Word: researchers
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...small and cautious one, though. Universities, he feels, are obliged to offer access to higher education for all who qualify, to provide training in those professions that have an intellectual component (such as law and medicine), to make expert advice available to Government decision makers, and to staff Government research projects that do not threaten to exhaust the university's stock of traditional intellectual capital...
...become "seriously in conflict with the no less important ideal of the pursuit and acquisition of truth." His chief case in point: affirmative action programs affecting faculty hiring. Calling the power of faculty appointment the "most crucial" of academic matters, since it affects the quality of a university's research and teaching, Shils charges that Caesar "wishes to displace intellectual criteria and to diminish their importance in order to elevate ethnic and sexual criteria. [But] he has no right to intrude into the internal processes which enable universities to perform their proper functions; he has no right, although he might...
...challenging hiring decisions, and even demanding to review private dossiers on faculty applicants, Government affirmative action officers cause "misappointments" to tenured faculty, doing harm, warns Shils, "that lasts for a long time, longer than the villainous harassment of Senator Joseph McCarthy." Shils worries too about the size of federal research grants. Though they allow for "overhead" expenditures such as office equipment and utilities, the grants do not cover the full costs of research since they fail to cover deficits incurred in the original training of faculty members...
...tenants. To them, rents are an easily identifiable and ever increasing part of their budgets, even though the rent component of the Consumer Price Index since 1967 increased only 71%, while the CPI as a whole went up 107%. Says George Sternlieb, director of the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University: "Such people know the evils of rent controls. But in view of their immediate concerns, many have adopted an attitude of 'I'll worry about posterity tomorrow...
...power probably will be able to provide no more than 5% of the nation's energy needs by the end of the century. But there is potential for more over the longer term, now that an increasing number of large companies are putting more effort and more money into research and development. Unlike conventional centralized power stations with their huge distribution networks, photovoltaic cells can be located where the demand is and, in time, can probably be mass-produced...