Amy Bishop, a neurobiologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, sat down at the conference table just moments before the facultymeeting began.
Still, when the professors saw one another at the staff club or at church or at a facultymeeting, they were careful to moan about the riffraff from town coming onto their sacred campus to steal.
Casey Gollan, a senior in the arts school, said various groups of alumni, students and faculty who have opposed charging for tuition are now meeting to think of ways to stop the board's decision including legal action.