Word: labovitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter to the editor was written by David E. Labovitz, news director of the Brown Daily Herald and reputedly a radical. After the deans had spoken to a meeting of students and had left unanswered certain questions on parietal rules, Labovitz wrote his letter requesting that they make their policies and reasons more public. He was then called up to see various deans. "They gave me hell and put a copy of the letter in my record," he said...
...Roald Bergethon, dean of the college, explained that he called up two or three boys last year for various reasons, but "not primarily because they wrote a critical letter." He said he was mainly interested in finding out exactly what the complaint was so he could understand it better. Labovitz agreed that Bergethon seemed sincerely interested in solving problems, but he criticized the other deans for "rapping him (Labovitz) on the knuckles." At any rate, a dean would have to be somewhat naive not to realize that any call to his office is apt to be intimidating to a certain...
...editorial alluded to above was written about an incident involving compulsory chapel. It seems Labovitz and another student got up and walked out of the middle of a sermon on the material advantages of church membership. Labovitz says he was then called up by Edward R. Durgin, dean of students, and told that "if you don't like chapel, you shouldn't be at Brown." The Herald wrote an editorial criticizing various aspects of chapel, and they in turn were criticized. "I didn't feel that that was a very just move on the part of the University," William...