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Show •111- which is life and death, and then he has to revert to something else, call it mysticism or anything you wish, it has to be some-thing outside one.*s. self, something involved with the community and the survival of the communal self. They talked about the meeting only at parting. As his friend was locking his office door, he said he xrould leave the senate meeting occasionally to see what xrcas happening in the meeting of the department. Then he left for the Administration Building, and the Professor returned to the room xshere their earlier meeting had taken place. When he arrived, only the department chairman and four or five members were present. Others straggled in a few at a time, but by the time the Chairman called the meeting to order there were no more than half the faculty on hand. But there was, in contrast to the morning meeting, a sense of purpose. The Professor, because he felt responsible for the calling of this meeting, felt compelled to speak. He did not, he said, come with any prepared plan of action, but he did believe that the faculty sometime had to formulate a plan, and perhaps this ras the place to begin. The Board of Trustees must be told in very definite terms how the faculty felt about the action they had taken concerning the President. At the moment, he favored a threat of mass resignation? This vrould avoid the onus of a strike threat, which many persons on and off the campus, even some of those who x*ere sympathetic to the faculty, considered unethical and illegal. If he were younger, he said, |
