CIA RECRUITING EFFORT TARGET OF PROTEST BY RUTGERS STUDENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200960001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 7, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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CAMDEN COURIER-POST
7 December 1985
CI\ recruiting effort
target, of protest
by Rutgers students
By HUGH MULVANEY
Courier-News Writer
NEW BRUNSWICK - Re-
cruiters from the Central In-
telligence Agency were greeted
with chants of protest yes terday
as they arrived at Rutgers Univer-
sity to interview more than 100
students for agency positions.
Despite the falling snow and the
small size of their group, 25 stu-
dents, professors and city resi-
dents were vocal in their protest
against the agency's on-campus
presence, shouting chants like
"Rain, hail, sleet, snow, CIA has
got to go!"
One man, Terrence Coles, 23,
was charged with disorderly con-
duct and defiant trespass for ham-
mering on a glass panel with his
fist, according to a campus
spokeswoman. Coles, a Princeton
student, was released on his own
recognizance.
The protest was a joint action
by The Peace Center of Central
Jersey and the state chapter of
The National Pledge of Re-
sistance.
Security was heavy both inside
and outside the university's Col-
lege Center as the 110 students,
who had earlier signed up for in-
terviews with the agency, arrived
for a 45-minute presentation and a
15-minute recruiting film.
Some of the students, dressed in'
business attire, seemed nervous as
they entered the center to be
checked off against an already-
prepared list. They were then is-
sued special passes to the second-
floor meeting room.
Two women seniors, who would
identify themselves only as an ec-
onomics major and an accounting
economics major, said' they had
come simply to investigate the ca-
reer possibilities.
Robert Ochs, assistant vice
president for public safety, said
the demonstrators would not be
allowed to enter the building as a
group, but denied that any special
precautions had been instituted
for the occasion.
"The university encourages and
permits peaceful demonstrations
whatever the group," Ochs said.
Nancy Richards, dean of stu-
dents for Douglass College and a
19-year veteran of campus life,
said the university tends to look on
student expressions of opinion as a
very important right.
Joan Driscoll, coordinator of
The Peace Center of Central Jer-
sey, and another student who were
protesting in the corridor outside
meeting room ejected by
the security personnel.
Despite the ejection, the pro-
testers were steadfast in their
stance.
"The hand of the CIA has fallen
like a curse all over the world,"
said John McClure, assistant pro-
fessor of English at the Univer-
sity.
McClure, who identified himself
as New Jersey coordinator of Na-
tional Pledge of Resistance, said
the organization has some 10,000
members nationwide. Be added
the group is a result of legal rights
actions begun some time ago by
Roman Catholic and Protestant
churches in the United States.
Terry Matilsky, a physics pro-
fessor at the University, also ad-
dressed the protesters and con
-
demned CIA activities.
Matilsky said be has been pro-
testing "this kind of thing for 20
years." He said he had protested
against the Vietnam War, the nu-
clear bomb and South Africa.._,_,,,,
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