C O L L E G E L I F E 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 MAY 1988 NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS 29