US military planners are having a tough time finding and retaining new recruits. The US Army fell almost one-third short of its recruiting goal for the month of March. To lure in potential enlistees, they're beefing up scouts, and offering large bonuses. Last month, high profile counter-recruitment protests were staged at City College in New York Seattle Community College, and San Francisco State. Yesterday, some 300 students and community members held a raucous demonstration at the University of California, Santa Cruz campus, where US military recruiters had a booth at the campus' Job and Internship fair. FSRN reporter Vinny Lombardo files this report.

March 5, 2005; Santa Cruz CA: After 200 students joined a rally and march to “Kick Recruiters Out of UCSC� eighty sign-carrying, chanting and determined demonstrators gained access to the Stevenson Activity Center Career Fair, surrounded military recruiters and effectively terminated recruiting activities.

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4/5/05 -- photos by MATT FITT -- Part 2: Students at UC Santa Cruz successfully rallied to force military recruiters off of the campus. March 5, 2005