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KAREN BRADY BUFFALO NEWS: A peaceful protest against the private prison industry turned not-so-peaceful as more than 40 local college students and community activists attempted to force their way into the administration offices at Buffalo State College. "We wanted to see the president," Buffalo State senior Edward T. Ellis said of college President Muriel A. Howard. The students and others, Ellis explained, wanted to present Howard a petition, with more than 1,300 signatures, against Buffalo State food service provider Sodexho Marriott's ties to the prison industry . . . He and other protesters entered the administration building, Cleveland Hall, after a mid-day rally by more than 150 opponents of the private prison industry and Sodexho Marriott's link to it. The link is through Sodexho Alliance, a shareholder in the private Corrections Corporation of America . . . Sodexho Marriott, which has dining hall contracts with more than 400 colleges and universities in the United States, has said it is not in the prison business and has no control over the investments and business dealings of its subsidiaries, including Sodexho Alliance.