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...Abram L. Sachar, president of Brandeis University, committed "an error of judgement that could be interpreted as an infringement of academic freedom," according to a statement endorsed by the Brandeis Faculty Senate at their March 29 meeting...
...error" concerned Sachar's censure of assistant professor of Anthropology Kathleen Gough Aberle, who strongly criticized President Kennedy's Cuban policy in a speech last Oct. 24. Sachar had called Mrs. Aberle's pro-Castro speech "dangerous and in violation of the tradition of faculty dignity...
...news conference the same day of the Senate action, Sachar defended the censure as an attempt to dissociate himself and Brandeis from Mrs. Aberle's speech and sentiments...
...Sachar himself minimized the significance of "the furor that has excited the Brandeis campus." "Inevitably, when an issue involving academic freedom or freedom of speech arises on campus," he explained, "faculty and students become tremendously exercised. And they should...
...Sachar stated that he has no objection to dissent, and admires the "special kind of courage one must have to speak out against the president of a university." He stressed that other faculty members, whose speeches were never questioned, protested Kennedy's actions in Cuba, but "they spoke in responsible dissent...