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students, he declared, are not broadly educated, not sufficiently challenged to "search to know." instead, universities ask them to serve "the public, to work directly on solutions in a multidisciplinary way." the danger, he went on, is "that academic researchers will not only embrace particular solutions but will fight for them in the political arena." a university should keep to "its most fundamental purpose," which is "the disinterested pursuit of truth." Casper said that he worried that universities would be diverted from basic research by the lure of new development monies from "the marketplace", and that they would shift to "ever greater emphasis on direct usefulness," which might mean "even less funding of and attention to the arts and humanities."