SECRET RESEARCH - BUDGET CUTS MAY FORCE UD TO DROP BAN

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• Publication Date: January 31, 1982
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By JANINE.i11QUE1`.: ; r
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L, of Delaware -'in effect
since the Vietnam War protests -
. may' end bp a casualty of the Rea-
'gari biidg-e ad - ;
Ending the ban! ver
alternatives tbat bniversittadirnin-`
istrathrs are considering.to' brac'
the school against expected cuts In'
-government-research funds for
non-classified work: ~.~
.The other alternatives; propdsed
'by- an eight-member committee
appointed last spring to reconcile
the need for t'nore inortey with the
ethical questions involved lit se cre_ t
government.research, are:
:' i- To.''creae.h legally''?eparate,'
ibff-campus institute fdr,secret
research: ' - .: ,
o To setup a panel of senior face;
ulty Members to review; propbsed
projects and -decide *on theirL snit
ability.
? To retain the ban
Unlyesl Y Ar'~~Iden'
e re,t'.bti~hast
dot raid's heh~'he will present thatter., &'ihe:'University board of'
trustees:
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? Trabant. warned the - trustees' at
their. December meeting that an
increased Defense Department
.-budget and an emphasis on building
military str?erigth means that'more.
money will go to secret government
research' than to non-classified.
work.
- Over the?next.fe'.years..
sources of federal'support, o
research) will change, and- it Will
have.'an. effect'.on ,thejeducational
`
pprogrAnis'of bui',.udiversity,t. .Tra=
bant said.
'The real dollar backing of
research by' the National Science
Foundation, willidecline nlarkedly
?over- the' flext; ietl-?;yeai's: In' some
'universities;fthere ;will Pei- , sub-'
stantial lncreise: hi 4research sup=
port. from, the Department, of
Defense. Th-question is. will Ibis
occur at our:uhivcrsity," he said. '.
While Trabant apiarently was'.
ppriming the inidersity's trustees
for the cba$ge in policy, Henry L-
Shipman, a physictl.professor and
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31 January 1982
S muy r o ce
'''T.t.
is playing down the prospects of
renewed classified research at the.
university.
The decision to allow secret work`
in university facilities may not be
made for several more years, Ship.
man. said., although officials. see::a
trend in the direction of funding.:.
The university's dilemma and_
the temptation it faces ?- can be '
seen in the budgets of three federal=
agencies that dole out -billions of
dollars to researchers every year:
-=:In?1980, the Nation2l'-- Science
-Foundation and the National' Insti.
?tutes'of Health distributed about $3
billion for academic=research:;-The=
university received $3:9 -million?-
from those two agencies in the
1979-80 school year.
The Defense-: Department
research budget last year was more
than five times the-combined bud-
gets of the two- agencies,. topping'.
.$16.5, billion..-The university
received only-about $500,000,
according to . a, university adminis=
-AXAW
.In fiscal 1982, =Defense,:Depart-
aient?spending for research has
grown. to almost -$20 billion:.-The
budget of the National: Science
Foundation was cut :by almost $1`
.million; and the-budget of -the
National Institutes of Health;. while
increased about 2 percent; has less,
spending power if inflation is-taken
into account, according 'to _ spokes=
fKY ` ~
men for the agencies." = ,.
Pentagon officials will 'not say'
what portion of theirbudgetw ll go.
for classified research - that
information itself is classified ..
but Shipman said the prevailing
opinion among university educa
tors is that-aruch- of -it:will:go
:toward classified work:'; .: ?
- And the university, which will see'
less money from the National Sci-.
=ence Foundation -and :from the.
National -Insitututes of Health
must decide whether to go after'
some of those defense funds.
According to James Oliver, a
political science professor and
committee member, there is more
at-stake than simply deciding.
whether secret research -should be
"You have a more profound ques-
tion," he said. "What is the relation-
ship of government to the academic
community? Those of -us who came
-out. of grad school during the late.
'60s and early '70s may not look at
it the way our colleagues who came
out earlier do." -
Near the end of the Vietnam War
-=and for some years afterward -
? many universities shied away from'.
:government research that could be
:used by the military. But in recent'
years, they have been more willing,
to accept contracts forrdefense-
related research, while at the same'
:time looking for ways to.avoid the,
appearance of impropriety. .: '
-One alternative proposed :by the=
:University of Delaware.cammittee
is modeled after.the,appproaeh
taken by NIIT _and `Johns Hopkins,University=; the creation'of an
%"arms-length," off-campus
-research institute, to conduct gov
:; Although-.the concept-is only in
:rough outline.. form; Shipman says;
the committee'.proposed-creating-:
an institute affiliated with the?Uni:
versity of,Delaware.with facilities'.
available to 'faculty'members and
scientists from outside theschool. It
.would be "located somewhere"not.
too far, but fairly remote, " be,said,-
adding that lfoc"kessin bad been
mentioned as a possible site.
Shipman says the reason for seek-
ing an off-campus site is to avoid
'the effects that the facility might
-have -if it were .on campus. "I
wouldn't want to see buildings on
this campus with "No Admittance'
signs on them," be said. "It. could i
have?a chilling effect on people."-
Committee. member.Robert C.
Dean, a professor of civil engi
neering, said another alernative is
the formation of a group of disin=
?terested senior faculty members to
pass judgment on'. which projects
will be accepted-and which will
.not. .:
"There?are different types of
classified research," he said, "some
of which I would classify as a little
on the sinister side. This type of
research should definitely not be
done; the question is who should
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