friday, february 8, 1980
daily nebraskan
page 3
Two Nebraskans for Peace
criticize 'war for business
By Diane Andersen
Two members of Nebraskans for
Peace Wednesday criticized drafting
men and women to fight in a war to
support the U.S. military and American
business conglomerates.
Sally Cottonwood, UNL English in.
structor, said she is an "unconditional
advocate of nonviolence" and said that
if President Carter recommends rein
stating registration for the draft Friday,'
she hopes he will include women.'
Cottonwood and Betty Olson, Nebra
skans for Peace coordinator, spoke on
"Women and the draft" Wednesday as
part of the Women Speak series sponsor
ed by the Student Y.
They encouraged students who are
against war to establish a conscientious
objector status now, so they can defend
their beliefs to a draft board if the need
arises.
Olson said conscientious objector
cards are available at many Lincoln
churches for this purpose, Nebraskans
for Peace intends to create a file of the
cards, Olson said.
After polling some Lincolnites by
phone, Cottonwood said the "unofficial
consensus' was that women should not
be drafted before the Equal Rights Am
endment is passed. Cottonwood said she
agrees with that position because no one
should be "taxed without representa
tion," But Cottonwood said she opposes
the draft altogether because "no one
should fight to maintain the interests of
a country that oppresses them "
Cottonwood said inflation is a result
of the Vietnam War, for which the
United States is still paying its dues,
"We have to decide whether we
should walk to work or march to war "
Cottonwood said, adding that Ameri
cans can't continue to depend on
foreign oil, - -
Women, she said, should reject the
"worst aspects of men's society-profit,
aggression, destruction and death"
She said she deplores the efforts of
military recruiters to take advantage of
high school students through magazine
ads such as, "Some of our best men are
women" and "Enroll in America's larg
est government training program."
Olson said young people are vulner
able to military propaganda because
they are not well-versed on the issues of
international politics.
Much of the current pro-draft move
ment, Olson said, relies on reports about
the Pentagon's "Nifty Nugget" program
of 1978. The Pentagon, she said, design
ed a simulated mobilization of U.S.
forces in the event of a war between
NATO Europe and the Warsaw Pact "
nations that showed the United States
would have manpower problems if a
long conventional war developed .
The manpower problem would apply
to any nation, she said, and yet this
finding has been used to support a draft
in the United States.
Olson said conscientious objectors
should be firm in their stances and build
a record of their philosophies because
there will be tremendous pressure
against them if the draft is reinstated.
She suggested anti-war letters should
be written to legislators, since Congress
will have to approve any plan President
Carter proposes, Cottonwood said that
in this election year '"we should not
vote for presidents who make war,"
Counter-recruitment propaganda and
support and unity among conscientious
objectors is the only way to stop
another war, Cottonwood said,
Olson said conscientious objectors
"should be prepared to go to jail" for
their beliefs,
Cottonwood said it may "draw away
America's passion for war" if women
are killed in combat. A Vietnam veteran
in the audience said it was hard for him
to see anyone killed, but that he would
have been even more frightened if
women had been in his unit,
. ,
Then a World War II veteran asked,
"Have you ever seen anybody fit for
war?"
"No," replied the Vietnam veteran,
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By Jean Lundak
Students who have worked with UNL
co-op training programs
Donald tdwards, provides two noncon
secutive semesters and three summers of
on-the-job training.
Electrical, mechanical, chemical, civil
and aeronautic engineering majors and
computer science majors with junior stand,
ing may participate in the program, Witte
said.
"This is a voluntary program. Approxi
mately 4 percent of the students in the
engineering fields are involved with co-op
training programs each year," Witte said.
"Not only does the student gain
experience, but he earns a total of about
because their engineers become more valu
able to them since they don't waste time
doing routine work "Witte said.
When the student graduates, employers
look at him closely because he has devoted
two semesters to training and he has five
periods of work experience, Witte said.
Never tested adequately
"Since 1971 the co-op program has
never been tested adequately in the job
market," Witte said. The real test will be if
we have a bad job market-then the coop
students will be at a substantial
advantage,"
co-op graduates receive an average
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periods," he said. "This makes the student graduates without the experience, he said,
self-financing. He can pay for his own "Students who have worked with a
schooling. ' coop are highly motivated," Witte said.
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The coop training programs involve 25 h t0 miss campus life, he said, but after
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