. As it is now, Cambridge's entrance may be too late; Harvard scientists have established the rules, and any review board may be forced to play ball with them...
Ruth Hubbard '45, professor of Biology, said yesterday she opposed any plans for conducting recombinant DNA research using E-coli in the Bio Labs...