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Universities are using the basic research issue as a "red herring," Anne Eskesen, director of Small Business Resource Development Center, said yesterday...
Although the shuttle is now operating on a "minimum flight plan," National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials are "very optimistic" that a full mission can be accomplished, as long as the two remaining fuel cells continue to function at acceptable levels, Mack Herring, a NASA spokesman, said last night...
...feel good that we can play it one day at a time," Herring added, saying that technicians and specialists will make daily determinations as to whether the flight can be continued...
...like everyone in ROTC is a warmonger." After a moment's pause he adds, "Anyway, if you did worry about it you'd be worrying all the time wouldn't you?" In any case, as a flight-test engineer--the job he hopes to land after graduation--Herring admits that his chances of actually seeing combat would be slim. "But if I was assigned to work with weapons I'd do it," he says. "After all, it's just a job--I'd do what...
...police arrested 300 Harvard students for occupying University Hall in protest of-among other things-the ROTC presence on campus, and the scars of that traumatic upheaval seem to have healed and faded, if they haven't disappeared entirely. The number of college students preparing to do Herring's "job" and others like it for the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force has more than doubled over the last five years, and although Harvard no longer hosts a unit of its own, it has kept up with this national trend. The Air Force ROTC program at MIT, which also accepts...