Santa Cruz students nurture anti-war role: Pentagon listing has made them 'credible'

- Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Turning up on a Pentagon surveillance list has become a badge of honor for members of a student anti-war organization at UC Santa Cruz -- and made them a national face of the peace movement.

"We're not paranoid about it, and in a way, it's given us an opportunity to talk about the war to different people, to tell people that it was not OK to invade Iraq," said Kai Sawyer, 23, a member of Students Against War and a teaching assistant in the psychology department. "Berkeley may have the reputation for having a lot of anti-war activists, but I feel like Santa Cruz has had a lot more going on."