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Mandy Carter: how to beat the ‘military machine’ . By CAROLYN BEAVER Of the Emerald In pre-med school during the Vietnam War, Mandy Carter stop ped to think, “what in the hell am I doing here? If the bomb drops to morrow, I won’t have lived one day.” She felt she had to devote herself to the immediate threat of war and death. Carter, with the Women’s Counter-Recruiting Campaign in San Francisco, spoke to a group of about 20 persons in the EMU Monday night. As part of a North west speaking tour, Carter dis cussed the “military machine” and ways to overcome it. According to the latest statis tics, said Carter, the world’s nu clear weapons have the capacity to kill the population 690 times. “When you ask what for, the word you get is for peace." Yet, “the insanity of how many times we can kill ourselves over stares us in the face," she said. Carter advocated "non-violent ways to deal with conflict.” She said the “way we can live our lives person ally... can change the di rection of our country. It can bring back the sense of humanity.” Calling the military a “blatant in stitution of organized violence” that teaches “how to kill people in more and unique ways,” Carter said it “takes people saying I will not be part and parcel to that in stitution” to have any effect. With advertising expenditures of about $1 million daily, Carter said, the military is able to gamer large amounts of support. “If our organization had $1 million per day, we would have that kind of support, too," she said. On a very limited budget, Carter speaks and travels to “get the word out not to join” various mili tary organizations. But when asked what she would replace the military with, she answered that she “doesn’t have a blueprint.” She’s banking on society taking a different direction should the military decline. “Hopefully there would be a moral value change...we might start looking at each other differently,” says Car ter. “The nation state has always gotten in the way of people rela ting to each other and the military is devised to protect the nation state," Carter said. Without the military, Carter thinks people would have a “basic trust and concern for each other.” Carter warned that “the draft is going to come back as sure as tomorrow is Tuesday,” and that EMU Board seeks student participation By CAROLYN BEAVER Of the Emerald If students ever hope to have an EMU tavern, they might benefit by letting the EMU Board know about it. The EMU Board has taken over the tavern issue from the ASUO executive. The board’s revenue subcommittee this term worked on a new tavern proposal until the chairer Kari Leitz, resigned a cou pie weeks ago. Marc Zimmerman, new EMU board member, will replace Leitz; however, he has not decided whether he will consider the tavern issue. Along with that de terrent, Board Chairer Dusty Rhodes says he desperately needs new subcommittee mem bers. He stresses that a person need not belong to the EMU Board to serve on a subcommittee — "all they have to do is have a little in terest.” Rhodes says the proposal Leitz worked on was "not at all what I had thought it was going to be.” It was his understanding the pro posal was near completion. This time he says he wants “either a really good proposal or nothing at all, not a half-baked report," since University Pres. William Boyd does not support the tavern. Another new subcommittee in need of student members is the space allocation subcommittee. Randy Holmstrom, new EMU board member, will be the chairer. She says “Programs grow and programs shrink. We should facili tate programs’ better usage of space. It shouldn’t be a matter of the EMU Board dictating” space usage policy. By the end of spring term, says Rhodes, the subcommittee will have “solicited applications from all IFC-funded programs on cam pus who wish to apply for office space.” Through the subcommittee, programs with shared interests would be able to locate closely enough to "share reference ma terials and resource people,” Rhodes says. He continues that it would then “allow it to be coordi nated effort instead of the patch work quilt thing it has been.” 1 I CHINA BLUE RESTAURANi featuring for dinner PEKING DINNER $6.95 per person China Blue Special Dinner Soup, Fried Won ton, Shrimp Egg Roll, Pork Fried Rice, Sweet and Sour Pork, Diced Chicken Cashewnuts Addition for four Beef Tomato Addition for five. Shrimp with Scrambled Eggs China Blue 879 E. 13th Ave. 343-2832 Hours Mon Thurs n< to iu Fri, 10 to 11 Sat 5 to 11 Sun . 5 to 10 J Oregon Daily Emerald once the President decided to reinstate the draft, it would only take 10 days. She urged letter writing, attending meetings or even not paying taxes because they support the military budget as means of resisting war. The military’s need for women is increasing since the number of men who’ll be enlisting in the 1980s and '90s will decline, said Carter. She also said the quality of men now enlisting is declining. Military personnel reason that it is in woman’s nature to be faithful, that “she is going to be hanging around and that’s what they need,” Carter said. It was discouraging to her that Ms magazine recently ran military recruitment ads and that the Na tional Organization for Women and the American Civil Liberties Union supported women in the military and in open combat. Right now, women are not allowed in open combat. “They stress equal rights...and they say you can humanize the military experience, the institution. But you do not humanize the in stitution. It’s got to be the most sexist, racist, oppressive organi zation there is,” Carter said. A.C.E. Introduces The New Texas Instruments THREE In ONE Calculator DatoChron 1790 Suggested Retail $49.95 See our entire line of Texas Instruments electronic calculators at: your "Advanced Campus Electronics” Center BOOKSTORE 13th & Kincaid 686-4331 Open: Mon-Fri 8:15-5:30 Sat 10:00-2:00 Page 3 Photo by Patrick Sullivan Mandy Carter: Advocate of non-violence
