About 13 anti-war protesters blocked off an Army Reserves recruiting table in Carnegie Mellon University's student union during the lunchtime rush yesterday.

Campus police officers responded to a call from the University Center about 45 minutes after the protesters had arrived, but made no arrests.

Members of Pittsburgh Organizing Group, including several CMU students and some high school students, stood in front of two recruiters at a folding table holding a banner that said "Resistance is Fertile."

Attempts to contact the Oakland recruiting office after hours were unsuccessful. An Army recruiter at the North Hills center said he could not comment on the incident.

A number of students, professors and janitors passing by the highly-trafficked area on the first floor expressed support for the protest, said Brian Dipippa, 18, who helped organize the event.

Dipippa attends Keystone Oaks High school in Mt. Lebanon, where recruiters have made about a dozen visits this year.

"I get really mad, but then sad because I know people buy into it." A good friend at school just signed up with the Navy a couple of months ago, he said.

Organizers said the action was part of national grass-roots effort to keep recruiters off campuses. American Friends Service Committee has spearheaded awareness campaigns at high schools about military recruiting. Under "No Child Left Behind," high schools that give student names and addresses to college recruiters or employers, must also give the information to military recruiters.

Previous actions by the anti-war group have focused on military contracting on the college campus.

"At this point the military is lacking in numbers and they're doing whatever they can to recruit people. Using this intellectual environment for war is completely wrong," said CMU philosophy major Idris Robinson.