7 5 of 35 students for amnesty
Fifteen of 35 students interviewed on
city campus this week favored admitting
draft dodgers back into the U.S. with
total forgiveness.
Nine, however, opposed amnesty.
while eleven approved President Gerald
Ford's recent proposal to let deserters
work their way back into the United
Siates through public service programs.
"If Richard M. Nixon can get
amnesty, why shouldn't draft dod
gers?" asked junior Sal DiLeo. .
"I don't even think Ford's program is
necessary. These were innocent men
who refused to fight a worthless war
that took many innocent lives. At least
they were honest."
Harbender Singh, graduate student,
said he favored unconditional amnesty.
"Nc one should have to serve in the
armed forces of any government of any
country at any time. Deserters have
served humanity by not participating in
the barbaric butchery, of Asians," he
said.
Freshman Bill Jackson said, "Iff your
brother went to Viet Nam and got killed
and all of a sudden you see another guy
come back from Canada, happily
alivewhat would you. say? I say no
amnesty. It's not fair."
Others took more moderate stands.
" America is supposed to be a p'ace of
free choice," said Dick Rolofson, a
sophomore.
"A draft dodger's choice was to leave
his country. Now he has to put
something back into the country that he
took out. I agree, with Ford's plan. His
policy will do more for the country than
forcing them to serve prison terms,"
Rolofson said.
Freshman Micheal Stutte said, "I can
see them coming back to the United
States and working but no less. You
see, I was in the service myself. I could
have run but I didn't."
Asked his opinion of amnesty, John
Gliagher, a sophomore in the Agricul
ture College, said, "They shouldn't be
allowed back because they had a duty to'
fulfill and they didn't do it. There were
. non combative forces in which thoy
; could have enlisted, enabling tnem to
get out: of killing. '.
. "No, the reason they avoided the
draft was that they didn't want to put
their time into it," he said. "Deserters
expect to live in this country, they
expect to reap it's benefits, but when
they were called on to serve it they
copped out." .
Among the nine persons against
amnesty was freshman Dan Kemp, who
said, "The precedent it will set will be
detrimental to national defense in future
conflicts."
Sophomore Cindy 'Taylor said, "Right
now we've an extremely high rate of
unemployment and ali the veterans are
out of work as it is. If we allow the draft
dodgers home, they will compete with
the veterans for jobs. It is only fair to the
vets that we increase their chances of
employment rather than lessen them."
"I'm all in favor of amnesty." said
Carol Griffith, junior. "I was brought up
in the Church of the Brethren, a faith
that believes in non cooperation. So I
feel the draft dodgers have every right
to come back.
"The government has no right to
dictate what one should do. It needs to
accept conscious and religious affilia
tions as equally important to the belief
that fighting is right.
"We were taught to deal differently
with the war," the" home economics
major continued. "Therefore, the gover
nment should realize we are not all
brought up in favor of it."
"Draft dodgers are the real heroes of
the Viet Nam conflict," said Tim
Minnitt, sophomore. "Through their
peaceful rebellion, they brought more
attention to the idiocy of the situation."
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Nancy Ryan, an instructor at Staten Island
CommunityCollege will give a slide and music
presentation on her travels in the People's
Republic of China, today at 1 p.m. in the Sheldon
Art Gallery Auditorium. The presentation is free
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