By Peggy Curran, published 2010/02/09 in University City (Montreal Gazette)
The campaign to Demilitarize McGill will live to fight another day.
Or at least another month.
McGill is citing a procedural glitch for postponing a vote at Wednesday’s Senate meeting on a controversial rewrite of the university’s ethics guidelines for research.
BY PATRICK LEJTENYI
Published February 11, 2010 in The Montreal Mirror
Campus peaceniks at McGill are preparing for war. The casus belli: weapons research done by the university’s scientists that will now be unrestricted by a 23-year regulation designed to make such research transparent and open to public scrutiny.
The world lives, and dies, by inventions spurred by military need, and funded by Defence Department budgets.
So should universities shun money from military sources, or welcome it? And if they court it, should there be strings attached — such as mandatory disclosure of the potentially harmful applications of military-funded research?
New policy is too vague on ethics, according to student representatives
By Stephanie Law
February 11, 2010, The McGill Daily
The absence of restrictions on potentially harmful research in the new Regulations on Conduct of Research policy continued to raise concerns in Senate on Wednesday.
The new policy was originally up for approval at Wednesday’s Senate meeting, but due to an administrative oversight, the policy was only briefly discussed. McGill Vice-Principal (Research and International Relations) Denis Thérien explained that the Academic Policy Committee must approve the policy before it is brought to Senate, which had not been done yet.
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Students and community members are distressed by changes proposed in the Regulation on the Conduct of Research – a policy statement that governs the conduct of all research taking place at McGill. The policy up for approval has been the subject of extensive criticism and involves the complete removal of a section requiring transparent reporting on research receiving military funding. A votefor approval of the policy will take place in Senate at approximately 15h00 on Wednesday February 10th in Leacock Building Room 232. Concerned students and community members will be in attendance. Continue Reading →
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