President Reagan Requests Campus Burial Site

President Reagan has requested that Stanford approve an on-campus burial site for him and his wife, The Stanford Daily reported.

If Stanford approves the plan, Reagan would be buried in a crypt next to Stanford's Reagan Library. Architectural plans submitted with Reagan's request call for a marble structure similar to the Stanford family mausoleum, according to The Daily.

In a letter to Stanford's trustees, Reagan stated that he wants to be buried at the school because "I have a great many friends there and would feel very much at home."

The idea of a grave site at Stanford was suggested to Reagan by his old friend and political adviser W. Glenn Cambell, the director of Hoover Institution, a right-leaning think tank at Stanford.

Stanford President Donald Kennedy said he has not yet decided whether to honor Reagan's request.

"On the one hand, it would be a great honor to have a former president buried at Stanford. But then again, I'm not sure the permanent presence of Ronald Reagan on campus is the best thing for the university's image," he said. OBERLIN

President Will Recommend Divestment Next Month

Oberlin President S. Frederick Starr said that, in a meeting with the Rev. Leon Sullivan this month, he was surprised by the minister's inconclusiveness over how well the Sullivan Principles work, but he said he will nonetheless recommend that his school divest at the next meeting of Oberlin's trustees.

Starr will recommend to the trustees next month that Oberlin divest of its holdings in companies that do business in South Africa, The Oberlin Review reported.

Oberlin has used the Sullivan Principles, which gauge to what degree a company is helping to bring about racial equality in South Africa, in formulating its investment policy.

Starr said he was surprised by Sullivan's failure to state how effective the Sullivan Principles are. "Frankly, I anticipated that he would have reached a more decisive conclusion by this point," he told The Review, a weekly student newspaper.

"It is clear that we will not receive guidance from this quarter by the May Executive Board meeting," Starr said of Sullivan.

Starr stated in a letter that next month he will present a proposal that calls for a "phased and total divestment that will maximize the impact of our actions while meeting our fiscal responsibilities." COLUMBIA

Most Students Apathetic About Charter Bicentennial

The Empire State Building lit up New York City in Columbia's royal blue two weekends ago in honor of the bicentennial of the Columbia College Charter, but many students said they felt little urge to participate in the events the school planned.

For the weekend, Columbia planned a parade, with some students dressed up as such famous alumni as Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, a champagne breakfast, and a formal ball.

Columbia was originally founded in 1754 as King's College, under England's King George II. After it was forced to close during the Revolutionary War, it was reopened under state control in 1784, and was finally chartered as Columbia College on April 13, 1787.

"It's not our bicentennial. Our bicentennial was in 1954," said sophomore Andrew Cadel. "I think the whole thing's a big hype for our alumni, and it's not for me at all," he told The Columbia Spectator.

"I guess it's necessary for morale and for people to pat themselves on the back--especially the deans," said senior Mridula Chakravartty of the celebration.

"It gives the university publicity. If it's not this then it would be something else," Chakravartty told The Spectator. BROWN

SAT Referendum Barely Defeated

High school students across the country dread that nerve-wracking rite of passage, the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). But if some students at Brown University have their way, the test may become a thing of the past.

Almost half of the voting Brown students last week gave the thumbs up on a non-binding referendum that called for their school to eliminate the SAT as a requirement for admission.

When the votes were tallied, the initiative failed by a margin of 14 votes, or less than one percent, of the 1500 cast, but it did manage to focus attention on the SAT issue.

"People have to become aware that the test just doesn't measure scholastic aptitude--what it is supposed to do," said Brown senior Michael H. Spalter, the director of Students Against Testing, the campus organization that sponsored the referendum.

Data released by Educational Testing Service (ETS), the company that writes and grades the SAT, indicates that average scores vary depending on the test-taker's sex, race and wealth, Spalter said.

"For example," Spalter said, "Black women have a national average of 705 points, and white males average 969" of the 1600 possible points.

Spalter said his 100-member organization is not focusing on Brown alone, but has sent more than 100 letters to student organizations at colleges across the country in recent months.

At a meeting of the student government presidents of the Ivy League schools next month, the student politicos will discuss the SAT issue, Spalter said.

Spalter will appear on NBC's Today show next week to debate with the president of ETS. BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Activists Protest Baboon Research

More than 70 activists yesterday protested hypothermia research conducted on baboons at the Boston University Medical Center.

Protesting the research, which is government-funded, protesters waved banners and gathered in front of the center, where the Naval Blood Research Laboratory conducts research on baboons and monkeys, said Evelyn Kimber, vice president of the Coalition to End Animal Suffering and Exploitation.

The lab is attempting to construct a life vest tha would prevent Navy pilots from becoming hypothermic when their planes land in water, a center spokesman said.