April 07, 2005

Leftwing Students Ride Roughshod Over Job Fair

Ugh...this sort of thing is just repulsive.

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.

So, the protestors "won," but at what cost?

Ironically, this career fair had 60 employers, more than the year before, with companies such as Broadcom, Infineon and American Express looking for engineering and finance graduates.

Will those employers want to attend University of California Santa Cruz job fairs in the future?

"It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, that has given us the freedom to demonstrate," said Adiofel Mark Mendoza, a sophomore from San Diego who came in his ROTC cadet uniform.

I also wonder if the students who were so disruptive will be disciplined? Ha...who am I kidding?

UPDATE: Take a look at what LimeyPundit has to say from across the pond. 2:09 pm

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