Tufts Rejects SDS Bid For National Convention

Tufts University rejected last week a SDS petition asking for permission to hold all four days of its Convention Against Racism on the school's campus.

Richard Kelly, dean of the College of Special Studies at Tufts, who made the decision, said last week in the Tufts Observer that he had rejected the petition because "adequate facilities would not be available for a large group of people."

Albert D. Ullman, provost of Tufts, said yesterday that holding the convention at Tufts "wasn't convenient for us. There are no rooms available."

However, Tufts graduate student John Hess, a spokesman for SDS and author of the petition, said yesterday that Ullman "was not telling the truth." Tufts rejected the petition, he said, because "it does not want to have the Convention Against Racism here."