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After appearing at the NIH gathering and a subsequent set of hearings before the Science and Technology Committee, Lamont-Havers expresses impatience with "many deliberate misconceptions" associated with the Hoechst agreement and adds that "of course everything will be published as if 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...
...recent gathering of the NIH advisory committee, Donald Fredrickson, director of that agency, questioned an official from Massachusetts General about whether the quality and independence of the hospital's research would be compromised by industrial support. Ronald Lamont-Havers, director of research at the facility, defended the Hoechst agreement as specifically designed to preserve academic integrity, adding that similar fears were raised 30 years ago about increasing federal funding for campus research. He noted in a recent interview that without the government, which today supports 75 per cent of the nation's biomedical research universities would "never have achieved anything...
...Lamont-Havers contends that a corporation will not necessarily begin dictating research policy to a university or hospital just because it helps support work going on there. He told the NIH that Hoechst's main interests are to obtain up-to-date information and have a place to train its best young scientists. Alan C. Olsson, dean for resources at the Med School and one of the masterminds behind the Du Pont deal, agrees emphatically, saying that although Du Pont has not requested training positions for its people, the company's main interest "is forwarding investigations that will lead...
Cole's agenda for book preservation in Lamont and Hilles includes possible installation of specially reflective windows which will provide "a protective shielding" for books currently exposed to destructive sun rays. Cole adds, however, that such renovations are at present controversial and costly. Beyond those scientific changes, Cole sees "potential conflict" between efforts to save books and save energy. Less heating and cooling of buildings during hours and days when they are not in use means "enormous savings," Cole says, but she adds that wide temperature changes are "death to books...
GUERILLA made headlines again in January, when it organized a "study-in" at Lamont Library to protest the lack of a 24-hour study area in the Yard. About 70 students joined in the quiet sit-in-on Lamont's ground floor after the 1 a.m. closing time. Heather C. Cole, librarian of Hilles and Lamont Libraries, asked the protesters to leave. When they refused, she called Epps, who arrived to say that he would meet with a small group of them the next day. The demonstration ended at 2 a.m. A few days later, the administration agreed to keep...