NTU students and professors devoted themselves to this effort in order to save what they saw as "the only place with a neighborhood feeling in this modern city." They organized the "Alliance to Resist City Government Earth-Movers," protested against Mayor Chen's "crushing the people," criticized Taipei as "a cemetery for the poor," declared that "parks eat people," and urged delay of the demolition.
台大師生之所以全力投入，是為了搶救他們眼中「現代都市中僅存的家園關係」，因此，組成「反對市府推土機聯盟」，抗議陳水扁的「『弒』民主義」，批評台北新故鄉是「窮人的墳墓」，「公園吃人」，並要求暫緩拆遷。