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The shanty lies flattened after an attack by vandals Tuesday morning. The Free South Africa Coordinating
Committee rebuilt the structure on Wednesday.
By MELISSA BIRKS
The shanty on the Diag was com-
pletely dismantled twice this week,
the first time just two days after a
University student was sentenced for
tearing boards off the structure last
May.
Members of the Free South Africa
Coordinating Committe (FSACC)
rebuilt the shanty on Sunday after a
University security found it torn
down, but the structure was flattened
again some time Tuesday morning.
Campus security officials report no
leads on the latest attacks. In
Tuesday's incident, the shanty was
apparently pushed inward, causing it
to collapse, according to Gary Hill,
an investigator for the Department of
Public Safety.
THE SHANTY has been attacked
repeatedly since it was built on March
21. Last Friday, LSA junior Francis
Reagan was sentenced to 72 hours of
community service and $180 in court
costs for 'malicious destruction' of the
anti-apartheid structure.
Reagan had been prosecuted under
a city ordinance prohibiting malicious
destruction of property, after the
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county prosecutor dropped the case.
Under Michigan law, a person cannot
be prosecuted for this crime unless
the plaintiff can prove monetary loss,
which FSACC was unable to do.
FSACC members built the shanty.
"We thought it was a good thing for
him to do community service," said
FSACC member Hector Delgado.
"We wanted the city to take this
seriously."
REAGAN doesn't have to notify the
city how he'll fulfill the community
service hours until October, but he
was quoted earlier in the summer in
the Ann Arbor News as saying he'd be
willing to work for FSACC.
"We could always use help. If he
wants to help, we're not going to turn
anyone away," Delgado said.
Reagan could not be reached for
comment.
Since it was built as part of two
weeks of national protest against
apartheid, the shanty has been burned
twice and completely flattened at
least four times.
DESPITE the repeated attacks,
FSACC vows to keep the shanty stan-
ding on the Diag until apartheid is
abolished. Members rebuilt the shan-
ty from scratch on Wednesday with
new materials instead of re-using the
old scrapwood from which the struc-
ture was originally built.
Delgado said sOme of the boards,
including the wood which held a
plaque commemorating the shanty,
were split in the latest attack.
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