Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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They also deny doing counterinsurgency work in Thailand, but that's understandable. They always Iie. -Lenny Siegel, New Left Project In the early morning of Monday, October 19, an explosion ripped through two greenhouses at the Inline facilities of the Stanford Research Institute lSRll. Damage was immediately estimated at S60,000. No one was injured. The motive was unknown. No one was claiming credit for the explosion. Rumors had been floating the University of California's Irvine campus that defoliation experiments were being carried out in the greenhouses. But SRI officials denied that defoliation, or any other Defense Department, experiments were being carried on at Irvine. According to Ronald Deutsch, SRI's Manager of Media Relations in Menlo Park, if there was anything related to the Defense Department, it was infinitesimal. Most observers agreed. The same statement was not true, though, regarding SRI on the whole. According to Lenny Siegel of the New Left Project, SRI's work is as bad as it ever was .... They lay out contingencies for limited war in Asia, and do feasibility studies for military projects all over the third world. As a result, at least partly, of the 1969 demonstrations against SRI, the University had severed all ties with the organization. Or vice versa. Many felt at the time of the split that the severance of SRI would end any possibility of redirecting the thrust of its work toward more socially useful projects. The same people now were sure thatthey were right. SRI expected to make S63 million in 1970, up S33 million from the year before. Two-thirds of the work would be done for the government lversus three quarters in 1969ig of the government work two thirds lversus three quarters again in 19691 would be contracted by the Department of Defense. According to Rudolph Brunsvold, Vice-President of plans and special programs at SRI, Defense Department cutbacks were the main reason for the percentage shifts. SRI was apparently doing no research in the field of chemical-biological warfare, crop defoliation, or bomb route cost-analysis. But one third of SRI's defense contracts were said to be classified, and 10'Ms eventually came out with a secret level. Brunsvold summed up the SRI position. We ISRII are a government agency set up by law. We have a mission defined by Congress. We research business, not moraIity. During the Fall quarter, the New Left Project sponsored a War Crimes Commission which, it claimed, might lead to some sort of action against the defendants. SRI was scheduled to be one of those defendants.

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During the past 25 years of Stanford's expansion, courses were being taught badly or out of habit and tradition. There is a push to. decide what services contribute educationally and which others are nice to have, but can be done without. -Dean of Undergraduate Studies James Gibbs Last year the Budget Adjustment Program was formed to cut the operating budget of the university by 32.5 million in four years. This year, due to the increased cost of security, the creation of new administrative positions, non-faculty salary raises, and expenditure levels which were forecast too low for division operations, the goal was reset at 33.5 million in cuts and the program was lengthened one year. The situation was not critical, but it was serious. Stanford's income was growing at the rate of 6-7 percent a year, expenditures, unfortunately, were increasing at twice that rate. Projected deficets were to be met by the use of unrestricted general funds, but even these funds were limited. In balancing the budget, priority was to be placed on retaining minority employment, student aid, and the mix of tenure and non-tenure faculty. Cuts were first to be made on the administrative side, then the academic side. Ray Bachetti of the Provost's office rejected 'across the board percentage slashes' as 'irresponsible and mindless.' The cuts, though, did hurt. Faculty stagnation was becoming a serious problem as faculty expansion ceased. Dean Al Hastorf attempted to counter this danger by replacing openings left by retiring senior professors with junior professors with new ideas. Humanities were especially hurt. The Stanford Repertory Theatre had already lowered its final curtain. The Speech section of the Speech and Drama Department was in its final year. The Debate Team was desperately searching for outside funds. But most important to the student, despite Kent Peterson's, manager of analytical studies, remark that tuition is not the way to solve the financial woes lof the universityj tuition was going up again.

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