Abstract
PROD presents here the full text of a statement released on November 24, 1959, by the Academic Freedom Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union. Committee members chiefly responsible for the substance of the report are Julian Sturtevant (chemistry, Yale), Lyle Borst ( physics, N. Y. U.), and Arthur Murphy, committee co-counsel. They outline the effects of contract research on the university, and ask, "Is it in the interest of society to permit the universities to lose a large measure of their authority in shaping the development of their own affairs?" The objective review of the situation for which they call falls well within the scope of the political researcher.
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