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Show STILL WORKING UPON UNIVERSITY MUDDLE Secretary of American Association of University Professors Writes to President Kingsbury, Regents Will Hold Meeting Today AMEETLNG of the committee of twentv fl e citizens selected by the Alumni association lo condiict an nvest gation of the Lnl erslty of Ltah crisis will b cal ed for tl e atter part of t s week Th s Is the plan as announced jesterdaj bv B chard Toung Jr pres dent of the Alumni association Mr Toung will probably set the enact date for the meeting today and letters w 11 be sent to a 1 the twenty five comn itteemen asking them to attend There was much speculat on veste day as tb wlat will be the d spos ton of the board of regen s toward the In estlgators appo nted by the alumni. Chairman T W R ter of the board said last n ght he d d not care to antlcipa e the attitude of the re0ents on t e Question The board of regents will hold a meet Ing this morning at the Deseret .at onal bank at whlcl It Is expected the recently appointed committee on faculty re atlons will make a report upon the communica tion s touching on the L upheaval wh ch have been received by the board These Included resolutions of the Salt Lake Fed eratlon of vi omen a Clubs asking for a pub tc in estigatlon the famous petition f on the faculty and others, which were referred to the faculty re atlons coram ttee for Investigation consideration and re port. Awaiting the Outcome President J T Klngeburj has given out the impress on that he wl 1 make no recommendations of candidates for the acaricies In the faculty caused by the who esale resignations It Is bel eved that the board Is not In haste to appoint sue ceBSors to the res gned professors being hopeful of finding a way of compromls ng with the Instructors who are at outs with the policy of the Institution It becajne known yesterday that Pro fessor J E A Alexis of the Lnlve slty of ebra3ka who had been offered a posl tlon at the Lnl erslty of Utah, had de cl ned to come his decision being prompt ed bj tte friction from which the Ltah school seems to be suffering Professor Alexis will remain In Nebraska. A dls patch to The Tribune from Lincoln tha seat of Nebraska unlvers ty Btates that he has notified the Utah un verslty au thorlt es of bis decllna on It is said he was offered coneiderabl more In salary than he Is recel ing at Nebraska. Professor Thorlld W. Arnodson whoce reported res gnatlon from th Uni ers ty of Ltah faculty was denied Issued a statement esterday saving that he had not s gned his contra t for re employ ment bat he had recommended ano her man for h s pos tlon and Indicating that be would not return to the university next year Rumors as to Thomas Friends of 1 I Thomas, an instructor at the L D S university circulated the rumor yesterday that be had been offered Professor A A. Knowlton s place at tbe Unlversty of Ltah Professor Knowlton Is associate professor of physics and has been dropped on the recommendation of President Kingsbury Mr Thomas, how e er was emphatic in his declaration that he had been offered no positions of any kind at the university and added that he was not a candidate for any Professor A. o Lovejoj of Johns Hop kins nnlversltj secretary of the American Association of Unl erslty Professors spent a buav day yesterdav Interviewing mem bers et the unlvers ty faculty who re signed Professor Lo ejoy Is lnvestigat Ing tbe ruction In behalf of the associa tlon. He expe ts today to have an Inter view with President Kingsbury Letter to Klngsburj Professor Lo ejoy sent to Dr Kingsbury the following Utter setting forth the de stre of the association of unl erslty pro feasors for the facts in the case President Kingsbury LrUvereit of I tah dalt Lake City Ltah M Dear Sir The sltuaUon that has developed at tbe Lnlverslty of Ltah has aroused much concern through out tha country among persona Inter eated In the work ot American UDl-erslties UDl-erslties and especially" among mem bers of tbe unl erslty teaching pro fession. it has, howe er been dXffl cult for those at a d stance to be sure that they had correct! gathered the essential faots of tbe case from the Incon plete and more or less conflict Ing ex parte statements which have appeared In newspapers and perlodl cals. In particular the statements made upon tire two s dea of the con troversj appear to have tailed spe elflcallv to Jo n Issue upon -ertaln points of Interest It has, therefore seemed ad isable to the president of the American As sociation of I otversltv Professors, tr John Dewey to send a repre sentatlve of that organisation to In terview yourself and others con cerned. wit reference to the matters In eontro ersj and to endeavor to secure aa fuli a d Impartial a state ment as may be of the rele ant tacts President Iewev I as asked me to n dertake this inquiry and I ha e con e to Sa t Lake Cltj for that purpose. I shall therefore greatly appreciate jour co rtesv If you will be good eno gh to appoint an hour this af er noon or tomorrow morning at which I mav call pon ou Interviewing Professors I n sy add that as t e professors of or facu t who have res gned ma be regarded as the compalnants In the ease I have thought It best to see son e of t em flr"t, anl ha e aked them to ind cate as prec sely