May 11, 2007

U. of California Faculty Unlikely to Support Ban on Tobacco Money

By ERIK VANCE

The University of California's Academic Senate will probably reject a proposed ban on research funds from the tobacco industry, a member of the system's Board of Regents has predicted.

Such a ban, which would cut tobacco companies out of one of the largest academic-research operations in the country, would be the first in which the system has uniformly banned a specified source of research support.

Faculty members and administrators in the system are hesitant to back an outright

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