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Show _.Wx' 3" "5"" If the Board is unwilling now to investi‘ gate the matters referred to in questions 15, 16, and 18, or any of these; and if the answer to question 19, be affirmative, for what reason does the Board decline to take, with regard to the cases which have recently come before it, the same sort of action which it proposes to take in similar cases which may come before it in the future? Answer 20. going answers. This question is fully answered by our foreThe Board proposes to afford an opportunity -for hearings in the future the same as it has in the past, or under rules and regulations that may be adopted as the 4result of the activities of Question 21. our Faculty Relations Committee. If the Board is at the present time Wil- ling to make investigations referred to in questions 15, 16, and 18, does it see any obstacle, in View of existing conditions, to making these hearings public? Answer 21. . We think it improper that you should con- clude and intimate that the Board is opposed to public hearings. The Board in its public statement, page 15, says: "On account of its familiarity with University matters, the Board is best able to decide how and when it will obtain its information, what it considers the most reliable information, and how it will conduct its investigations; this it has always done and proposes to continue to do." Question 22. If the Board is unwilling itself to make these investigations, is it willing to notify some disinterested persons, or some other body, to make such investigations, and will the Board, pending this investigation, suspend its action with reference to the professors concerned? Answer 22. In our judgment there should be no unwilling- ‘ness on the part of the Board of Regents to making these investigations; hence, no necessity for disinterested persons to make any investigations whatever. We feel that the Board of Regents is the proper tribunal to take the evidence and determine the facts in the controversy; and that they are not authorized, neither would they be justified, in dele- gating those powers or duties imposed upon them as Regents if the University. |
