Opposition to military research in the university is gaining momentum across the country. Students, faculty and professional associations are pressuring university administrators and U.S. Government agencies for changes in the military-university complex. While the specific issues vary from campus to campus, official reaction is more consistent, usually intended to create ambiguity and divide the opposition.
Campus military research and operations are crucial to manipulation and domination of the course of Latin American development. Counter-insurgency projects, based on the assumption that revolution is pathological but controllable, are heavily dependent on social science data for prioritizing objects and organizing field work. Because most of this campus activity is not secret, many academicians fail to see the obvious and subtle dangers it presents, both to the educational process at home and the independent revolutionary development abroad.
A weekend conference will be held at the University of Chicago on Nov. 11th and 12th, jointly sponsored, by NACIA, Students for a Democratic Society, the University Christian Movement and the Radical Education Project. The conference will attempt to clarify local experiences and to facilitate the development of new strategies and tactics for confronting campus military and counter-insurgency research. There will be panel discussions, speakers and workshops. Literature will also be available. Registration will take place Friday evening (6-8 p.m.), November 10, at the U. of Chicago, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St. Housing and eating facilities will be provided.
A partial list of speakers and panel members includes: Carol Brightman, John MHDerott and Mike Klare (all of Viet-Rep rt); Carl Davidson and Cathy MacAffee (SDS); Christopher Lasch (Northwestern University); Sol Stern (Ramparts); Judith Coburn (IPS); David Ransom (Mid-Penn Observer); David Rudin (Cornell Sun); and Eleanor Langer (Science Magazine).
