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Before that happens, however, sociologists are busily examining both the phenomenon of Skid Row and its social meaning. In New York City, a three-year survey, financed by the National Institute of Mental Health and manned by Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, has dramatically revised the stereotyped image of the man on Skid...
...Brandeis University So-(1939) ciologist Samuel E. Wallace, who helped organize the most recent Bowery research program, "the fact that Skid Rowers share both money and drink is perhaps the most conclusive proof that most of them are not alcoholics; alcoholics would find it exceedingly difficult to exercise the control dictated by group drinking." The New York study also revealed that Skid Row is not the end of the road in the usual despairing sense. Its residents do not fall there, but actively seek it out because it has what they want: odd jobs without purpose or future, a community...
Four Harvard scientists have decided to scrap their regular course lectures on March 4 in sympathy with a nationwide research stoppage protesting the misuse of science...
Initiated by M.I.T. graduate students, the protest is being honored at M.I.T., Yale, Cornell, and 30 other universities. According to William Haseltine, graduate student in biology, coordinating the March 4th effort here, the one-day research stoppage and protest was designed not only to focus attention on military use of science but also to point out a need for a "more rational basis for the development of science...
Large amounts of research funds "are being spent in the interest of international competition and warfare," said Haseltine, and these funds should be channeled toward social rather than military ends...