Word: shantytowns
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...episode caused an argument at my table about how polls, petitions and demonstrations have been used by campus activists, particularly by the divestment movement. For the first time in my four years here, tactics such as the intrusive shantytown and agressive petitioning have replaced the less invasive methods of teach-ins and speeches. These new or revived strategies reflect a frustration less with the intransigence of Harvard's governors than with the lack of a student groundswell in support of divestment...
...construction of the shantytown in the Yard is just another example of intolerance. SASC doesn't have to say anything; the shanties embody, with typical liberal arrogance, the attitude that: "you don't really really understand apartheid, so we're here to show you what it's really like...
SASC also felt compelled to add a new twist to the shantytown concept, the "Ivory Tower," so that its display might not be perceived as an uncreative imitation of other schools' divestiture movements. This tower also exhibits the inherent contradiction in SASC's argument. In its "Letter," SASC writes that "the Ivory Tower, another familiar symbol, represents the distance, the apartness, and the isolation of universities. Yet our university cannot be a removed entity." Instead, it is the divestiture movement which is erecting its own ivory tower by supporting self-indulgent moral isolationism. One of the few manners in which...
...were living in a mock shantytown in Harvard Yard and I wrote a letter explaining that I had once thought about living in a mock shantytown in my backyard, would you feel better? If I claimed to understand how much you were sacrificing and suffering in your mock shantytown, would you feel supported? Would you feel respected...
...only be what we are, let's minimize the damage. Let's get our mock campus, our mock shantytown, our mocking concern out of Harvard Yard. Let's be respectful. Let the grass grow. Arthur K. Park...