Illini Trustees to Study Professor's Dismissal
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill.—(UPI)—The University of Illinois Board of Trustees reviews the case of Leo F. Koch, assistant biology professor fired April 7 for advocating pre-marital sex relations, today.
The hearing was granted to review the recommendations by President David D. Henry that Koch's contract be terminated this August. Koch's contract was set up to end in August, 1961.
Promotions to higher academic ranks for 70 members of the University of Kansas faculty have been announced by Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy. The 38 advancements for faculty on the Lawrence campus and 52 promotions at the Medical Center campus in Kansas City become effective July 1.
KU Announces 70 Promotions
All promotions are from the next lower rank.
Promotions at Lawrence:
To Professor; David W. Appel engineering mechanics; George M Beckmann, history; Karl D. Edwards, education; E. Gordon Ericksen, sociology; Kim Giffin, speech; George F. Jenks, geography; Harold C. Krogh, business administration; Kenneth H. Lenzen, engineering mechanics; Bruce A. Linton, speech and journalism; Robert W. Rideway, education; Alvin H. Schild education; William R. Scott, law; L. Worth Seagondollar, physics; Carlyle S. Smith, anthropology; Jack D. Steele, business administration; Milton Steinhardt, music history.
To Associate Professor; George W. Byers, entomology; Margaret C. Byrne, speech; Natalie Calderwood, English; Peter J. Caws, philosophy; George W. Forman, mechanical engineering; Robert J. Friau, physics; Thomas J. Graughty, architecture; George Ivask, German and Russian; Arthur H. Kruse, mathematics; Robert W. Lichtwardt, botany; Eleanor Loeb, social work; Donald R. McCoy, history; Edward A. Maser, art history; Frank S. Pinet, business administration; John Morley, architecture; Edward I. Shaw, radiation biophysics; Bayard Wilson, engineering mechanics; Marcus Hahn, music education.
To Assistant Professor: John A. Meixner, English; Earl A. Nehring, political science; Dennis Quinn, English; Benjamin Wallacker, history.
Pozdro Gets Music Grant
John Pozdro, associate professor of music theory, has been named the composer commissioned by the Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra for 1960-1961 under the American Music Center's Ford Foundation Grant.
The commission will enable Prof. Pozdro to complete his Symphony No. 3, a four-movement work that will be given its premiere next season on a subscription concert by the Oklahoma City Orchestra, directed by Guy Fraser Harrison.
The Ford grant enables six orchestras to commission a work per season for three years. The other five orchestras are the symphonies of Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Minneapolis, Knoxville and Rochester.
Prof. Pozdro has composed many types of music, but perhaps his most successful work is Symphony No.2, which during the season just ended was performed for a radio series by the Oklahoma City Symphony.
pioneer. A member of the KU faculty since 1950, Prof. Pozdro has been chairman of both the first and second KU Symposium of Contemporary American Music.
Miller Gets Grant To Attend Session
The U.S. Office of Vocational Rehabilitation has awarded a tuition and living expenses scholarship to Prof. Leland D. Miller, director of the occupational therapy program, to enable him to attend a special course currently in progress at the Teachers College of Columbia University.
Koch, 44 and father of three children, was dismissed after writing a letter to the editor of the Daily Illini, student newspaper, endorsing pre-marital sexual relations for "those sufficiently mature to engage in it without social consequences and without violating their own codes of morality and ethics." The letter appeared in the paper March 18.
Henry said the views were "offensive and repugnant, contrary to common accepted standards of morality . . . . ." He also said Koch had committed a grave breach of academic responsibility.
Koch declined to predict his chances for reinstatement or for obtaining full salary compensation until 1961.
"My case is not a settled thing yet." Koch said, "but the board will put a final stamp on it one way on another."
Koch said the crux of the controversy is the issue of academic freedom which he contends has been violated.
Since his dismissal in April, Koch said he has been studying biology and weighing offers to write a book.
He said he still has not received any teaching offers from other schools. Koch said he did not expect colleges to approach him until the Illinois case is decided one way or the other.
Hashimoto Attends Seminar
Toru Hashimoto, Takahashi-shi, Japan, graduate student, was one of 20 foreign students throughout the United States selected to attend a scholarship seminar on the 1960 American Elections in Washington, D.C., this week.
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Canuteson Elected To World Board
Dr. Ralph I. Canuteson, director of the student health service, has been chosen one of six vice presidents of the newly organized International Student Health Association. He attended the organizational meeting last month in Paris as a representative of the American College Health Association.
Twenty-two nations are members and 15 had representatives at the meeting.
At the end of 1958, there were 545.465 patients in state mental hospitals, a reduction of more than 13.000 patients since 1955.
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