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University of Iowa anti-war protests, 1965-1967
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[handwritten] DI 1/20/67 CIA Interviews Increase By Half By BRUCE MOST Staff Writer [handwritten] 1/20/67 It's getting more difficult these days to decide who is recruit more students - the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the students protesting against the CIA recruitment on campus. Miss Helen M. Barnes, director of the Business and Industrial Placement Office, said Thursday that there had been a 50% increase in the number of interviews schedule with Charles Pecinovsky, the CIA recruiter, since the protests began Tuesday. Miss Barnes said another CIA recruiter, Charles J. Minich, had to be called in from Chicago to help Pecinovsky Thursday and today with the increased load of interviews. There have also been some long distance phone calls inquiring about interviews with the CIA recruiters, Miss Barnes said. She attributed the increased demand for interviews to the large amount of publicity circulated around the state about the protests. Meanwhile, all was quiet on the picket line Thursday as students, about 15 at a time, conducted a third day of protest marches around Gilmore Hall temporary A where the interviews were being held. There were no incidents with Campus Security and little jeering from passers-by. Bruce Clark, Al. Des Moines; Ross Peterson,Al, Des Moines and James Bobbitt, a non-student from Omaha, Neb., talked Thursday to Philip E. Connell, assistant to the president, about arranging a meeting with Pres. Howard R. Bowen. Clark, president of Students for a Democratic Society, said a meeting would be held in Bowen's office at 3 p.m. Wednesday. Clark said Connell informed him that Bowen wanted only four or five students to attend the meeting. The students had requested a meeting of about 30 studnets, Bobbitt said. Bobbitt said he was asked not to attend the meeting because he was not enrolled in the University. Clark said they would request at the meeting that the Administration set a policy toward keeping the CIA and other similar governmental groups off campus. Clark said they wanted to allow the Administration to decide what similar groups would be kept off campus. Gene Brenner, a non-student from Iowa City, said that he, and not Ross J. Peterson, Al, Des Moines, was stuck in the side of the face during a scuffle with campus police Wednesday. Brenner said he was struck in the face as he tried to prevent campus police from pulling Peterson into the barracks after Peterson swore at the police. Peterson claimed Wednesday that he was struck in the mouth during the scuffle.
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[handwritten] DI 1/20/67 CIA Interviews Increase By Half By BRUCE MOST Staff Writer [handwritten] 1/20/67 It's getting more difficult these days to decide who is recruit more students - the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the students protesting against the CIA recruitment on campus. Miss Helen M. Barnes, director of the Business and Industrial Placement Office, said Thursday that there had been a 50% increase in the number of interviews schedule with Charles Pecinovsky, the CIA recruiter, since the protests began Tuesday. Miss Barnes said another CIA recruiter, Charles J. Minich, had to be called in from Chicago to help Pecinovsky Thursday and today with the increased load of interviews. There have also been some long distance phone calls inquiring about interviews with the CIA recruiters, Miss Barnes said. She attributed the increased demand for interviews to the large amount of publicity circulated around the state about the protests. Meanwhile, all was quiet on the picket line Thursday as students, about 15 at a time, conducted a third day of protest marches around Gilmore Hall temporary A where the interviews were being held. There were no incidents with Campus Security and little jeering from passers-by. Bruce Clark, Al. Des Moines; Ross Peterson,Al, Des Moines and James Bobbitt, a non-student from Omaha, Neb., talked Thursday to Philip E. Connell, assistant to the president, about arranging a meeting with Pres. Howard R. Bowen. Clark, president of Students for a Democratic Society, said a meeting would be held in Bowen's office at 3 p.m. Wednesday. Clark said Connell informed him that Bowen wanted only four or five students to attend the meeting. The students had requested a meeting of about 30 studnets, Bobbitt said. Bobbitt said he was asked not to attend the meeting because he was not enrolled in the University. Clark said they would request at the meeting that the Administration set a policy toward keeping the CIA and other similar governmental groups off campus. Clark said they wanted to allow the Administration to decide what similar groups would be kept off campus. Gene Brenner, a non-student from Iowa City, said that he, and not Ross J. Peterson, Al, Des Moines, was stuck in the side of the face during a scuffle with campus police Wednesday. Brenner said he was struck in the face as he tried to prevent campus police from pulling Peterson into the barracks after Peterson swore at the police. Peterson claimed Wednesday that he was struck in the mouth during the scuffle.
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