U. of Washington Parley Cancelled As Leaders Quit

Another educational conference at the University of Washington has been cancelled because of protests from scholars opposing that university's "discrimination" against J. Robert Oppenheimer '26.

Professor Arthur W. Martin, chairman of Washington's Department of Zoology, said yesterday in Seattle that plans for a symposium of "Recent Advances in Invertebrate Physiology," scheduled for this summer, had been dropped. Martin head of the symposium's planning committee, explained that the other three members had resigned in protest over Washington's refusal to hire Oppenheimer as a visiting lecturer.

John H. Welsh, associate professor of Zoology, said last night in Cambridge that he had been contacted about the conference but had not yet replied.

Last week a conference on "Enzyme Action" dropped after Harvard professors refused to appear.

The professors who resigned from the planning committee charged Washington with "discrimination" and a "violation in academic freedom," Martin said yesterday.