{"id":595,"date":"2008-09-03T13:07:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T17:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2008-09-03T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T17:08:25","slug":"roth-found-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"Roth found guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

UT professor (emeritus) J. Reece Roth has been found guilty<\/a> on 18 counts of violating the Arms Control Export Act.<\/p>\n

I take no joy in this, as he was a technically gifted professor from whom my children will not have the opportunity to learn.  However, having grown up in a city where national security secrets are taken very seriously, I know that he exercised exceedingly poor judgment.  Although fully cognizant of the high proportion of foreign students in graduate school — especially in science, math, and engineering — I simply do not believe that he couldn’t find qualified US citizens among his grad students to do this work.<\/p>\n

Maybe there was a little bit of ego involved.  Roth was an "honorary professor<\/a>" at two Chinese universities, and was regarded as something of a plasma physics celebrity there.<\/p>\n

In this country, we need to get far more serious about preparing our middle and high school students to pursue these challenging fields in college, so we can fill up the graduate programs with home-grown scientists and engineers.  I’m fully aware of the benefits of a diverse society, and that we need people educated in business, English lit, and all those other things… but right now, the odds are seriously against us in math and physical sciences.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, this conviction will cause universities all over this nation — and especially at UT — to really take a hard look at work that has, or could have, national security implications.   That doesn’t mean don’t do it, but it means don’t involve foreign nationals in those projects.<\/p>\n

And we’ve got to do a better job of preparing students to fill the void. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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