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Discussion

University Tuesday cannot be
said to have had a tremendous
impact on any important group.
The level of student awareness has
not been substantially increased,
the administration is clearly not
impressed or persuaded, and the
faculty still uninvolved. The
demonstrations were not worthless
by any means though. For many
students, perhaps most of the
participants, this was their first
college demonstration. On that
count, their initiation into the club
of demonstrators has shown them
that being in a community of
scholars by no means guarantees
consideration of all viewpoints.
University administrators can be as
intransigent as Presidents, judges
and other politicians.

There is much to be done. We
must not let frustration and the
failure to make real progress
dissuade us from continuing the
fight. We have but one University
to lose.