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r ——— Cite mismanagement •V JOIN US - and meet foreign students . . . « Federally sponsored research -J H and learn more about other countries, cultures . . . in universities is declining ond use your native English Language creatively ... by Jay Stevens Special to The Spectrum Welfare audit of 1977 research projects found $410.7 million (out of a total government research budget of $1.2 billion) inadequately accounted. Investigators unearthed widespread failure to document work performed, multiple payments for the same job, flagrant double dipping, use of federal money to pay for non-federal work, changes of terms in federal contracts, and failure to document purchases of equipment and supplies. Yeshiva University, for example, over-charged HEW an estimated $670,000 in fringe benefits. The University of Minnesota was found to have no documentation for about 69 percent of the salaries and wages claimed for the period July 1, 1972 to June 30, 1974. Similar bookkeeping errors were discovered at the Universities of Oklahoma, Mississippi, Iowa and through much of the University of California system. In fact, almost all of the 100 schools engaged in federal research were guilty of some fiscal mismanagement. The government has agreed to let the schools re-pay the misused funds at the rate of 10 cents on the dollar. Dr. Wiesner, for one, insists that the mismanagement is not grave enough to warrant Circular A-21 and some of the other proposed changes. ond register in FOR 499. . . (CPS) - The once-cozy marriage between the government and universities engaged in federally-sponsored research is at an end, apparently soured by fiscal mismanagement and a recent federal vogue for ‘cost accounting.’ EARN UNDERGRADUATE CREDIT By being a Conversation Leader and/or a Tutor working pritb Foreign Students in the Intensive English Language institute. The loudest warning about the possible consequences came at the annual meeting of the National Council of University Research Administrators last November. There, Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. Jerome B, Wiesner mourned that the “floundering” relationship could leave the U.S. lagging behind Japan and West Germany in technological development. Deteriorating government-academic relations, he said, has “dulled the sharp cutting edge of university research which helped bring the nation to world prominence in science and technology,” What Dr. Wiesner and his colleagues in the $4.4 billion field of federally-sponsored research object to, are new regulations imposed by the Office of Management and Budget. The tough new rules prohibit federal expenditures for the “indirect costs” of research, like library purchases and research assistants. Under those rules, graduate students can no longer be reimbursed for time spent on federally-sponsored projects. FOR INFORMATION CALL 636 2079 - 838-3382 Evenings ask for Ann Larson I Peking Garden re c s ™ E rant Real Chinese Food Specializing in Spicy Mandarin Food ALL YOU CAN EAT But the new rules were also motivated by a federal concern with moonlighting: the professorial practice of earning outside income through consulting work. An estimated two-thirds of all professors do some outside consulting, work. The result, many fear, is that educators are nearly becoming lobbyists. Can a professor who is a paid consultant of the food industry, for instance, maintain the academic objectivity needed for research into food additives? Moonlighting profs Stanford University, for one, predicts that curtailment of money for indirect costs will amount to a $4.5 million annual loss to the school. The university plans to make up the loss in tuition increases. • EVERYDAY - 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm ONLY $6.25 per person weekdays $6.50 per person weekends Fiscal mismanagement The new regulations — Circular A-21 in bureaucratic parlance — also call for stricter accounting of research contracts. It’s a condition, say the researchers, that’s antithetical to the spirit of experimental research. Circular A-21, according to Dr. Wiesner, “serves only to reinforce the current trend to evaluate and measure research in terms of pure cost accounting.” 1487 Hertel Ave. — 833-8766 11:30 am — 10 pm The federal government, in turn, wonders if it should be paying for that research. It’s even beginning to act. In 1976, it dunned Stanford for $153,000 ih rebates because seven professors hired as government researchers were spending too much time consulting for other clients. 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