Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Project would use M.I.T. computers for social science research funded by the Defense Department. It has come under radical attack as an alleged aid to counter-revolutionary warfare.
The sponsors of the resolution-including Ptashne and all 12 members of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-want the Faculty to vote on the resolution at its regular meeting, in order to take the strongest formal stand against the war.
Over the past five days-since the Biochemistry Department announced last Wednesday that it would sponsor the resolution-members of the group opposing a formal vote have tried to convince the others to withdraw the resolution.
Only the day before. Doty had announced his support for the withdrawal resolution. He had originally been the only member of the Biochemistry Department to withhold support; he changed only after Ptashne reworded the resolution and included a preamble saying that the vote was not precedent-setting.
The entire computer program will cost about $100,000. Four groups are sharing the cost: The Faculty, the General Education Department, the Committee on the Computation Center, and the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics.