Word: mit
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...purposes of those who control policy. The Ford Foundation, for example, is the main source of support for 56 per cent of the approximately 200 university foreign affairs centers in the U. S. It has been a major source for centers at Columbia. Chicago, Berkeley, UCLA, Cornell, Harvard, Indiana, MIT, Michigan State, Stanford, and Wisconsin...
...agree that MIT is primarily concerned with education and research. But it has secondary roles which it must perform responsibly. For example. MIT is an employer-of professors, secretaries, janitors. Surely MIT could not say that since being an employer is not its primary function it is free to discriminate in hiring or pay abnormally low wages. Similarly. MIT is a shareholder, and even though this is a secondary role for the university, the university must behave responsibly. It must vote its share in the public interest...
...have heard another objection to MIT's support for us and I have heard it from leading figures on this campus. "Look" they say, "you have to remember that GM gives a great deal of money to MIT and also that Dr. Killian, who may be personally sympathetic to you, is on the GM Board of Directors and is under a lot of pressure...
...course. I understand this argument. But I cannot accept it. I would like to point out that MIT also gets a great deal of money from the Federal Government and that many MIT figures have served or hope to serve in the Federal Government. But does this mean that MIt people, collectively or individually, are barred from criticizing the Vietnamese War, or the deployment of ABM or the Administration's Southern Strategy. Of course...
...MIT is free to criticize the Federal Government, it must also be free to criticize General Motors, Academic Freedom is indivisible...