INT. HEALTH FOOD RESTAURANT--DAY
Jim and Marlene converse as they eat lunch. Both smile and laugh frequently.
JIM: How did you come to get so politically active?
MARLENE: I guess it was the War. When I was a freshman, the SDS chapter was already broken up. But I was against the War. And when they invaded Cambodia and shot the students at Kent State and Jackson State, I really got active and radicalized.
JIM: What were you into before you got into activism?
Marlene laughs.
MARLENE: Oh, I was your All-American girl in high school. Cheerleader. Prom queen. In all the clubs.
JIM: I'm glad you became radicalized. The cheerleaders I knew in high school never got involved in the anti-war movement.
MARLENE: Most of my old high school girlfriends didn't get involved either.
JIM: Do you know what you're going to do after you graduate?
MARLENE: I don't know. Maybe teach. I try not to think about it.
JIM: I don't blame you. It's a real death culture out there. Once you get off campus you realize what a fantasy world a place like Ann Arbor is.
Rachel enters restaurant.
RACHEL: Hey, Marlene? Did you see this?
Rachel reads aloud from the "Michigan Daily" student newspaper.
RACHEL (CONT'D): "Air Force Colonel Washington will be speaking about `The New Military' on Friday night."
MARLENE: Why don't you bring it up at the People Against The Air War meeting tonight? Maybe people will want to have a picket?
Jim smiles.
INT. STUDENT UNION BUILDING LOUNGE--NIGHT
About 25 students are sitting around in a circle on floor of lounge, listening to Jim speak.
JIM: I think we can be more effective if we do more than picket outside. I think we should go inside the auditorium to show the slide show about the air war. And then debate the morality of the war with the Air Force Colonel.
MARLENE: I call myself. I like that idea. If the Colonel is willing to speak on campus, then he should be willing to debate the air war with students on campus.
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