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Show UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS TO BE INVESTIGATED BY COMMITTEE Salt Lake. March 30. Twenty-five of the most prominent educators of Utah will investigate the trouble at the University of Utah, according to a resolution adopted at the meeting of the University Alumni association last night A committee of seven was appointed ap-pointed to select twenty-five such men. The committee is to report at the next meeting of the association It is understood that the larger committee com-mittee shall consist of men chosen from the entire state, Irrespective of colleges which they may have attended About 200 persons attended last night's meeting. George Hedger. secretary' sec-retary' of the association, presided, owing to the absence of Richard W. Young. Jr., the president Elbert D. Thomas, president during 1914, was elected permanent chairman. One of the features of the meeting was a talk by Professor William Roylance, an alumnus, and one of the resigning professors of the university He urged the necessity of making the fight at the university impersonal and said that the trouble w-as one in which persons or personalities should not be considered. Committee Reports. The report of the committee of three appointed at the last meeting of the association to ask the board of regents for an investigation of the trouble caused by the dismissal of four members of the faculty and the demotion of another was made by Oscar W. Carlson, chairman. He re counted the charges made against the men who had resigned and the denials made by members of the board of regents, mentioned further differences at the university, and urged that a free, dispassionate investigation in-vestigation be held. He also Introduced Intro-duced the resolution that a committee commit-tee of seven be appointed to select twenty-five men of state-wide prominence promi-nence to investigate the trouble. The motion of Mr. Carlson passed by uuanimous vote. The men appointed appoint-ed to act on the alumni committee are. W. R. Wallace. Oscar W. Carlson, James Wade, Horace Sheeley. James H. Moyie, Richard W. Young. Jr., and Judge T. D Lewis. It was indicated to them that they should appoint men for the big investigating committee commit-tee who were not prejudiced in any way concerning the present trouble In his speech Professor Roylance, who is ranked as one of the leading historians of the west, said in part: 'It is necessary and desirable to make this controversy impersonal, Ri'-it and also to realize the seriousness of p it. It 1b one which demands great serl- ' ? ousness of thought, the breadth of P human feeling and knowledge and ISfe'Si careful, weighty judgment "I wish to uggest also that the struggle for freedom of speech at IH the university has been largely won, if not entirely won. and that victory fv'$ Is due as much to the assertion of f "1 the right of free speech as anything pjy I else It is due largely to the gaining . ' K' of a new viewpoint for ourselves as i; v- well as In others In that we have p f'. brought ourselves to a realization i that the gainiug of, the right for free' ?. dom of speech is to be had primarily j by the asserting of such a right. I "An investigation into the contro- it ; ,' versy must be had. and tt will be I had. I feel confident of that Public ijp; opinion once aroused will effect the t ' , V rest for after all, everything of such I X' a nature depends upon the opinion i and thoughts held by the public. ' ' That is the one essential." I ' . |
