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...statement was also signed by Jerome Wiesner, president of MIT, and John P. Lewis, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs at Princeton University...
Most scientists believe that a swelling chorus of anti-scientism could jeopardize solutions to the technological problems that so distress Roszak and other critics. "We have created the kind of world we cannot reverse," says M.I.T. President Jerome Wiesner, a presidential science adviser in the Kennedy Administration. "Too many people are too dependent on technology for everything from agriculture to distribution of goods...
...years, it has dedicated itself to science and technology. Currently it is one of the largest defense contractors among U.S. universities, with the Pentagon supplying two-thirds of its $174 million annual research budget. Nevertheless, the Cambridge campus is the site of what M.I.T. President Jerome B. Wiesner hopes will be a "renaissance in which man will replace machine at the center of the stage...
...increased attention to the arts was M.I.T.'s response to criticism from students and faculty in the late 1960s about the institute's dependence on military research. But long after the critical voices fell silent, the arts continued to flourish, largely because of pipe-smoking, affable President Wiesner, 57. To him, "A person is much less of a human being if he thinks of himself only as a technocrat. Society needs the cognitive reaction of a poet as well as a technologist...
...single month. Furthermore, in promoting controversial schemes like the SST, Nixon has tended increasingly to bypass the White House science staff, preferring instead to work through his technology counselor, William Magruder. Thus Nixon's latest moves hardly come as a surprise to scientists. Says M.I.T. President Jerome Wiesner, who was President Kennedy's science adviser: "The reorganization simply recognizes the situation as it has existed throughout the Nixon Administration." More bluntly, Philip Abelson, editor of Science, the journal of the 130,000-member American Association for the Advancement of Science, calls it another sign of Nixon...