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Berkeley's Chancellor Roger Heyns disagrees: "We should play an advisory and consultative role, but the university should never be a political action unit. I don't think we should run things." Says Ray Heffner, president of Brown University: "The university must not be aloof from the most pressing problems of our time. And yet the university cannot be so committed to transforming society along definite lines that it loses its function as objective analyst and critic of society...
Brown and Pembroke will admit black students under an escalating quota system for the next five years, Ray L. Heffner, President of Brown University, announced last night...
...Heffner acted after almost all of Brown and Pembroke's 85 black students walked out of the university yesterday to protest Heffner's previous rejection of an 11 per cent quota. He met throughout the day with university officials, and released a detailed plan last night...
...black students had made eleven demands, includig a black admissions officer, special consideration for blacks because of their inadequate academic background, and additional scholarship funds. Heffner agreed to all the demands except a quota...
...blacks then left the university, some carrying suitcases, and saying they would not return until Heffner agreed to a quota or admitted that Brown is a racist institution...