Educate yourself about SAS protest

I am writing in response to Lindsay Stollar's letter and to the position she so eloquently expressed. From her level of cognitive functioning I would like to say: You are a moron. You obviously do not or cannot comprehend the issues involved in sweatshop labor reform. Shut up, you are making a fool of yourself.

But this baseness of name-calling is hardly credible within the academic community we are a part of here at the UA. Perhaps we should try to understand where Ms. Stollar's hostility comes from in writing her letter. Maybe it was the frustration she felt as she reached the limits of her intellectual capacity while trying to understand the issues surrounding the sit-in. But this would be giving Ms. Stollar too much credit, as she obviously has not even tried to understand the issues involved in the sit-in.

Has she ever actually gone up to the seventh floor of the Administration Building and attempted to become educated about what the SAS sit-in is all about and why it is continuing?

If she had, she would have discovered there has been a tremendous amount accomplished toward achieving a correctly worded (Likins thrives on ambiguity) and binding agreement, and that there is a representative of SAS from the UA currently in Honduras talking with sweatshop workers and conveying back to the sit-in the workers' appreciation.

I assure you that if she had ever worked a 60-hour week for an equivalent of $30 while being subjected to extreme violations of basic human rights, she would not have the extremely naive attitude that was publicly expressed.

Christopher Lovett
Psychology graduate student