POLICE ARREST 6 AT CIA PROTEST ON UW CAMPUS

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• Publication Date: October 24, 1985
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MADISON CAPITAL TIMES (WI)
24 October 1985
Police arrest 6
at CIA protest
on UW campus
By TIM KELLEY
Capital Times Correspondent
Joan M. Jaeger got what a group of
100 frustrated protesters wanted
Wednesday: a few minutes with the
Central Intelligence Agency.
Minutes before anti-CIA protesters
and police scuffled outside the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin-Madison Engi-
neering Building, Jaeger slipped
through the angry crowd and scooted
toward a nearby parking lot.
Jaeger, 22, had a job interview with
the Central Intelligence Agency,
whose campus recruiter was the tar-
get of ire for chanting protesters who
sparred with police officers through-
out the rainy afternoon.
"The CIA is not as barbaric as peo-
ple seem to think they are," said
Jaeger, a double-major in Russian
and area studies who signed up to see
the recruiter after the CIA inter-
views were announced in her Russian
class.
"It's not all going out and shooting
people," said Jaeger, who added she
hoped to get a job with the CIA as an
analyst.
Lamoin W. Werlein, and other pro-
testers who stood in a steady rain
during much of the four-hour protest,
said he begs to differ.
Werlein was one of several speak-
ers who, at a campus rally, recited a
litany of "CIA crimes" in Central
America and other regions during the
past decade. With a group that gath-
ered at the Memorial Union, he
marched to meet the recruiters
much like other protesters have done
each semester for years.
But like protesters last April, he
and his cohorts settled for a confron-
tation with 40 police officers who
blocked their way.
Police Mace canisters stayed
tucked away, but University Police
and Security officers, backed by
members of State Capitol Security
and the Town of Madison and Shore-
wood Hills departments, arrested
Werlein and five others - four of
them during a scuffle that injured
one female student and three police
officers.
About 25 protesters fought police
who tried to confiscate a portable
public address system the protesters
were using to shout slogans at the
second floor placement offices where
a CIA recruiter was conducting the
last of 50 interviews with UW-Madi-
son students.
J. Elise Johnston, 21, said she suf-
fered a cut above her left eye when
police broke into a group of protest-
ers who had linked arms to form a
barricade between police and the
public address system.
A PA speaker, dropped by a pro-
tester who was jostled in the melee,
struck Johnston in the head after she
,was knocked to the concrete outside
'the building's main entrance.
Police later took Johnston to Uni-
versity Hospital and Clinics, where
she was treated and released.
Three police officers sustained cuts
and scrapes, and one also sprained
his elbow, according to Lt. Phillip.C.
'Dixon, University Police and Se-
curity spokesman.
Dixon said the officers confiscated
the PA on the orders of Chief Ralph
Hanson, who unsuccessfully tried to
remove it.
"We were met with a lot of obstruc-
tion," said Dixon, who was one of four
officers who scuffled with protesters
in the incident. "They were very
combative in their actions."
During the minute-long tussle, po-
lice and protesters wrestled both on
their feet and on the ground as offi-
cers sought to handcuff and haul
away those who had prevented them
from obtaining the PA system.
Officers took away the PA because
protesters did not have a permit to
use it during class hours, Dixon said.
The interviews were not disrupted by
the incident, which took place below
windows where students were
waiting to meet the CIA, he said.
Arrested in the incident were UW-
Madison student Ann M. Adelsberger,
18, 620 N. Carroll St., for disorderly
conduct and obstructing officers; stu-
dent Douglas J. Hoppmann, 25, 244
Lake Lawn Place, for disorderly con-
duct, resisting arrest and obstructing
officers; student Robert G. Koenig,
23, 403 Washburn Place, for disor-
derly conduct ana oosLrucwlb cur
cers; and David Read, 24, 146 Lang-
don St., for disorderly conduct and re-
sisting arrest.
All except Read posted bond and
were released, according to a spokes-
man at the Dane County Jail
Longtime activist Bennett Masel,
31, was the first protester arrested
Wednesday when he tried to slide
past the line of officers barricading
the front entrance.
Masel, who returned to the protest
before it finished, said he posted his
own $200 bond for disorderly conduct.
Werlein, 21, was arrested for disor-
derly conduct when a downpour
erupted and protesters tried to seek
shelter under an overhang sheltering
the Engineering Building entrance.
A high school student also was ar-
rested for trying to take a police offi-
cer's hat, Dixon said.
Dixon said protesters "pelted us
with eggs and animal feces" during
the protest, which broke up about 5
p.m. after rainsoaked demonstrators
learned the CIA recruiter had left.
He said other protesters, who ent-
ered the building through a side door,
set bags of feces on fire in the hall-
ways of the building, in which classes
were held as scheduled.
Although Chancellor Irving Shain
had declared the building off limits to
anyone who did not have official uni-
versity business there, police did not
try to arrest any of the protesters
who got inside.
A few engineering students who did
have business in the building had
trouble getting inside. Dennis Egan, a
mechanical engineering senior,
couldn't convince officers that he had
an appointment at the Engineering
Placement Office.
Egan, dressed in jeans, a sleeveless
shirt and fishing hat, said he needed
to set up an interview with Shell Oil
He said he'd never sign on with the
CIA, but Egan said he was "not im-
pressed" by the protesters' methods.
Egan said anti-CIA activists should
show students why they shouldn't
seek jobs with the agency, rather
than deny access to recruiters.
"If there was nobody on the list for
two or three semesters, they wouldn't
be here anymore," Egan said.
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