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Cain joined the ranks of Campus Conservatism cognoscenti only through a chain of rather indirect circumstances. Last spring at his home university he circulated a petition advocating the abolishment of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Cain sent his petition to his local congressman, whose reaction was to transmit a copy to the state police. The troopers responded by having two agents from their Bureau of Criminal Intelligence Interview the president of the University. Most of the two hours they spent with him was devoted to discussion of the 35 professors who had signed the petition...
...prickly instance is the "disclaimer affidavit"-a negative loyalty oath-that students must sign to get federal loans under the National Defense Education Act. Worse is the 15% ceiling on "indirect costs" incurred by universities conducting research under Government grants. In doing research for the National Institutes of Health, says Pusey, Harvard's indirect costs are about 28.5% of direct costs. Last year it spent an extra $1,000,000 out of its own pocket. Harvard and other universities are thus being forced to underwrite federal research...
...Says Director Ray Ketchledge of the Electronic Switching Laboratory: "This should have caused the system to stop, but it didn't. It combined several programs into one of its own and avoided using the open wire." Ketchledge thinks the central's "motivation" to keep running is an indirect result of human instructions. The other possibility: the machine has developed an independent personality...
...Indirect Victim. Under this arrangement, the ballot of a voter in a little piney-woods county was a lot weightier than the ballot of a voter in a large city...
Last week, all of a sudden, Georgia's county unit system was dead. It was an indirect victim of the Supreme Court's recent decision bringing the apportionment of seats in state legislatures under review by federal courts (TiME, April...