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...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...
Ruth Hubbard '45, professor of Biology, said yesterday she opposed any plans for conducting recombinant DNA research using E-coli in the Bio Labs...
...immediate question," Pattullo said, "is whether Harvard should approve the building of this containment facility on the third floor of the Bio Labs." Much of the debate at Harvard and nationally has centered on how stringently isolated such facilities must be in order to ensure that no new, potentially dangerous organisms escape...
...procession of problems is endless. Late one afternoon he's on the phone, steady, for an hour, motioning with his free hand while he talks: "Yeah, 20 people missed that one. Yeah, it really does meet at that hour. Yeah, we have to give you a Bio exam at that time, so a proctor will pick you up and escort you there..." He keeps at his fingers a "special case book," a bluebook filled with the names of students who have somehow gotten out of the strict and orderly progression of exam period...
...negative answers, then I have to stop and decide whether I have some good reasons for going to medical school. Those questions are integral to what I foresee as my future, yet, if I cannot relate a career in medicine to them, then did I struggle through organic and Bio 2 for nothing? And even if my career does not interfere with my long-term goals, is scratching my way to and through medical school worth all the time and money if it is not related to my goals, and if I risk losing some of my commitment...