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...dean called the room situation "better than last year," when 37 students had to live in off-campus housing. But he predicted trouble next September, because the entering freshman class is larger than anticipated...
However, you create a false impression when you state that the U.S. Government supplied 83.6% of Caltech's "operating income" in 1958-59. This figure was obtained by lumping together the campus program with the very large budget for the off-campus Jet Propulsion Laboratory. When one considers only our campus operating budget, the Government's share is only 40%. The same situation applies to the other universities you mention; namely, Johns Hopkins and M.I.T...
...universities that operate large off-campus enterprises are doing this as a service to the Government in supplying important research activities essential to Government responsibilities. It is incorrect to give the impression that we are almost fully Government-supported...
Bucking Big Science. One way to take the pressure off universities is to take the load of big research projects off the universities proper. At hand is a convenient device: the great research centers, mostly war-bred and usually off-campus, which universities run under contract to federal agencies. They include California's Los Alamos, Livermore and Lawrence Radiation Laboratories; M.I.T.'s Lincoln and Servomechanisms Laboratories; Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory...
Though he prefers keeping research and teaching under one roof, Chicago's Chancellor Beadle is impressed by the system in Britain, where medical research units work off-campus, "free of teaching chores and administration overhead." One fervent advocate of expanding the U.S. centers is Physicist Alvin M. Weinberg, onetime researcher at the University of Chicago and now director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Worried that universities are being invaded by "Big Science," which turns professors into "operators" frantically "spending money instead of thought," Weinberg suggests that new technical universities and graduate schools be clustered around the centers...