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The key question now is whether the students will accept their newly won powers responsibly or try to sabotage the new system in hopes of achieving more radical reforms. There is still discontent around the Sorbonne, where 2,000 students rallied recently to demand that they be allowed to serve on examination juries. University officials hope that students will have the patience to tolerate the reform timetable, which sets aside the current academic year to organize the new councils and allow each campus to establish its goals. "It will be an interesting year," predicts Nanterre Philosophy Professor Louis Marin, "but I don't think we shall get much teaching done."