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...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...
...weeks later, Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, and Bert L. Vallee, associate in medicine, joined five other Eastern scientists in withdrawing from a scientific conference slated for April 7 and 8. They wrote President Schmitz charging that his action had "clearly placed the University of Washington outside the community of scholars...
President Henry Schmitz of the University of Washington is learning that the academic world has its own techniques of cold, cold war. Six weeks ago he vetoed a series of science lectures at Washington by Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Since then, both Schmitz and Washington have been getting the academic deep freeze...
...Washington ; so did M.I.T. Physicist Victor Weisskopf. Last week the university revealed that seven top scientists 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...