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MEDFORD--After leaving the administration building early Saturday morning in a dramatic climax to their three-day sit-in, a group of Tufts University students yesterday continued their struggle to secure tenure for Assistant Sociology Professor Peter Dreier and to change the university's tenure process...
About 25 Harvard students also appeared early yesterday afternoon at the rally and led chants, made speeches and presented the protesters with a petition from Harvard students supporting Dreier, one Tufts demonstrator said...
Protesters chanted, "Jean Mayer, we're on fire! We want tenure for Peter Dreier!" and sang sons from Bob Marley and the Beatles...
...organizers said this type of protest was the only recourse left after Mayer had refused for a full year to meet with students about Dreier's tenure...
Because of the wide variety of support which had poured in for Dreier, students had felt confident that the professor would be rehired. "All of January there was a sense that Mayer would reverse his decision," Meriwether said...