Word: wiesner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also considerably narrowed the freedom it once allowed in research. Emphasis has shifted from basic to goal-oriented research. Furthermore, to be eligible for federal grants, scientists must increasingly comply with a growing list of rules and regulations, some of them clearly too stringent and cumbersome. M.I.T. President Jerome Wiesner worries about the effects of the extraordinary amount of paper work required to obtain a federal grant. Usually the scientist, or his university, must fill out endless fact sheets crammed with trivial questions. OSHA wants a copy; the Defense Department requires five...
When Paul E. Gray, chancellor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), replaces Jerome B. Wiesner as president of the university in nine months, he will inherit a town/gown relationship free of daily strife but prone to fits of tension...
...will take office when Jerome B. Wiesner, the current president, retires July...
...Wiesner, the current president, said he plans to remain at MIT, devoting himself to teaching and research...
...needs," the letter read, "and which presumes to occupy permanently a region populated by 750,-000 Palestinian Arabs, we find morally unacceptable, and perilous for the democratic character of the Jewish state." Among those who signed were Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Saul Bellow, Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome B. Wiesner, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...