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Volume LXX, No. 89 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. July 23, 19BO
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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
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told USC students at a meeting in Party
Russell House Thursday night not doing
to register for the draft because BUI
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the money or the manpower resist
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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
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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.
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DNEK SAID THE draft is he said. "Con
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the draft, don't register and vitude and we ha
nit an act of civil guarantee again
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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
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re is a registration, will realize what a big
aification and then for them to take," a Sot
! allow the govern- Resistance spokesman
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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,
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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.
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ration card
the back of
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