Although there was talk of a “range of options, from doing nothing to firing” Mr. Meyer, Mr. Wadsworth said, “that is different than deliberating it,” and the board quickly settled on a discussion of a suspension. The tone of the meeting remained respectful, he said, but he said he felt he needed to resign because he could not defend the outcome and because there had been no public accounting of members’ views. The university released two emails Mr. Wadsworth had sent to Dr. Drake and Michael J. Gasser, the board chairman, about an hour after the Aug. 22 news conference began, in which he tendered his resignation. “I heard enough in the meeting,” he wrote, “to persuade me that I do not want to be a party, through endorsing today’s decision or remaining on the Board, to implicitly or explicitly support current or future actions on such issues.” Mr. Wadsworth…
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