University Dailv Kansan. April 21. 1982
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Professors debate data restrictions
By PAMELAGILFORD Staff Reporter
The KU Faculty Senate Research Committee held a public forum at Harrison to discuss making the KU policy on classified research more liberal.
Existing policy guidelines, established in 1969, discourage research projects that involve information that cannot be made public, and that would not national defense reasons or the proprietary interests of a private corporation.
Panel members were John O'Brien, associate professor of systematics and ecology. Earl Huyseur, professor of geography at the University of the Kansas Geological
For the most part, the speakers opposed loosening current restrictions on classified information on classified secondary classification" of one year on keeping secret information.
Survey; and Anthony Genova, professor of philosophy.
Also, students' theses or dissertations cannot contain any classified material.
companies getting the information before they have a chance to acquire leases or file patent applications," he said.
"The flow of information and communication is crucial to maintaining the freedom of inquiry and the vitality of the university system," O'Brien said. "However, the University could benefit from new equipment and increased funding that would accompany an increase in classified research."
BUT BUREAUCRATIC red tape that surrounds classified research can get just plain silly, Huyser said. He said that once he was not allowed to look at a report that he had written himself with his security clearance had expired.
Lebesty said that researchers in the earth sciences found it hard to get companies to let them use restricted data.
"They are concerned about rival
Part of learning to do research included discussing research and exchanging ideas with colleagues, he said, and when he was a graduate student, he had found discussing work only with his professor very restrictive.
research was misrepresented or itself classified.
Genova said that classified research had the potential of seriously compromising the investigator or his students if the true purpose of the
He said that increasing reliance on such research would make the University too subject to the Golden Rule. He who has the gold makes the rules."
A heated discussion followed the forum. Jan Roskam, professor of aerospace engineering, said he thought the restrictions on classified research impinged on his freedom to do both classified and unclassified research.
"The work I did on the X-29 fighter enables me to teach that particular aerospace design better than my colleague without the security of my crew."
John Davidson, professor and chairman of physics and astronomy, suggested keeping classified research
restricted to west campus to help maintain security.
"I was at Columbia when the H-bomb was being developed, and it didn't really work in the university environment. People at universities don't really believe in security, and it's almost too much information," the information won't flow." he said.
But lack of access to classified data in some fields prevents the University from staying at the top of those particular fields, Richard Moore, professor of electrical engineering and remote sensing, said.
The guidelines for classified research are set by the Faculty Senate and subject to the Board of Regents' approval. The Faculty Senate Research Committee is meeting in April 30 and is hoping for further opinions from faculty members.
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