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I ' ^ Philip Bennett lectures et USC w?toby "I don't think we would have dropped an atomic bi Germans." Women eligib By Gary Moss pi Despite one participant's urgent plea to b; "draft beer, not my sister," the audience at the Athenian Literary and Debate Society b< resolved Wednesday women should be eligi- pc ble and required by law to register for the a\ draft. di Third-year law student Russ Weinberg said excluding women is both "sexually discriminatory" and "pragmatically p unsound." Ii "Registration for military service is s already a fact of life for a large part of the q population (men), while a larger part of the population (women) is exempt," he said. f f WOMEN SHOULD not be excused from Y sharing this obligation simply because they are women any more than whites should be I excused simply because they are white, he 1 : j saiu. r Weinberg said women in the military could r fill occupational slots not directly related to \ combat such as doctors, lawyers and comI \T 1 . i i ? 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Nuclear wea By Noel O'Rear Nuclear weapons, as a new an nun, nave uauseu a uangcrous sep in military policy, a speaker said Philip Bennett, who spoke auditorium on "Moral and Spiriti Arms," said nuclear weapons m? other in history. f"\ // Man has faced mass death dur , 14th Century and through the rr rf world wars of this century. But to L f ty of nuclear weapons threatens n< ^ | millions of deaths, but the end ol THE GENERAL response to t People live their lives and refuse t nett said. Today, desired ends and the n separated. To illustrate this point, made by President Ronald Reag peace, but peace is a goal, not a ] Bennett said dropping the at codified the principle of separatic America opposed Nazism beca and its racism, as demonstrated in mination of millions of innoceni " Jewish. Nary Ann Ho** imb on the huwh,vilk, ihil means we cl einerating innocent children, won le for draft, ter scientists and serve a vital role in comt support units. To exclude women from the draft would chauvanistic because it denies women oprtunity and at the same time limits the ailable pool of talent at the military's iposal, Weinberg said. MARK NEWMAN agreed on the t tiilosophical ground that preventing women om registering discriminates on the basis of c :x and admitted this was morally Liestionable. i "(But) if we are to allow women to register , >r the draft, we must also allow women to ght in combat," he said. "There can be no ( alf-measures." Even in combat-support functions, lewman said, women would be "thrust in arm's way" because "no place is safe in lodern warfare." We as a society are not ;ady to accept the death of women in battle, e said. While admitting that some women would ? CiiiilPi iim ricr nam?3 -r---. 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Threatening t o consider the danger, Ben- pie hostage anc hostage, Bennet \eans to them have become Bennett quoted a statement The theory o jan, who said, "We desire justification foi policy." search of credib omic bomb on Hiroshima to use them, he >n of means from ends. Bennett said use of its contempt for life about the moral the Nazi campaign of exter- used out of con l people because they were text ,4means the THAT THE hose to oppose Japan ? in- cepted so readil nen and men ? to save the gotten, he said. debating clu le more physically capable to wage war than limself, Newman said "on average" women lave been found to be weaker, slower and nore sensitive than men to extremes of heat >r cold. HE ALSO cited the problem of pregnancy ind motherhood and the potential difficulty hey pose to combat readiness. "Let them serve, but let them serve by :hoiceNewman said. Women on the battlefield would also reduce a combat unit's effectiveness because of psychological factors, he said. The men's ability to fight would be impeded because they would instinctively protect their female counterparts, and the sight of women killed would decrease troop morale, Newman said. Cultural conditioning would also make if difficult for many men to follow orders given to them by women. NEWMAN SAID women in combat would increase casuauties oy spurring me YES! I W/ I A SUBSCI THE GA (M Name . * ' Address City jjgfSftS Enclose a check payable to "T i (1 year) and return to: Student f Columbia, SC 29208. pyJSx 11 ^^tt~ ? America's favorite old-fashioned ice cream ] 900 MAIN ST. 254-72; >u old fashioned values! turday 11-25-83 buy a Turkey one absolutely FREE! A delicious >wensen's. Must have coupon. lecturer says * ild have been lost in an invasion implies atmnt for life and of racism as well, hp saiH k we would have dropped an atomic bomb on nett said. ' nuclear weapons means there is not justificafor their use. Our policy of deterrence, by r use and by making this threat credible, is , Bennett said. ons are used to threaten the incineration of in3 deter a strike against other innocent people. RENCE to work, the threat must be credible. ^ tinue to arm until we have first-strike missile MX, he said. he use of nuclear weapons takes innocent peo1 all the people of the world are being held t said. if deterrence is corrupt because there is not . .i? ? . 1 ..... n..n|nn. ..... n... nit dtiuai use uuncai wcajjuua. dui ill le deterrence we are saying that we are willing said. he is often called an idealist when speaking corruption of deterrence. To him "idealist" is text. Today, "realism" used in the same conr end of life." morally corrupt policy of deterrence is acy is a comment on how far off track we have See "Lecture," page 5 b resolves enemy to fight more fiercely to avoid the embarrassment of defeat at the hand of women soldiers. Countering Newman's arguments, Weinberg said in the nuclear age, "when arp 4S minnfpc awav " the A civilian population is as much a target as the military and we should not keep women out of combat-support duties because they are "thrust in harm's way." In the next war everyone will be in danger, he said. A MEMBER of the audience recited an Andy Rooney column entitled, "The Draft," in which Rooney suggests alternatives to enliven the argument on the draft. "What about limiting the draft to people between the ages of 50 and 60?" Rooney asked. "A lot of us are in better shape now than we were when we were twenty and we're a lot ^ smarter, too. Now, some 50-year-olds might protest against registering for the draft, but wouldn't it be a relief to see someone other man siuaenis protesting ior a cnanger im TO GET KIPTION TO IMECOCH! ? State Zip he Gamecock" in the amount of $15.00 vledia Business Office, Box 85131, USC, J I IT I I ? 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