MONICA SMITH
College Road West
SALLY L. STEINBERG
20 Nassau Street
To the Editor:
I read with great dismay about the security debacle concerning Quark Park. How is it that in a town as wealthy as ours, where citizens pay outrageous property taxes, that whenever a small scale community project tries to engender a bit of spirit into this otherwise staid little village, someone finds a snag, runs with it, basically shutting the project down? For goodness sake, let's find the $30,000 and be done with it. Let's support our artists and imaginative thinkers. Stop renewing the same pieces of roadway, employ fewer police, and lend full support to creative community projects such as this little park.
The orange tape, erected as a safety measure, now ironically serves as a fitting metaphor for yet another Princeton bureaucratic bungle.
MONICA SMITH
College Road West
To the Editor:
I was surprised and dismayed that Reed Construction and the Arts Council chose to employ non-union labor to build its renovation, especially in view of the Arts Council's being named for Paul Robeson.
This is a betrayal of the principles that Paul Robeson stood for. As one of the picketing union workers recently said, "Paul Robeson would be spinning in his grave." If cost was a factor, the building design should have been less elaborate so that only union labor could be used and Paul Robeson could be honored in spirit, instead of in name only. Shame on Reed Construction, the Arts Council, and whoever else was involved in this egregious decision.
SALLY L. STEINBERG
20 Nassau Street