As a 'freshie', it was an experience for me to see MSA in action during the International Evening night. As I recall, the commentator started with — 'This sketch represents a typical scene. . . 'The sketch went on to display a language difficulty, the competition between hawkers, the cut-throat business, and the readiness to thrash the tourists if they did not pay up. Unfortunately I lost catching the last part because like the others I was laughing at the way they acted.

However I have never seen such an incident at home. I know the hawkers to be poor. Come to think of it, I think MSA has made a mess out of the sketch. The people involved had either gone deliberately to show the hawkers in a very bad light or they are so naive as not to know hawkers' lives at all. I wonder whether MSA is going to charge me as having a view seen through 'a narrow and politically tinted glass.' (I pick that phrase on your reply to those people who criticise you in the previous issue — Can you please elaborate on that?) I am very scared by politics.

I think MSA should not disregard the criticism in the previous issue as criticism that 'does nothing but demoralizing well-meaning people who have sacrificed their time and efforts to promote a richer and more meaningful life here on the campus.' I would support people who criticise on the correct grounds. It is only through this means that MSA can improve its future programme.

Finally, although MSA is usually right, it has done wrong in this circumstance by not accepting criticism and not apologising to the hawker's sen. If it is going to continue to maintain this attitude. I don't think it is going to have the support of the majority of the Malaysian students.