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Show -322- Professor and sit in on the press conference. This young couple, xrho, the Professor guessed, xrere students, seemed a little out of place at the luncheon, where tho talk xas mostly reminiscent of the years the Professor had taught at the university, but they sat quietly and politely, listening to the conversation. In appearance and manner, they seemed midxay between the students the Professor had seen in the halls this morning and the students xrho were on strike in California. When they spoke, they did not sound too much like southerners, and the Professor asked them about that. They xrere not from the South, they told him; They had met in the Peace Corps and had decided to attend a southern university more out of curiosity than anything else. "Curious about xrhat?" the Professor asked them. "About almost everything," the girl replied. "About the Negroes mostly, I suppose. We'd been working among the Blacks in Africa for two years." Near the end of the luncheon, the former Chairman of the Advisory Committee took out his check book and said he xanted to make a donation in support of the strike. "How shall I make it?" he asked the Professor. The Professor referred him to the young instructor, saying he didn't want to handle any of the contributions. The instructor said to make checks out to the San Francisco Strike Fund. Then it was time to leave for the press conference, which would be held in another part of the Union Building. The Profes- |
