NIH’s new policy to put limit on grant money awarded to researchers

By overstating findings and publishing studies based on preliminary data, scientists are confusing the public and undermining valid research . . . Epidemiology is a crude and inexact science. Eighty percent of cases are almost all hypotheses. We tend to overstate findings, either because we want attention or grant money.

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In Honor of Adolf Sprudzs

International Journal of Legal Information ◽

10.1017/s0731126500014402 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 280-281

Author(s):

Gerhard Casper

Keyword(s):

School Library ◽

Development Program ◽

Law School ◽

Steady Increase ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

University Of Chicago ◽

Foreign Law ◽

The Law ◽

Grant Money ◽

The University

Adolf Sprudzs, Foreign Law Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Bibliography, came to the University of Chicago in August 1965. At that time the Law School Library had initiated a development program which aimed at the in-depth acquisition of legal materials for the European Economic Community countries and some other selected areas of the world. The appointment of Mr. Sprudzs was an essential step in the successful implementation of this program. The Law School already possessed a particularly rich collection of French and German legal publications, inter alia, and a faculty that included several European-trained law professors. The most influential of these was Max Rheinstein, who was instrumental in the growth of the foreign and comparative law program at the University of Chicago. The partnership of Professor Rheinstein and Mr. Sprudzs combined their great knowledge, interests and talents. Mr. Sprudzs’ ability to inspire faculty support led to the development of a comprehensive retrospective and current foreign and international law collection within the guidelines of the program. However, the real challenge to Adolf Sprudzs’ resourcefulness began in the early 1970's. As grant money became scarce, prices and the volume of legal publishing began a steady increase and the value of the dollar declined. Mr. Sprudzs was realistic in his assessment of the possible support of the collection and focused the scope of the collection in the areas that were of long-term research interest at the University of Chicago. He worked hard to increase European alumni support and to maintain the friendship that the foreign law graduates feel for the University of Chicago. His close contacts with these alumni, as well as with other librarians and law teachers in Europe, have often enabled the Law Library to acquire materials and obtain grants that would otherwise have been unavailable.

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Government and Media: Visions and Revisions

Humanity & Society ◽

10.1177/016059768100500301 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 201-215

Author(s):

Vincent Mosco

Keyword(s):

Coal Miners ◽

Auto Workers ◽

The Past ◽

The Media ◽

Independent Media ◽

Grant Money

Historically, the independent media producer's involvement has consisted of documenting the struggles and confrontations of other groups. Coal miners, auto workers, anti-war demonstrators, plutonium victims have all had their stories told by committed and supportive video- and film-makers. There has been relatively little attempt by independents to direct their energies to changing their own material position within the dominant media structures. If these structures were considered at all, it was to make use of them – garnering the air time on the news with some Yippie-type action, or occasionally being allowed “access.” … The activity of independents in the past two years has marked somewhat of a departure. Frustrated with the increasingly competitive and unresponsive structures of both PBS and the networks, independents have banded together to press their demands. These demands, however, are not just for access and more grant money. They are now addressing the issue of control of the system as a whole. This is a new fight and one that runs counter to a tradition of political impotence in the media field.

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