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Show -323- sor said goodbye to his friends, making arrangements to sec some of them the next day. All of them said they would see him at the lecture tonight. The instructor said he hoped they xrould all be there. He didn't know how the attendance xrould be. The meeting had been called on such short notice. He led the Professor and the txro students out of the dining room, up another flight of stairs, and doxm a long hallway. Inside a large room that looked more like a seminar room than a T„ V. studio, the reporters xrere gathered xrith their cameras and microphones. The Professor xas seated on the far side of a long table. The reporters sat or stood on the other side. Six microphones, arranged in a kind of semicircle, stared at the Professor. Four of them, he xas told, belonged to the area television stations, txro from radio. After a short introduction that stressed the fact that he xas a former professor from the local university, the questions began. In the beginning, they xrere general: how much did the Professor think the trouble in California xas part of a xuridea? protest, hoxr much xas it limited to problems in California? What part did the Professor believe violence played in the delivering of protest? The Professor told them he thought the California protest part of an overall dissatisfaction, but that this dissatisfaction had surfaced first in California because of the character of the state administration and the university authorities. As to violence, he said, that came usually from the opposition, |