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Show -141- commonplace, and he paid little attention. He turned down H0lloway Avenue, then doubled back toward his parking lot? He parked this time alongside the Education Building, so that he could walk past the Speaker's Platform and discover what was happening? The students congregated there today were mostly Black? and there was a good deal of confused shouting? both into the microphone and from the students facing the platform. They seemed to be formulating some kind of plan? After some announcements there would be prolonged cheers and .applause. After others? shouted comments from the audience. Just before the Professor reached the outskirts of the crowd? he saw the President of the University striding doxim the path from the Administration Building? not running exactly, but moving with haste and purpose. The Professor lost him for a moment as he neared; then saw him emerge close to the platform^ then leap onto it? his blond Scandanavian hair and pale face conspicuous among the black heads and dark skins at the mircrophone? The Professor found himself standing beside one of his colleagues? a tall Chaucerian scholar carrying a briefcase. "What's going on?" he asked? His colleague shook his head? "I don't knox7," he said. "Some kind of demand or criticism - something to do with the administration." His eyes lighted suddenly? He had answered the Professor |