Students Will Confer With Trustees To Settle Brandeis Parietal Dispute

A group of Brandeis University trustees yesterday requested a meeting with student leaders in an attempt to resolve the current dispute over the administration's new "open door" parietal policy. The students have agreed to a Friday confrontation.

The trustees' request followed a Sunday night protest meeting of more than 1000 students. At the meeting leaders won student approval to call a "general striko" during which students would not attend classes or report to university jobs.

They also considered organizing sympathy protests at other colleges in Boston or bringing students from other campuses to picket at Brandels.

In the wake of the Trustees' request, however, these protest tactics have been temporarily abandoned. "All bets are off as far as harassments go," Steven H. Mora, newly-elected president of the student council, said last night. He reported that the students had "committed themselves completely" to Friday's meeting.

At the session with a Trustee subcommittee on educational policy, the students will propose that the new "open door" parietal rule be temporarily dropped and that all study of parietal regulations be returned to a ten-member committee of students, faculty, and administration.

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.