Pickets, Letter Knock Brandeis Sex Ruling

An estimated 500 Brandeis undergraduates--approximately one-third of the student body--picketed the administration building on the Waltham campus yesterday to protest a tightening of parietal-hour regulations.

The ruling, which was announced Tuesday, required that starting tomorrow doors be left open (a minimum of 12 inches) while students entertain members of the opposite sex in dormitory rooms.

A 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.