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- - V ^ ^ -Outh Carol ir.'i ^i br/iry tBL Wednesday Volume LXX, No. 89 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. July 23, 19BO Anti-draft c tell Carotin to ignore di must By Stephen Rkldeli Editor-in-C Mai About 2,800 USC students will have to register wiin ine Military selective Service during the next two weeks. Another 3,000 USC students will be effected if the registration is expanded to include women. A USC Computer Services spokesman said there are about 1,500 USC males that were born in 1960 and another 1,300 that were born in 1961. The spokesman added that over 3,000 USC females were born during 1960 and 1961. The call for Selective Service registration met with mixed responses from USC students on campus this summer. "I don't want to register at all," said one USC student who wished tQ remain anonymous. "It is an enslavement by the state. I'll be forced to register because I don't want to go to jail," he said. "Registration is a preliminary step to the draft and it can't be viewed any other way." Sophomore business administration major John Trainor said, "I don't really Artiinct< By Stephen Rkldoll fundft Edhor-in Chief tO ettI A group of anti-draft activists Budn< told USC students at a meeting in Party Russell House Thursday night not doing to register for the draft because BUI the U.S. government does not have nothir the money or the manpower resist available to trackdown resisters. c o m r " mere nas noi Deen one aime aisocx J HK hIwhI V ^IbHBp&B Ik Mr J HK- Jtm . ... flK. MBg^^^^K&vMBfc - ,\-J I v - 3891 BEi?. W HW|l 8? v / ::':< \ ??. jfl fl ilP '34* WM Libertarian Party member Bob Bud youth an anti-draft leaflet outside the Assembly Street. Several area group against the registration. (Photo By St ictivists a students naft sign-up \ * T ) U?><^ v/>/ti n-f IC^IOL want to go fight a war that's useless. It's just 1 something we've got to do." Trainor said if the draft is instituted, he will enlist in the Air Force before he is drafted. "When you are filling out the form, you think about what it will be like in a year or two if they start the draft," he said. "I feel like in a free HAtinnPPanu T am Kaina fn /1a kvj A urn iW1115 wiu w uu aunicuuiiu and that our democracy is being let down." The registration is being held in more than 34 000 post offices around the country during this week and next week. All young men born in either 1960 or 1961 are required to fill out a brief form giving their name, address, phone number and social security number. The American Civil Liberties Union questioned the legality of requiring men to list their social security number on the form. Selective Service Director Bernard Rostker said young men who do not list their I number when registering will not be prosecuted. < On the back of the registration form, a 1 > offer drj d by the federal government Mark Barwik, brce this registration," Bob Mennonite Fel ik of the S.C. Libertarian Bud nek's j it All no?:.i?? i saiu. /ui uic (juvci iuiiciii is ncglau uiiuii la is relying on fear.'' imposition on a i DNEK SAID THE draft is he said. "Con lg more than slavery. "I say another form ol the draft, don't register and vitude and we ha nit an act of civil guarantee again edience." Melissa Langs . . \ S the drain beca ^"<" ^16m aC? - --- "-H8& S GROW*Cafe' & W^W V fM United States to {? |f Vietnam becai Hr contracted out HF years. wBBKm' Jerry Winga nek gives an unidentified Register Leagui ? . . . _ . n/1J there are three >Columbia Post Office on war ?Firetthei s have joined in a protest then comes clas eve Riddei!} the draft. If we Anti-draft demonstrators ga stuck ei lur Privacy Act Statement tells a registering youth where the information he gives on the form may go. These places are: Department of Defense? for exchange of information concerning registration, classification, enlistment, examination and induction of individuals, availability of Standby Reservists, and if Block 8 is checked, identification of prospects for recruiting. Alternate service employers? for exchange of information with employers regarding a registrant who is a conscientious objector for the purpose of placement and supervision of performance of alternate service in lieu of induction into military service. Department of Justice? for review and processing of suspected violations of the Military Selective Service Act, or for perjury, and for defense of a civil action arising From administrative processing under such Act. Immigration and Naturalization Service? to provide information for use in iff ontin of the Columbia ment to do a registratio iowship, echoed easily slide into the ne sentiments. saying 'Well, now that i an unwarranted them registered, we n arson's privacy," sort them out.'" scription is just f involuntary ser- STEVE BABTES, ve a constitutional scientious objector ( st that.'' Vietnam War, said he ji ton, director of the make people aware the Civil Liberties alternatives to the drj ;istration officials want to try to go the cc \ social security objector route, you b mpnnp r'nmpc in tn now." he Said. "You V are not authorized prove that you have th< he said. "But they and that it is not just a it and as soon as moment decision." oes down on the Many of the anti-di cy goes right down were concerned whei use that number formation on the regist ess to a wealth of can go. "If you look at out your private the registration card it of the places that the i rould stand by and you put down the fror ' overrun by dark Budnek of the Liberta don't feel that we said. "It is scary to s< ting in Southeast can go. Some of the pla the interests of big the FBI, the Depa Lane John of Justice, the Depai Bid. He said the Defense and thegenen ul nnt haA another Budnek and several I jse it has sub- other anti-draft g its wars in recent Columbia are handing at post offices to you ite, of the War they enter to register e of Columbia, said want these kids to think ? -? 4W ? 4 1?J >/> itwMr ora /ininn nn/t K/ia otilgca LIU* I 1IMU IU wiv^ uvui^ ?i?u IIV| re is a registration, will realize what a big aification and then for them to take," a Sot ! allow the govern- Resistance spokesman ?nts draft determining an individual's eligibility for re-entry into the United States. Department of State? for determination of an alien's eligibility for possible entry into the United States and United States citizenship. Office of Veteran's Reemployment Rights, United States Department of Labor? to assist veterans in need of information concerning reemployment rights. General Public? Registrant's Name, Sprviro Miimhor Dato nf HirfVi and Classification, Military Selective Service Act Section 6,50 U.S.C. App. 456. Failure to register or registering false information on the form may result in a five year prison sentence, a fine of $10,000 or both. USC's post office in the Booker T. Washington building is not participating in the Selective Service registration because it is not a federal post office. A USC spokesman said that only the federal post offices would be doing registration. USC's postal operations are run by the state on a contract basis. nsfToday n, they will _ W xt stage by gT II : we've got w , lay as well a con- Inside luring the ist wants to it there are Heporter takes a ride with ift. "If you the cops. See page 2. nscientious . . ^ setter start Jackson Browne holds rill have to on with "Hold Out." See ought it out page 6. j spur of the ! When the going gets -aft groups tough, Coach Pam Parsons re the in- flet8 g0jnfl. See page 7. ration card the back of Weather it can go/' irian Party Today: Highs in the se where it mid-908, lows tonight in ces include 70s. Chance of rtment of precipitation is 30 peril public cent. nembers of Thursday: Chance of j [roups in showers. Hiehs in the low i out leaflets g ^"WeVst Friday-Sunday: Partly about what cloudy through Saturday. lefully they Hot temperatures constep this is tinuing throughout the saidar?lina weekend.