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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...
...strategy that had paid some dividends at other schools, where construction of shantytowns led to mass protests in favor of divestment. But it hasn't worked here. The shantytown is a failure. Now, as the hopes of divestment activists are plummeting to the ground, it is time to bring the shanties down with them...
Building the shantytown was a valuable enterprise, if only to see the depth of the student body's commitment to divestment. Polls among students at the College and at the Law School seemed to indicate widespread support for divestment. The shantytown, it was hoped, could bridge the gap between people's beliefs and their willingess to actively support them...
Events have proven SASC wrong for believing that general support for divestment would translate into support for a shantytown. The embarassingly low attendance at the shantytown is indicative of the lack of enthusiasm it has generated among students. In some cases, this lack of support has descended into outright mockery...
...members also concluded that peer pressure and the presence of an instructor would make it inappropriate to put decisions about meeting at the shantytown to a class vote, council members said...