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# 14-00000The university, an urban campus with old and semi-modern buildings scattered throughout the city, is organized alon;: European lines. Eleven separate faculties, like separate colleges. educate lawyers, doctors, agronomists and liberal professionals. Each gives two years of basic college education. Seven years ago, after a violent university purge by Argentina's military government, many parts of the separate curricula were shaped to American models.When the Peronists returned to power last May. young leftist leaders loyal to Peron were given the university as their share of the new government. It changed almost overnight.Entrance examinations were abolished and all high school graduates were offered admission. One year later, 85.000 new students had entered and the enrollment had doubled."There are so many people now, it seems that even the rats from the basement take exams," said a fourth year philosophy student.Professors with connections to the military government or fore in companies were dismissed. Fourteen were fired from the faculty of economics alone. The university broke off assistance and exchange agreements with the Ford Foundation. the University of California and Rutgers, and opened new programs with universities in Peru, Algeria and Mexico.Courses of study were changed. Traditional philosophy courses were replaced, In part, by studies of South American politicians and Peron's doctrine. In an introductory architecture course, a slide show al'ernates views of a new Sheraton hoolete with pictures of the capital's shantytowns and is followed by a discussion of American imperialism in Argentina."Last year we had Samuelson, this year we had Lenin," said a second year student of economics. "It's really interesting. We learned how Samuelson's book (An Introduction to Economics by Paul A. Samuelson, an introductory text widely used: in the United States and some foreign countries) used a!! those graphs and curves to prove that imperialism was necessary. Oh, not directly, but subtly, you know.""We took out Samuelson but we did not replace him with Lenin or Marx," Oscar Sbarra Mitre, the 33-year-old dean of the economies faculty, said during an interview. He explained that there is now no single textbook for the twoyear introductory course, but rather a reading list with a majority of Latin American authors. Marx--as well as John Maynard Keynes--shows up as an individual theorist, but not as the last word.The shift from studies designed to produce executives for giant companies to a more populist and national outlook. Sharra Mitre said, is better exemplified by the course called "History of the Union Movement and Labor Relations," which replaced a course on personnel management.It was not educational policy, however, but pure politics that turned the university luto a left-wing redoubt defying the Peronist government. A basic university law, laying down the rules for Buenos Aires and the eight other campuses of the national university system. passedress by a large majority late last year with the support from non-l'eronist parties. The law embodied the basic changes that had begun at Buenos Aires.Meanwhile, a majority faction in the Peronist youth movement backed by two-urban guerrilla groups, that had fought the military government under Peron's banner, bad made the university here their power base. They proclaimed a government program that smacked heartily of Marxism-Leninism and, in effect, challenged Peron for leadership of his movement."Luck, these people are anything but Peronists," Gen. Peron said last February, when he first began trying to separate his movement's youth wing from the leaders born of the guerrilla movement who call themselves Montoneros."Before thinking about getting organized, we've got to think how it can bo a true organization and not a sack full of cats who will start showing their claws pretty soon." Peron told leaders of the youth wing. He asked them to reorganize themselves and expel the Marxists. "That's why this purification is necessary," he said.The purification leron wanted has been thwarted, in part by government reluctance to drive the whole youth wing into open revolt. and in part by students from the University of Buenos Aires. Twice, since April, they have marched into the streets to protest the appointment of new deans and have forced the government to back down.:A week ago they took over 10 of the 11 faculties in a move to hold onto the temporary university rector, Raul Laguzzi, 12, a professor of pharmacy who is loyal to the Montoncros. And, inside the faculties, it often seems as if one is inside Peron's "sack of cats."At the medical faculty recently, students who still proclaim loyalty to Peron started playing the Peronist marching song on a loudspeaker system. A faction that stands further to the left put on the Internationale, the Communist hymn, and turned up the volume on their own sound system. The Peronists turned up their volume, and so it went, to ear-shattering levels."It isn't bad once you get above the second Moor." a professor of neurobiology said.Slowly the university crisis seems to be heading for some kind of resolution. A week ago, President Maria Estela Peron named a new minister of education. He is expected to name a rew rector. Student street demonstrations have been quickly and sharply put down by police. The same demonstrations were tolerated by her late husband.There have been some hints that the government will try to defuse the crisis by unraveling Peronist politics and the quarrel with the Montoneros from university policies."We're waiting to see who the new rector will be." said a young professor. "That should clear up something. In the meantine, if you're thinking of building a house in Argentina, get an old architect."