Word: brandeises
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The slide did not stop there, however as Harvard split with Dartmouth and then, for one of the biggest shocks of the season, lost to Brandeis for the first time in two decades.
Among other scholars who signed it were: Marver Bernstein, president of Brandeis University; Jerome Wiesner, president of MIT; Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry; Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor; and Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government.
So went the chant as University of Massachusetts students demonstrated last week outside the statehouse to protest against projected budget cuts and higher costs. Their sentiment was echoed on several other campuses-including Brandeis, where dissidents occupied the sociology building. Following closely the picketing and the takeover of the administration...
At Brandeis in nearby Waltham, meanwhile, a multiracial group of about 30 students took over Pearlman Hall, the sociology building, and held it despite an injunction ordering them out. They demanded that the university drop plans to cut back its Transitional Year Program (which helps train many poorly prepared minority...
While most Brandeis undergraduates had mixed feelings about the takeover, Administration Spokesman Jeff Osoff declared that "we won't accede to demands that would amount to $1.5 million over a balanced budget. We have no intention to negotiate with anyone who is holding a building."