Presidential Timber

Television journalist Josie Jenkins chronicles campus unrest at the historically black Pemberton State University. Although the schools difficulties have accumulated over decades the recently appointed president Dr. B. W. Buck Dickman seems destined to absorb the blame. Faculty and student factions demand Dickmans removal as miscellaneous others threaten calamity foment distractions and advance self-serving agendas. Dickman appears on Josies newscast to unveil a transparently inadequate plan to defuse campus unrest obliterate financial woes and eradicate disfavor in the halls of state government. As Josies romantic relationship with Pembertons academic vice president blossoms Pembertons survival is further threatened when Dickmans secret indulgences seem destined to become public. Running time is about one hundred minutes without intermission.