Campus buzz
Tuesday
Prayer meeting, sponsored by Campus
Crusade for Christ, 7:30-8:30 a.m., EMU
Rogue Room.
Oregon Supreme Court visit, sponsored
by University Law School, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.,
175 Knight Law Center.
"Music and Dance in the Ballets of
Stravinsky," (dance historian Beth Genne
presents the Trotter Professorship Presen
tation), 10-11:20 a.m., 198 Music Building,
free, 346-5678.
"The Film Musicals of Vincente Minnelli,"
(dance historian Beth Genne presents the
Trotter Professorship Presentation), 2-3:20
p.m., Knight Library Media Services Studio
B, free, 346-5678.
Taiko drumming (concert, sponsored
by Multicultural Center), 6-9 p.m., EMU
Ballroom.
Blyth and Russ Carpenter, (authors of "The
Blessings of Bhutan"), 7 p.m., Knight Library
Browsing Room, free, 346-4331, Ext. 228.
Oregon Jazz Ensemble and two jazz
lab bands, 8 p.m., Beall Hall, $5 general, $3
students and senior citizens, 346-5678.
"The Collegium Musicum," (University En
semble Concert), 8:30 p.m., Central
Lutheran Church, 1857 Potter St., free, do
nations accepted, 346-5678.
Environment
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Law Conference, which took place
during the weekend. As he spoke
Saturday, Yazzie focused on the
Navajo’s view on the environment
and how it should be treated.
“All creation from mother earth
and father sky have their own inde
pendent freedom to exist,” he said.
“We should obey the laws of nature
because it is there for a purpose, and
we must respect it for what it is. ”
Standing in the doorway of the en
trance to the ballroom, Land Air Wa
ter passed out a transcript of the fun
damental laws of the Ding, which
means people. LAW hosted the
event, which started Thursday and
ended Sunday. Yazzie referred to the
transcript throughout his speech,
pointing out ways western culture
differs from the Navajos in treatment
of the environment.
“The end goal of life is not me,” he
said. “While Navajos are known as the
people in English, it is a mistransla
tion. We are not the people, but one of
many. There are rock people, tree
people... we depend on each other.”
While Yazzie spoke on the Navajo
views of environmental injustice, oth
er speakers focused on topics such as
ecofeminism or genetic engineering.
There were also various workshops,
presentations and panels that took
place during the weekend, focusing on
a variety of environmental issues.
Jennifer O’Donnell was another
keynote speaker, and she centered
her lecture on corporate responsibili
ty as well as her involvement in Ohio
Citizen Action.
“(O’Donnell) has spent more than
20 years kicking ass in the trenches,”
LAW treasurer Jason Klein said in his
introduction of O’Donnell. “She’s a
wonderful, passionate individual.”
OCA, an environmentally aware
group that prides itself on taking on is
sues which affect the lives of citizens
in Ohio, is currently working on a
campaign to keep the Davis-Besse nu
clear power plant closed.
O’Donnell took the stage and ex
u.s.
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for any reason.
Some callers to the G.I. Rights Hot
line said they were 18 when they joined
and were still forming their opinions.
Others said they were persuaded to
join by military advertisements,
brochures and recruiters talking a lot
about job skills, world travel and educa
tion benefits, and nothing about the
brutality of combat, said Bill Galvin,
counseling coordinator for the Center
on Conscience and War in Washington,
D.C., who helped answer calls.
A U.S. Armed Forces Web site, for
example, asks: “Where else can you
get paid to train with the best, travel
around the world, make lifelong
friends and get an education?”
“Many of these people thought they
were going to computer school,” Galvin
said. “Reservists think it’s a job they do
two weeks a year and a weekend a
month. These people are realizing it’s not
about what they thought it was at all. ”
But gpvemment officials are skepti
cal of those who say they weren’t aware
of what they were getting into.
Soldiers, for example, take an oath of
enlistment, promising to support and
defend the U.S. Constitution “against all
enemies, foreign and domestic” and to
obey orders from the president of the
United States and their superior officers.
Army Lt. Col. Ryan Yantis put it this
way: “It’s disingenuous for a soldier to
wake up and say they never knew they
were joining the Army to fight wars....
It’s much like a fireman suddenly real
izing, ‘You mean I have to fight a fire?”’
When Plantation, Fla., resident
Travis Clark joined the Marine Corps
in 1996, it seemed like a good option.
Then 19, he couldn’t afford college
and the country was in a state of rela
tive peace, Clark said. He signed an
eight-year contract, which required
him to serve five years of active duty
and stand by for a possible call-up
during the following three years.
As the years passed, his views began
to change. He started reading works by
Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas
Gandhi. His active-duty stint ended in
August2001, and he now volunteers as
special-events coordinator for the anti
war group Peace South Florida.
If he’s called up before his military
contract ends in the summer of
2004, Clark said, he won’t go.
“I can see violence used if there was
an invading army invading my peo
ple,” Clark said. “But I’m not going to
gp into someone else’s country and
force them to defend themselves.”
Like Clark, many resisters say
they vowed to defend the country,
not to take part in what they consid
er a war of aggression. Veterans for
Peace, a national group with 3,000
members, wrote a letter to the mili
tary’s top commanders on Feb. 13,
urging them not to fight.
“We believe the war against Iraq
that the U.S. government is plan
ning and preparing for is in viola
tion of the Charter of the United
Nations and customary interna
tional law,” the letter reads. “The
judgment of the International
Military Tribunal at Nuremberg
noted, ‘Resort to war of aggression
is not merely illegal, but criminal.’”
The tradition of conscientious
objectors dates at least to the Civil
War. But draft resistance became a
mass movement during the Vietnam
War, when 200,000 men were accused
of violating draft laws and another
360,000 war resisters weren’t formally
accused, according to American
Friends Service Committee, a Quaker
pacifist organization.
During the 1991 Gulf War, about
500 enlisted men and women filed
for conscientious-objector status
and about 61 percent were
approved, according to a General
Accounting Office report. Several
members of the all-volunteer mili
tary simply refused to fight and were
jailed for up to 18 months.
It’s not clear how many soldiers
are resisting a war this time. Military
officials say the numbers so far have
been small. Only six members of the
Army, for example, applied for con
scientious-objector discharges in
February, an Army spokesman said.
As for Alarcon, he has kept his
pacifist feelings from the rest of his
unit. But, as the United States
moves closer to an invasion of Iraq,
he says he’s ready to speak up and is
getting his papers in order to file as
a conscientious objector.
“I’ve got to let it be known that I’m
not ready to just lay down and do
what I’m told,” Alarcon said, “because
they say this is a free country.”
© 2003 South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
plained to her audience that Davis
Besse was originally shut down one
year ago because of a football-sized
hole in the reactor head. There was
less than half an inch of stainless steel
liner keeping the radioactive and pres
surized internal environment from
blasting into the reactor containment
building, which could have damaged
safety equipment, and possibly set
into motion a core melt accident.
“It’s like a horror movie,” O’Don
nell said.
The owners of Davis-Besse, First
Energy, planned to have the plant run
ning again within months of the shut
down, but a reopening has yet to hap
pen. O’Donnell said OCA is working
to keep the plant from reopening at all.
“Nuclear power is not clean, it is not
cheap, and it is not safe,” she said.
“We will prevail.”
Contact the reporter
atalishaughnessy@dailyemerald.com.
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