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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 25

A report of his survey was sent to members of the Board on June 19, 1950. The survey made by the President of the University indicates that of the thirty-six universities in the Association of American Universities, twenty-six (nine state and seventeen private) institutions permit candidates for elective office to speak on their campuses and ten (five private and five state, including the University of Illinois) do not permit such use of their facilities. The Secretary of the Board received sixty-one replies to his inquiry addressed to the members of the Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions. His survey indicates that thirty-six permit the use of their facilities for addresses by candidates for political offices and twenty-five do not. Consolidating the data from both surveys, and eliminating duplications (some of the members of the Association of American Universities are also members of the Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions), we find that of the eighty-six colleges and universities replying to the inquiries, fifty-five permit candidates for political offices to speak on their campuses under specified conditions and official sponsorship and thirty-one do not. (If only the state institutions are counted, thirty-eight permit such use of their buildings and twenty-six do not.) This group of institutions is a representative sampling of the colleges and universities in the United States as a whole. It includes all of the state universities and colleges (with the exception of normal schools and teachers' colleges) and the outstanding privately endowed universities.

Mr. Herrick for the Committee on General Policy reported that the Committee recommends that the present policy of the University, established in 1890, be continued. After extended discussion of this matter, on motion of Dr. Meyer, the Board voted to concur in the recommendation of the Committee on General Policy.

CASE OF THOMAS R. ALLEN

(6) On May 19, 1950 (Alinutes, page 1124), the Board received a report from the Director of Nonacademic Personnel that, under Civil Service law and rules, written charges as grounds for request for discharge had been filed against Thomas R. Allen, Storekeeper in the Department of Chemistry at the Chicago Undergraduate Division of the University of Illinois. Under established procedure Mr. Allen had been suspended on May 4, 1950, pending the hearing of these charges. By authority of the Board, President Williamson appointed Frank T. Maher, Professor of Pharmacognosy and Pharmacology, Head of the Department, and Assistant Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Warren O. Brown, Dean of Men and Counselor in the Division of Special Services for War Veterans, and Clarence I. Carlson, Associate Professor of General Engineering Drawing and Head of the Department, Chicago Undergraduate Division, a committee to hear these charges and to make recommendations to the Board as to subsequent action. The report of the committee is submitted herewith.

On motion of Mrs. Holt, the Board voted (1) that it concurs in the findings of fact, conclusions of law, and recommendations of the hearing committee, (2) that the employee, Thomas R. Allen, be discharged as of May 4, 1950, and (3) that this decision of the Board be certified to the appointing officer and be enforced by him.

DELEGATION O F SIGNATURE

The Secretary presented the following:

The Board of Trustees on March 14, 1950 (Minutes, page 1042), adopted a resolution authorizing the President and the Secretary of the Board to delegate the signing of their names to vouchers against the State Auditor and warrants on the University Treasurer. In view of the change in the secretaryship it is requested that the following resolution be adopted: Resolved, that the Secretary of the Board of Trustees is authorized to delegate to Maude Archdeacon and to Helen L. Smith in Urbana, and to G. R. Moon, to Ethel Engeljohn, to Helen Wyle, and to Velma M. Davis in Chicago,