Word: wiesner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fount of military research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the nation's major defense contractors. Military money makes up a big part of the university's budget, but Provost Jerome B. Wiesner is far from pleased. He thinks M.I.T. is too much in thrall to military-industrial interests -and time after time he has snapped at the hands that feed his university. As President Kennedy's science adviser, he fought for the nuclear test-ban treaty, opposed manned lunar exploration and launched one of the first big probes of dangerous pesticides. A critic...
...choice reflects M.I.T.'s slow transition from dependence on military research to greater independence in harnessing technology for social needs. In his five years as provost, Wiesner has played a leading role in helping M.I.T.'s outgoing President Howard W. Johnson begin that transition-an agonizing process in the midst of inflation and shrinking Government research funds...
Wrong Priorities. A brilliant electrical engineer with degrees from the University of Michigan. Wiesner did basic work that helped develop the long-range radar of the DEW line. He favors pure research, which sometimes has potential military applications. "How else can we decide whether to build these things?" he asks. By contrast, he opposes university work on weapons hardware and complains, "It is very hard for us to look to Government for support in areas like urban problems and educational research. The Government doesn't have the right priorities...
Paul M. Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, believes that Wiesner's main job will be strengthening M. I. T.'s non-scientific and technical departments, especially the humanities...
...This department is seriously limited." Doty said, "and I feel that Wiesner will try to remedy this through first-rate appointments to the field...