not if he can justify a reason for it
for example polar can justify picking crowned, or orca, or naomi etc regardless of his or their alignments as he knows these players and enjoys playing with them.
however he cannot, for instance say, justify studying with ginger, assuming ginger is his teammate in this example. polar and ginger hardly know each other and it'd be an odd choice, certainly not one he'd be open to claiming
my point is as scum if u can justify a study visit that looks townie for you then you can claim it for some town cred
and im not saying polar has to be scum for doing it, im challenging your reason for town reading him