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Proposed guidelines
may hurt researchers
(Continued from Page 1) president for research.
ersity from supporting research which "I think (the proposals) have always
has "substantial purpose.... to destroy been the position of the Vice President
or permanently incapacitate human for Research," he says adding that the
beings." current mechanisms for reviewing
The University has enforced similar research are adequate.
guidelines for classified research since MOST FACULTY members police
1968, but the current proposal has themselves when considering research
sparked campus-wide controversy for projects, Price says. Regent-approved
the past year. guidelines are not necessary, he says.
Under the proposed guidelines there But proponents of the guidelines say
would be a committee in every school to faculty members are not doing an
ensure that research does not destroy adequate job of restricting their
or incapacitate human beings. The research.
guidelines also propose a central com- "I think there is weapons research on
mittee to oversee the groups in each campus, and I think people know they
school. are doing weapons research," said
IN EFFECT, these guidelines would Donald Rucknagel, chairman of the
hurt the University, says Daniel Atkins, human genetics department in the
an associate dean in the College of Medical School.
Engineering. The current policy used RESEARCHERS are usually too in-
does a sufficient job screening out har- volved in their work to consider the
mful research projects, Atkins says. consequences, Rucknagel says.
"(The guidelines) might have an ef- "Professors have figured out too
fect on our ability to attract top quality many ways of rationalizing (weapons
faculty," Atkins says.
In addition, national companies and research)" he says.
the Defense Department in Washington Guidelines, however, might notdo
may "rule out" the University for Chairman of the Chemistry Depar-
research funds, he says. tment Thomas Dunn. There are so
BUT WHETHER the guidelines are many research projects being done on
approved or not, the final decision on campus, it is unlikely the guidelines
research lies with the researchers, could be enforced.
Atkins says. "At some some point we "It would be administratively un-
just have to rely on the principles and workable," Dunn says. "I don't see that
integrity of our faculty." there is any way that all applications
Most University faculty members for grants could be monitored and
already follow the proposed guidelines, decisions made (about individual
says Alan Price, assistant vice research projects.)"
THESE ALBUMS AND
r MANY MORE NEW RELEASES
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
Walesa forbidden to meet Pope
WARSAW, Poland - Secret police entered Lech Walesa's home yesterday
and placed the labor leader under "house arrest" in an effort to keep him
from meeting Pope John Paul II during the papal visit, Walesa said.
But Walesa vowed to try to meet the pontiff, despite orders from three
agents in his apartment not to leave without them.
"I consider myself under house arrest," Walesa told The Associated Press
by telephone from Gdansk, the Baltic seaport where his now-outlawed in-
dependent union, Solidarity, was formed during strikes in August 1980.
"I shall pack up my things for Czestochowa at 1600 hours, 4 p.m. Friday,
whatever the consequences," he declared. "and that is that."
The Polish-born pope was to arrive today. Vatican officials have said
privately that they hope to arrange a meeting between the pope and Walesa
and his family, possibly on Sunday in Czestochowa. The pope is to spend
three days in that city in southwest Poland.
Commission finds laek of minority
hiring in Reagan adninistration
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Civil Rights Commission released a draft re-
port yesterday that criticizes President Reagan for failing to appoint more
blacks, women, and Hispanics to high-level federal positions, a
spokeswoman for the agency said.
The commission met Monday to discuss its draft statement on minority
hiring, three weeks after President Reagan announced his intention to
replace three members of the commission. All three of those members, ac-
cording to The New York Times, voted in favor of the critical hiring
statement.
"There have been more women in the Cabinet than there ever were" un-
der his administration, Reagan said, noting he appointed the first woman -
Sandra Day O'Connor - to the Supreme Court.
State may boost small eollege aid
LANSING - Michigan's small colleges would get an 8.5 percent spending
hike, instead of the 7.5 percent increase approved by the Senate, next year
under a bill approved yesterday by the House Appropriated Committee.
The committee - acting on a series of Senate-passed budget bills for the
1983-84 fiscal year - retained a 9 percent hike slated for the state's three
biggest schools, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and
Wayne State University.
U.S. may reimburse losses of
WWII Japanese internees
WASHINGTON - The 120,000 people of Japanese descent who were intern-
ed behind barbed wire by the federal government during World War II suf-
fered income and property losses of between $149 million and $370 million,
according to a study released yesterday.
The report was issued as a prelude to a government commission's recom-
mendation on whether to compensate those held in bleak barracks in
desolate areas during the first 2 years of the war.
The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians is
expected to call for compensating the evacuees and their heirs when it
makes its recommendations next week to Congress.
In a report three months ago, the commission called the episode "a grave
injustice" and found no justification for it. The panel said no real threat of
espionage or sabotage ever existed in the Japanese community in America.
The panel blamed the episode on race hatred, war hysteria and a failure of
political leadership.
Expressed in1983 dollars, the loss to the relocated Japanese would come to
between $810 million and $2 billion.
Chilean poliee arrest dissident
SANTIAGO, Chile - Police broke down an apartment door and arrested
the military regime's chief labor opponent before dawn yesterday after hun-
dreds of thousands of Chileans heeded his call for demonstrations against
the government of President Agusto Pinochet.
Detectives smashed their way into the Santiago apartment where copper
workers' leader Rodolfo Sequel was sleeping and took him to their
headquarters for questioning about Tuesday's "Day of National Protest,"
which ended in street disorders, the death of a teen-age boy and 644 arrests.
The copper workers met to consider a nationwide strike and issued a
statement dissociating the union from the disorders. It blamed the unrest on
a deliberate lack of police protection in working-class districts and accused
the government of arresting Sequel "to minimize or hide its responsibility."
"Far from aiding the search for solutions," the arrest "shows that the
government does not want peaceful methods of overcoming the grave crisis
Chile suffers," the statement said.
The government said the Interior Ministry had ordered Sequel's arrest
and promised to put the 29-year-old labor leader at the disposition of the
courts. No charges were announced.
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