Brandeis Has Smoke-In

Protesting a ban on smoking in all non-residential buildings, about 50 students at Brandeis University in Waltham held a smoke-in the school's cafeteria yesterday, the Boston Globe reports this morning.

The Globe said the protest came after Brandeis president Samuel O. Thier decided to extend the school's antismoking policy to include a popular campus dining hall and an upstairs lounge in the Goldfarb Library.

There will be no more smoking sections.

"We view the removal of the smoking section as a violation of students rights," said senior David C. Kaufman, one of the protest's organizers, "and we support its reinstatement throughout the Brandeis community."

The protesters quoted the man for whom the school is named, former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis.

They have a "right to be let alone," the students said.

The protest met with significant opposition from university officials and other students. The Globe said that "one woman screamed at the demonstrators to stop, to no effect."