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Clearly, despite the rantings of the Hearst paper or the former law dean, a basic issue was at stake. President Schmitz' decision to turn down a request from his own physics department was the first time in the university's history that a president had vetoed a speaker named by a special faculty committee. Actually, the resolution of the faculty senate and the later statement by Schmitz himself ignore any specific mention of how visiting lecturers will be chosen in the future. Nevertheless, the faculty made clear their intention of having the deciding voice: "We have been assured," the senate...
President Schmitz has evidently surrendered about as much as he can without resigning altogether. "Whatever breakdowns there have been in internal communication," he stated, "have been neither planned nor intentional. Any steps that can taken to develop and maintain adequate two-way communication between the faculty and the administration should be implemented...
...result of the partial capitulation of Schmitz, scholars in other universities must now decide whether to continue their boycott of the University of Washington. Regardless of individual decisions, those who were the first to make the boycott drove their point all the way to the president's office. Their Schmitz finally seems to have realized that the choice of a speaker is a professional problem better left...
Miller yesterday called the vote of the Seattle institution's faculty senate "a guarantee that the faculty will not again be ridden over rough-shed by opinionated administrators." While Miller was in Seattle on April 7, the Washington senate, by a vote of 56 to 40, condemned President Henry Schmitz' ban on talks by J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...censuring Schmitz for barring Oppenheimer, the faculty group also stated that the president's future actions would support the "the right of the faculty to think, to teach, to speak, and to write as they see fit." The group also asked outside scholars again to "feel free to join us," saying that "new methods for considering appointments" are under discussion...