COUNTERING MILITARY RECRUITMENT
Articles: Counter-Recruitment: General
Recruiters Leave College Job Fair
Associated Press
April 12, 2006
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Military recruiters left a campus job fair when about 60 student and faculty anti-war demonstrators showed up outside the event at the University of California, Santa Cruz.Four recruiters from the Army and Army National Guard left after an hour-long standoff Tuesday at the College 8 West Field House.
“The recruiters thought the crowd was getting out of control,” campus vice chancellor David Kliger said.
“This is about creating a community where we make the change we want to see in the world,” student Sam Aranke said.
One student protester was arrested as the recruiters were departing in a van. While a campus police officer was videotaping a person throwing rocks at the van, a student blocked the camera and was cited for interfering with police duties, campus spokesman Jim Burns.
The student was released pending a decision by the district attorney’s office on whether charges would be filed.
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