Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fully agreeing with Schweppe, the Post-Intelligencer considered the boycott over academic freedom a "phony issue." The paper editorialized: "Presumably we should don sack-cloth and strew ashes over our uncultured heads for the "egregiousinsult' tendered Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer when that eminent scientist was rejected as a visiting lecturer. But we ain't agonna." The paper continued that "the notion that 'academic freedom' is involved ... is emotional and juvenile balderdash...
...University of Washington faculty senate last week called on scholars to drop their boycott of the institution, affirming its faith in President Henry Schmitz and the regents as supporters of academic freedom...
...boycott was caused by Schmitz' veto of a Washington Department of Physics request that J. Robert Oppenhiemer '26 be invited to give a series of lecturers there this summer. At the same time that it asked scholars to end their boycott, the Washington faculty group voted, 56 to 40, to condemn Schmitz' decision to be Oppenheimer...
Several faculty members here had joined in the boycott. Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, last month canceled a lecture scheduled for April 7, at the University of Washington, saying, "No self-respecting scholar could speak there...
...from Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard, the University of Wisconsin and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research would not attend a scheduled symposium on the "molecular basis of enzyme action." Reason: Schmitz's veto had "placed the University of Washington outside the community of scholars." The big boycott hit the University of Washington where it hurt-right in its pride over its new, $12 million medical school. Said President Schmitz in his own defense: "I cannot emphasize too strongly that [the ban on Oppenheimer] was not a whimsical or a capricious decision." It had nothing to do with...