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heated By JENNIFER MULHALL and KAREN SIMON Staff Reporters The hour began quietly with two peo• ple standing at the Campus Peace Pole, but it ended with hundreds of people 4v congregating around the campus rock, 1 i tempers flaring, obsenities flying, and opinions clashing. Today's peace march was organized on Jan. 27, in Washington, D.C. Today f was an international day of mobilization against the war, said Rebecca Tally, junior, F&PA, and member of Students Against War. The march began at the Peace Poll and wove its way through the main campus. 1 Reactions to the march ranged from ^ indifference to threats against the marchers. "It's a free country, if you want to.JV march and protest, you can," said David g Caleris, sophmore, art. "I'm trying to b stay out of it." \ Mike Wynn, freshman, engineering, just finished four years in the army. "The only way we're going to get (Hussein) out K of Kuwait is to take him out," he said. % Wynn called today's protest a "crock" ' and said that the guys overseas do not need to see this kind of action. He says it would only lower troop morale. Candy Cvengros, junior, criminal justice, observed that "they're protesting, FRANK MEULLO/TKE JAMBAR yet they're carrying the flag and they March for peace: Members of 'Student s Against War' chose to leave the rock site on campus due to some heated opposi- See Protest, page 3 tion during Thursday morning's peace march on campus. aspects of military service military, the dangers of all- Ohio Army National Guard everyone. service has left civilian officials volunteer armed forces, and war Lt. Col. Charles M. Coleman "A careered military person in charge. "Twenty percent of as a last resort, were some of the focused oh the military as a pro• accepts the obligation of service these government officials don't subjects addressed at a forum on fession as well as detailed its which may very well lead to in• have any military experience. By Military Service and Its Alter• varied functions. He said volvement in an armed conflict the end of this decade the natives held yesterday in the military's contact or war," Stephan said. percentage will plummet Kilcawley Center's Chestnut with various social, economic Stephan cites the "disastrous toward zero." Room. and ethnic groups serves to in• and costly 8-year military ex• Stephan said that even as a The forum, which was spon• tegrate diverse groups of people. perience in Vietnam" as a reason military officer he did not and sored by Student Government Captain C. Alan Stephan, why the draft was abolished. still does not agree with the and Peace and Conflict Studies retiree of the U.S. Navy, shared Stephan said that there is a removal of the draft. "Every Project, included panelists who beliefs on the military based on racial imbalance which shows citizen of the U.S. owes the gave their insight on the current 30 years of experience which up in conflict and war-casualty government some form of na• •MB JERRY BREST military situation in the Gulf began after a mandatory draft. statistics. "There are con• tional service." siderably more minorities By JENNIFER T. KOLLAR based on the knowledge and ex• Although Stephan said he never Jerry Brest served in Vietnam Jambar Assistant News Editor perience that they've gained as intended to make the military wounded and killed." in 1966-1968 as a radio members of the U.S. armed his career, he stressed that a Stephan also believes that the telephone operator. He is now a The benefits of having a forces. military career is not for demise of a mandatory military See Forum, page 7 .THE JAMBAR .FEBRUARY 22. 1991 'Speak Out' entertains opinions on subject of war By THOMAS G. WELSH Jr. Shull criticized what he call• charge," said Shull, "albeit, rise of Saddam Hussein and the Staff Reporter or. ed inconsistencies in the foreign wearing the mantle of the Hunt's discussion of his Viet• military nature of the Iraqi policy of the Bush administra• United States." nam expereinces included government. tion. "In the days before August, According to Shull, the Arab descriptions of the "wholesale 1990," said Shull, "U.S. policy "The hopes of the '80s have world views Saddam, at this devastation, of once beautiful, "Saddam represents the only toward Sadaam Hussein was to legitimate power recognized by given way to the despair of the point, as "David thumbing his lush tropical landscapes." '90s," said political scientist, get along with him. He balanc• the Iraqi people, the army," said nose at the two cruel Goliaths of According to Hunt, the Gordon Shull at an open forum ed Lebanon, he balanced Syria, Ammar. Israel and the U.S." lessons of the previous war sponsored by the Youngstown and he was not a radical on the should undermine expectation of Coalition for Peace. issue for his violations of human Panelist Rick Hunt, a veteran, She discussed the coups which a successful air war. have disrupted Iraq's political The "Speak Out" was held rights." also criticized what he con• sidered to be inconsistencies in "For four weeks, Iraq has life from 1958 to 1980. Accor• Tuesday evening in Kilcawley Shull stated that, according to the policies of the Bush Ad• withstood the most intensive ding to Ammar, Saddam, who Center. The panel includ• the transcripts of the Iraqi ministration. "U.S. policy under aerial bombing of a country in became president of Iraq's ed Shull, Dr. Nawal Ammar, government, the administration Bush, before this crisis," said history," he said. "And yet Revolutionary Council in 1980, philosophy and religious studies, sent ambiguous messages to the Hunt, "was that the U.S. would sources reveal that we have intensified his control of the and Rick Hunt, a Vietnam Iraqi ambassador while Iraqi not be involved in border destroyed only one-tenth of government two years later with veteran. Noted African- troops were massing on the disputes." Iraq's air force. Iraq's military the war against Iran. American spokesman, Ron border of Kuwait. Daniels, was scheduled to attend "People are disgusted with liv• structure remains intact." The military support the Ira• but delivered a statement to be "No one can be comfortable ing in a world with such poten• "A protracted ground war qi government received from the read in his absence. when a tyrant controls two- tial," said Hunt, "but one in will cost tens of thousands of U.S. and other sources during thirds of the world's oil," said which we've had one year of American lives and hundreds of The event opened with a the conflict, said Ammar, may Shull. "At the same rime the ad• peace for every 400 years of thousands of Iraqi lives," said musical performance by George have saved Saddam's career. ministration's response to the war." Hunt. "If 250 million people Cashbaugh, a student at Car• crisis has been too big, too dinal Mooney High School who Hunt specifically discussed the cannot control a few hundred The audience actively par- demanding, and too deaf to the politicians, we deserve what we ticipated in a question and composed a peace-oriented song needs of the Palestinians." legacy of Vietnam. "The U.S. which was broadcast on local suffered 364,000 casualties as a get." answer period following the radio stations. According to Shull, 5,000 result of the Vietnam war," he Ammar discussed the political panel discussion. American troops would have The panel discussion was said. "3.2 million American lives" . _ 1 monitored by coalition member, provided a sufficient token force were directly effected by the Doug Fowler. Afterwards, the and would have allowed for war. Fifty percent of Vietnam floor was opened to members of more multi-lateral veterans* deaths are attributed to the audience who reflected a participation. suicide. One-third of prison in• variety of opinions on the subject "It is the American president mates are Vietnam veterans; of war. who is always leading the most of these are people of col- Learn to make an adorable muslin country rabbit with Irresistible droopy ears and country frocks! After class, before class, during class a student works up an appetite! The Pub Three easy craft classes will be held to complete your has snacks to hit the spot! Crunchy, bunny In time for Easter, Wednesday, March 6, Monday, warm, salty, or cheesy—whateveryou March 11 and Wednesday, March 13 crave, we've got it—soft pretzels, from 3-5pm. nacho chips with cheese or popcorn. 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One Palestinian-American As the march finished at the 'Sammy' dies of leukemia; student, Maher Ramahi, junior, rock, the protesters sang "Give Protest A&S, who participated in the Peace a Chance" and the crowd donor not found in time march said, "I am an American shouted "support our troops." By FRANK MELILLO and JENNIFER MULHALL and I don't like seeing our troops Then a shouting match ensued.