Local News in Brief : CIA Protest Staged at USC
More than 100 students at the usually politically placid USC campus gathered for a rare demonstration Tuesday morning, demanding that the Central Intelligence Agency stop recruiting at the school.
The protest, sponsored by a group called USC Students for Peace and Justice, began with speeches by two professors in front of the Tommy Trojan statue at the center of campus. About 10 members of the Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative student organization, heckled the speakers.
Afterward, about 50 protesters marched across the street to the Career Development Center where a CIA officer was interviewing potential recruits. Police stopped the demonstrators from entering the building, but no one was arrested. The recruiter declined comment.
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