Central Florida Future, Vol. 21 No. 24, November 10, 1988

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© 1988 The CentraJ Florida Future
Volume 21, Number 24
University of Central Florida/Orlando
Thursday November 10,1988
Anti-CIA protests
unfold at schools
Staff Report
COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE
Students at three colleges
have protested against Central Intelligence Agency recruiting on their campuses in
recent weeks, but the spy
agency says it will continue to
interview students from those
schools for jobs.
Protesters at the University
of New Mexico confronted CIA
recruiters visiting the school
Sept. 26 during Government
Career Day.
The recruiters left the campus after a brief shouting
match with student demonstrators. Dana Wise, a protest
organizer, said he asked the
CIA representatives to discuss
the agency's covert operations
with students, but they refused.
About 100 students at
Vermont's Middlebury College
protested a campus recruiting
visit by the CIA, charging the
agency discriminates against
gays.
"Middlebury sets itself up
as an institution that's not
going to accept discrimination," said senior Kurt Broder-
son. "And yet they aid and abet
the CIA."
Participants in a small
counter-demonstration, however, said the CIA recruitment
should be allowed at the college for "freedom of choice."
When the anti-CIA contingent
chanted "CIA Gotta Go," CIA
supporters sang a chorus of
"God Bless America."
CIA spokeswoman Sharon
Basso said the agency "may
have" refused to hire gays in
the past because they were
open to blackmail and posed a
security risk. But the agency
now has a "written policy" forbidding sexual preference discrimination.
"We do not discriminate on
the basis of sexual preference,"
she said. "We look at every
aspect of an individual. If they
are stable and there's not
something in their background that's open to blackmail, and they meet our standards, they will be hired."
"Homosexuality, like drug
use, is not an automatic dis-
qualifier," Basso said.
About a dozen students
opposed to the CIA held a can
dlelight vigil at Colorado's
Regis College on Oct. 11 while
agency officials met with job
candidates. "We want to let the
CIA know that we are not for
them," said student John
Barth. "We are not in agreement with what they are
doing."
Meanwhile, a Boston University professor says he may
have been unwittingly used by
the CIA to illegally drum up
support for the Reagan
administration's policies in
Central America and Afghanistan.
H. Joachim Maitre, dean of
BlTs College of Communication, said he might have been
entangled unwittingly in a
domestic-propaganda campaign conducted by the CIA,
but maintained there was no
proof of it.
The Boston Globe reported
in early October that two projects directed by Maitre -a journalism program for Afghan
refugees and a documentary
on the Nicaraguan Contras -
were part of an illegal CIA
campaign to draw public support to the Reagan
administration's policies.
Maitre said the project
"could very well have been"
part of a covert effort, but there
was no solid evidence it was.
The National Security
Council, and not the CIA, coordinated those projects, Basso
said. She pointed out that
"we're banned by law from
propagandizing the American
public."
The campus protests are
just the latest wave of anti-
CIA sentiment that has swept
colleges in recent years. The
agency's critics say the CIA
has toppled duly-elected
governments in Chile and
Guatemala, and promotes terrorism by supporting right-
wing rebels in Central America and Africa.
In recent years, vehement
protests against the agency's
activities have unfolded at the
universities of Minnesota,
Colorado, Massachusetts,
Iowa, Washington, Vermont,
North Carolina at Charlotte
and California at Los Angeles,
as well as Brown University,
Ohio State and the State University of New York, to name
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SPORTS
■ The Lady Knights soccer
team takes on the Tar
Heels in the NCAA tournament. Also, the Knights
play their last game of the
year in Kentucky.
Courtwy of John Jone*CENTRAL FLORIOA FUTURE
NEW UCF LOOK
The water tower on UCPs main campus has gotten a new took since the university's logo has
been painted on it.
Grad gets 'U.S. News' job
by Richard Truett
SPECIAL TO THE FUTURE
Jeff Glick, a 1986 graduate of UCF, was
recently appointed the graphics editor of
America's third-largest weekly news magazine,
U.S. News and World Report.
For about two and a half years,
between 1984 and 1986, Glick was
art director of UCFs campus
newspaper, The Central Florida
Future. During that time the
paper won nearly two dozen national design awards.
Upon graduation, Glick had a
job waiting for him in the news art
department of The Dallas Morning News.
He stayed there for a year before accepting a similiar job at The
Miami Herald. Then    So, while
attending Lake Brantley High School in Forest
City, Glick signed up for journalism and met
Barbara Roth, the teacher who Glick said was
most instrumental in shaping his career.
"The way it all came about was like this, he
signed up for journalism, but he couldn't write.
He was a wonderful cartoonist," said Roth, who
now teaches at Lake Mary High School.
"I just remember looking down at his work
one day and seeing how wonderful he was at
layout and design and figuring out how to put
pages together," she said. It was Roth who
suggested Glick try his hand at graphic art.
After high school, Glick attended the University of Florida for two years. He wanted to major
in graphic design and minor in journalism. But
that didn't work out because UF wanted him to
major in both areas.
"I wasn't going to hang around there and
attempt that," he said. While in Gainesville,
Gl ick gained valuabl e experience b "g at
several campus publications. Then in the summer of 1984, Glick transferred to UCF. One of
his first stops was the campus newspaper.
"I walked into The Future office one day and
there was a board meeting going on.
I asked if they needed an art director. [Editor in chief] Mike
Rhodes turned to [business manager] Pam Gimson and asked if
the paper needed an art director,"
Glick recalled. "Rhodes said to
come back in half an hour. I did,
and they gave me the job."
Glick says working at The Future was one ofhis most important
experiences.
"I   think  that's  what  really
made my career, that summer of
Jeff Glick 1984," he said. " I did a two-phase
knew what it took to do it. I'm not surprised. "
Smith said that having a UCF graduate in
such an important position increases the visibility of UCFs journalism program. Glick's new
job will take him to Washington D.C. where
"I was going to be the next Dan
Rather, but it seemed that television news was too shallow an
industry."
- Jeff Glick,
1986 UCF graphics design graduate
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CONFETTI
■ An interview with UCF
professor and distinguished writer Stephen
Becker. Also, a review of
the Contemporary temporary art show.
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OPINION
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COMICS
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CLASSIFIED
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SPORTS
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