Milton McGriff, spokesman for The September 29th Movement, said at a rally Friday afternoon that he is looking for more than 200 people to camp out at Iowa State President Martin Jischke’s office in an attempt to force him to address a list of grievances.

The 150 who assembled at Catt Hall at 1 p.m. were there to display their disagreement with administrators. The rally was sponsored by ISU’s Coalition for Underrepresented Voices (CURV).

McGriff, a graduate student in English, said if each of the 200 people involved got one person and brought the total to 400, the group would camp out at the Office of the President until Jischke was “willing to listen.”

McGriff, who gave the opening speech, spoke on freedom of speech, top-down democracy and the name of Catt Hall. He said Iowa State is being run like a business, and not like a democracy. “Fascism is government and big business working together to stifle new ways of thinking,” he said.

“We had to come back for more,” said rally emcee Alan Nosworthy, a graduate student in English and chairman of The Movement. He said this rally was the first of what he hoped would be many CURV rallies.

The rally featured speakers from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the AIDS Coalition and the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Alliance, among others.

After NAACP representatives spoke, Nosworthy declared to the crowd that “history had spoken.”

“These are the people who saw African-Americans get hosed down in the street, who saw African-Americans bitten by dogs led by police,” Nosworthy said. “They are history.”

About 10 members of The Movement camped out on the Catt Hall lawn in seven tents beginning Friday through Sunday in protest of the name of Catt Hall and other administration decisions.