Hopefully people will actually lose repect for their own "nonviolent" ideals. Then people like "an observer," "chuck," "a real student," and "someone with a brain" would feel even more threatened than they do by the very low level of resistance that actually took place. Did the people who resisted tell "an observer" that they were "peaceful people"? No. The reason he/she labels them as such is to make it look like everyone involved must submit to some perceived ideology, or must agree with self-apointed "negotiators" or "leaders." The reactionaries and the reformists both want the same thing: a platform, an issue, anything that will contain revolt and get everyone herded along. Certain aspects of Tent U (the right to sleep, tires slashed, hostility to the media, resistance to cops) looked a little too much like class war for these regular submissive students to be comfortable.