Berkeley researchers are nervous about xenophobic research restrictions being imposed by the Federal Government. Any research being conducted has to reveal the names of foreign students involved in it, a violation of University policy.

"Our mission is the academic dissemination of information. We're a public entity and believe it's the right of the public who supports us to know what we're doing," said Joyce Freedman, assistant vice chancellor for research, administration and compliance at UC Berkeley.

The campus receives about $276 million in federal money each year and turned down a grant from the Army Corps of Engineers early last fall rather than name any foreign citizens who would be involved in the project. UC's own policy is to not release the names of anyone who is working on a research project. Foreign students make up almost half of all graduate students in science nationwide.

"We're not thumbing our nose at anyone or saying we're above anything, but those are our guiding tenets," Freedman said.

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