and individual choices that we face as people trying to influence our society,” he said. “Today’s class was a model of that debate.”
Before class, Mathews and a handful of PETA members held another protest in the pit. This time, they were fully clothed.
Mathews notified and invited all the media that had attended the previous protest, yet the scene yesterday was very different from the crowds that had greeted his previous protest.
CNN, Saturday Night Live and print media from around the world carried news of the small protest to millions of people.
But yesterday the bustling street traffic largely passed by without noticing Mathews, who was standing on a cement pillar, holding a poster of a skinned fox.
The other members of the group handed out flyers to largely oblivious passersby. One of the protestors blamed the lack of a crowd on PETA’s changed tactics.
“We didn’t take our clothes off,” he said.