Protesters rebuff UH president’s offer: A sit-in to oppose ..

[struggle4progress]

.. a Navy research center enters its fourth day

Students and professors protesting the proposed creation of a Navy-affiliated research center at the University of Hawaii turned down interim President David McClain's offer yesterday to meet with him in small groups, opting instead to continue occupying his office at least through tomorrow morning.

About 30 protesters, who have camped out in McClain's office and adjoining rooms since Thursday, said they declined to speak to the interim president because they wanted to concentrate on a new set of demands for the UH administration, which they say will be easier to meet. They had been asking McClain to stop plans for the research center immediately. <snip>

On Friday, McClain told protesters that they could be arrested if they are asked to leave and do not. So far, there have been no moves by the administration to push for arrests.

Three days into their sit-in, protesters looked at home in McClain's offices yesterday. <snip>

http://starbulletin.com/2005/05/01/news/story9.html


UH tries to defuse fears of secrecy, arms research

By Beverly Creamer
Advertiser Education Writer



The protest at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa over a proposed Navy research center evokes a fervor rarely seen on campus since the Vietnam War.

It may lack the drama of the 1960s protests, when an ROTC building was burned and conscientious objectors received refuge at the Church of the Crossroads, where students protected servicemen who were absent without leave. <snip>

The dozens of students and faculty, now in their fourth day of occupying the Bachman Hall administration building, fear that some of the research planned by the Navy is for weapons. <snip>

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/May/01/ln/ln07p.html


UH protesters try to keep takeover polite — and clean

By Dan Nakaso
Advertiser Staff Writer

University of Hawai'i students, faculty and others prepared to spend another night in the Bachman Hall offices of UH interim president David McClain yesterday, but first reminded one another to not bring in food and to take off their shoes before entering.

Even in their anger over a UH proposal to develop a Navy research center, the 40 or so protesters want to be polite intruders in their takeover of Bachman Hall.

They even hung oversized garbage bags to recycle their leftover cans and bottles. <snip>

Outside, the walls of Bachman Hall were hung with sheets and banners proclaiming "Invest in Education Not Militarization" and "Ain't Gonna Study War No More." <snip>

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/May/01/ln/ln09p.html

[pnutchuck]

1. Good for them! eom

[yorkiemommie1]

2. we won the 1968 Bachman Hall sit-in!

good luck!

[mahina]

3. Huuu-i YorkieMom!

Just came from Bachman, spirits are high and community is strong. Imua!