Dismissal

In the spring U. S. college administrators traditionally pause to reappraise their faculties, promote promising men, reappoint others, bundle a few off to look for new jobs. In Lincoln, Neb. fortnight ago word reached John P. Weller, 39, an instructor in the University of Nebraska's French Department, that in June he would be eased out with a year's leave of absence at half pay.

Short, plump, bespectacled Instructor Weller brooded over his misfortune. One morning last week he dismissed his class, stepped into the office of his immediate superior, Chairman Harry Kurz of the Department of Romance Languages. Instructor Weller knew that last month Dr. Kurz had failed to recommend him for reappointment. At his baldish. heavy-featured superior John Weller glared, pulled a revolver, shouted: "I'm going to kill you!" Dr. Kurz leaped up, ran from his office. Instructor Weller fired at him, missed. When Dr. Kurz slipped in the corridor, Instructor Weller stood over him, fired again.

Past students and teachers who had excitedly poured from their classrooms bounded John P. Weller. Reaching the campus, he plunged into a clump of bushes, fired two more shots. His protruding legs stiffened starkly. When physicians arrived, they treated Dr. Kurz for a wrist wound, found Instructor Weller dead with a bullet in his heart.

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