Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Navy has eight or nine operating AGERS (meaning Auxiliary General Electronics Research ships) similar to Pueblo, but it is unlikely that any are now cruising the hostile waters off North Korea. While these vessels are considered inferior to the EC-121s for electronic surveillance-the planes can pick up high-angle radar beams more easily than the ships-the AGERS are more versatile. They monitor radio broadcasts, collect water samples needed to develop sonar penetration methods, track Soviet submarines, and observe and photograph surface shipping...
...Dartmouth College, state troopers cleared the administration building of students protesting ROTC; 45 students were later fined $100 each and sentenced to 30 days in jail. At Johns Hopkins, students demonstrated against military research and recruiting on campus. In Indiana, state troopers used Chemical Mace on Purdue demonstrators. At Washington's Howard University, federal marshals fired tear-gas rockets to flush 100 protesters from six buildings they had seized as part of a drive to make the predominantly Negro school more "relevant" to the capital's black community. The worst incidents occurred at Manhattan's City College...
...university is already, in their view, a de facto political institution. Politics, they argue, is concerned with how and by whom a society's resources shall be directed. As they see it, universities have become political not only by training people for social roles but by performing Government research and supporting official policies. Thus, universities now share the blame for causing the nation's ills. The activists believe that they are merely redirecting the American university, yoking it to needed reforms and to the drive for a better society...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, several hundred faculty members stopped work for a day last March to dramatize their mounting concern over the institution's heavy involvement in scientific research for the "militaryindustrial complex." Subsequently, M.I.T. decided to decline new contracts for classified war research until a 22-man committee can re-examine the school's ties to the military and report back to President Howard Johnson next fall...
...Standing Committee's other two major concerns Musgrave said, will be the development of an Afro-American Research Institute and "some thinking" about tentative course offerings in AAS for next year's concentrators...