AN ACTIVIST FACES APATHY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100190003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 13, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By Robert Deutsch; i1SAi.TOOAY
FERGUSON: Students fear
jeopardizing jobs, he says.
Il activist
faces apathy 14,
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -
"Sometimes I feel like say-
ing: 'Hey guys, doesn't any-
one around here care any
more?"' Chris Ferguson la-,
ments.
The Brown University
sophomore is a leader In
Students Against Nuclear
Suicide, the group behind a
recent headline-makingg
campus vote to stock the
health center with "suicide"
pills in case of nuclear at-
tack. He signed a Petition to
bar a CIA recruiters cam.
pus visit and is a member of
several environmental.
This fall's outburst of ac-,
tivism at Brown has "polar ,.
ized- the campus," the soft: a
spoken 22year-oid, sas
USA TODAY
13 December 1984
"Most students' eyes
-glaze over when you start
talking about Issues. They
`have a different attitude
about how they're going to
guarantee a secure t iture.
Their means to an end is
to work hard in school, do
all the things that look good
on a resume and get a good
job. To take a stand would
be a black mark against
them that would jeopardize
their future."
Ferguson's activism
evolved from reading, tak-
ing courses such as Perspec-
tives on Nuclear War and
`"hanging out with people
w?ho are concerned and just
talking about Issues."
Now he's helping to set up a campus "rainbow coali- !
tion," bringing diverse stu-
dent and faculty groups to-
gether for political and so-
dial reform.
He's committed to work.
lag for causes he believes
in, but "I'm getting a little
ynical. Most people just
t =don't want to bother."
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