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...official policy that the CUHS permissiveness becomes more evident. In some ways, the Committee sets looser standards for non-government research than the government-- that is, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare--sets for its own. For example, HEW tends to view informed consent--the concept that, before participating, subjects should clearly understand both the risks of a study and their right to withdraw from it at any time-- as the keystone of regulation. But at Harvard, according to Pattullo, informed consent forms are "seldom required...
Most striking, perhaps, is that the CUHS does not require that all research projects be reviewed. The Committee must, by law, review any HEW-funded study at least once a year. But for other research, much is left to the discretion of the investigator...
...automatically require that they come to us," Pattullo explains. "We rely more heavily on the good judgment of the investigator than HEW does." Pattullo believes the Committee reviews about three-fourths of the research actually performed at William James...
Ruth Colker '78, task force co-coordinator, said yesterday that impetus for the joint task force resulted largely from a report to the University made last spring by Walter J. Leonard, assistant to President Bok, who criticized Harvard's lack of progress in fulfilling HEW requirements...
...HEW now is belatedly tightening up. It has charged nine schools with violations of loan-program rules, begun testing in California a computerized system of monitoring the status of loans, added 70 new field investigators, and established a staff of eleven people to keep a close eye on lenders who have outrageous default records. In addition, several bills before Congress would forbid students to declare bankruptcy shortly after graduation simply because their student loans exceed their assets. The Nunn subcommittee is expected to recommend prohibiting many schools from making Government-guaranteed student loans, and making it a federal crime...