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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1966)
Dialogue Debater Urges Conscientious Objection A leading spokesman for the peace1 movement urged a male student audience Tuesday to con sider claiming conscientious ob jection in the face of mounting draft rails Arlo Tatum, executive secre tary of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, found a sympathetic audience at the Y Dialogue, entitled "Moral De cisions-to Fight or Not Fight,” The other Dialogue participant, Captain Charles Dittmar, a re tired Navy chaplain, disagreed with Tatum’s paeifistic views. Tatum railed the church “an in strument of the state.” He said that to make war is "to break the fundamental tenants of all the great religions.” The church has always made an exception to its moral rules in the case of war "out of necessity,” he added. Dlttner Not Typical Tatum said Dinner was an ex ample of the church’s thinking, but allowed that Dittncr had not stayed safely in his pulpit as most ministers do. "When Congress established the draft, it took care of the two strongest institutions that could oppose it by exempting Congress men and ministers,” he said. Tatum called war "intensely, visciously impractical.” He said he didn't believe he could jus tify any war as "good," adding "there is no better example of a bad war than Viet Nam ” Dittmar said that force must be used by a nation to preserve itself, just as a father may be called on to kill in ordar to pro tect his family. Tatum urged young men in the audience to claim they are con scientious objectors (CO’s) if they object to and take non-com batant duty to war on moral grounds. Dittmar asked how a young man who enjoys all the benefits of our society can. in good con science, refuse to defend it. Conscience Versus Morality In no other area does his con science make such great demands upon the CO, said Dittmar, “anefc where else does the CO honor such sweeping moral claims?” A student asked Tatum how a ehapiain and member of the clergy (Dittmar) could urge men to take up arms to kill. He re plied, "tteligion is a deep and abiding faith in the government; to kill is not wrong if you accept everything the government tells you to do as right.” Tatum suid it’s “quite easy” to get a CO classification from most draft hoards “if you arc sincere.” “There is another alternative which is harder to get, but still possible,” he said, which allows a draftee to work in hospitals or do other non-rnilitary work. Tatum said that there should be no religious test. He said an other attempt is being made to remove the religious test requir ing belief in some supreme being or spiritual concept, lie said very few sincere CO’.s don’t get regis tered. Prison Valuable Tatum, who spent two terms in prison for failing to register for the draft, said the years were not Inter-Co-op Council Debates Draft System The Inter Co-op Council dis cussed anthropology professor David Aberle's draft proposal Tuesday night but came to no conclusions. The general con sensus was that the present Se lective Service system is inade quate. Gordon Leonard (Philadelphia House) felt that the Selective Service System should cover more than just the GPA. He quoted in stances of students who enroll in difficult courses, work hard, and yet are below the class aver age. Also, Gordon brought forth instances where students enrolled in easy night courses and do not work hard while still maintain ing a high GPA. In such cases, the hard-working students are eligi blc for the draft and the "coast alongs” arc not. Whnt Alternatives Howard Harrison (Campbell Club) asked ‘‘What would the .Selective Service work from if they did not receive the student's class standing?" Harrison also asked if Aberle’s proposal would mean the students would have to have their transcripts sent to their respective boards in order to remain ineligible for the draft. Wiladean Muling (Laurel . House) said that the girls at her house felt that the men ougiit to have the right to have their grades . sent out if the men filled out an ■ affirmative request form. ' Avenues Open to Draft Board Dennis Allison, I.C.C. President, \ (Campbell Club) brought forth ; three alternatives open to the draft board. They were: • To continue choosing their college draftees as they have, on ' the students’ grades and class ! standing, or the Selective Service | College Qualification Test. : • To analyze each student j separately on' the basis of grades, I class standing, activities, major, | etc. • To choose the students at random. Oregon Daily Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald is pub lished five times In September and five days a week during the academic year, except during examination periods, by I the Student Publications Board of the i University of Oregon. , Second-class postage paid at Eugene. Oregon 97408. Subscription rates $3 per year, $2 per term. DOW CHEMICAL Interviewing October 31, 1966 CHEMISTS BUSINESS MAJORS TECHNICAL SALES Locations throughout the United States. For infor mation contact your Placement Office. — an equal opportunity employer — wasted. “I haven’t done so much reading since, and I’ve never been more useful.” He said that mili tary prisons are being filled by men who want to get out any way they can, adding that many de liberately go AWOL in order to be imprisoned. He claims there is a peace movement within the armed services. Growth of Committee He said requests for assist ance to his committee on CO’s have grown in number ten times since the Viet Nam buildup. He said he was working to overcome common misconceptions that CO’s can get reclassified or that they must be saints to qualify for a CO classification. Tatum said the minimum moti vation one must have to con sider claiming CO is that "war is an anachronism and a menace to mankind.” He said he favored a change in draft regulations to allow CO classification for those w'ho object to “unjust wars” along the same lines that orthodox religions fol low in considering whether a war is religious or not. Klonoski to Give Browsing Lecture The police and individual rights will be discussed in the Browsing Room lecture at 7:30 p m. today in the Student Union. Union. The speaker, James R. Klon oski, associate professor of poli tical science, has long been con cerned with constitutional law. "The Allocation of Justice,” which he co-edited with Robert Mendel soh, instructor of political sci ence at Oregon from 1960 to 1965'. will soon be released by Little, Brown and Company. A member of the Oregon fac ulty since 1961, Klonoski has also taught political science at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minne sota (1956-59). He was a Congres sional Fellow of the American Political Science Association dur ing 1959-60 and a research asso ciate of the Brookings Institute in Washington. D C. the following year. The Oregon political scientist served on the research staff of then Senator . Hubert H. Hum phrey in I960. Klonoski holds a bachelor of science and master of arts de grees in history from the Uni versity of Minnesota, and a doctor of philosophy degree in political science from the University of Michigan. Want to really get results?— Use Emerald Classified Ads— Phone 342-1411, Ext. 1818. Foreign Students To Be Welcomed Foreign students at the Uni versity will be welcomed to the campus and the community at a reception today at 7:30 p.m. in the SU ballroom. This reception is given by the Foreign Student Friendship Foundation, sponsors of the Friendship Family program, ac cording to Sioma Kagan, chair man of the Steering Committee of the Foundation. Mr. Kagan will be master of ceremonies for the pro j gram Brief welcoming address 1 cs will be given f>y Lee Bollinger, 1 first vice-president of ASUO; Sub ‘ hash Jain, Cosmopolitan Club president; Professor Harry Alpert, dean of faculties of the Univer ! sity; Mr. Hale Thompson, presi i dent of the Eugene Chamber of j Commerce; and Mr. David Sco field, mayor of Springfield. All new foreign students will be in troduced by Dr. Kenneth Ghent, foreign student adviser. Panel to Discuss Pass-Fail Option A panel discussion on the Pass-No Pass option will be pre sented on PL-3 tonight at 9 p.m. Participants will be Dave Mc Closkey, Robert Holmes, Jack Wilkinson, head of the Fine Arts Department, and Herman Cohen, director of the Honors College. EMERALD BRIDGE CLUB Terry A. 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