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.”
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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.
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