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...world. But members of the University community have been using their particular expertise to make a buck for several years. In 1974, when harvard rejected participation in a public works project in Saudi Arabia because the government wanted to exclude Jewish emplyees, for example, two professors went ahead to consult on their own with the Saudis. While the Ptashne affair dealt directly with the question of University involvement with the outside world, it resulted in refocusing attention on outside activities of individual professors...
...University does accrue benefits while its faculty members are pursuing their self-interest. One professor of Biochemistry said his ability as a professor increased tremendously because of his contact with the "outside world." In general, faculty members say that when they consult, they keep abreast of new developments, so the university as a whole is much better off academically...
Despite the risks, real or imagined, extensive or miniscule, Eckstein and others believe that a University that allows its professors to consult will ultimately profit. "Suppose Harvard took a different approach and didn't allow any research," he says. You would not have people on the frontier of the sciences." Griliches concurs, noting. "You could say, 'Too bad, you have to stay home.' But would you be better replacing people in high demand by people without opportunity...
...details of courses and shows. The exchange is meant to be scholarly, intellectual, academic in the most benign sense: the university shelters the theater, gives it space, limited financial support, and a presumably interested audience; the theater gives the university a "living library" of drama for its members to consult...
There were two problems, Burger concluded in his opinion. First, no one warned the defendant that whatever he told Grigson during their 90-minute talk could be used to sentence him to death. Second, he was not allowed to consult his lawyer beforehand. Said Burger: "Just as the Fifth Amendment prevents a criminal defendant from being made 'the deluded instrument of his own conviction,' it protects him as well from being made the 'deluded instrument' of his own execution." Smith was not the only suspect to be deprived of these warnings; some 60 other condemned prisoners...