Word: researchers
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...producing society's key skills and specialists. Bigness has eroded the university as a community?just when campuses are flooded with students yearning for community. To many students and some professors, the university is now a giant corporation that manufactures human cogs for other corporations while performing "complicit" war research for the country's alleged militarists. "The college, after all," says L. D. Nachman, a young radical political theorist at the City University of New York, "functions as the personnel bureau of American society." Indeed, once the university is postulated as the linchpin in a hopelessly corrupt system, it becomes...
Absurd as the charges often seem, they cannot be easily dismissed. No other nation has remotely matched the U.S. ambition of higher education for all. Yet, if enrollment has doubled in ten years, the results are mixed. One reason is the sheer incoherence of big, bureaucratic universities that allow "research"?much of it trivial?to overshadow everything else. Jacques Barzun likens the current U.S. campus to the medieval guild which "undertook to do everything for the town." The university today, he writes in The American University, "aids the poor, redesigns the slums, advises the small tradesmen, runs a free...
...Research has turned scholars into entrepreneurs, switching their loyalty from universities to the Government or corporations that pay the bills. As universities raid one another's top scholars, the stars take their research grants with them, as well as their close colleagues. Where faculty members were once devoted to their university, many now focus on their own movable fiefdoms. Worse for students, they view mere teaching as an onerous chore. Graduate students do most undergraduate teaching, while top professors shuttle to Washington to advise men in power...
...sent to battle against the Vietnamese and other liberation movements all over the world. ROTC is only the least subtle of the university's many contributions to the U.S. foreign policy of domination, but our fight against ROTC threatens the status quo in courses, admissions, research, investments arid disciplines as well...
Even before Karp died, rumors began surfacing that the artificial heart (technically known as an orthotopic cardiac prosthesis) had been developed at least partially with funds assigned to a DeBakey research team and that it had been used without adequate testing and without DeBakey's knowledge or permission. The National Heart Institute has asked DeBakey and Cooley if federal funds were used in the development of the device. If so, said Dr. Theodore Cooper, NHI's director, its use was subject to federal guidelines covering human experimentation. He explained that these guidelines stipulate that "if experiments are going...