Military recruiters back out of UC Santa Cruz job fair

IChing

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Fri Apr-20-07 08:59 AM
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Military recruiters back out of UC Santa Cruz job fair

Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel

SANTA CRUZ � UC Santa Cruz anti-war activists are claiming victory, saying their repeated efforts to keep military recruiters off campus have paid off.

Three recruitment offices announced this week they were backing out of a campus job fair set for Tuesday.

The announcement by the Marines and two Army recruitment offices comes after efforts by university officials to make military recruiters and targets of other campus protests feel more welcome and safe on campus.

The regional Marines recruiting office said it would not be attending due to an overbooked schedule. Army Sgt. 1st Class Ray Ward, a Capitola-based recruiter, said he was told Thursday the offices had canceled because recruiting at UCSC "wasn't worth their time" due to the hostile atmosphere.

Read more: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2007/April/20/local/stories/02local.htm

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T Wolf

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Fri Apr-20-07 09:02 AM
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1. Yes - keep these coffin-fillers away from our children. Weren't the

killings in Virginia enough?

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SlowDownFast

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Fri Apr-20-07 09:22 AM
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2. Recruiting in Santa Cruz?

Oh, yeah. That will fly over REALLY well there.

Maybe they should set up a table in the Haight, too.

:sarcasm:

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Fresh_Start

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Fri Apr-20-07 09:43 AM
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3. Hey maybe they should go to VT

and use the line about the military the only job where its legal to kill people.
As reported by a fellow DUer being done to her high school son in a mall.

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gratuitous

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Fri Apr-20-07 10:02 AM
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4. The Marines have an overbooked schedule?

Considering the general trend of numbers for qualified recruits (as opposed to the troubled, the riff-raff and the scrapings from the bottom of the barrel they're letting in now), it's hard to believe that the Marine recruiter is overbooked.

Man, I always heard those military folks were all brave and stuff. Run off by a bunch of snot-nosed college pukes.

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Fri Apr-20-07 11:00 AM
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5. Besides their websites have violent first person shooter games

Edited on Fri Apr-20-07 11:02 AM by saigon68

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Fri Apr-20-07 12:40 PM
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6. Santa Cruz Rocks!

:toast: :kick:

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