Carl Takei '02, President of the Brown ACLU and a founding member of Students of Color Against Censorship, a new group formed to oppose the coalition of students who stole the copies The Herald, e-mailed Blumstein to urge a stern response . . . Takei was concerned by reports that during a meeting with Herald editors Monday night some members of the administration expressed agreement with the claim that the advertisement was a racial assault and a form of hate speech. Over the next four years Davis intends to build three Institutes for Science and Innovation, multidisciplinary research centers that the governor hopes will boost the state's economy . . . This unprecedented collaboration comes in the midst of a national crisis in the academic community over industry-sponsored research. The evidence is alarming.
Corporations suppress the results of critical studies.
Medical researchers hold stock in the companies whose products they are testing. Scientists are forced to sign confidentiality agreements as a condition of their grants. Graduate students are pressured to work on corporate-sponsored projects outside their area of interest. And administrators consult for corporations that also sponsor their college's research . . . A coalition of mostly minority students had seized an earlier edition of the paper.