The Daily Targum

The second annual Walk Out against the Iraq War brought together students, faculty and members of the New Brunswick community yesterday to protest the U.S. involvement in the Middle East. The Walk Out Coalition encouraged students to leave class at 1:23 p.

by Pablo Albilal / Correspondent

The intermittent blare of car horns cut through the silence on George Street yesterday afternoon as hundreds sat quietly in the middle of an intersection. Traffic lights flashed yellow to red to green as protesters commemorating the five-year war in Iraq laid down their banners and megaphones for five minutes in hushed repose while dozens gazed at the impasse from sidewalks and downtown high-rises.

by Marissa Graziadio / Associate News Editor

Yesterday afternoon's Walk Out against the Iraq War on the College Avenue campus ended peacefully, as there were no altercations or incidents between protesters and police. "We worked [the Walk Out] last year also and everything was peaceful," said Lt. Kenneth Ackerman of the Rutgers University Police Department.

by Rachel Gillett / Correspondent

Amid a throng of protesting college students, speakers at the Walk Out echoed reasons yesterday for not supporting the war, emphasizing ways students can make an impact on the future of their country by acting now. Speakers listed a shattered Iraqi nation and higher tuition prices as some of the ramifications of the United States' ventures in the Iraq War, while proposing student action now to aid the reversal of these effects.

by M. Aasin Pena / Correspondent

Though the majority of people who attended yesterday's Walk Out supported the cause, a group of anti-protesters held an anti-Walk Out rally asking students to give victory a chance. Protesters at the Anti-Walk Out, standing near the Walk Out in Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue campus, sought to show that not all students were in support of an immediate withdrawal from Iraq.