Word: brandeises
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brandeis acting president Charles I. Schottland was in a jam. The National Student Strike Information Center had been a bane to his administration since it was set up last Spring. First, there were immediate questions about its effect on the university's taxexempt status; second there were questions among his...
A transfer student from Syracuse, she arrived at Brandeis in 1968 and made it onto the dean's list. As a junior she ran for student council president and lost. During the strike, she often ran student meetings and had a hand in most of the major decisions. "Kathy was...
When the student strike center petered out, Kathy faded away. Over the summer, the Waltham tax assessor tried to close down the center. Officially, Brandeis complied; unofficially the center continued its work in campus buildings for several weeks. Finally the students brought suit to restrain Brandeis from closing the center...
Affirming that Brandeis "is a sanctuary for the free exchange of ideas," Schottland told the press "It is not-nor will it ever be- a sanctuary for violators of the law or a staging area for violence."
Several students and the Boston Globe immediately criticized Schottland for prejudicing the case of the alleged robbers with pre-trial publicity. His statement "The students allegedly involved in the violence are not representative of the Brandeis student body," implies strongly that he believes the student body is as a whole...