Rough Hearing

The events of last week, following that meeting, seem even more surprising and confusing. On Monday Council rejected the Executive's 'conflcting' requests. On Wednesday a special forum 'discussed' the demonstrations for about three hours. The speakers who had supported the demonstration initially got a rough hearing, especially Peter Wilson.

Quite plainly a hell of a lot of people at that forum though 'violence' had occurred on the part of the student protesters. Sitting in a comparatively sane part of the hall I couldn't quite work out whether the students who complained about the protesters' 'violence' were pacifists or whether they opposed student 'violence' but supported PBEC delegates' violence. Later in the meeting I got the impression that the majority present were not in favour of the Executive's actions at their Sunday night meeting; although a lot of people thought borer and flour bombs were violent.