Dr. HAWORTH. I want to say very flatly that the Foundation takes no part whatsoever in the substantive content of cause materials, none whatsoever. Senator ALLOTT. How would you feel, Dr. Handler-you are justifiably proud of your position and of your textbook-how would you feel if the university or the Science Foundation supported two or three institutes in a very extensive program which ultimately resulted in we will say two textbooks in competition with yours. Wouldn't you feel that they had been subsidized? Dr. HANDLER. Yes; they would have been, of course. And the gentlemen who participated would also have full awareness there would never be any financial gain on their part or no royalties. Senator ALLOTT. There is professional gain from which financial gain flow. Dr. HANDLER. Yes, of course. Senator ALLOTT. All right. Senator MAGNUSON. All right; you are on page 5, the middle of the page. Of the remaining amount $2.6 million, $1.5 million is required to fund a minimum program for the science information exchange program. I understand that that amount is because the agencies used to pay you and now you put it altogether. Dr. HAWORTH. That is right. Senator MAGNUSON. You are funding it instead of the agencies? Dr. HAWORTH. That is right. SCIENCE EDUCATION PROGRAM Senator MAGNUSON. All right; then on page 6 you start in the middle of the page and say: In our distribution of the increase allowed by the House, $27.5 million has been applied to science education programs (fellowships and traineeships) and institutional science programs (science development). About $52 million of the requested restoration would be applied in the same general areas. These inIcreased funds, if appropriated by the Congress, would enable the Foundation to expand programs that have proved effective in strengthening colleges and universities in all parts of the country. Dr. HAWORTH. That is right. Senator MAGNUSON. Your budget estimate, going to page 7, provides a total of about 10,500 fellowships, but the House bill would allow about 6,800. Dr. HAWORTH. That is right. Senator MAGNUSON. And so that would require $18.3 in there. Senator MAGNUSON. To bring it up to that number. Dr. HAWORTH. Yes; to a total of 10,500 fellowships and traineeships. SCIENCE FACILITIES GRANTS Senator MAGNUSON. And you have got graduate science education. There you come to a point I think you had better tell us about: A modest program to assist colleges and universities in financing the construction of such facilities on a matching basis. Will you put in the record the amount that you have done in that particular field, and the institutions and the matching funds? (The material referred to follows:) |