NO MORE CIA PROTESTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201140046-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: October 15, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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BOULDER CAMERA (CO)
15 October 1985
No more CIA protests
Editor:
I am a student on the Boulder campus of the
University of Colorado, and I consider myself to be a
serious student. As such, I am absolutely appalled at the
story that appeared in both the Colorado naily 2 l +h
Boulder Daily Camera concerning the protest group
Community in Action and the CIA.
This protest group is promising intesified demonstra-
tions this fall unless the University submits to their
demands. I find this ultimatum by the protest group to
be not simply out of line, but I find it to be outrageous
and an affront to everyone's rights except theirs, of
course - as well. Their demands are equally absurd.
As a student on this campus, I have a right to go to
an interview on this campus with any company that I
choose. Conversely, I expect that any company that so
chooses has a right to conduct interviews on this
campus. To interfere with either of these is to deny
constitutionally guaranteed rights. In their zeal, this
protest group has conveniently forgotten that others
have rights, too.
This matter is further complicated by the fact that I
work in Willard Hall, where the interviews take place.
Last year I was forced to listen to their mindless
chanting and continued interference with the normal
routine of University business, including significant
business that had nothing to do with the CIA interviews.
I found this to be extremely repugnant as well as an
interference with the rights of any student that had to or
wanted to conduct business in any section of Willard
Hall. University business just about ceased for those two
or three days last year. This must not be allowed again
this year.
I can't help but feel that this obnoxious group is back
again this year, promising intensified protests, because
of their treatment - or lack thereof - by the campus
police department. I sat in my office for three days last
year and observed how our police department made a
joke and a party out of the protestors' arrests.
It was not comical; rather it was a tragic debasement
of what should have been a response by a law
enforcement agency to criminal activity. The police
department and the court made a travesty of the
criminal justice system. The protestors were greatly
encouraged by the police action, and their actions were
enforced rather than discouraged. This is evident by
their disgusting return.
I strongly suggest a more appropriate response to
their criminal activity this year. If this group wants to
challenge the activities of the CIA, they should do so in a
manner that would not obstruct the rights of others.
I welcome the CIA to interview on this campus, and I
encourage any student who so desires to interview with
them. If anything, this protest group should be banned
from campus because of its wholesale encroachment on
the rights of others.
WILLIAM M. SCHOEWE
1189-B Monroe Drive
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