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Administrators have also changed the process of determining eligibility for work-study jobs, Maguire said. They will no longer use the amount of money a student's parents contribute to his college cost as the sole factor...
...under Harvard's auspices employ human subjects. Many are in psychology and the other social sciences, but there are others in the physical sciences and biology. Such experiments raise a host of complicated ethical, legal, political and humanistic issues. Research is a cornerstone of large universities, but experimenters who use humans may cause damage, unlike the harmless academics who warm seats somewhere in Widener. By raising questions which demand examination, human experimentation limits the classic unfettered freedom of academic research...
...glance at the notice board in William James Hall reveals the existence of numerous ongoing experiments. The Faculty of Arts and Science Standing Committee on the Use of Human Subjects evaluates about fifteen proposals at each of its monthly meetings. The Timothy Leary acid days are gone, but occasional controversies still occur. Recently a State University of New York (SUNY) professor was sued for an experiment he conducted in which student subjects received electrical shocks...
...voluntary advisory board on experiments to the present Standing Committee, which is empowered to approve or dissapprove the proposals of students, professors and associates of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. HEW guidelines now require all institutions receiving funding to have a committee approve any experiment it conducts using human subjects. The SUNY case only strengthens the federal government's incentive to closely regulate the use of human subjects...
Harvard's watchdog committee is composed of faculty members, students, a doctor, a lawyer, a Cambridge City Planner, and two UHS administrators. All experimenters using human subjects are required to submit their proposals to this committee. Some decisions are clearly determined by FAS guidelines--especially those which involve the use of "physical stimuli, in abnormal amounts," the ingestion of toxic materials, or illegal drugs. But the majority of the cases are not so clearcut. The committee sizes up the issues, and makes its judgement...