Unfortunately, I was in class teaching on Thursday when a group of students rallied on Marsh Plaza and then marched to the steps of the President’s Office.
According to your account, the students who marched “felt the Boston University administration wasn’t listening to their concerns” (“Student groups join to march for issues” April 13). In this instance, that was literally true, since they chose to march on a day when the president, the provost and the chancellor were all out of town. Folks stood in the rain chanting for an hour to a building occupied by a receptionist, a secretary and the director of the fellowship programs. A BU police officer who stopped by, incidentally, counted 19 people, not 40, as reported in your article.
It is not my business to advise people how to protest, but I do wonder what we’re supposed to make of a list of demands that ranges from adding cable television in residence halls to freeing Tibet.
Peter Wood President’s Chief of Staff Boston University
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