Post by ellyrobson on May 5, 2009 17:07:08 GMT
What luke is clearly supporting is their demands, not explicitly their methods. I think we would all support their demand for socially responsible investment.
If a hunger strike is the way that they are choosing to express this then that is their choice. It is a serious decision, but one I'm sure they don't take lightly.
I think the letter is strong and emphasises the connection between our action and their action, even if our methods were different.
Luke, you could also mention the mass student support for this demand in cambridge (see forum poll) and also the fact that increasingly many universities are being forced to take this step. There is a wide-spread clamour for SRI.
Also, the sentence
"academic staff themselves circulated an open letter with over 50 signatories (despite short notice, leading to some of our supporters failing to sign it) condemning the administration’s authoritarian and obstinate reaction"
doesn't really need to have the brackets in it - just write that 60 (not fifty) academics signed an open letter, which reached national press, rather than emphasising any lack.
Lastly, I would perhaps emphasise slightly more the need for universities and students to engage with the wider role, the hypocrisy of institutions that ask their students to engage theoretically but not practically with the wider world.
If a hunger strike is the way that they are choosing to express this then that is their choice. It is a serious decision, but one I'm sure they don't take lightly.
I think the letter is strong and emphasises the connection between our action and their action, even if our methods were different.
Luke, you could also mention the mass student support for this demand in cambridge (see forum poll) and also the fact that increasingly many universities are being forced to take this step. There is a wide-spread clamour for SRI.
Also, the sentence
"academic staff themselves circulated an open letter with over 50 signatories (despite short notice, leading to some of our supporters failing to sign it) condemning the administration’s authoritarian and obstinate reaction"
doesn't really need to have the brackets in it - just write that 60 (not fifty) academics signed an open letter, which reached national press, rather than emphasising any lack.
Lastly, I would perhaps emphasise slightly more the need for universities and students to engage with the wider role, the hypocrisy of institutions that ask their students to engage theoretically but not practically with the wider world.