We support the recent fight of the SF State Student Struggle slate to win justice through the courts after being prevented by the Associated Student legislature from taking the student government seats to which they were rightfully elected by the student body. It disturbs us that two students campaigning on behalf of the Student Struggle slate (led by Kenyan McCarthy) were verbally attacked by Troy Buckner-Nkrumah, leader of the Progressive Coalition party (also known as Unified Student Movement). Buckner-Nkrumah reportedly made hostile, threatening remarks to two campaign workers of the opposing party. Evidently Buckner-Nkrumah insulted his opponents, charging them with sanctioning Zionism because Student Struggle had won the endorsement of Hillel, the Jewish students' organization. We affirm the multicultural coalition that produced the Student Struggle slate, and we urge support of the principles of students of color and Jewish students working to better the whole student body. We protest the violation of civil and human rights suffered by the Student Struggle campaigners in the course of the argument with Mr. Buckner-Nkrumah. No candidate for student government should be allowed to harass, intimidate or threaten another candidate or an ordinary student because of that person's real or imagined political views. What is dangerously absurd about this incident is that the victims were insulted not for any ideology they actually held, but for an ideology Buckner-Nkrumah assumed they held! Buckner-Nkrumah was branding the Student Struggle people as guilty by association; purely because they had been supported by Hillel. Belonging to Hillel is not a sign of blighted character; although Buckner-Nkrumah seems to want to treat it as such. We have no quarrel with people who wish to open a free and honest debate on Zionism and the politics of the Middle East. However, we do take exception to the indiscriminate use of the term "Zionism" without fidelity to historical and political accuracy. As we approach the first anniversary of the May 1994 Malcolm X mural incident, we reaffirm our ideal of the university -- it should be a place where mind can meet with mind, free of harassment, intimidation, prejudice, and intolerance.