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...Martin Meyerson, acting chancellor of the University of California's Berkeley Campus, said yesterday that his office is studying the regulations of 16 universities--including Harvard--in an effort to adopt a "simple set of rules" for Berkeley. The results of the study will be made public later this week...
...Meyerson, former professor of City Planning at Harvard, said in a telephone interview that he hoped to reduce drastically the "volumes of rules" at Berkeley. "All of them would fill my briefcase, whereas at Harvard, the rules are contained in one wallet-sized pamphlet," he said...
...Meyerson feels, however, that even a pamphlet of rules is relatively unimportant because the "administrator at a university determines himself the relationship of the students to the administrative board...
...chancellor indicated that he would be more lenient on the subject of free speech on campus than his predecessor, Chancellor Edward W. Strong. Meyerson called for the "widest opportunities in speech and in all kinds of intellectual exposure...
...Meyerson is attempting to place greater emphasis on undergraduate instruction which "in the course of rapid development of the university has not received the attention that it should have...