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sunshine super- SDS Forms Anti-Draft Union to halt system • Revisited or, Even the Best of Us Have Our Off Days A subsidiary now being organized by the MSU chapter of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) plans to "bring the system to a grinding halt by inter­ fering as efficiently as possible with the formal functioning of the Selective Service System. Michigan State News Friday, January 13, 1967 EAST LANSING-Students for a Democratic Society at Michigan State Uni­ versity will vote Wednesday to decide whether to attempt to form an *'anti draft union." Detroit Free Press Saturday, January 14, 1967 What a scoop! State News ace executive reporter Andy Mollison in By MICHAEL KINDMAN a copyrighted front page story dated Friday, January 13, announced to the and BRADFORD A. LANG world that MSU-SDS was going to begin blocking buses, breaking up draft- exemption tests and harassing re­ cruiters, the object being to "halt" the Selective Service System, The leftists were on the march again, he move people to leave the campus and seemed to say, and the local news organize a movement of resistances media gobbled up the juicy story the draft and the war, with its base hungrily. in the poor, working class and mid­ But holdl What's this? According to dle class communities. the Detroit Free Press, in an article "6. SDS therefore encourages all that appeared the next day, the local young men to resist the draft. Since SDS chapter hadn't even voted on the individual protest cannot develop the anti-draft union proposal yet; a vote movement needed to end the draft of actually organizing the local un­ THE PLOT, ALAS, THICKENS was not scheduled until four days and the war, SDS adopts the following ions up to the individual SDS chapters. • later. program: The National then passed along the The long, green mimeograph sten­ The questions: How did Mollison "SDS members will organize unions text of the resolution to the regional cil was hanging there on the door, find out what the SDS decision would of draft resisters. The members of offices for distribution to chapters. begging to be read by some casual be? Did he poll the members? Did he these unions will be united by the The locals will only be directly in­ passerby. And who should happen consult the ouija board? Does he have common principle that under no cir­ formed this week, through SDS' in­ along but a friend of Laimdota's a time machine? Or did he use some cumstances will they allow them­ ternal newsletter, New Left Notes. housemate, who, naturally, stopped other method of determining what selves to be drafted. The local un­ The National Office, of course, and read the harmless-looking mis­ SDS would do even before SDS found ions will reach out to all young men planned to publicize the anti-draft sive. The housemate in question hap­ out about it? of draft age by organizing in the high union formation fully, but only when pens to be THE PAPER'S own lov­ The not-so-obvious answers to schools, universities and communi­ nationwide coordination had been de­ able Char Jolles, and the friend these and other curious questions ties. Courses of action will include veloped. That process is not due to none other than Andrew Mollison, follow, as your friendly neighborhood (a) direct action during pre-induc- be completed for a month or more, ace. underground newspaper presents: tion physicals and at the time of SDS' assistant national secretary said From here on in, the plot should induction, (b) anti-draft and anti­ Saturday. be fairly obvious to anyone who has war education among potential induc­ THE MYSTERY OF THE MISINFORMED That's as far as the formal organ­ read both the draft resolution (above) tees and their families, (c) demon­ ization of the unions had gone when, and the State News story. The dis­ MOLLISON, or How Andy Helped Or­ strations centering on draft boards ganize the Anti-Draft Union last Wednesday, January 11, George crepancies are there for all to see. and recruiting stations, (d) encourag­ Fish, a member of MSU-SDS, wrote But there's a moral to this tale, and "1. SDS reaffirms its opposition ing young men already in the military down his own private proposal for everybody knows you can't give a to the U.S. government's immoral, to oppose the war, and (e) circulating the implementation of the national moral without telling a complete tale. illegal and genocidal war against the petitions stating that the signer will resolution. He then gave it to Laim- So Vietnamese people in their struggle refuse to serve in Vietnam or submit dota Mazzarins, chapter secretary, for self-determination. to conscription in any