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     have gone ahead in the ap- 
     
     plication of genetics to the 
     
     management of insect pests, 
     
     offering benefits to agri- 
     
     cultural and public health 
     
     care. Their colleagues at 
     
     Sussex University in Britain 
     
     have developed new strains 
     
     of nitrogn producing bac— 
     
     teria that could cut down on 
     
     the need for fertilizer. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Industry is attracted by 
     
     the prospects of new pro- 
     
     cesses for the synthetic 
     
     production of drugs, such as 
     
     insulin. 
     
    

    
     Yet if some of the fast - 
     
     producing deadly organisms 
     
     were to escape from the la— 
     
     boratory in the course of 
     
     experiments they could pro— 
     
     duce plagues that would make 
     
     the Black Death of Medieval 
     
     Europe.look trite, for there 
     
     would be little hope for 
     
     control. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     have been known to escape 
     
     from laboratories. Only re- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘cently, smallpox escaped 
     
    
   
   
    
     from Porton Down, Britain's 
     
    
   
   
    
     top security laboratory con— 
     
     cerned with micro — biologi- 
     
     cal research. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Although the problems are 
     
     comparable to those associ— 
     
     ated-with nuclear fallout, 
     
     in that it effects every— 
     
    
   
   
    
     one, John Kendrew, deputy 
     
     director of the British Med- 
     
     ical Research Laboratory of 
     
     Molecular Biology, thinks 
     
    
   
   
    
     it's worse. 
     
    

    
     ". . . in my opinion our 
     
     present problem is even more 
     
     difficult. For early nucle- 
     
     ar research was contained 
     
     within a govermental milita— 
     
     ry framework while gene 
     
    
   
   
    
     ,transfer can be done by any 
     
    
   
   
    
     competent in any lab at any 
     
     place. And for some of the 
     
     work to be carried out be— 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     :hind a cloak of military or’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     commercial secrecy would be 
     
     doubly dangerous. " 
     
    

    
     Scientific progress has 
     
     always been erratic. It 
     
     seems it has been impossi- 
     
     ble for us to protect our- 
     
     selves from the changes. 
     
     The different deve10pements 
     
     are uncontrolled —- there is 
     
     no master plan guiding the 
     
     research. It is as if sci— 
     
     ence has been waging gueril— 
     
     la Warfare against society - 
     
     - small teams of men, each 
     
     working on its own biologi— 
     
     cal bomb. 
     
    

    
     Now many scientists 
     
     would like to see the esta— 
     
     blishment, through the 
     
     forth - coming conference on 
     
     genetic engineering, early 
     
     next year, of an authorita- 
     
     tive international body to 
     
     advise specialists on as- 
     
     pects of research in the 
     
     field that should be a— 
     
     voided. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     CUDMORE L“ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Henderson 
     
    
   
   
    
     moral 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘Perhaps scientists have 
     
     finally Stopped regarding 
     
     their subject as a curio- 
     
     sity and started it as the 
     
     most potent force of our 
     
     world. With some luck we 
     
     may even be7better prepared 
     
     for the coming of the " bio— 
     
     logical age " than we were 
     
     for the " nuclear age."- t 
     
    
   
   
    
     Gail Mitchell 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Senate . C routes 
     
    
   
   
    
     Council On 
     
    
   
   
    
     University 'Lifo 
     
    
   
   
    
     During the afternoon 
     
    
   
   
    
     of freshman and sophomore 
     
     registration, 
     
     well attended meeting Of 
     
     senate held in the faculty 
     
     lounge. 
     
    
   
   
    
     there was a 
     
    
   
   
    
     The motion of major 
     
    
   
   
    
     importance was the introdu- 
     
     ction and establishment of 
     
    

    
     a council on university ' 
     
     life. This council is to 
     
     provide a more expedient 
     
     method of handling problems 
     
     occuring in university life- 
     
     hence bypassing the Student 
     
     Union,orSenate. ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     The reason for the de- 
     
    
   
   
    
     velopment of this council 
     
    

    
     is the conflict between 
     
     Student Services and Stude—‘ 
     
     nt Vflfiioni 
     
    
   
   
    
     The council is to be 
     
    
   
   
    
     construCted from a group 
     
     containing 3 faculty members, 
     
     3 resident_and 3 day stude — 
     
     nts. - 
     
    
   
   
    
     Some problems feared are 
     
    
   
   
    
     possible red tape of a new 
     
     large body; co-ordination of 
     
     problems between S.U. andS.S. 
     
     andpossible amendments by 
     
     the S.U. and 5.8. to prov— 
     
     ide actions for settlement 
     
     of problems arising in Unive- 
     
     rsity Life ' 
     
    

    
     ' With this new large 
     
    
   
   
    
     .body it seems much red tape 
     
    
   
   
    
     and many questions on it's, - 
     
     feasibility will arise.Your 
     
     own opinions on this topic_ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
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