BUDGET CUTS MAY FORCE UD TO DROP BAN

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• Publication Date: January 31, 1982
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By JANIN> JAQUET, h;;;':':':.
Newark Burean'eporter
BAN OIL secret government
research at the' University
of Delaware -An effect
since the Vietnam War protests --
may end up a casualty of the Rea-
gan bttgeiruut,,
1 -" Eve a
Ending the bans ,:abe $
alternatives that unversity-:admin
istrators are considering-to brace
the school against expected cuts. In
government-research funds for
non-classified work:'~`'"*~.;~?
The other alternatives; proposed
by an eight-member committee
appointed last spring to reconcil'
the need for more inoriey with the
ethical questions involved lit secret
aaverninent.research, are:
? To ,create h legaIl~i'eparate,
,off-campus institute for, secret
research.
O To setup a panel of senior fac' ,
ulty members to review; proposed.
.,.:University-P esiden
dot'said'wheh;`he will present the.
riiatter ( 4othe? university board of
trustees:..~5?~b?{ r ;
Trabant warned -the trustees ' at
their. December meeting that an
increased Defense Department
-budget and an emphasis on building,
military strength means that more.
money will go to secret government=
research titan to non-classified
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31 January 1982
chairman of the study committee,J ' -you have'a more profound ques-
is playing down the prospects of? tion," he said. "What is the relation-
renewed classified- research at the ship of government to the academic
university.: eo;nmumty? Those of us who came
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.
';In1980, the National.Science
Foundation and the National* Insti=
-tutes'of Health distributed about $3
billion for academic.In 'fiscal: 1982, -Defense:.Depart-
'inent-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 HeaItX- while
increased about 2 percent; has less.
spending power if inflation is-taken
into account, according 'to . spokes-
-men for the agencies.'
work. .` a ~ Pentagon officials will notsay
ver the next f e v+-` e a r s .? what portion of their budget will go.
[sources of federaI`suppart, o for classified research - that
research) will change, and- it 'will "information itself is classified
'have 'ah, effect',ont e:.;educational but Shipman said the prevailing
rogrhrtis of bui';utiiversity,".Tra .opinion among university educa
~,,,,t tors is that-much of it will
o
d
ba
kin
- .-.? ?.
olaOr
c
g
111C real
research by the National Science =- And the university, which will see'
Foundation, willtdeclineimarkedl less money from the National Sci-_
;over the text; few teat In some -ence Foundation-and-from the .
universities;f there ;will. be fit sub , National -Insitututes of Health;
stantial increase trr;riscarchsup- must decide whether to go after'
port from the Department of
p some of those defense funds. ' .. ,; .:
Defense. The-question is, will this
According to James Oliver, a
" he said
occur at our university
.
,
:While Trabant apparently was political science professor and on the sinister side. This type of
projects and .decide 'on their suit-
ability.
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 for.-defense-
related research, while at the same-
;time looking for ways to avoid the
. appearance of impropriety.".,. -One alternative proposed'by the:
University of Delaware . committee
is modeled after.the'approach
taken by MIT .and -Johns Hopkins
:University -- the creation'of an
"arms-length;" off-
campus-,research institute, to conduct gov-'
Although'-the -concept-b only in
.rough outline.:form; Shipman says:
'
the comtittee.proposed?creating
an institute' affiliated with the.Uni-:.
versity of: Delaware'.with:facilities?~i
available to faculty 'members and
scientists from outside the school.?It
-would be located. somewhere:"not
=too far, but fairly remote," he,said,
:adding that Hockessin had been
mentioned as a possible site. i
Shipman says the'raason for seek-
irg 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
have-a chilling effect on people." ?
` Committee-member_.Robert G..;
Dean, a professor of civil engi-1
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
priming the.ilniversity's trustees ?comrruttee member, there research should definitely not be
for the change in policy. Henry L. at stake thaw simply deis cidinmoreg done; the question is who should
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