Rotunda vol 70, no 11 feb 18, 1991

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INSIDE:

Taxes And The Working Student

Historian Speaks On "Myths Of Black History"

CONTENTS I Editorials New* Features Sports Classifieds Personals

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The R#TUNDA February 18, 1991

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LONGWOOD COLLEGE

Farmville, Virginia

Are We Ready?

If Draft Is Reinstated, Few Options Will Be Available

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"Nobody is yet speaking of reinstituting the draft, but if the war goes beyond 90 days, it would be seriously discussed, if not necessarily adopted."

House nor the Department of Defense indicates a draft is under consideration, and the president has said a draft Is not necessary." Yet not all U.S. government officials are discounting the possibility. And Arizona's Joyner thinks if the war escalates to prolonged ground fighting, a draft will be needed to support and replenish the troops. "I see It coming."

But do these men and their families even need to be worried about the draft? "Nobody is yet speaking of reinstitutlng the draft, but if the war goes beyond 90 days, it would be seriously discussed, if Canada, where many U.S. not necessarily adopted." Rep. draft dodgers fled during the Henry Hyde. R.-IU.. a member of Vietnam War. no longer will help. Since the war In Vietnam the House Foreign Affairs Comended. Canada has passed mittee, told the Associated Immigration and employment Press. "Right now I would say we relaws that make It virtually Impossible for draft refugees to live ally don't know." admitted Cord Bruegmann. a staff member of there today. the CCCO. a draft and military Campuses also provided a counseling agency based in safe harbor during most of the Philadelphia. Vietnam war. when a "student deferment" from the draft helped The likelihood has Increased" thousands of men keep from since the war started, but not in having to go Into the armed a way that people should be forces as long as they were overly worried. Bruegmann registered for a small load of added. college courses. Most U.S. government officials consistently have denied Now there's no such thing as the draft will be imposed. a student determent, although collegians would be allowed to The first step would be hold finish their semester before Ing a lottery to decide which of having to report. College seniors the 1.8 million 20-year-old men would be allowed to finish their in the U.S. would be drafted academic year. first.

While many oppose Instituting the draft, the University of Michigan's student newspaper has called for reinstatement.

(CPS) — As the war In the Persian Gulf enters Its third week, still no one In Washington. DC. Is willing to do much more than guess If Congress will reinstate the military draft. The only certain thing Is that young American men who don't want to fight will have few sanctuaries to which to turn. Most of the escape routes have. In effect, been closed. "I see huge, huge problems" for people trying to escape the draft, said Conrad Joyner, a political science professor at the University of Arizona.

Young men who can prove to their local draft board they are homosexual or a conscientious objector can get out of serving, though It will take some effort.

As late as Jan. 17. the Selective Service issued a statement stating "the agency has no indication that a draft is needed. Neither Congress, the White

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"However unjust the war might be. the greater Injustice lies In the fact that the poor and people of color continue to shoulder the majority of the fighting." said an editorial in the Michigan Dairy. "If the sons and daughters of our president and members of Congress were required to fight alongside the others in Saudi Arabia, these officials might act with a little more hesitation." It continued. It would take a congressional vote to reinstate the draft, and the selection could start within hours of approval. The lottery would be open to the public, held In an auditorium where Selective Service officials would have two clear drums. One drum would hold 365 slips of paper (366 if it is a leap year) imprinted with the dates of the year. The other drum would hold slips numbered one through 365 or 366. A draft official would then draw a slip from each drum, matching a date to a number. Men turning 20 on the date drawn with the number 1 would be called first.

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Photo Courtesy of the Department of Military Science ROTC Cadet, (left to right): James Herzog. Mark Veno. Matt Fletcher. Winter Survival Training was held at Norwich University in Vermont.

Winter Training Weekend By LIZ RUSSELL On February 8-10. ROTC Cadets: Josh Diamond. Matt Fletcher. David Haugh, James Herzog. and Mark Veno went to Norwich University In Vermont. Cadets from Longwood as well as other schools learned cold

Cadets learned how to wear and use snow shoes, how to build fires In a cold weather situation, how to build snow shelters, and different ways of keeping warm. They also learned the symptoms and treatments of cold weather ln|uries.

weather training and survival techniques. Temperatures were very cold: 5° in the morning and 30° in the afternoon. There was 6-7 Inches of snow on the ground.

I talked to the cadets about their weekend. James Herzog said. "The training was educational and challenging. It was a lot of fun. even though It was

very cold." Josh Diamond said, "I wish it would have been colder, so that we could have used all our equipment and techniques that we had learned." And David Haugh expressed his thoughts: "This weekend I learned a great deal about myself as a person. Even though I may never need to use what I have learned, the confidence I gained from this weekend may be used In future experiences In life."

New Smoking Restrictions Profiles of Black

Americans CHARLAYNE HUNTER was one of two black students to desegregate the University of Georgia in Athens in 1061. 8he worked as a journalist for The New Yorker and The New York Times before Joining The MscNeil/Lshrer News Hour ss National Correspondent In 1078. She has received two Emmy Awards and in 1088 was the recipient of the George Poster Peabody Award for Excellence In Brosdcsst _ Journalism for "A Partheid's ^All profiles are taken from / Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed People," a report on South America by Brian Lanker. Africa.

By K. M. COOKE "Smoking In the workplace." a new policy still In the draft stage, has received mixed support from Longwood faculty, staff and students. The policy would allow for any person smoking In a designated nonsmoking area of the workplace to be fined up to $25 under the Virginia Clean Indoor Air Act. Employees of the college may also be subject to suspension if they are repeat offenders. Areas of the Longwood campus that may be designated noThis Is the kind of thing that smoklng areas Include: Jarman Auditorium. Lancer Gymnasium, If It snuck up behind you. It the Computer Center, the Ro- would really be dramatic." tunda, and the library, as well People Interviewed showed as all classrooms and reception support for a smoking policy areas. Private offices and em- with designated no-smoking arployee and student lounges will eas, but many said they felt that be set aside for smoking. a simple request for a smoker to refrain is all that Is needed to "I think that If you are a enforce such a poll<y. smoker you should be allowed to smoke In your own office or In Ashton Echols, a student who designated areas, but I prefer smokes said about smoker's not to have It around me." said rights: I think If the tobacco Sandl Covtngton. a staff member companies would finally come of the Financial Aid Office. right out and say that smoking causes cancer, then smoking In a memorandum dlswould be Illegal. But as long as Iributed to the college council by smoking Is legal I don't think Richard Hurley, vice-president of people should be punished for business and legislative affairs, It." the proposed policy states the need to respect the rights of James W. Jordan. PhD. smokers as well as nonsmokers. commented on the enforcement of the new policy: "Suspension "I am pleased that this pro- from one's livelihood as a result posal Is coming up for scrutiny of a second Infraction of the proand debate and consideration." posed regulation seems to me to said Dr. Jordan, who smokes a be an exceeding strict penalty lor this behavior." , Pipe.


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