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...Faunce House, the office of the Brown student council adjoins that of the Resource Center; the building is a natural gathering place for students, and the members of Students in a Vise circulate between the two offices all day long...
...Resource Center is staffed by two former Brown students. One, Bullet Brown, is also a member of the Vise group. "We were initially able to get the sympathy of most students for the strike, but after a while, it's hard for bourgeois kids to believe that people who go out on strike know what they're doing...
...large number of Brown's 5000 students--the Vise estimate of non-participation in its pro-strike efforts runs as high as 4000--wish to seek moral cues during the dispute from a source other than the activists, the Brown Daily Herald offers a more middle-of-the-road perspective. The Herald has scrupulously avoided lining up behind either party--the workers or the administration--in the dispute. The strongest editorial on the subject to date has been one calling for binding arbitration in the dispute, a demand which went unheeded by the administration. The editorial that followed the arrests...
...Vise group's members and the striking workers do not share Rubinton's characterization of the Herald. Mistaking a Crimson reporter for a Herald reporter, a striking library worker on Tuesday yelled, "How can you treat this thing the way you do--how can you do this?" And Bullet Brown echoes the sentiments of several of the Vise members when he says the Herald has become "completely conservative" over the past years...
...said. "The big problem here is that people just don't know the facts." The picket line--normally staffed by no more than five people--runs from 8:30 a.m. until midnight, 99 hours a week. For a while, students had been joining in the lines; now, the newest Vise initiative calls for the stepped up use of library facilities in order to force an early settlement. Previously, Vise members had advised fellow students, with a remarkable degree of success, to boycott the libraries entirely, and library use fell, for a time, to one-third normal level. The workers...