Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overhead payments for research contracts will be about the same as last year. In terms of past performance, however, that leveling-off represents a drop in Faculty income. Until last year's cutback on government research, overhead payments had been steadily rising by at least ten per cent annually...
...this point rain began again and everyone headed for Building Seven, the main administration building. A 15-minute march through the building's winding corridors-chanting "Get off your ass, get out of class, end war research" and "John Brown, live like him, dare to struggle, dare to win" -ended with the demonstrators about a block away from...
...support full discussion of the problem of war-related research," their statement read. "We affirm the right to non-violent political demonstrations on the campus...
PEACEFUL demonstrations are clearly appropriate and necessary forms of protest against such abuses of university resources as MIRV and ABM research. But movements such as NAC too often appear to depend on crude forms of power polities to make distinctions about appropriate university activities. The tone of NAC statements suggests that they are willing to move as far along the continuum as their power allows in stopping "objectionable" university practices. "Building a movement" implies creating a political force which will at some point have enough strength to coerce other segments of the university into ending certain activities...
Besides preserving the integrity of the university, peaceful demonstration and persuasion will best serve the radical cause. The NAC procest will never "stop" research on MIRV. though it may-if it gains enough power and exacts the necessary price from the university-stop MIRV research at M.I.T. The same individuals who are doing research on MIRV at M.I.T., however, can do so equally well at other institutions-ones similar to say. the Rand Corporation-where they will be free from interference from protesting students...