Started in 1985 and the "shanty" got wrecked all the time, if you can call it that, since it looked pretty bad to begin with. The frat guys always got blamed, so I just went with that.
Growing up in Austin, I went to the drag and west mall all the time, especially in high school and I don't even remember seeing the shanty then.
I remember a couple of protests I had to shuffle through, but no big deal.
The most annoying thing were the pamphletiers that were on campus. The Jews for Jesus guys were especially pushy. Not sure why I got the treatment. I guess it was the blond hair and blue eyes with a pagan smirk on my face that drew them in. I also remember my Antisemitism in History and Literature professor, who was Jewish, hated that group in particular based on the stupidity of the idea alone.
That was a different time and I'm pretty sure the administration thought all of the South Africa stuff was cute compared to all the Vietnam protests just a few years earlier.
Also, the Texas economy was in the shitter back then, so we were all just fighting to stay employed.