form. National who typed up a mimeograph stencil FOR LACK OF A BETTER CHAP­ SDS will coordinate the unions at a and tacked it up on the outside of " 2. SDS reaffirms its opposition to national and regional level. TER TITLE: The Plot Thickens conscription in any form. her apartment door, supposedly to be Further "3. SDS recognizes that the draft "National SDS will assist all ef­ picked up by someone and run off • is intimately connected with require­ forts to organize, within the armed for the chapter meeting to be held 'Andy copied down some groovy ments of the economic system and for­ forces, resistance to U.S.S. foreign that night. It was not run off in time phrases from George's rather mili­ eign policy of the U.S. policy. Toward this end we will pub­ for the meeting, but was left on the tant proposal (like "bring the sys­ "4. SDS opposes and will organize lish a periodical newsletter and other door, to be run off and discussed tem to a grinding halt," and "the against any attempt to legitimatize the leterature directed at those already in later. Instead of attaching George's union cannot tolerate slackers") and Selective Service System by reforms. the armed forces." name to the manuscript, however, —after consulting the Universal Mil­ The proposals for a lottery or for The above resolution was passed by Laimdota signed it simply MSU-SDS, itary Training and Service Act, Col. compulsory national service would not the SDS National Council, meeting in thinking it was a general organization­ Arthur Holmes, and back issues of change the purpose of the draft—to Berkeley, California, on December al proposal. It was undoubtedly a for­ his own newspaper, and apparently abduct young men to fight in ag­ 28. The local chapters were called givable mistake — considering the after satisfying himself by talking to gressive wars. upon—but not ordered—to organize rather loose nature of most SDS some SDS people of the correctness projects—but the die had neverthe­ "5# SDS believes that a sense of local unions. Following its usual pro­ urgency must be developed that will cedure, National SDS left the question less been cast. EDITORIALS: Need a solution to any problem, big or small, up or down? Ask Suzy Creamcheese, THE PAPER'S handy-dandy, knowitall ad­ vise columnist, pictured here in all her wisdom. Exchanges are likely to be pub­ lished, unless specified confidential. All problems will be answered. Write to Suzy care of THE PAPER, Box 367, East Lansing - Editor * pals will desert you, but your true DEAR SUZY, .... friends will only gain respect. (First roomie): "I think hippie guys are cute " DLAK bUZ,Y, (Second roomie): "Yeah, but you Why do the young people of today don't find many guys around with resent so strongly the keepers of The foregoing open space could have been filled by your attempt t< big hips." Believe it or not, my the peace protectors of the weak, capture in a work of fiction exactly the spirit of adventure, goodheart- rogommPate actually came out with issuers^ uckets, -^suppressors edness and void-tumbling which is THE PAPER and its cuddly, affec­ tionate underground. Perhaps, in fact, the space WAS so filled. ' * M H. present, strong-willed, hard-work- If so, why not submit your work of fiction (which isn't exactly a short DFAR M H ' in§ policemen. You see, I am a police story, but resembles one, except that it seems too real in the here-and- Tell your roommate that straight administration major. Besides this, now to be merely that) to us for publication, as we wish to begin pub­ guys usually give the edge to square I am an R.A. You can easily see lishing such things. ffirls the image problems this presents. The publication of your article could be the first in a long series of g * _^___—^——— Rarely can I smash up a late night beer startling revelations—highlighted by increased publication of poetry, more nPAR CP7V party or insurrection without frequent art and photo features, stranger and funnier kinds of articles, I am writing to get a problem off being called a "cop" or "fuzz." And efforts at self-expression and other kinds of media-expanders trans­ my chest (if only I could.) You see, lately the guys have been razzing latable onto the printed patina. my problem IS my chest. It could be me about my orange not helmet, THE PAPER plans (quite apart from OUR intentions) to become a said, to put it delicately, that it is a my Buster Brown belt, and my billy laboratory of media-manglers meant to mystify, madden, tickle, taunt, bit too overdeveloped in obvious club. I don t care what anyone says, tease or tear at the forms of expression we know to be restrictive and places.

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