October 28, 2005

Coalition Asks Defense Dept. to Halt Work on Student Database

By ERIC HOOVER

The controversy over a military-recruiting database continues.

Last week a national coalition of student organizations, privacy advocates, and antiwar groups urged the U.S. Department of Defense to stop collecting information about high-school and college students for the Pentagon's Joint Advertising and Market Research Studies program.

In a letter to Donald H. Rumsfeld, secretary of defense, more than 100 groups called for an immediate end to the database, which includes

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