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Harvard Law School (HLS) bowed to increased pressure from the government in 2002, and allowed the military to recruit through their Office of Career Services. The University risked losing $328 million in federal funding if it did not comply...
...with coiled razor wire near the Cambridgeshire village of Alconbury. Inside the fence, a sign reads: working for a better future. This is Huntingdon Life Sciences, which tests new compounds for the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and biotechnology industries. Defended by many as one of the world's leading scientific companies, HLS is denounced by others as an "animal Auschwitz" for its vivisection work...
...HLS says the research it carries out is crucial to developing a range of new medicines that may ease the suffering of millions, as well as safer chemicals for use in agricultural and industrial products. "If you believe that what you do is essential work, important in protecting people and the environment," says Andrew Gay, the company's marketing director, "you don't get a much more ethical business than ours. In fact, it would be unethical to not do what we do." Since 1999, HLS has been pounded by a group called SHAC, or Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, formed...
...simply because it is controversial." Says Mark Matfield, executive director of the Research Defence Society and the University's expert witness at the appeal hearing: "Cambridge has world-class scientists. They need the facilities for them to work at that level." While the proposed lab has no links with HLS, SHAC is also taking a keen interest. "Do these people really think that we're going to let the largest primate-neuroscience lab in Europe be built?" Avery asked at the appeal hearing last December. "We will undermine [the university] tactically, financially, with the press, with the tourists. Cambridge will...
Before Summers determined that the Harvard Law School (HLS) would stay in Cambridge, a report by that school argued that if it was to move, HLS would be best suited by a riverfront plot on land currently occupied by the College’s athletic fields. Some College officials, in turn, have sought to assert their primacy over the fields...