Show FREEDOM AND THE JOB TENURE TENURE of office and academic L freedom az are terms of ot more Intimate in intimate In- In relation than the friends of ot the tho University o of ot Utah supposed when whelk the recent co controversy began some weeks ago ado ago The he one ono appears to be the I col complement of or the other The Tho university university uni uni- professor who is denied theone the tho one onG invariably explains that lack of or the other Is the cause Dr Scott Nearing of the University of Pennsylvania was notified some somo da days s 's previous to the tho end of the present present present pres pres- ent school year that his contract would not be bo renewed Receipt of or orthis this notice followed practically the tho same scenes that were enacted In the tho University of or Utah when a small group of or professors and instructors received similar notice from President President dent KIngsbury Meetings were held the student student body met and adopted resolutions other members of or the faulty faculty expressed their disapproval and a a- contest had hod begun the like that with which we wo of U Utah ah h have ve recently bec become o familiar Professor Benjamin Brewster of or orthe the tho University o of Colorado received a a. like lIko notice from th the board of ot trustees trustees trustees trus trus- tees of that institution Ho He had been under contract of employment for one year car As the time timo approached for forthe forthe forthe the ren renewing wIng of or that contract Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor Lessor Brewster was informed his services would not be needed Thereupon Thereupon Thereupon There- There upon there toll followed owed In Colorado a B. spectacle pe like through which Utah has just passed In each of these three cases tenure of or office oice and academic freedom have gone hand In hand The rhe educator and andr r his IllS partisans have claimed for tor him tho the right to retain his post under any y and all conditions except those which would make mak him a successful candidate candi- candi dato date for inmate o of a a. prison or an h how v linI l r an r i I instructor s should retain his lis position t I dunn during good behaviour and that the V circumstance that he was insubordinate p nate and out out-of harmony with the tho 1 ji methods and purposes of or the institution institution tion should be Ignored Following repudiation of this theor theory by the ln authorities authorIties the retiring ed- ed J r cator crI cries s loudly that his Intellectual r chastity has been outraged his mental virtue violated and his surging thoughts repressed t L 20 To o the dispassionate observer It does s' s snot not appear quite clear why the thc educator will not concede to the tint tint- Av officials the freedom he ho deJ demands de- de J H-fI H mands for himself He insists upon f cI his right to incubate whatever ideas y yand and theories may occur r to him and to toH H 44 instill these thes-e into the minds of or students student vr whose la lack l of ot experience with life totally unfits them to separate tho the of or fact from Y the chaff of ot t theory olf He claims for or himself every jK liberty even license the most irre- irre jg-j jg it street corner barker might J employ employ but resists every effort of ot the Ik st school authorities to enjoy any liberty f fit whatsoever A t moments moment's reflection will convince x t. even the most moat obtuse s. s of or the tho utter un- un fr tena mt of or the educators educator's position 44 and of ot tile the arguments he employs Neither elther the highest nor nor tho the lowest o of 1 r the land Is exempt from flom those thoe pro pro- 3 1 f or vocational hazards which t the e professor refuses as undignified I J The eminent lawyer lawer of or national repute may be dismissed by hi his best I F lent client when their contract terminates The expert engineer qualified for gk brilliant successful labor by technical training by experience and by habits iJ of ot may I ma find tind himself without em em- 4 at the contracts contract's end without with with- without t out considering himself wronged or j abused One may chan change c his lawyer g his doctor his magazine his his newspaper per his baker his hla candlestick maker Only the college professor apparently apparent apparent- i i ly enjoys the right of ot uninterrupted i tenure of or office ottice whatever the chang chang- f ing Irig conditions which render his service ser ser- 4 vice no longer useful and his employment employ employ- H m ment nt Inadvisable Human nature impels the dis- dis missed g professor or like oth others rs ot of lc less s 1 superior c clay a to explain his dismissal I Iby b by something more creditable to himself himself him him- self than the real reasons are uro likely to be Being of th the earth founded amour requires him to apply appl the healing emollient without I which complete completo le self respect Is dl difficult rl- rl cult of ot attainment Academic freedom free free- dom that desirable but dangerous boon supplies the salve sal his wounds must have |