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About 250 students, according to one protester's estimate, met outside Tufts President Jean Mayer's home yesterday to express their continuing support for the professor and to plan further action regarding tenure changes...
...Mayer last May voted the university's Tenure and Promotion Committee's recommendation that Dreier he given senator. According to the university's tenure procedure, be cannot return to reach in the fall...
...Mayer has refused to reconsider his decision, giving as one reason for his veto the 3-3 split within the Sociology Department over tenure for Dreier...
...statement explaining their position. Dreier's supporters expressed their belief that he was refused tenure because of his social activism and support for controversial causes, such as his opposition to Mayer's decision to accept a $1 million gift from Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos...
...protesters said they were confident that Mayer would reverse his decision, citing a recent case at Brandeis University in which Brandeis President Marver Bernstein reversed his veto of tenure recommendation following extensive student protests...