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...eyes of campus administrators. "I thought that the more information they had about how great this place was, the better it would be," he says. "That may have backfired." But as the days went on the story kept changing. A few days after the initial announcement, Brandeis president Jehuda Reinharz told an interviewer for a Boston public radio station that his school didn't intend to sell the entire collection, just some of it. And one day after that, Reinharz said the school would not have to sell anything in the unlikely event that the stock market recovered...
Then this week Reinharz sent a letter to Brandeis students and faculty to apologize for his confusing mishandling of the whole affair. "The statements [from the university ]gave the misleading impression that we were selling the entire collection immediately," he wrote, "which is not true. The University may have the option, subject to applicable legal requirements and procedures, to sell some artworks if necessary, but I assure you that other options will also be considered." In his letter Reinharz also said that "the museum will remain open," but as an arts study center, "more fully integrated into the university...
...Reinharz issued his letter after receiving one signed by more than 60 faculty members complaining that they had not been consulted on the future of the Rose and urging him to suspend any decisions on the matter. Last week a group of Brandeis students also staged a sit-in to protest the closing...
Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz announced in an e-mail to students Monday that the university would sell the collection of its Rose Art Museum in a public auction to ease a budget strained by the ongoing financial crisis...
...after the decision drew outrage from students and professors, Reinharz released a second statement Tuesday indicating the board of trustees might keep the collection, but that it would still close the museum and turn the space into a study and research center...