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Show -324- the police or provocateurs, so could not be ruled out, but that he did not advocate i t. He xas asked to outline the causes of the s t r i k e and to say how effective he thought i t xrould be. The Professor outlined as briefly as he could the beginning of the protests of both students and faculty. He stressed the lack of violence because, he said,Ahad made i t appear that there xas great violence xrhen there xas not. It xas too early to say how effective the s t r i k e xrould be, although he had heard this morning on his car radio that i t xas eighty-eight per cent effective. What did the Professor think of the new president? "He xas a poor choice, and he xas irregular!ly installed." What did he think of the Governor? "This is my opinion only, but I consider him a hypocrite, xrho pretends to speak for the people of the s t a t e , but xrho really represents big business i n t e r e s t s . His pronouncements on the s t r i k e advocate the use of force to end i t . Be is no friend of education. He xrould educate an e l i t e only, and this e l i t e would be those who could afford the high t u i t i o n he advocates?" As he spoke, the Professor could not help noticing out of a corner of his eye, hoxr the txro v i s i t i n g students xrere reacting. He had been s l i g h t l y suspicious of them a t the beginning, wondering if they might possibly be spies, planted to take doxm his words. They xrere making notes. But they seemed too genuinely pleased by xrhat he xas saying, particularly exchanging approving |