A Student Activist Victory...with reasons for concern?

It would seem that students at UCSC (that's University of California--Santa Cruz) have won a victory for student activists everywhere (the link is in the title of this post, neat, wow, crazy blog-tools).

So why am I concerned?

I am certainly quite happy that the student activist organization, Students Against War, has been able to freely speak out against war. I am overjoyed that military recruiters will not be attending a job fair at an institution with 15,000 students. So this is a complete victory, right?

...Maybe it's not as good as the report would indicate. Here's a suggestion why.

"The UCSC administration claims that U.S. Marine Corps recruiters withdrew from participation in the April 24th job fair because they were “over booked.” This explanation seems unlikely for several reasons:
1) With the U.S. Marines consistently missing their recruitment goals, and a severe shortage of troops, it seems illogical that they would forgo access to a campus of 15,000 students.
2) The U.S. Army withdrew from the event on the same day as the Marines without providing a reason. Were they “over booked” too? Not likely.
3) Having had this event on their calendar for over two months, the military did not withdraw until a week prior to the event, shortly after publicity began for a protest hundreds of students were expected to attend. The recruiters had to forfeit their registration fee.
4) On Monday, student government leaders sent a letter of concern to administrators, noting that the protest was expected to be one of the largest in recent memory and expressing concern that military recruiters’ presence would inhibit students’ access to the job fair. Recruiters withdrew the next day. "

Does reason #4 seem faintly... off... to anyone else? I hope that I am wrong in my reading of #4. It appears that the administration is perfectly okay wtih military recruitment on campus as long as there is no protest.

I was pretty sure that our colleges and universities wanted to promote academia and protect the lives of their alumni population (even if this second reason is money-driven), not the Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force or National Guard.

I suppose that I'll consider this a victory, but it won't be total victory until Administrators really begin representing their students, not the U.S. Government.

Of course, this article makes me interested in just who will be attending Get Acquainted Day this year. It makes me interested in who will be behind tables at our Job Fair. And, most of all, it makes me interested in what my administration really thinks about student voices.