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THE SALEMITE
Monday, October 2, i? ^
Students Ponder Question;
Most Favor Dorm Visitation
McGovern States Priorities,
Discusses Amnesty, Veteran
(
The Salemite wishes to make
every student more aware of the
petition for intervisitation on cam
pus, which is before the review
boards for approval or disapproval.
This week we asked various stu
dents about their views on allow
ing males in the dormitory bed
rooms. We hope that everyone will
think about our question: “How do
you feel about Intervisitation?”
Shirley Brobst
.—“It is dumb!”
Dee Wilson
—“I’m not really for it. I think a
woman’s home should be private.”
Mary Denton Roberts
—“I want it. After going to Chapel
Hill this summer, I’m for it com
pletely.”
Beth Horsley
—“I’m definitely for it because we
need a place where we can enter
tain boys in a more comfortable
atmosphere. The date rooms
aren’t private and there aren’t any
televisions or facilities for music.”
Beth Pollard
—“I’m for inter-visitation because I
think we need a place where girls
can entertain boys comfortably.”
Joan Spangler
—“I’m not really sure what I be
lieve yet.”
Janet Williams
—“I think it’s fine on weekends
only, from noon until dorm clos
ing.”
Jane Lockwood
—“I’m definitely against it. If I had
wanted boys in the room, I would
have gone to a coed school!”
Cindy Patterson
—“I’m not for it. It’s just too incon
venient for roommates arid de
stroys all the privacy we have.”
Ann Hesmer
—“I’m for it because there is no
place here to bring a date.”
Cathy Tucker
—“I’m definitely think we should
have it.”
Mary Sue Peeler
—“I’m for it because we need a
place where you can be alone with
a boy.”
Chris Kuenzel
—“There should be inter-visitation
because there is no place on camp
us to take a date when you want
to be alone.”
Susan York
—“I’m for it on weekends only.”
Ann Maxwell
—“I am for it because we need a
place to entertain. I feel it should
be on weekends only, though.”
“I believe that only the actual set
ting of a date for withdrawal and
the end of the bombing will
bring our forces and our prisoners
home.”
Senator McGovern, upon his in
auguration as President, would im
mediately stop all bombing of Indo
china with no pre-conditions, wit i
draw all American ground forces
within 90 days with no preconditions,
and all military assistance to the
Thieu regime would be immediately
terminated with no preconditions.
These three steps would end all
U. S. participation in the Vietnam
war.
Simultaneously, vigorous diplomat
ic efforts would be undertaken to
achieve the release of U. S. prisoners
of war, and an accounting for U. S.
missing in action (MIA’s), some
thing that the Senator is confident
would be achieved as a result of the
implementation of the three steps
for termination of U. S. involvement.
The Senator has promised to make
a direct, personal appeal for the re
lease of our POW’s if that w'ould be
helpful.
Upon return of U. S. prisoners of
war and a satisfactory accounting of
MIA’s — a process which the Sen
ator is convinced could be completed
in the same time of 90 days —Sen
ator McGovern would also close
U S. bases in Thailand and remove
all U. S. Naval forces from waters
adjacent to Southeast Asia.
Senator McGovern is equally con
cerned about all the young men and
women whose lives have been dis
rupted by the war in Vietnam; those
w'ho served and those who died;
those who were injured; those who
were addicted to hard drugs while
Excerpt Lists Nixon Deeds
EXCERPTS FROM: “PROGRESS
IN ENDING THE DRAFT AND
ACHIEVING THE ALL-VOLUN
TEER FORCE”
A REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT
October 17, 1968
“I say it’s time we took a new
look at the draft—at the question of
permanent conscription in a free
society. If we find we can reason
ably meet our peochtime manpower
needs by other means—then we
should prepare for the day when the
draft can be phased out of American
life.”
—Richard Nixon
DRAFT REFORM
March, 1969—Gates Commision
The President appointed a dis
tinguished commision on the all
volunteer force under the Chairman
ship of the Honorable Thomas S.
Gates, Jr. former Secretary of De
fense.
The Commission’s charter was “to
develop a comprehensive plan for
eliminating conscription and moving
toward an all-volunteer force.”
Selective Service Act
The President signed into law a
bill which reduced the period of
draft vulnerability from seven years
to one year, the latter being the
calendar year following a young
man’s 19th birthday.
The bill further provided that
draft selections would be made by
random, rather than by birth date.
Thus young men were enabled to
the drawing of sequence numbers at
make career and other life plans
while being subject to a more equit
able draft system for one year only.
April, 1970—Executive Order
The President issued an Executive
Order phasing out occupational and
paternity deferments, thereby fur
ther reducing the inequities of the
draft system.
September, 1971—Legislation
The Draft Extension and Military
Pay Bill was enacted and contained
key draft reforms.
Principally these reforms elimi
nated undergraduate student defer
ments for those entering college in
the Fall of 1971 and thereafter, and
established a uniform national call
to insure the men throughout the
country with the same sequence
numbers would be equally liable to
induction.
The substantial increase in mili
tary entry pay was crucial in at
tracting additional true volunteers.
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Draft Calls
The most direct evidence of pro
gress toward ending reliance on the
draft is, of course, the sharpe decline
in draft calls which has occurred
during the years of this Adminis
tration.
