Med school puts brakes on special-ops planIn the face of opposition on and off campus, the Yale School of Medicine is putting a hold on plans for a program to train US soldiers in military intelligence techniques. An associate professor of psychiatry, Charles A. Morgan III ’97MA, had been quoted in the Yale Herald and the Yale Daily News about a proposed US Special Operations Command Center of Excellence for Operational Neuroscience at the med school, to be funded by a $1.8 million Defense Department grant. The focus, Morgan has said, would be training soldiers to interview people in ways that are non-intimidating and to discern whether interviewees are telling the truth or lying. According to the Herald, he said interviewees would be drawn from New Haven's immigrant communities. That drew the attention of immigrant advocates, who blasted the proposed center as potentially racist and exploitive of vulnerable populations. In response, School of Medicine dean Robert Alpern released a statement this evening:
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