In Response to Criticisms Over Our Inclusion of an Antiwar Demand
First of all, we’d like to reiterate that our demands as they appear on this blog, in their entirety, were and are a political statement, and/or indictment of the capitalist system, and are representative of our belief that no issue can be truly isolated from any other.
Despite this fact, we HAD actually given President Corrigan a list of our campus-specific demands, which he ignored anyway. The campus specific demands were as follows:
1. That the 93 million dollar recreation center not be built. We see the recreation center as a move to gentrify and privatize campus, since it would require another mandatory fee hike.
2. That union painters be rehired.
3. That the Ethnic Studies Resource Center be reopened.
4. That we are given full disclosure of the budget. We need transparency to understand how the cuts have been implemented and how they will be implemented in the future.
5. We demanded that President Corrigan attend the General Assembly and have an open discussion with students to address these grievances, among others.
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