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Expanding the gravity studies, Oyama and NASA Biologist William Platt have begun to use a new 26-ft.-radius centrifuge that can be supplied with food and cleansed of waste while it is running. On it, generations of rodents can be born and spend their entire lives under uninterrupted higher G. loads. From the responses of test animals-eventually including primates-Oyama hopes to predict the effects on astronauts of space trips that last for months and even years...
...eight institutions used in the pilot study, whose identities were not disclosed, were divided into three "types": three of the schools were "high quality," three were "moderate" in calibre, and two were "less prestigious," Platt said yesterday...
...universities at the "top" of the higher education system, however, Parsons and Platt found that there is little pressure because the type of person on the faculty of such schools, both junior and senior members, would do research in any case...
...major project, questionnaires and interviews will be obtained from faculty members of 116 colleges and universities, about 10 per cent of the number of liberal arts institutions with accredited four-year programs. From these results, Parsons and Platt hope to substantiate these and other tr ends they found in their initial study...
...will be theoretical, discussing the difference between the organization of a university and the organization of a bureaucratic or hierarchie institution. The other will be a description and analysis of the academic profession "by people who are in it rather than by people writing for the Atlantic Monthly," Platt said...