Ninety-one of Yeshiva University’s 550 students staged an orderly demonstration at the school’s main center this afternoon, charging the administration with seeking to secularize the curriculum. They massed for 90 to 120 minutes during a luncheon prior to ordination ceremonies, according to associate public relations director Bert Jacobson, who gave the JTA the figure of “exactly 91 people with picket signs.” Mr. Jacobson said the proposed “separate charter” for the university’s religious program could not be considered secularization. He said that students had met several times with university president Dr. Samuel Belkin at his home, and he commented that in his view the protesters represented a student fringe that had failed to join the majority understanding of the charter plan.
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