Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee as a whole then voted eight, to three that both Phillips and Butterworth be retained. President Allen, in his report to the Regents, recommended that they overrule the majority report of the faculty committee. He regarded the same evidence that it did and still reversed its decision, thereby denying the committee its deliberative function and reducing it to a fact-collecting body...
...Gundlach, ease, the charges were more complete. The University claimed that Gundlach was a member of the Communist Party, that he did not tell President Allen that he was a Communist, that he did not tell the Canwell Committee that he was a Communist, that he neglected his duty to the University by spending his time in party "front" activity, and that he followed the party line, thereby rendering himself incompetent and dishonest...
...final committee report threw out all charges except that Gundlach had refused to answer a question put to him by President Allen as to his membership in the Communist Party. It found that Gundlach's equivocation on this issue, together with his "unsatisfactory relations" with the university administration, constituted neglect of only and were sufficient grounds for dismissal. Four members out of, 11 dissented from this opinion President Allen found the majority report to his liking. As did the Board of Regents...
...Allen concurred with the committee report. However, the Board of Regents in a three hour meeting, hardly time enough even to consider the massive recommendations of the two reports, considerably disturbed the feature of these men by placing them on probation. There has never been any adequate definition of the terms of this probation. Any one of the three will presumably think a long time before he advances any political opinion or indulges in any political activity that might displease the Board of Regents while he is still on probation...
Throughout the testimony much was made of the answers of the various defendants to the question posed by Dr. Allen as to membership in the Communist Party. No one on the committee ever challenged Dr. Allen's right to ask this question...