Bet Texas Tech would take the contract and there would be no such protest. 
And so it goes...
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Defense Department Retracts Statement That It Gave Yale $1.8 Million Grant For Green Beret Training
NHRegister, 22 Feb 2013
Opponents of a controversial military training center at Yale University declared victory Friday, after the Department of Defense said no such center will be created and apologized to Yale and the citizens of New Haven.
“Don’t for a minute believe that the proponents of the interrogation center changed their minds out of the sheer goodness of their hearts,” Yale graduate student Daniel Spaulding told a group of about 20 people rallied outside of Yale’s main library.
“We showed them our power and they gave way. That’s an incredible achievement,” Spaulding said.
Over the past week, public outcry against the proposed Center for Excellence in Operational Neuroscience reached a national audience. The brainchild of Yale School of Medicine psychiatrist Dr. Charles Morgan, the center would teach communications skills and interviewing techniques to small groups of Green Berets, with volunteers from the city’s immigrant community used as interview subjects.
Criticism came from students, alumni and city residents.
“We request that Yale disassociate itself from Dr. Charles Morgan, repudiate these practices and repair its potentially flawed relationship with the immigrant community by engaging the targeted communities directly and in substantive ways,” said a statement released Friday afternoon by the local activist group JUNTA for Progressive Action.
“As a city that has worked to establish itself as a welcoming and inclusive city for immigrants, the idea of targeting immigrants specifically for the purpose of identifying the distinction of how they lie is offensive, disrespectful and out of line with the values of New Haven,” the JUNTA statement said.
Confusion over the proposed training center was rampant. The Department of Defense initially said it had awarded a $1.8 million grant for the creation of the center, while Yale released a statement saying the proposal had not been formally submitted.
The university also stressed that no center would be approved unless it complied with strict ethical standards and a proper review, in keeping with other medical research.
Yale reiterated that stance Friday afternoon, in a new statement, but admitted that “in this case, the review should have occurred at an earlier stage of discussion. A Center for Excellence in Operational Neuroscience will not be established at Yale University.”
Meanwhile, the military retracted its earlier statement about funding.
“After a review of the facts, we have determined the information initially provided to and released by this office concerning a center of excellence for operational neuroscience was incorrect,” said Ken McGraw, deputy public affairs officer for the U.S. Special Operations Command, in an email to the Register Friday.
“U.S. Special Operations Command has not and will not provide Yale funds to establish a USSOCOM Center for Excellence for Operational Neuroscience,” McGraw indicated. “We sincerely apologize for any problems, concerns or confusion releasing the erroneous information has caused Yale, its student body and the citizens of New Haven.”
At the small victory rally Friday, participants vowed to remain vigilant in keeping tabs on medical research at Yale that might be used for military purposes.
“This is the way to fight totalitarianism,” said Wendy Hamilton, a retired nurse who lives in New Haven. “The danger, for me, is, why the hell are medical people doing research for the Defense Department?”
Michelle Morgan, a doctoral student in American Studies at Yale, said she was worried about “an increasing military presence on campus.”
She also said she was uncomfortable with the idea of using local immigrants in a program to teach interviewing methods to the military. “Interviewing, to me, seemed like a friendly euphemism for interrogation,” she said.
For Spaulding, the incident pointed to a troubling “lack of transparency” at Yale regarding how it conducts research.
“There isn’t a system for bringing up ethical concerns with the administration before projects are approved,” Spaulding said. “This was sort of a fluke that we learned about it in time, a lot of people got upset and we were able to do something about it.”
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