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Show -91- "We cannot," he said? "tolerate violence or the threat of violence on our campuses." One of the trustees broke in to remark that the problem seemed to have its source in a small group of radical trouble-makes? 1 who probably were not students at all?!! Why, another asked, couldn't these instigators be isolated and ejected? The Black trustee said quietly that he believed there were real inequities that should be corrected. In ailjthis, the Professor attempted to discover how the San Francisco members felt? As the camera scanned the table, he could occasionally catch sight of them? looking solemn and troubled?1 but they salad nothing. In his own mind was emerging a memory of events forty years in the past, when the newspaper in Indiana? where he had worked briefly? had responded with a similar selfrighteous indignation? uttered the same cliches, when an article they had printed had caused a riot at the local radio factory. The Los Angeles builder responded to his Black colleague by growling? "Inequities or no inequities, they cannot be corrected in a moment." "And particularly not under a threat of force," another added? to which most of the trustees assented. one of the San Francisco members did speak finally, the older man. He, too, spoke quietly, as had the Black. "Before going farther - " he began, "before tempers get |
