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...research, on "charmed meson decays," was supported in part by the Rowland Fund, a grant program in the physics department. Howard Georgi '68, chair of the Physics Department, was his advisor...
...Miller. All had been funded before and were recommended again by peers. But all emphasize sexual issues, including feminism and empathy for gays, which are flash points for the right. Finley, for example, appears nude to decry abuse of women, and has been assailed by the conservative syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. One performance artist who survived the censors' scrutiny, Rachel Rosenthal, said that although she "needed the money badly," she would refuse it in protest. Another, Richard Elovich, vowed to divert some of his $5,000 to artists whose grants were canceled...
...Every organization or country that indicatesit is boycotting meetings here because of the[Helms] bill makes it increasingly difficult forus not to change what we have in place right now,"Rowland said...
Officials in Washington expressed hope thisweek that Harvard's letter threatening to withdrawsponsorship of the conference, which was sent tolawmakers, Bush Administration officials and AIDSgroups, will help Rowland's bill...
Conservative columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak predict that Finley, whose work has been supported in the past by three NEA grants ($22,000 in total awards), will be the next target of outrage -- and opportunity -- for enemies of the endowment's funding. Finley, the columnists warned, could become "the Mapplethorpe case of 1990" if her latest request for support is approved. Last week that suggestion of scandal was enough to shake the National Council on the Arts, the beleaguered body that oversees grants recommended by NEA panels. The council voted to postpone until August its decision on all grant...