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Show -124- various departments; and it did end by accepting the resolution of the Professor's department? almost xvithout revision. Most of the debate centered upon a statement in the resolution which said that if the faculty received no response from the Board? they would have to reconsider what action to take? "including the possibility of a strike." Some members of the faculty had wanted to eliminate the final phrase, objecting to raising the issue of a strike at this time; but others?' including the Professor, had argued for it, maintaining that without the threat to strike the resolution had no force? In the end, the original phrase was modified to suggest a strike as only one of several possibilities?" and it passed easily? The only person the Professor saw who was violently opposedj.to the resolution was the Korean linguist from his own department? who attempted in vain to get recognition at the end of the meeting? even though he had spoken several times earlier? The look on his face, half anger? half disgust? puzzled the Professor enough at the moment that he did not forget it? It seemed entirely out of character with the quiet? genial7 albeit vain? personality of the man as he had known him? Those of the faculty most in favor of the phrase in its original form were members of the Teachers' Union? including the Professor's friend? with whom he had sat during the meeting? As they left the auditorium together? the Professor commented that the meeting had not taken as long as he had |