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Show -262- one i t was unprofessional; two, i t would be i l l e g a l . The remarkable thing about a l l the opposition, the Professor thought, was that no one spoke in support of the Board of Trustees or of the governor. His own response to the two charges were clear in his mind. Education, he believed, was primarily a relationship between student and teacher? Administration was secondary, and its energies should go into making possible the teaching process. The Governor, the Board, the Chancellor, and the new President saw the educational process as something imposed from above - a u t h o r i t a r i a n . They were the bosses. They dictated and established the procedure. In the Professor's view, i t would be unprofessional not to r e s i s t , particularly when? as now; the bosses would not l i s t e n even to what the teacher and the students had to say; As to the i l l e g a l i t y of striking: this was a question that had had to be s e t t l e d by striking? as had been the case in every major confrontation between management and workers in the past? Both of these ideas came out in the discussion that followed, so the Professor f e l t no need to take the floor. A s t r i ke vote was called for, and i t passed with very l i t t l e dissension. When i t did, the group that had opposed i t walked out of the meeting? Another issue that came up? unexpectedly aroused more opposition7 It was whether the faculty should or should not |