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Time For Williams To Explain

The time has come to
consider the strange case of D.
Alan Williams.

In recent memory, Mr.
Williams, together with
sidekick Canevari, has served as
lackey and general hatchetman
of the University
administration; loyally taking
it upon himself to execute the
more unpopular directives of
the boys upstairs, who were
good at making decisions that
they were sometimes reluctant
to be personally associated
with. It was a thankless job.

But, it must be admitted
that hitherto Mr. Williams has
been good naturedly tolerated;
for, although there has never
been any doubt as to where his
sympathies lay, Williams is
apparently a singularly inept
man, seemingly incapable of
striking effective blows against
either the expression of civil
liberties or against general
humanity itself.

Consequently, although he
has hardly been smothered
with universal love, he has
neither been deluged with hate.
Indeed, in all frankness, he has
furnished many with
considerable amusement, and
that, perhaps, is the key to the
community's tolerance.

But now, alas, we learn that
Mr. Williams has perpetrated
acts of actual physical violence
against the person of a peaceful
protester, and it is time we
reconsider our attitudes toward
him. It is not, I believe,
unreasonable to request that he
give the University community
a written explanation of his
behavior in Scott Stadium
Saturday afternoon, or, failing
that, to submit his resignation
from his posts as Vice
President of Student Affairs
and nominal professor of
history.

If Mr. Williams should prove
unable or unwilling to do so,
the community will be justified
in taking the affair into its own
hands.

New Temple

Fred Heblich's editorial (sic)
in Tuesday's CD has provoked
me to write my first and