ing whether a student was genuinely interested and therefore made no judgments. Ginn later agreed that if a student, asking to see the sign-up sheet or inquiring if rumors of cancellation were true, was told that the Marine was in fact not coming, he could not be expected to ask for an appointment.

At least one student who inquired, Bowers, was interested in discussing the Marine officer candidate program. He has already made a tentative commitment to the Navy and wanted to check out the Marines before finalizing his plans. Garvey, like Bowers, says he specifically asked to make an appointment.

"There was no subterfuge involved," Ginn said, Answering a question, he said that the SDS demonstration was never a consideration. Neither was the timing of the visit, two days after the protests against the Allied invasion of Laos, he said.

"We've had this trouble with the Marines time and again," Ginn said. "If they don't come to campus, they try to suggest we have connived and subterfuged to keep them from coming."

A Navy recruiter will be at the OGCP on February 24. SDS plans to demonstrate; as one spokesman said, "This is a concrete way of opposing the war." The Young Republicans intend to counterdemonstrate "to protect the freedoms of speech and assembly." Both sides claim victory in the last episode. As Hubbard said: "It all sounds like Catch-22 to me."