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From: sea@brunix.UUCP (Scott Anderson)
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	In reference to the article saying that symbolic protests
are useless:

	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".

Scott E. Anderson
BROWN U.
browngr!sea