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Boulder Students Stage Overnight Protest in High School LibraryAbout 85 students spent the night in the Boulder (Colo.) High School library November 4 to demonstrate their concern over the Iraq War, military recruitment in schools, the national debt, and the health of the environment. The students said they were looking for assurance from Republican Party leaders about the direction the country will take over the next four years.“We want them to reassure us that our fears are misguided,” senior Brian Martens said in the November 5 Boulder Daily Camera, “and that the government is doing everything in its power to prevent our futures from being destroyed.” The students made calls to Gov. Bill Owens’s office and to Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Fort Morgan), who sponsored the failed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Rep. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) met with some of the students for about an hour after they left the library early on November 5, according to an Associated Press report. Boulder County Republican Party Vice Chairman Bill Eckert also met with some of the students, saying afterward that “their views are based on a lack of information and knowledge, and I think we owe it to them to help alleviate their fears.” BHS Principal Ron Cabrera gave permission for the students to stay in the library overnight as long as they cleaned up and left when the library opened at 7 a.m. A teacher and several parents agreed to be chaperones. Posted November 5, 2004. |
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