February 10, 2006

Navy Lab Plan at U. of Hawaii Gets Broadside From Critics

By KELLY FIELD

Foes say academic integrity would be compromised by military's goals

The last time the U.S. Navy built a laboratory on a university campus, Franklin D. Roosevelt was president and the United States was at war with the Axis powers.

Sixty years later, as the nation battles terrorism and an insurgency in Iraq, the Navy is encountering fierce resistance at home over its plans to develop a laboratory here at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.

Proponents of the proposed facility

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