At DePauw, some students, faculty and staff members who are against the SOA are participating in a nationwide campaign to close the school. The SOA protesters will begin a peace camp this coming week on the East College lawn. Sophomore Juan Pedroza explained the goal of the camp was to focus attention on the claims of SOA graduates' violations of human rights. In addition, protesters will have a folk guitarist and numerous speakers over the coming month. Such speakers include Sister Jan Gregorcich, Wabash professor Andrew Schlewitz, and Ruth Caplan, chairwoman of the Citizens' Trade Campaign, which advocates trade isolation of the United States students are also putting up white crosses around campus with the names of people who have been killed by SOA graduates.
People are curious why and for how long.
Between those who do, however, the debate rages on. No one challenges the fact that some SOA graduates have committed crimes. Rather, the debate is to what extent the SOA was involved in these crimes, and what, if anything, should be done to reprimand the graduates. But he went on to say that the SOA is a large part of the problems in Latin America, even though others claim differently. Feeney-Ruiz is chairman of the College Republicans.