First off, thank you for taking the time to analyze and critique efforts. Growth rarely occurs without reflection and willingness to observe and correct if necessary. I'd like to add a couple thoughts to yours as well.

As for the event being planned too quickly. Maybe so. Maybe longer planning would have been better. But sometimes events get overly planned. Trust me, I've been to many events and conferences where all the passion has been ridden out and over process has happened so that it feels like just another university lecture. In some ways I'm glad the event happened as it did, and there is NOTHING to say that tent U II can't simply start to organize now!

Tent U was mainly white. Not to be rude, but as a student of mixed ethnicity (and yes I still consider myself a person of color), I offer the observation that UCSC IS mainly white. And before we become overly critical of the white organizers, Ican say that trying to organize amongst the various organizations on campus, is hard even amongst students of color. The problem as I see it, being here for 5 years and comparing to some of the colleges my friends go to is that this campus is VERY compartmentalized. You have spread out colleges, and you have off campus people and you have student organizations, but it's really hard to try and communicate to all. So what I'd like to see in the efforts to critique this event is to raise the general question...IN BUILDING A TRUE STUDENT MOVEMENT AT UCSC, HOW MECHANICALLY DO WE DIALOG AND COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER