You'll have to forgive us if we don't take up every single worthwhile campaign that comes our way. Truth is that we're focused on other campaigns and haven't had the time to worry about kicking what amounts to a snackstand in one of the smaller dorm cafeterias off of campus.

Sorry Dan, we've been busy shutting down military, Pentagon and weapons industry recruiters, forcing the school to abandon its' bid to house a bio-weapons lab, staging some of the largest antiwar protests and student walkouts in the area, building bridges and organizing projects between different schools and communities, fighting against CTA service cuts, putting an end to the Army ROTC Valentine's Day Shoot, getting the school to host a peace and justice career fair, waging a divestment campaign to get the university to stop supporting I$raeli Apartheid, fighting against tuition increases, supporting SEIU workers in their struggles against privatization, fighting the administration for years and finally winning union recognition for grad employees, supporting faculty that have been targeted by the administration for having progressive ideas and politics, supporting diversity in UIC's hiring practices, exposing and taking on the liver transplant scandal in the college of medicine, unifying diverse student organizations to oppose hate crimes/speech at UIC, fighting for the right to exercise free speech at UIC (tougher than you might think), working to "retire" the U of I's racist mascot, battling against the reactionary, right-wing elements on campus when they bring racist, homophobic scumbags like David Horowitz to campus, getting the cultural centers to stop using Coca Cola, supporting contigent academic labor in their fight for union recognition, trying to reach more and more people with an antiwar and social justice message, getting an education, working, raising families, trying to survive, taking the UIC Residence Hall Association to task for crossing the Congress Hotel picket line, not letting John Sweeney dictate to the people who live, work and organize in this city what they can and can't protest against, not allowing backwards political organizations to hijack the student and youth movement, and so on.

Also keep in mind that students at UIC, like our sisters and brothers at DePaul and some of the other schools, are among the most actively involved when it comes to the citywide anti-war, international solidarity, and anti-militarization movements. Not to diss the U of C student activists but I can't recall the last time that I ran into one of you outside of Hyde Park.