Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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They then presented case histories of research funding in the drug, spacecraft, and computer industries and in the social sciences to illustrate the thesis that, according to the students, "science serves the ruling class and corporate interests, not the people."
At other symposia during the convention, student members of the Science Action Group interrupted scientist speakers to ask questions and heckle.
The first confrontation occurred at a panel on Arms Control and Disarmament, chaired by George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry. Student questioners attacked some panelists for their involvement with the Department of Defense.
Scientists in the audience generally disapproved of the interruptions. "Ithought it was rather silly for the students to attack these men as tools of the establishment since they were working the hardest to change" the direction of the arms race, said John T. Edsall, professor of Biological Chemistry, after listening...
The student groups, however, were divided in their tactics. The Columbia Ecology Action Collective vigorously attacked speakers' personal backgrounds as well as their symposium statements. "They came in cold and used a lot of smear tactics," commented one moderate student leader. "We like to think we did our homework and...