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...University of Washington has been in commons and bitter uproar for two months over the ban on talks by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and the subsequent cancelling of two lectures and two scientific conferences. The faculty senate has condemned President Henry Schmitz' veto of lectures by the atomic scientist, students have petitioned, and Schmitz himself has refused to discuss his reasons for the ban. Efforts by some members of the faculty to find a compromise have now partially succeeded--with a two-sided statement expressing faith in the president as a supporter of academic freedom and disagreement with the decision...
Perry Miller, professor of American Literature, has just returned from Seattle, but he is not predicting any final answers. After talking informally with professors at the Seattle institution, Miller concludes that the vote of censure "amounts to a considerable victory over President Schmitz." But he points out that despite a banner headline in the Hearst Seattle Post-Intelligencer--"UW Faculty Senate Acts to End Controversy on Oppenheimer"--the debate is far from finished. Although the resolution in the faculty senate expressed faith in Schmitz, it also in effect warned him he could not again overrule faculty decisions so blatantly...
Miller was in Seattle when the Senate censured the president on April 7, and he reports that professors who were fighting Schmitz were jubilant over their victory. An interesting sidelight on the voting is that the 56 members of the senate who condemned Schmitz were largely from the sciences and the humanities, while the 40 who supported the president's ban on Oppenheimer were generally members of the faculties of engineering, education, forestry...
...difficult to see why many professors of law supported Schmitz, for Alfred J. Schweppe, former dean of Washington's law school and now president of the state bar association, had already led the way. Supporting Schmitz' "sound discretion" not to appoint Oppenheimer, Schweppe wrote: "There are brilliant men in the penitentiaries, yet I venture to say that not many of Dr. Schmitz' critics would advocate their being selected ..." He concluded that he was "pretty much fed up with illogical antics of some of the Harvard, Yale and other professors...
...Schmitz has announced no reasons for refusing to approve Oppenheimer who was denied security clearance last spring by the Atomic Energy Commission, but University of Washington officials have conceded that the government's action may have been an important factor...