70 Year Magazine Archive

Doves v. Hawks on Campus

by David Brudnoy

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BRANDEIS

The placard on Europeanist Norman Cantor’s office door read: “No Surrender to Fascists and Racists, White or Black!” “Abram [whose civil rights record is unimpeachable] is a fork-tongued Georgia Cracker,” declared Brandeis Black Bulletin #2 From Malcolm X University. “lies lies lies generated by the PRESIDENT TO JUSTIFY TAKING VIOLENT action,” Black Bulletin continued, as President Abram eschewed violence. “The list of demands is presented as a symbolic bill of damages so vast and illimitable that they can never be settled in our lifetime,” wrote Marvin Meyers in a statement signed by 84 other professors, which metamorphosed into a letter to the Times. When the first Ph.D. dissertation is ground out on Brandeis’ crisis by some hopeful graduate student, he’ll be hampered by no lack of source material.

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