ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on universities, was, of course, essentially different from the elementary and secondary schools, and consequently called forth a different approach from the regime. The university students, too, behaved differently from schoolchildren, and played a different role in society. The chapter examines the universities situation during the Peronist era, and the relationship between the regime and the university system. The military regime viewed the institutions of higher learning as centers of sedition and possible sources of unrest in the state; consequently, it did not hesitate to employ strong, even extreme, measures against them. Tomas D. Casares, a known clerical theoretician, was appointed interventor for the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), and he in turn appointed people identified with the Church establishment as deans of the various faculties. The students support for the Union Democrtica naturally did nothing to enhance their position and rights after Pern's election.
