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Brainy college freshmen under the impression that their next four years would be spent as assembly-line workers in ivy-covered fact factories got a sharp jolt last week. "You demand facts, facts, facts," Guest Speaker A. L. Sachar, president of Brandeis, told the entering class at the University of Illinois. What they need just as much, he insisted, is values to serve "in a world where the harsh voice of unreason cries down the generous passions," and "the elasticity of your minds will be a shield." On campuses across the U.S., college presidents were playing up the value...
Students charge that President Abram Sachar violated an administration promise when he independently instituted the "open door" rule. They point to assurances in December by Kermit Morrissey, Brandeis Dean of Students, that under-graduates would be consulted before any change in the parietal rules was made...
...letter signed by approximately 600 students was delivered yesterday morning to President Abram Sachar, who made the ruling. The students urged him to withdraw the change and also requested that the student body be gives a voices in decisions by the Brandeis administration on matters affecting undergraduates...
Students at Brandeis expressed surprise as rumors of the expected change spread through the campus yesterday. President Abram Sachar, they charged, had bypassed the special "Campus Environment Committee" set up to discuss the issue, and had made the decision himself...
...Sachar explained his decision at a meeting with several Student Council members yesterday afternoon, when he reportedly suggested that he wanted to rid Brandeis of its "permissive atmosphere". The president said it was very unlikely that he would change his mind before the official announcement. Debate over parietals began at Brandies in December, when the administration based an explosive situation with a promise that their review of the situation would include consultation with students...