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Show -211- p The Professor half expected the police to arrive while he was in the library, but for some reason they did not. Searching the stacks for his needed books, he could dimly hear the sounds of the students outside by the cafeteria.. Be had seen them when he entered, making speeches from atop a dining table they had pulled from the building to replace the speakers' platform that the nex* President had ordered removed. They were obviously waiting for the police to arrive and play out the l i t t l e game that had become a daily r i t u a l. The Professor had decided to wait until after the police had arrived before leaving the library. He didn't want to find himself caught between them and the students. But they didn't come, and they didn't come. He found his books, checked them out a t the circulation desk, and s t i l l the police had not arrived. He miked into the general reading room, where the ed windows a t one end look-out upon the quadrangle. The students were s t i l l there listening to speeches. One change had occured that surprised the Professor. The students were nox* being addressed by a nex^ly appointed faculty member xrtiom the Professor knew only because the appointment of this new member had received an unusual amount of publicity at the beginning of the term. He x-jas a young man, in his late thirties or early f o r t i e s , xfithout the usual academic qualifications. He did have practical experience, having served for a time as a foreign correspondent for one of the wire services and l a t e r as a staff writer for a weekly news magazine. He |