Draft calls have been reduced
from 299,000 in 1968, to 50,000 in
1971—one/sixth of the previous
level I
Enlistments
Despite this sharp drop in draft
calls in FY 1972, the proportion of
true volunteers—that is who enlist
out of their own free will, and not
because of pressure from the draft
—has increased from 59% to 75% in
the last year alone.
This is evidence of real progress
toward the goal of replacing enlist
ments previously obtained by pres
sure of the draft with true volun
teers in a no-draft environment.
During July to December 1970, en
listments for ground combat aver-
During July to December, 1971,
aged only 227 per month:
ground combat enlistments reached
a one-month high of 3,900 and aver
aged 3,000 a month. It continued at
this level in 1972.
This spectacular rise was achieved
by oflering the choice of overseas
locations and unit assignments to
combat arms enlistees, by advertis
ing these new options, and by ag
gressively recruiting candidates for
them.
FROM REFORM TO CHANGE
June 28, 1972—No Draftees To Viet
nam
The President announced that no
more draftees would be sent to Viet
nam.
August 28, 1972—End of the Draft
The experience of the past three
years . . . seems to show that suf
ficient numbers of vouuteers can be
attracted to the armed forces to
meet peacetime manpower needs,
and that ending all dependence on
the draft will be consistent with
maintaining the force-level and de
gree of readiness necessary to meet
our vital long-term national security
needs.
“We will not longer need con
scription to fill manpower require
ments after July, 1973.”
“In reaching this goal, we will
finally—28 years after the end of
World War II—have done what I
said in 1968, that we should do-
that we should ‘show our commit
ment to freedom by preparing to
assure our young people theirs.’”
—President Nixon
there; those who fled to other coun
tries.
Therefore, building on the GI Bill,
the Senator has proposed an c.xpand-
ed Bill, more responsive to present
needs. The Senator believes that we
crease substantially the education
must undertake new efforts to deal
fairly with those who have served
their country.
Senator McGovern proposes to in-
and training benefits accorded Viet
nam Era veterans. The meager indi
vidual allowances now granted vet
erans in school amount to only one-
third of the level of actual aid given
veterans of World War II. Senator
McGovern advocate's monthly allow
ances ranging from $214 for single
veterans to $414 for a veteran with
three dependents. The Senator has
also called for full payment of tui
tion up to $3,000 annually. Finally,
he would provide equal treatment in
terms of benefits for those in voca
tional, cooperative and regular aca
demic schools.
Senator McGovern also proposes
meeting the drug abuse/n,e
health problem of returning vete
head on, and, at the same time''
viding useful, rewarding emplow
for veterans. Legislation he'
proposed would immediately app.
riate sufficient funds for additii
drug treatment facilities, perj
and programs. With the adeJ
funding proposed by Senl
McGovern, the Veterans AdiJ
tration would hire sorely ne]
psychologists and psychiatrists]
well as young veterans, as theraj
and recreation aides. The Senai
proposal also calls for an “outre]
program to send young veterans]
the community to seek those of |
peers in need of counseling or]
Amnesty. We want our menli]
but we must care for them J
they return. i
And we want all our men h
both those who fought and tl
who did not.
The conflict in Vietnam has
duced more bitterness and ha
than any other national experii
since the Civil War. When it fii
ends, our most urgent task willM
reconcile the differences betweel
and heal the wounds left behii
In this spirit, when the war j
amnesty should be granted to I
would not include those who art
have refused to participate in
Vietnam tragedy. This, of cot.
who, on the grounds of conscit
der the jurisdiction of military
Senator McGovern believes i
must be taken under consider!
by the military court system
case-by-case basis. We should fo
the wise precedents set by Presi'
Lincoln’s extension of amnest;
those who were actually figl
against their country in 1862
the Civil War w'as still going on,
by President Andrew- Johnson’s
affirmation of that policy in
Agnew Rallies Voters,
Faces Fans, Oppositio
Attending an Agnew Rally may
not be everyone’s idea of excitement
but the rally sponsored by Winston-
Salem Republicans last Friday was
an enlightening political experience.
The terrace of the Wachovia Build
ing was the scene of action and had
been decorated with red, white, and
blue streamers, a big American flag,
and of course a “Welcome Agnew”
banner. The appropriate dignitaries
were present including the candi
dates for state office, and everyone
was introduced—the office seekers
making speeches. The Wake Forest
band entertained while Nixonettes
passed out hats, bumper stickers,
and pins. In fact, the atmosphere re
minded one of the old-fashioned
American election days where all
the town turned out in a festive
mood for the big event. Out of the
5,000 who attended both the fervent
and the disgusted were present. A
group of dissenters passed out strips
of barbed wire with the message
South Vietnam is now one big ref
ugee camp” wrapped securely around
them. Police officers halted the
tribution of these items because
were constituted of metal. Theg
also passed out statements of
feelings towards the Nixon goi^- ^
ment. Two boys with painted
faces carried a banner that disp
a caricature of Nixon, giving
peace symbol. The protestors
not allowed to proceed beyond a
tain point, although it was a to
non-violent demonstration.
Agnew was forty-five minutes'
but no one seemed to care a>
band played on and the sun sc
steadily. Security was tight
sheriffs and police stationed on
tops, in windows of high bull
and with Secret Service men d
ling in the crowd. After his sp
Agnew moved forward to
hands with the crowd and one
lemite managed to hustle her
forward to grasp the Vice- '
dent’s hand. With a roar of siS
Agnew departed and the I
persed leaving behind the reni ^
of another election rally.