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Nevertheless, the strength of the movement reflects the growing reluctance on the part of the public to allow science absolute freedom. "Research is not a neutral activity," says Eric Segal, a member of the steering committee of Nuclear Free Cambridge, "It has implications outside the lab" Drawing as an analogy regulations to control noxious pollution emitted by manufacturers, he argues that communities have the right to limit the work that local businesses do. "We have a lot of respect for scientists, but the government and not the people must have some say in these decisions." Uniting those who call...
That hasn't stopped some from trying. One of the class's celebrities (a group which includes the Governor of West Virginia, who couldn't spare four days off), novelist Erich Segal says he finds Harvard selling a bit too hard. The Harvard of his novel Love Story. Segal says, "was fiction. It was Shangri-la This is trying to make that fiction a reality. We've all come here to believe that fiction. The object is to make you cry, like my book, but you know what the difference is? Love Story costs you two dollars and 50 cents...
Other studies of prisoners and hostages have also pointed up the importance of maintaining a sense of control over one's environment. NIMH Psychologist Julius Segal was astonished to learn that one of the American hostages in Iran achieved this by saving a bit of food from his meals and then offering it to anyone who came into his cell. That simple coping strategy had the effect of turning the cell into a living room, the hostage into a host welcoming visitors...
According to Nuclear Free Cambridge Organizer Erich Segal, however, at least 10 other nuclear free localities in the United States and about 50 others are considering similar measures...
...Harvard decided they wanted to build a nuclear bomb, they couldn't, but both [MIT and Harvard] have specific policies against nuclear weapons research," Segal said...