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...seems reasonable to expect those who wish to engage in polemic to get their facts straight. When the wager of a polemic is a journalist, such a responsibility seems all the more incumbent. A "Brass Tacks" piece by Steven Lichtman entitled "Our Shantytown," whose salient point was that SASC should tear the shanties down, seemed sadly misinformed. This misinformation was entirely avoidable. Lichtman might have joined the hundreds of people who have asked questions at the information desk of the Open University during the last five weeks, and saved himself the burden of writing a shoddy article...
...member of SASC, and of the Open University (between which there is a distinction), I wish to answer some to the points Lichtman raises...
...Lichtman says the shanties are not successful...
...Lichtman's second objection to the fast is that it is a conscience soother for pampered students who can go out for a meal and rejoice in their generosity. One counter to this point is that some of us actually do fast or even attend hunger banquets; the other being the pragmatic view that the approximately $4000 raised for Oxfam is $4000 more that is going to aid deprived people that would not be sent if Harvard did not hold the fast...
...short, unless Lichtman in his superior moral state actually sent his $5 to Oxfam, he has no valid reason for skipping the fast. Nick Salafsky...