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Show -Ida-selected?" a member of the panel asked? "No? I understand not," the reporter replied. "I think he was asked to resign? In any case? both the Chancellor and the governor are relieved to see him gone? They wanted to fire him earlier? after the first demonstrations? My guess is, they will appoint someone from the faculty to serve as acting president until a new man can be chosen?" The Professor scarcely heard anything after this? His mind was busy searching among the names of those he knew on the faculty who might be chosen? Those most likely, he thought were people he did not know well? deans of schools other than his own or members of the president's administrative staff? As the reporter went on to say? it would be unlikely for them to bring in anyone from the outside, perhaps even impossible at this time? "Would the police be called onto the campus?" "That would depend? of course? on the new administrator? They were not called today, and while there xias a lot of turmoil? classes disrupted and the like? there seemed to be almost no physical damage?" When the panel turned to another topic? the Professor switched to one of the commercial channels? but their report had apparently ended too? He turned off the set? He stood for a moment In the center of the room, feeling there should be someone he could talk to? He saw his dog looking up at him? curious? her pink tongue hanging loose from her jaws. |
