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Show - 7 4 - The Professor saw it on television. The demonstrators walked peaceably into the building and sat down in the corridors, blockingifche hallways and the office doors. They were warned ',>.•>• that if they did not vacate? police woild be called. They remained sitting until the police arrived, then did not resist as the officers escorted them from the buiUdaBg? The Professor recognized only a few persons in the group. One was his friend and former student, whom he saw briefly walking through the front door, a policeman beside him, a hand upon his arm? The Professor wondered: if he had been on campus that Say, would he have participated? He didn't think so? He had been so preoccupied with his writing that day that he had not even remembered that a protest had been called, so was surprised when it flashed upon his television screen. The demonstration rated only small headlines in the city papers the next morning? When he arrived on campus, the talk was all about the propriety of calling in the police. The participants had obviously not been prepared for a long stay? They had not been bent on damage to the building. Some slight inconvenience may have been caused the workers in the building. But was that reason enough for calling in the police? The Professor did not think so. Neither did the President of the University? who called a press conference to apologize? It was not he who called them in? he said, but he took the responsibility? It would not happen again without greater cause? The President's action caused one student radical to in- |