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Show -77- fortunateiy? did not have the power to hire and fire instructors? The Chancellor of the state System called the President and attempted to convince him that the teacher should at least be suspended until after the trial. The President replied that such a suspension was both unlawful and unwise? He did not elaborate on why he thought such action to be unwise? but the Professor believed he knew? Most of the faculty and students were against it? A suspension or a firing would unite them against the Chancellor and the Governor and play into the hands of the most radical members of each group? The radicals? the Professor thought? would welcome a suspension? because it would provide them an excuse 0or action and would? at the same time, provide them a following.1 He, himself, stood whole-heartedly behind the President. The President stood firm? The Black instructor continued to teach? and the Professor got back to his own work.' His two months of abstaining ca_me to an end, and the number of calories in his diet was increased; but he was cautioned to drink only moderately and to maintain the balanced diet the doctor had given him? The students continued to hold meetings on the quarangle. y One weekend; the organized a Peace March from downtown San Francisco to Golden Gate Park that attracted so many participants that the newspapers could not agree within fifty thousand of the exact numbers?' Estimates went as high as one hundred thousand? The Professor's daughter, who lived near the line |