When a group of UCSC students showed up at Metro Transit board member, Dene Bustichi's home at 9:30PM Sunday, he and his children were already in bed. They were rudely awakened by a large, noisy crowd which was pounding on their front door, chanting slogans, beating drums, and throwing fireworks in his driveway.

UCSC student leader, Maia Ramnath, one of the organizers, has led this group in a huge, tactical mistake. Staging a protest, late at night, at a board member's house was exactly the WRONG strategy, which has backfired with THREE letters of outrage in today's Sentinel.

The issue has been lost and the publicity gained was for the wrong topic. I'm all for protesting government grievances, but it must be in the proper venue. At one's business or govt. office is the appropriate place, not someone's home. This was harassment and tresspassing, not to mention disturbing the peace. The bus drivers should distance themselves from such supporters.

A neighbor came out and turned her garden hose on the protesters and another one came out with a gun! Ramnath and her fellow organizers should be chastised for their poor leadership. She and her ilk have effectively eliminated the UCSC student groups ability to be considered respectfully in this debate.