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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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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.
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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.
