And this is a problem how ?

On Harvard's search for a new president:

The growing financial importance of research also could pressure Harvard to tap a scientist, something it hasn't done since 1933.

But Harvard also could go the other way -- picking a nonscientist who could rise above turf battles and reassure the rest of the school that America's oldest and richest university isn't becoming a giant science lab.

I don't get it. Being a giant science lab is a BAD thing ?