Yale President Urges Little Community Aid

Universities "do not have the competence" to assume responsibility for the welfare of the community, Kingman Brewster, president of Yale, said Saturday.

During an address he gave to representatives of the American Association of Medical Colleges, Brewster spoke in response to the charges of Barry Rand, a third-year medical student.

Rand said that it was apparent that "interior community health service exists at the Yale New Haven Medical Center" and that medical students "are not taught the facts necessary to create innovative solutions to these problems."

The Yale president said that if Yale involved itself in the community's problems it would have to devote less energy

to education and that "neighborhood pressure [on Yale] will fall on financially deaf ears among my out-of-town alumni who are not in the habit of supporting New Haven."

Brewster said the role of the university is one of advocating social change and aiding in the design of institutions "better suited to meet community needs than we ourselves are." He said that it was "high time" for the "public agencies of the society to pull up their socks so that the universities can go back to work and try to break the bottlenecks of medical science, help manpower, and help deliver a basic design."