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Harvard and the State Department are at odds over a recent State Department request that universities reveal information to the government about Chinese students doing research in technology-related fields...
State Department spokesmen this week said they did not intend anything sinister by the request, which was sent to universities in the form of questionnaires about Chinese students' plans of study and their contacts within the institutions...
...Daniel Steiner '54 general counsel to the University, this week called the request "an interference into matters at the very heart of the academic enterprise." He added that Harvard will not respond...
...spokesman also said that "potentially, it's undeniable that restriction is implicit" in the department's information-seeking. And another department official on the China Desk called the request "a mistake, a routine thing that got carried out a little overzealously; if there's anyone who cares about expanding relations with China, it's this office...
...instance, in a letter to an editor at Horizon magazine, apparently responding to a request to sit for a photograph, Thurber writes...