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o Page 6 Daily Nebraskan Tuesday, March 16, 1982 Director :Registration without prosecution likely By Jim VVcgman Altliough Ronald Reagan's grace period is over (Jan. 7 to March 1), there is still time to register with the Selec tive Service without fear of prosecution, said Nebraska's Selective Service Director Malcolm Hardin. Hardin advises and represents Gov. Charles Thone on Selective Service legislative matters and supervises the training of National Guard Selective Service personnel. In the case of a national emergency, he would be responsible for activating the draft in Nebraska. "It's my belief for at least the next 30-day period they would not be prosecuted," Hardin said of those males who have failed to register for the draft. The penalty for not registering is either five years in prison or a $10,000 fine. Males born between Jan. 1, I960 and Jan. 31 , 1964 are required to register for the draft. They must do so 30 days before or after their 18th birthday. The National Selective Service has publicly declared that it "will carry out a program of full compliance with the registration law," according to the National Selective Service in Washington. "This will include action against persons whose names were referred by the Selective Service to the Department of Justice prior to Jan. 8 in the event those persons failed to register during the grace period," the Washington office said. Before the Justice Department can start prosecuting individuals, however, lists of those registered during the grace period must be compared with lists of known vio lators, Hardin said. Small-town post offices send in their registration cards once a month while larger post offices send them every two weeks. Thus, it will take some time to find out who registered and who didn't. Selective Service computers have different lists. A "known violators list" includes names given by relatives or acquaintances, and those who went public in their refusal to register, said Hardin. There also is a list of known violators according to so cial security numbers, Hardin said. The use of such a list for criminal prosecution, however, is being debated in the federal courts and may not be resolved for at least another year, he said. Hardin said that flagrant violators those persons who have said. 'I didn't register, and what are you going to do about it' - would probably be the first prosecuted. It hasn't been revealed whether this will be done on a ran dom or full-force basis, he said. The rest of the violators arc mostly young men who never got around to registering, or because of a lack of publicity, forgot about it, said Hardin. "Let's be realistic, the average 18-ycar-old is thinking about his next date, the next party, the next football game. The Selective Service probably is not the most im portant thing in the world to an 18-ycar-old," Hardin said. He encourages those who haven't done so to register. It is unlikely that anyone in this latter group would be pros ecuted in the next 60 to 90 days, Hardin said. "History has shown us that eventually about 97 to 99 percent will register," he said. During an eight-month period before the grace period, 90 percent of those required to register in Nebraska did so. In California that percentage during the same period was only about 55 to 60 percent, Hardin said. "It's not a victimless crime. If 10 percent don't register it increases the chance for those that registered to get picked in a draft," said Hardin. The Selective Service has been in a "standby" position from the start of the All-Volunteer Force in 1973 until late July and August 1980. 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" Dollar for dollar, The Daily Nebraskan may be the most effective media purchase you've made. Tl Dailv 1 University of Nebraska-Lincoln nebraska union o room 34 o Ph. 472-2589 Shorts The Student Y and Woman's Resource Center are sponsoring "Women in Law Lnforcement" Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. in the Nebras ka Union 117. The Rodeo Club will meet Wednesday at 7 pm. in the Fast Union. Room number will be posted. Dr. Norman Cromwell, from the NU Medical Cen ter, will speak about how to avoid cancer and other re cent developments in re search linking cancer and the environment at 3 pjn. Wednesday in the Regency Suite of the Nebraska Un ion. The Latin American Soli darity Committee will meet Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union. Room number will be posted. Flutist William Bennett and pianist Clifford Benson will perform at 8 p.m. Wed nesday in Kimball Recital Hall. X Nearly 40 Canadian and American scholars will make presentations during "Inter sections: Studies in the Canadian and American Great Plains," Thursday through Saturday at the Ne braska Center for Continu ing Fducation. A fourth workshop on videodisc design and pro duction will be March 21 through 25, sponsored by the Nebraska Videodisc De signProduction Group. UNL students for Life will sponsor a workshop Saturday on Fast Campus. The workshop will include films, discussions and two meals. Registration forms for the event can be picked up in the Nebraska Union 200.