as poss ble the acts or policies of the adm nletrat on of the unl r ty v hid led them to think It Impos s ble for tl m to retain their posl Hons in the uni e s t It is perhaps ad I ab e to explain the nature of the Interest wh ch the Assoclat on of Uni erslty Professors takes In the matter It is coming to be a well recog n zed princ p e that the general body of unl ers ty teacl ers is entitled to know with regard to any institut on the cond t ons of the tenure of the professorial office therein the meth ods of un vers ty government, and tl e po icy and practice of the- Inst tut on with respect to freedom of in uiry a d teaching In the absence of in format on pon these points it is m possible for n embers of tbe profes son to Judge whether or not the In stltut on s one in which pos t ons may be properlv accep ed or reta ned by unlve s ty teac ers ha ng a re spect for the d gnlty of their call ng a sense of Its soc al ob gations a d a rega d for the ideals of a unlvers ty It is therefore important to the profess on that when critic sm or changes are made bj respons ble persons against -anv Inst tutl with respect to Its policy or conduce in the matters to which I have referred the facts s ou d be carefully determined In a Judicial sp lit by some commit tee whollj detached from anv local or personal eontro e sj and in some de gree representative of the profession at large It is in this sp nt and for these purposes that nformat on is sought in th s instance What appears to bo partlcu arly de rable In tl e present ase Is a fuller and more definite statement than has yet been made pub le upon certain matters of tact which sti 1 rema n not wholly clear but which are presumaWj not In capable of ascertainment Wants Facts Made Known Any Information of th s sort which with your assistance and that of others I mav be able to gather will be laid before the council of the association and probablv also before a Joint committee representing th s and other organizations. My own re port and the findings of the commit tee wi 1 no doubt. If the council sees fit eventually be made public We, of course assume that the admlnla tratlon of the uni erslty Is equallv desirous that all facts in any way pertinent be thus fully made known and submitted to the impartial judg ment of both the academic and the general public We therefore enture to count upon your aid in this attempt to draw up a complete and unbiased summary of the circumstances of the case thl we hope mav be of some service to the university as well as to our pro f e e cm A message bj telephone to the Ho tel Ltah wi 1 reach me. Verv truly vours A O LOtEJOT Acting Secretary American A oc a tlon of Lnlverslty Professo a. The statement issued by Profeor Torild w Arnold"on, to the effect that bis resignation wbfle tempOrarllj with drawn a now in President Kingsbury s hands and that he will not be a mem ber of the fa ulty next ear makes the list of professors w ho have quit since the first bomb In the unlvers ty burst total sixteen. Arnoldson's Statement Professor Arnoldson 8 statement fo lows As there have been a number of contradictory reports In regard to my connection with the d "rupUon In the Unlverslt) Of Utah I beg to state the following I submitted my reignat on to tbe president on the ground that I con sldered conditions In the unlvers ly unfavorable to the tranqu 1 pursuit of effect! e p ofestonal work. T later withdrew mv resignation temporarily to avoid being incentif ed with any particular factional lu that mar ha e been Invol ed In the present struggle. I s gned tbe first petition drafted bv a group of the faculty asking for an In etlgatlon of the charges made against the members not recommend ed for reappointment This petition, t understand was never presented to t e board. I later signed the second petition passed bv the special faculty meet Ing expressing the sentiment of the first In more moderate terms I would sigi thee petitions again Fo far es I know the preIdent I-as not vet acted on my res ana tion wh ch 1 still In his hands. However I ha e not signed the contract for ve employment The ten days for ac ceptance laving paed some time ago, It will not be necesarj for me to submit a new reslgnat on I have recommended another man for my position Petition to Be Read When the alumni association s com mlttee of twentv fl e, whose names were announced In Tbe Tribune jeter da meet the latter part of the week et the Imitation of President loung the resolut on outlining the purposes and du ties of this co nmtttee adopted at the Commercial club ten da ago. win be read bj officers of the alumni and the committee will then elect its own chair man and other officers and proceed with its wo k as It decides. Members ot the a umnl con mlttee which selected the comn ittee say that a 1 of the latter ex pressed a willingness to serve. No action pertaining to the unl erslt. sltuati n was taken at the n eetlng of the Salt iJke t Federation of Women a Clubs vesterds afternoon. The club women ha e a petition to be read at the n ee Ing of tbe board of regents todav Further act on wl 1 not be tike u til the board of rege ts 1 as considered their petition Mrs J T Be ess president was empowered at esterdaj s sew On to call a meeetlpg of the won en vlf oc caslon s ou d demand |