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.”
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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
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The following schools will be interviewing
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interview sign up sheets will be available
Wednesday in the placement office, Susan
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March 6: institution Salem Public
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openings for Sp. Therapists, Soc. Studies or
English.
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Openings not known. Will interview all areas
and all levels
March 9 Spokane Public Schools,
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prep in journalism, Debate or Dramatics,
Distributive Ed.Voc Bus Ed., Vocal Elem
Music, Elem Art, Math Sci comb.
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Public Schools, Beaverton, Oregon Type of
position Openings not known Will interview
all areas and all levels
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