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Some Boston University (B.U.) students, upset over an $1120 increase in tuition and fees for next year, may refuse to pay their term bills until university trustees fire B.U. President John R. Silber, a student spokesman said yesterday...
...students would instead deposit their payments for next year's tuition and fees into a special account where the money would be held pending the firing of Silber, Robert E. Anderson, a delegate to the College of Liberal Arts forum, said yesterday...
...Silber has conceded that he has not been able to meet the demands of all sectors of the university, but says that because of B.U.'s financial constraints he must necessarily displease many students and professors. Silber says that if he really were autocratic there would be no dissent...
...administrators say they expect an unfavorable reaction to the tuition increase when students return to classes Monday, but they are bolstered by what they believe was an overall favorable segment about Silber on the CBS Television program "Sixty Minutes" on Sunday...
...Silber is by nature articulate and combatative and at times in the interview Mike Wallace appeared to be interviewing himself. Bergenheim said he received more than 200 telegrams and mailgrams--plus innumerable phone calls--in support of Silber following the "Sixty Minutes" broadcast...