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Effort reports, however, are, as Mendelsohn put it, a "petty method" to account for government funds. "Our work cannot be so neatly divided," he said. Raoul Bott, professor of Mathematics, who like Mendelsohn must send effort reports to the NSF, concurred, adding that "these things compromise our integrity...
Early last month, Smale sent a request for an renewal of his grant to Haworth, the NSF director. Haworth wrote back, saying in part, "that, in light of Professor Smale's performance in the administration of the present grant, we cannot tender a new grant to the University (Berkeley) based on the proposal in its present form...
Bott said Tuesday that the NSF pointed to certain irregularities of Smale's trip, such as receiving travel expenses from another group, returning to America on the "France" violating the NSF rule that American vessels should be used on financed trips, Bott felt that such irregularities "are of such minor nature that a more realistic approach would have been just to tell him, 'Look, just be more careful next time...
Bott admitted that he had a "certain amount of sympathy for the NSF" but added "I think they did wrong...
...NSF has also received letters in support of Smale from M.I.T., Columbia, Brandeis, and Berkeley, and fifty faculty members of the University of Pennsylvania signed a statement, in which they said they would refuse to accept any from the NSF until the Smale rsy is settled favorably