Brandeis May Pick Rosovsky

Henry Rosovsky, Professor of Economics and chairman of the Economics Department, is one of six men being seriously considered for the presidency of Brandeis University, according to an article in the Sept. 14 Brandeis Justice.

Milton Katz, Henry L. Stimpson professor of Law and chairman of the Presidential Selection Committee, said yesterday that "a number" of the names on the Justice list are "unrelated to the facts." But Justice editor-in-chief Richard Galant maintained that his source was "very reliable."

Galant added that he thinks Rosovsky is a willing candidate. "If he were against it, his name would have been withdrawn by now," he said. Rosovsky declined last night to comment on the article.

There has been some speculation that Rosovsky is the front-running candidate to replace Charles Schottland, who reaches mandatory retirement age during this academic year.

The other men listed by the Justice as possible candidates are: Marvin Bernstein, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton; Wilbur Cohen, former Secretary of HEW; Joseph Kauffman, former dean of students at Brandeis; Leo Levin, vice-president of the University of Pennsylvania; and Herman Stein, provost of Western Reserve College.

Rosovsky, who is 44 years old, came to Harvard in 1965.

Rosovsky gained notoriety here as chairman of a special committee set up after the assassination of Martin Luther King to study the problems of black students at Harvard and the role of Afro-American Studies in the Harvard curriculum.

He resigned from the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies in April 1969 because he disagreed with a Faculty decision which gave voting power to students in the newly formed Department of Afro-American Studies.