ANTI-CIA DRAWS 150 AT 'K'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100590001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 24, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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KALAMAZOO GAZETTE (MI)
21i. February 1984
A noon-hour rally to protest a
U.S." Central Intelligence Agency
recruiter's visit to Kalamazoo Col-
lege drew a crowd of about 150 to
a sunny square outside the
school's career development cen-
ter Thursday.
The rally, sponsored by' two
groups whose members said they
oppose U.S. foreign policy, also
dvewa small contingent of eight to
: Atudents dressed in coats, ties
?and dark glasses who said they
;were demonstrating in favor of
the CIA's right to come to the
campus.
'-Those who gathered in, the
courtyard outside Dewing Hall
t and five speakers, including
' se'veral students and one profes-
s*, discuss conditions in Central
America and reasons for opposi-
tion to the CIA's recruiting visit.
r.Rally organizers, who included
members of the K-College Stu-
-~ennts Coalition for Peace and Non-
*olence and the Committee in
:Solidarity with the People of El
,lvador (CISPES), said they
Anti-CIA draws 150 at `K'
At~AN KRAUSS were pleased by the turnout.
GAZETTE SPECIAL, WRITER
Robert Raymond a K-C ll
o ege
sophomore who represented the
coalition, said one important pur-
pose of the rally was to educate
students about foreign affairs.
"Information was an important
consideration, not just opposi-
tion," Raymond said. "I look at
the awareness planted here as a
seed that will grow."
During the rally a banner that
read "CIA K-College welcomes
you" was unfurled from a second-
story window of Dewing Hall by
the counterdemonstraters, who
then appeared at the fringes of the
rally carrying copies of The Wall
Street Journal.
"We feel there's no reason that
the CIA shouldn't come here,"
said one, K-College sophomore
Bruce Kantor, who said he and
two others were cutting part of a
class in order to be there.
"We didn't want the press to
think the demonstration repre-
sents the attitude of Kalamazoo
College students," said Steven
Carson. "We represent a broader .
spectrum than the protesters do." I
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