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arrested during their protests, and there
were loud demonstrations on at least a doz-
en campuses. At the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, a February con-
flict was particularly rambunctious. When
a CIA recruiter checked into a local hotel
room to hold planned interviews, protest-
ers threw red-dye "blood" in front of his
door. The recruiter promptly got into his
car and left town; the protesters tailed
his car down the highway to make sure he
didn't return. The board of trustees la-
beled the incidents "violent, terrorist
acts," and the university has promised dis-
ciplinary actions.
Action against the CIA has created reac-
tion. While some Chapel Hill students fast-
ed to protest the recruiter's visit, others
fought back with a free pizza "eat-in" in
favor. Students supporting recruiters in-
terrupted an anti-CIA demonstration at
Wisconsin last spring, creating a scene of
dueling posters. And at Colby College in
Maine, students who want recruiting con-
tinued are challenging their professors.
Last November the faculty passed a resolu-
tion asking the board of trustees to ban CIA
recruiters. Students responded with their
own recommendation to get rid of the facul-
ty proposal, claiming it denied them free-
dom of choice.
Nor does controversy stop at the career
placement office. At the University of Cal-
ifornia, Santa Barbara, students protested
against CIA officer George A. Chritton, a
participant in the agency's officer-in-resi-
dence program who was appointed to
teach a course on intelligence and nation-
al security. There were two major pro-
tests, Chritton received threats and his
campus office was sprayed with graffiti.
The political-science department faculty,
saying it had not been fully consulted
when Chritton was appointed to a two-
year teaching position, voted to strip him
of his teaching assignment and make him
a "visiting fellow." The proposal man-
dates that Chritton may only guest-lec-
ture in other professors' classes and may
not recruit while serving on campus. That
arrangement did not go far enough for 150
students who took over the chancellor's
office in protest; 38 were arrested, but the
university adopted the proposal and Chrit-
ton remained.
Some protesters try and try again, espe-
cially at the University of Colorado at
Boulder. During a three-day span in April
1985, 478 people protesting a recruiting
visit were arrested on campus. Later that
year an additional 210 were arrested in
one day. Before yet another CIA visit, in
November 1986, campus police put up a
fence to stem the protest. It didn't work:
300 people trampled the blockade and
violence followed. Though only 16 protest-
ers were arrested, as many as 75 people
claim they were sprayed with Mace by
Introduction to hunger: Signing up sponsors for Emory's second annual 24-hour fast
police, others say they were beaten and at
least two protesters sued the police. The
CIA, however, had finally gotten the mes-
sage. Last fall the agency conducted inter-
views off campus. No protesters showed
up this time.
Homelessness
It's one thing to talk about those who do
not have enough to eat and another to feel
hunger for even a day. Two hundred forty
Emory students elected to feel hunger in
February during the second annual 24-
hour fast sponsored by the Emory Coali-
tion to Oppose Hunger and Homelessness
(ECOHH), which raised thousands of dol-
lars for the Atlanta Woman's Day Shelter.
(Money is collected from sponsors who
"adopt" fasters.) "Whether you're fasting
or just sponsoring someone, it makes you
think about people who don't have enough
to eat," says Jane Marsh, a junior who
participated in the fast.
Many more Emory students are involved
with Atlanta's hunger problems. More
than 300 volunteers work at least once a
week in various service projects, including
the staffing of local soup kitchens and shel-
ters for the homeless, as part of Volunteer
Emory, a satellite group of United Way
that has been operating on campus for
eight years. And about 100 Emory students
joined about 9,000 marchers at a National
Coalition for the Homeless rally in Atlanta
in late February. "It's not that students
were looking for something trendy to pro-
test about. The issue is so prevalent," says
Erika Wunderlich, a senior history major
who serves as codirector of Volunteer
Emory. "It's so obvious that you can't close
your eyes to it."
Environment
The response surprised even the most
ardent activists. Last year a consulting
firm recommended that Duke develop a
large portion of its nearby 8,300-acre Duke
Forest and build, among other things, a
convention center, condominiums and a
shopping mall. Duke's Environmentally
Concerned Students (ECOS) responded
quickly. In four days the group garnered
3,000 student signatures on a petition
denouncing the proposal. "I was thinking,
'What's going on here?' " said Levin Nock,
a graduate biomedical-engineering stu-
dent who solicited signatures. "No one was
arguing with us."
Duke's Save the Forest campaign, organ-
ized by a core of four student clubs with local
support, continues. Activists lead nature
walks through Duke Forest, which sur-
rounds the campus. They point out that
nearly 135,000 people visit the preserve
each year and that Duke scientists conduct
$1 million worth of research there annual-
ly, testing such environmental factors as
acid-rain levels and air quality. "Because
thisareaisdevelopingsoquickly, it'simpor-
tant to preserve that sanctuary," says Deb-
bie Robertson, a senior history major who
heads a student group that takes underpriv-
ileged city children for outings in the forest.
The activists helped force a re-evaluation
of the proposal. Duke officials, who did not
specifically endorse the proposal when it
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