Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barti Haile, both nonstudents, being treated at Ben Taub Hospital for cuts and bruises. > Stanford activists published a 31-page collection of university documents that were "liberated" (stolen) during a sit-in last May. Among them: a detailed list of faculty salaries, plus strong evidence that Stanford values researchers far more than teachers. According to the filched papers, a political scientist admired by students for undergraduate teaching gets $6,500 less a year than professors known best for research. One memo from a department chairman ridiculed an able teacher for publishing little besides a revision of his doctoral dissertation...
...become a Faustian dilemma. In the age of antiwar dissent, M.I.T. still gets more money from the Pentagon-$108 million last year -than any other U.S. university. The result has thrust M.I.T. to the forefront of a growing national debate: What role, if any, shall universities play in war research...
...dispute at M.I.T. only marginally involves the school's on-campus research, which received $17 million from the Pentagon last year. This is generally thought of as "clean" money, since it finances nonsecret research-into computer technology, for example. The issue, rather, is what to do about the off-campus Instrumentation and Lincoln labs, which get the lion's share of the Pentagon cash. They operate with so much independence that M.I.T. administrators exercise virtually no control over what projects they undertake. Although they do some civilian work on space projects, including Apollo moon flights, the "special labs...
...past years, graduate students have acted as research assistants but never as members of CFIA panels. Joseph S. Nye Jr., Research Fellow in the CFIA. described the new program as "another step in our program to make the Center available to a wider range of students" and as "an effort to make the Center a more lively place...
...Graduate Associates-doctoral candidates writing their theses-will attend CFLA seminars and lunch meetings and will share their research papers with staff members. Each will hold a renewable one-year appointment...