FACULTY DEMANDS U. OF PENN. END GERM WAR PLAN

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 2014
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• Publication Date: November 15, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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? PHILADELPHIA ? Faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania demanded', .
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`,1;;1?' ;.last week that the school's $485,000 Air Force contract ongerm warfare ? known *?:.
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Project Spicerack ? be dropped, .?
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the steering committee of. the a germ. warfare prpjcet at Rut
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1100 fully affiliated members of ??? able in the, murderous uses to -1":' His name, along with that ofe, ,:?;t:::.?:;.%
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'the faculty. . 1:.:..other Pentagon scientists, .. ap-i 4.0,
.,:*which ? the results of this ' re .,
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Dr. Julius Wishner, psychol7-:1?search will 'be put." ? i peared on a Rutgers University!,-)!
; ogy professor and chairman of ' i. Harwell said last Friday that cj. letter requesting written ? re-...
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. -... * ?the steering committee told The lopposition 'to the contract had ..:Search proposals from . the ci-3: .,
. ?? ? ? [.Worker that ? the steering corn- '
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vilan scientists, to be ubmitted:
. .. . mittee acted after Dr. Gaylord..I.tional disturbance in the faculty t.,:
'::no later than Nov. 21. The or-;,( f.
- ? T. Harnwell, University pregi- :.?ganization sponsoring the pro-I:,
'.which impairs their effective-
); ness," and has insisted that the
dent had asked it to investigate ! ject .was not identified in . the,!, .
:IC and made a recommendation to )1.research concerned only "de... ?.,letter, which alluded only, tol-,:.
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::':1!. 'him 'about the project. ,fensive aspects" of germ war-'..."the research program that we:?:,
r Harnell announced last week,'.! '.',discussed with you recently." .? ?
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following the steering commit- ,. But Dr. Knut Krieger, head .,.?.: Krieger has been identified. in? .7.,
r 'as well as the University's'ee's recommendation, that the' ??
school was attempting to farm '?'
of Airforce Project Spicerack -"American Men of telence" as;1:.?
:interested in "chemical and bi-:;...
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out the contract. ? He said he : r Army 'Proje ,ological warfare." :
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was trying to transfer the pro.;.
lect work to another institution.
Many institutions, he said,-
mitted that research includes Dr: Walter Braun, professor,g
of " the spreading of rice famine, f microbiology at Rutgers an
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and the aerial dispersal of in- a signer of' the letter, has de-,1
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have been approached. He jnen-_. fluenza, anthrax-, and aiienie and nied tInt the research . is foril ..,
?;_tioned?particularly the Universi- ?cyanide compounds. . ?the purpose of germ warfare.,:i 1.Z
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t..ty City Science Center, reported-- ? Krieger, as reported in the .? However, as The Worker point-.;i..,.
ily a subsidiary of the Univers-i? October 30th Worker is a par- ed out, the fact that ihe worlt..;n.
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, rity.., The University is a major I: tici i t
pant - n a current attempt is financed ,by the Army'and,i
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many of the Center's employees I 'stockholder in the Center, andl:.
to recruit civilian 'scientists for
? "the long range ?emphasis is i
:?the Air Force. indicates that.c '.?..
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!,:?I't t nounced; the Faculty Senate .the recommendation Idvas an- ? ''
,,..s,?:;-?::! I t,voted, 209. to 1.31, to establish
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';?'F'i',.,1-,:','.? ic'.a committee to review all con.: ?
'',Y?'',':: : tracts now held by the Univers- 1
-1 ;?.:ity, .to determine if they vio- ..
... !late the school's secrecy policy. i..
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'The policy states that results',.
research Clone at the Univers-' ?
, ..'....:::. Eity must be "freely publishable".',
? .. 'i:, ? ., It was-. established a year ago :.
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. ;:t : t.,following protests by the Phil-
":-? !,. 'adelphia Committee To End the''
1:War in Vietnam against the ????
:1 ; i campus ? Institute For Coopers- .7
, 3..,tive Research. The ICR con-
;.d .. !ducts research on biological and ?
' : ghemical agents in warfare.
, ?; i ) The End the War Committee ;-
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,?,:,4??,: noted in a letter to Harwell in :!,
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'?'Jetober 1965, that the research
$...:?? ? t?was intended for ' use against
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Ask UN Condemn
Germ, Gas War
'THE HUNGARIAN delega-
.tion to the UN introduced a
resolution to the General As-.
sembly last week condemning
the use of chemical and bac-
teriological weapons. The res-'
olution asked that use of such
weapons be declared an Inter-
national crime, and that -the
Assembly demand a strict ob-
servance by all states of the
ban on these weapons, in ac-
cordance with the Geneva
Protocol of June 17, 1925.
The Hungarian delegation
charged that the U.S. has
made extensive use of cheml-
,cal and bacteriological Welt-
pona in..Vietnam. ? ,* ? ?
,hardly a humanitarian one."' ,!
;A spokesman for the' Faculty
Senate. steeving:bonumittee sidd4I
?j?that the. group. has mot .y14 dis..9 ? .
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