STUDENTS, PROFESSORS STAGE PROTEST AGAINST CIA RECRUITERS AT WESLEYAN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201180058-6
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: March 2, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HARTFORD COURANT (CT
2 March 1984
Students, Professors Stage Protest W ~.
Against CIA Recruiters at Wesleyan :
By KATHLEEN MEGAN
Courant Staff Writer
MIDDLETOWN - Nearly 20
Wesleyan University students and
a handful of their professors sat
in the hallways and stood outside
the doors of the campus Career
Planning Center for eight hours
Thursday to protest- a visit from
two CIA recruiters.
The protesters'. Intended to
make it "as difficult as possible"
for students, seeking interviews
and for the CIA representatives
without actually preventing the
interviews from taking place, ac-
cording to Andrew Tauber, a sen-
ior and one of the protesters.
Barbara-Jan Wilson, director
of the Career Planning Center,
said 16 students had scheduled in-
terviews with the CIA represent-
atives and all but one kept the ap-
pointment.
The student who broke her ap-
pointment said "it wasn't worth.
it" when she appeared at the Ca-
reer Planning Center and saw the
protesters, Wilson said. There
was no violence and no chanting
or jeering, Wilson said.
"We aren't stopping people
from having interviews," Tauber.
said, "but as we sat in the stair-
well, people had to physically
step over us and across us:.. .We
recognize that we are causing a
disruption and minor inconven-
ience to people applying for jobs,
but we ask them to bear in mind
that CIA intervention in Nicara-
gua and Chile more harshly affect
the lives of people there."
It was the CIA's first visit to the
campus in more than 10 years,
Wilson said. The agency has been
getting "much more open about
recruiting," Wilson said,. and tb#tY
academic year its :represent"
atives will make visits to Yale_
University, Connecticut College
and Trinity College.
Patrick Costello, a 22-year-old
senior who kept his 11 a.m. ap
pointment with a CIA recruiter,
said he was not bothered. by the
protest.
Dean of the College Edgar
Beckham said he did not object to
the protest because students who
wanted interviews could hate
them.
Wilson said that when the pro-
test ended at 5 p.m., it was un-
clear whether the student judici--
ry board would seek any
disciplinary action.
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