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Political demonstrations, a student symposium and a heavy emphasis on social issues marked the 136th annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston during the vacation.
More than 90 Harvard faculty members and students presented scientific papers and participated in symposia during the six-day meeting of the country's largest general scientific society.
Among the more unusual symposia was a student-run discussion entitled "The Sorry State of Science-A Student Critique."
"We showed by example that science and technology, especially the latter, do not occur spontaneously, but usually follow the directions of funding," Mark S. Tuttle, a third-year graduate student in the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, told the group. "Science and technology are enhanced or repressed by the...
Addressing an audience of more than 300 people, the Harvard and M.I.T. students in the symposium first showed slides of pollution and weapons while playing Dylan and Beatles recordings such as "Happiness Is a Warm Gun."