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The military draft registration debate continues on
campuses across the country after a college student was
sentenced Monday for failing to register.
Benjamin Sasway, a political science major at HumboltState
University in California, was sentenced to 30 months at
a federal work farm.
Immediately after Sasway's Aug. 26 conviction, U.S. ;
District Judge Gordon Thompson Jr. ordered Sasway jailed
until sentencing, because he feared Sasway would flee to
Canada.
"I violated the letter of the law ; I also have committed an
act of civil disobedience to what I consider an unjust law,"
Sasway said in a 20-minute statement explaining his opposition
to draft registration.
THE PEOPLE'S MORAL conscience allows them to
"restrain the tyrannical tendancies of government," Sasway
said, and draft registration "deprives young men of one of
the most important moral decisions they can make - to take
another life."
Sasway was the second to be convicted under the law
signed by former President Jimmy Carter, which reinstated
draft registration.
Enten Eller, 21, of Laverne, Calif., was convicted on Aug.
16 in Roanoke, Va. He is an "A" student at Bridgewater
College, operated by the Church of the Brethren. Eller was
ordered to perform 250 hours of community service work and
register within 90 days.
The son and grandson of ministers in the Church of the
Bretheren, Eller said he will continue to refuse to register on
religious grounds.
Campus police now monitor CB channel 9 to aid handicapped si
parking space because they are taken by unauthorized vehicles.
September.
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Shintaro Abe, Japan's minister of in- Holderman [
ternational trade and industry,was awarded Japanese rriin
an honorary degree from USC at a special In his adc
ceremony in the President's House garden portance of
Sunday afternoon. trust" in U.S.
According to the ceremony's program, \
Abe was presented an honorary Doctor of We (boutn i
Laws degree "for his genuine support of relationship u
U.S. - Japanese relations, for his admirable
leadership in the international business and w ^ ^outh y
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Shelly Vandervelde
SASWAY RECEIVED no order to register, but his attorney
said he might be tried again under the government's theory
that failing to register is a continuing offense.
"In ~e of a national emergency, we need to be ready,"
said Steve Moskos, president of USC College Republicans.
"Without registration, it would take an inordinate amount of
time to prepare and by the time we are prepared, it might be
too late."
Moskos also said there are always people opposed to war,
"now they're just being more vocal about it."
There are over 700,000 non-registrants, according to
General Accounting Office figures. The Selective Service
claims an overall compliance rate of 93 percent.
THE FIGURE is below the 98 percent rate the Selective
Service has said must be reached for the system to be considered
fair and effective. Even at the height of the Vietnam
War, compliance with registration never fell below 98 percent.
Sen. Hayakawa, R-Calif. and Rep. Solomon, R-NY have
sponsored an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill
that has been passed by Congess and signed into law by
President Rea&an. The amendment reauires all male college
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stitutionality of the legislation.
"This is certain to bring some lawsuits," said Irvin
Bomberger of the National Interreligious Service Board for
the Conscientious Objectors (NIBSBCO).
"This is another way government is using pressure to
enforce the draft, using economic means," said Shelly
Vandervelde, a USC senior psychology and philosophy
major.
Vandervelde is also the Libertarian candidate for State
representative in District 72, which includes part of the USC
campus.
"IF THEY are going to give grants, then everyone should
be eligible," Vandervelde added, "Registration should be
voluntary."
Draft registration is a way of drawing a pool of names for a
future draft which inevitably leads to foreign intervention."
At Earlharn College in Richmond, Ind., which offers a
Peace and Global Studies major, officials aid male students
who refuse to register for the draft.
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we want 10 support people wno mane a aiiiicuii decision
after careful examination of the conscience," said Earlham
College President Franklin Wallin. "We're not doing this for
people who forgot to register or were too lazy to do so, this,
this is just for people who are doing it as a matter of principle.
THE SCHOOL says it will make up the difference of any
federal aid a student loses because of failure to register for
the draft, provided that the student's "actions are based on
matters of deeply held belief and conscience."
:e use CB radios
ndicapped drivers
Monday through Friday.
irtment now Previously, university police could only
iio to assist be reached by telephone, which can be
parking, ac- difficult for some handicapped students,
systems vice Baker said. The new system enables the
nt and Safety. student to contact the police without leaving
his vehicle.
CQn Most handicapped students have ready
to Dark in a access to a CB radio, Pereira said. The
?ori7Pd vehicle program's cost is minimal, he added,
t the parking because University Police already had a
removed. The radl0'
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his vehicle to park in a reserved hantatinn
lnnntpH dicapped space Pereira said There are 105
An n'ffippr is suc^ decals and 92 handicapped spaces on
Pereira said campus, compared with the four or five
spaces available when handicapped parking
:ate the car's was standi in about 1975.
he department "Handicapped parking is our primary
ler, but in 90 function," Pereira said, adding that there
car must be are about 20 violations per month. Most
ling to Baker, offenders say they have injuries and define
i.m. to 4 p.m., the injury as a handicap, Pereira said.
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ister of International Trade and Industry, received a USC
legree Sunday. Gov. Richard Riley was among the invited