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Universities do not confine their business activities to their nearby environments. Ridgeway describes how some have turned themselves in major beneficiaries of profits from drug discoveries made in their laboratories. Indiana University holds the patents on Crest toothpaste, Rutgers on the drug Streptomycin. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation at the University of Wisconsin provides the university with over $2 million annually, much of it derived from royalties on inventions made in the Foundation labs. (Warfarin, a leading rat poison, is the best known of these...
...still unsatisfied. In some cases, uncompromising campus militants seem more interested in disorganizing college administrations than in reorganizing curriculums. Often, they are succeeding. And school authorities and government officials, for the most part, are taking an increasingly hard-line approach to the student rebels. Items: >At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, National Guardsmen were called in to restore order after black students and their allies had disrupted classes for three days. "The university will not be closed down," flatly declared Governor Warren P. Knowles, who first sent in 900 troopers, then dispatched another 1,000 the next...
TOWARD achieving most of the 13 black demands, the student protest went as far as it possibly could. University chancellor H. Edwin Young outlined what was being done to recruit more blacks--faculty and students--and promised to do more to get a Black Studies department established. But Wisconsin is not a tightly organized private university; all the black changes require the approval of several of the school's various faculties and ultimately the Wisconsin state legislature which approves the final budget each year...
With 2000 National Guard troops on campus the dramatization was more than anyone expected. The State of Wisconsin reacted as if it were setting an example for the country: if you don't know how to keep your kids in line, Wisconsin can sure show you how. The Governor compared the black protest to every campus demonstration in the last two years...
Blacks have vowed to continue their protest this week, but they have asked their white support to return to classes. The situation at Wisconsin -- a stalemate from the beginning -- remains a stalemate now. Wisconsin has had its protest this year; the Guard has gone home. The 13 black demands will now go before university and legislative committees where a few will be adopted in a modified form while university officials sift through demonstration pictures to single out black leaders for punishment...