Harbey’s HMNR
At One University, Tobacco Money Is a Secret
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/us/22tobacco.html?_r=1&scp=11&sq=vcu&st=cse&oref=slogin
Questions:
1. Do you think that universities can get money from companies when the results are secret?
2. What should be the values in the investigations and contracts in the universities?
3. In your opinion, what are the social and ethics universities’ responsibilities about investigations?
Vocabulary:
- Patent: the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- Dwarfed: An abnormally small person, often having limbs and features atypically proportioned or formed.
- Transparency: something transparent, esp. a picture, design, or the like on glass or some translucent substance, made visible by light shining through from behind.
Vocabulary from: dictionary.com
In addition to this piece of news, have you heard of any other recent problems connected to VCU?
No, I don’t have heard any other recent problem connected to VCU, Have you ever heard any problem? Next wednesday there is a meeting about that problem in Town Hall Meeting organized by the VCU Task Force on Corporate Sponsored Research. This group has been charged by President Trani to review the process of how VCU conducts business with corporate sponsors of research. The Task Force will hold this
meeting on Wednesday, September 3, 2008, from 4:00 until 6:00 p.m. in the Commons Theater of the University Student Commons (907 Floyd Avenue, on the Monroe Park Campus).
