UC Santa Cruz junior Jonathan Perez dressed in a suit and tie Tuesday, hoping to impress company recruiters at the campus job fair. But more than 200 student anti-war protesters got there first, storming the Stevenson Event Center, shouting and banging on windows and demanding that military recruiters in the corner of the room leave.The noisy sit-in ended after an hour of chaos and tension when military representatives vacated their posts. Student protesters hugged each other happily after administrators allowed them to hand out information on alternatives to military careers and agreed to a meeting to discuss future job fairs.
They're college students, and yet they're thrilled that they were able to deny others the opportunity to learn about military careers by hooting and hollering like a bunch of children. I take this as a tacit admission by them that these students aren't capable of arguing intelligently against the military or the war. This laughable, pretentious letter by a bunch of members of Students Against War doesn't convince me otherwise, because their message boils down to, "We don't care that we inconvenienced people or disrupted the job fair, because our concerns about the military are much more important than the needs or wants of the unlightened masses."
Know-nothing elitism at its finest, folks.
Update: Illuminaria's Voice has much, much more (and a spiffy new design for the site). You have to love a blogger who starts by saying, "I simply cannot express how absolutely disgusting I find this behavior," and then continues on for another good two paragraphs. She also invites readers to email the planners of this ridiculous stunt.
Posted by kswygert at April 11, 2005 01:47 PM