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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1978)
T Graphic by Jm Payne wor Universit supported by CIA money CIA funds have been paying for a medical research project at the University of Oregon Health Sci ences Center (UOHSC) in Port iand, newspapers reported during the Christmas holiday. Two UOHSC researchers sol icited the agency funds to pay for studies in physician-patient rela tionships to find out how a doctor’s speech habits can affect a patient’s well-being. Special techniques such as varying speech tempo were studied to see if they caused doc tors to be perceived as being more empathetic. The project, conducted by Drs. Joseph Matarazzo and Arthur Wiens, has been annually funded by the agency since 1967 at $50,000 per year. “The CIA has made absolutely no demands on our research.” says Matarazzo, project coor dinator. "All our results have been published in the public domain and are open for anyone to see.” Matarazzo says his project is “basic research” and that the _ study has “not developed any Mondays 7-9:50 pm 214 Friendly TLN7045 ES 315: to wction from Wakamatsu to Manzanar, from Luzon to Yakima, from Canton to California, from Pyongyang to Seattle....the birth of a new sensibility. Explore the history of Asian America through its literature. By TOM WOLFE Of the Emerald specific techniques” to help doc tors deal with difficult patients. "We may have some specific results in the next couple of years,” says the doctor. “But up until now most of the things we’ve found would interest theoretical scientists.” Matarazzo says the application procedure he used to receive CIA funding is no different than that used for other government sources, including the National Institutes of Health and the Na tional Science Foundation. The doctor says the CIA “has been interested in bio-medical re search for many years, much of which yields no immediate results. They may fund projects in esoteric areas which may have some be nefit only in a long-range perspec tive.” Since hearing of the CIA funded project, Paul Olum, Uni versity vice-president for academic affairs, says he has confirmed that the University itself has no CIA-funded projects. The UOHSC is administratively independent of the University. Aaron Novick, graduate school dean, confirmed that the Univer sity has no CIA-funded research projects: “There never have been,” he said. Faculty legislation from the 1960s prohibits secretive re search or siudy under any re search funding formula that pre vents or limits the publication of research results. An unidentified spokesman says the agency supports a "great deal of University research," al ways with knowledge of the in stitution administration. While some of that support goes to pro jects unsolicited by the agency, the CIA solicits and pays for many more projects of its own, the spokesman says. Unsolicited projects are re veiwed internally by the agency. ‘ Our own people are eminently qualified to review research prop osals,” says the spokesman. Projects solicited by the agency may be unclassified (results are public) or have some degree of restrictive classification. Results from and information about clas sified projects are controlled by the agency and closed to public scrutiny, though they may be chal lenged under the Freedom of In formation Act. Sixty-seven CIA documents re lating to political activity on U.S. college campuses were declas sified in November following a challenge under the act by the Campaign to Stop Government Spying. Labor workshop slated Leona Sibelman, a labor management specialist with the U.S. Dept, of Labor in Washing BANANA SPLIT SALE Buy 1 st the regular price I get the second lor only t cent TODAY k only 13th & Hilyard Dairy Queen DUFFY’S lith e Alder ^ ' / . SCANDAL IS BACK TONIGHT, ^9-1 ($1 cover) X Friday & Saturday night 'Scandal 9-2 .($1.50 cover) . ■%. Special: The first 100 cover charges each night receives a £ree Scandal record! ion, D.C., will conduct a workshop on contract negotions Friday through Sunday The workshop, sponsored by the Labor Educa tion and Research Center at the University, will be presented at the "Keg and Ratter" restaurant in Salem. Participants in the course will actually negotiate a contract, tak ing “labor” and "management" roles. Although a settlement is en couraged by the trainers, some negotiations result in “strikes” or lockout.” Trainers sometimes enter the negotiations as “mediators” if proceedings be come deadlocked. Other parts of the workshop in clude a presentation on the lan guage of collective bargaining, films, a lecture-discussion and various program exercises. r On Franklin Boulevard across from Williams' Bakery. Open 7:30 A.M. until 10:00 P.M. Advises on business, love & personal direction. Jamil P.O. Box 10154 Eugene, Oregon 97401 Phone anytime: 342 2210 484 2441 PSYCHIC J
