Word: gores
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...there was no industrial money involved--we are still scientists first." Referring specifically to the House hearings, he says that "like anyone else, Congressmen are interested in gaining publicity when an important event occurs. That was their main motivation." After grilling Lamont-Havers, one committee member, Rep. Albert Gore (D. Tenn.) emerged from the conference room to tell reporters that the ultimate victims in the Hoechst case may be American taxpayers who have indirectly supported fundamental research that will now benefit foreign investors--a "technology leak," as one of his aides later called...
Most scientists seem less concerned about Gore's patriotic rhetoric than about the possibility that universities will reshuffle research agendas to suit corporate needs. At a recent meeting of 400 Canadian and American university administrators in Toronto, Roderic Park, vice-chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley said, "Proprietary research has no place on campuses. Students and faculty members must be able to pursue their research where their interests lead them and publish it for their own career benefit," according to a report in The Chronicic of Higher Education. But Olsson says that, if necessary, the Med School...
...just such a set of guidelines that would probably mollify Rep. Gore, Vice-Chancellor Park and others, Lamont-Havers concedes, adding that Mass General has been hard at work on regulations for industrial affiliations since 1975. In his annual report, Bok said he would urge the entire faculty to hasten its efforts along a similar vein...
...course, is proposing that politicians legislate scientific restricitons for universities. "In all of this, there has never been an indication that Congress would intervene directly, only through encouraging schools to keep track of what they are getting into," says an aide to Gore. And when the emotional speeches about Faustian dilemmas give way to policy making, universities may well end up having things as they wish. Before she took her position with the NIH. Doris Merritt served as dean for research at Indiana University, and, like most government officials with an academic background, she still trusts the scientific community...
...while he was rising in the busi ness world: "I got pretty damn good." Chicago Realty Mogut Evangeline Gouletas awards herself an ovation on the eve of marrying Governor Hugh Carey of New York: "In Chicago, they love me. In Chicago, I am already First Lady." Novelist Gore Vidal confides why the New York Times published a favorable review of his new book Creation: "They're desperate for me to write for them...