In its respect for the intellectual, France yields to no nation, but its treatment of its universities is something else again. Last week the French were pondering the implications of a wave of protest marches and demonstrations that swept through every university town. There was no violence, but, warned Chemistry Professor Charles Prevost in Paris: "This is our last peaceful demonstration. The next time we will go on strike." Among the universities' major complaints:
ΒΆ For the last ten years the government has promised the Sorbonne that it could some day have the huge (2.700,000 sq. ft.) Halle aux Vins for a...
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