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There's almost always a way Draft alternatives discussed You can join the military reserves or national guard, become a conscientious objector, get a medical deferrment, find a legal loophole or ac tively resist, but there is a way for almost anyone to avoid the draft. This was the opinion expressed by three coun selors from the Eugene Draft Information Center and ASUO legal advisor Richard Owens during a public discussion on alternatives to the draft held Friday in the EMU. The counselors, Dave Gwyther, director of the center; Dave Walrath and Peter Bates, explained the alternatives to the draft and urged persons worried about the draft to seek counseling. “If you enlist in the military you can learn a language but later you forget it,” Gwyther said. “Or you can learn all about helicopters and work for Boeing, but that probably won’t work out right now,” he added. By NAN HENDERSON Of the Emerald “The reserves and the national guard are rather popular these days because you don’t have much active duty and you can wear a wig,” Gwyther said. He felt that enlisting or joining the reserves is at the beginning of a range of alternatives to the draft that ends with active resistance. “A person’s chance of getting a C.O., is pretty good if you can make it through all of the red tape,” Bates said. Bates explained that the biggest problem with applying for a C.O. is that many people give up while in the process of trying to attain it. He said that the main criteria for becoming a C.O. is that a person is opposed to all killing. “But applying for a C.O. is still somewhat of a degrading process,” Bates said. “You are asking for permission not to kill. And it involves some sort of alternative service like cleaning bedpans in hospitals for two years.” Though resistance to the draft “is mostly just another alternative, you have to ask yourself a lot of questions before vou get involved,” Walrath said. “When you begin resistance the world doesn't stop, the war doesn’t stop and the draft doesn't stop. Pretty soon the F.B.I. comes along and you get involved with the judicial system, then the prison system.” Though resistance is not “a beautiful alter native,” Walrath said that a good aspect of resistance as an alternative is that you can’t just forget about the draft or the war after choosing it. “Remember that the war and the draft exists no matter what alternative you choose but by becoming involved in resistance you have to face these things day after day,” Walrath said. Owens called becoming involved in avoiding the draft “a rich man’s game.” He said that about two months ago he had about 80 cases involving the draft that were still “open”. “My job as a lawyer is to convince the military that they don’t want these guys,” he said. “Now almost all of the guys in these 80 cases have gotten out of the draft b^ause the administration is letting all of the older people resisting out.” This is because there are now 19-year olds that can be drafted before they get to a university or draft counseling, Owens felt. Owens also rejected the idea of a volunteer army. “It will mean taking a person into the service on the basis of economics. The poor people and the minority people don’t have other options," he said. The meeting, which attracted about 20 people, opened with a film produced by the American Friends Service entitled “The Language of Faces.” The theme of the film was the idea that our greatest enemy is fear and ourselves. “When will we begin to see our own image?” the film asked. It also urged people to take a quiet stand against. “There are many ways to take a stand, some public, some private. If we are numb in the language of words we must speak in the language of faces,” the film claimed. “We have forgotten most simple truths. Darkness is the reason for light. Out of hate we can love. Out of silence we can speak.” ( Briefs — Speakers Italy thall speak and show slides of his native Florence at 7 tonight, 338 Com monwealth. All are invited. Campus Interviews , The following employers will be recruiting on campus for career job opportunities. Interview signup sheets will be available tomorrow in the Placement office, Susan Campbell Hall. March 6: Company: Ford Motor. 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