To the Editor:Matt Brown seems to want to return to the era of quotas limiting qualified applicants ("Brandeis: too Jewish for its own good," April 4 issue). He openly declares the campus should be 30 percent Jewish so it is not so "suffocating." If he had written the campus should only be 10 percent black or 20 percent Christian, he would have been branded a racist and bigot.

I hate to be so direct to a young student, but I can't hold back: Brown is a self-loathing Jew. For some reason, it seems to be OK to ridicule Jews for being Jews. What would happen if a black student at Howard University wrote in the forum pages the "road to recovery" involved limiting black admissions?

He would be called an Uncle Tom.

It is disgusting that it is normal in society for Jewish people to still be seen as somehow inferior to people of other faiths. It is also disturbing that having a large Jewish community somehow must be fixed by Brown and others.

What makes the problem even worse-as evidenced by Brown-is that the view is held by so many well-educated Jews.

I wish there were a reasonable and comprehensible explanation for that, but there is not.

What sets Brandeis apart from the approximately 25 schools that it is competitive with in terms of prestige?

Its rich Jewish community. Brandeis wouldn't be Brandeis if it weren't for its "Jewish feel."

It provides a place for a shomer shabbos student not to feel so isolated. It provides for a Jew who may have not been from a Jewish area to experience the joys of the Jewish traditions.

Just as the Jewish religion and tradition has a place for non-Jews, Brandeis provides ways for everyone to feel welcome and included.

From the Transitional Year Program to the Muslim Student Association to the Brandeis Christian Fellowship (to name a few), Brandeis allows all people to enjoy what Brandeis is: a living tribute to the American Jewish traditions of education and social justice.

- Carol Maymudes

Syosset, N.Y.