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Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 01:22:58 EST
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inmet!porges    Nov  1 17:06:00 1984

>	How can you say that symbolic protests of the sort brought
>about here at Brown are useless?  The fact of the matter is that
>national attention was brought to the issue by a tiny percentage of
>the population (Brown has ~6600 students and only a percentage of
>that voted for the idea) the only problem with this was the fact
>that many of the groups reporting the information left out some key
>facts (such as the fact that it was a symbolic gesture).
>	It was the reporting of the act incorrectly (or not fully)
>wich resulted in it looking "silly".

	Oh, sorry.  Despite the last two or three years of worrying about
nuclear war,  nobody really thought about it until some number less than
6600 college students brought it to national attention.  :-)  Really, what
arrogance.  
	Since you admit that the fact that it was a "symbolic" gesture
is important for understanding that the vote was not "silly", I see you
wouldn't want to be accused of actually thinking that it would have any
effect on anything.  (After all, if it could make a difference, it wouldn't
be silly as a non-symbolic -- i.e. useful -- action.)