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Page 5 The Panther February 5, 1980 Students Speak Out Hell no! We won’t go! This was a very familiar chant among anti-war demonstrators during the turbulent Vietnam era. Mass demonstrations and near riots are not associated with this new decade, but the feelings and emotions of the sixties are slowly and rekindling. With the mideast in muchachos, war in this decade seems almost inevitable. Russia tactfully and defiantly invaded Afghanistan. And Iran’s tenacity of withholding American hostages has prompted the Western World to alert its military forces. America has a vital interest in the Russian Gulf and the oil that is exported from that region to necessitate its economy and maintain national security. Current in the eighties, President Carter is calling for reinstatement of the draft. If the draft is reimposed, women may not traditionally emain at home and kiss their men off to war. Several students in the Atlanta University Center were asked their opinions if they were drafted: BY JEROME GWINN Beverly Quarles BRENDA GATES Panther Staff Writers Artis Howard: “I am 100 per cent against the draft and I will not go under no circumstances, not even by force.” Howardisfrom Gaines ville, Florida and is a Business Management major at Morris Brown College. Paul Calhoun, a Clark College Business Management major said, “I feel it’s our country and we should stand up for it.” If I were sent to war, I would never shoot because of my religion.” Brain Carlton, a Clark College senior, and Broadcast Journalism Major said, “I feel that a war now would be very untimely and also very unnecessary. If we had of simply, returned the Shah to Iran, the possibility of war would not now exist.” Brain explains that if the draft is re-instated, blacks will no doubt be forced to serve on the front line in com bat. Which he says, will result to a great decline among the black population. “In this society blacks are always the first to be forced to join wars, however, we are the last in line to receive good jobs and the first to be hired. Brain concludes, “we are generally apart of a messed up system, where old men make war and young men are left to fight them.” Photo by Jerome Gwinn Sheri Williams, a Spelman College junior, and Natural Science major said, “I am not in favor of draft and I feel that if women are drafted they will probably not be allowed to choose the division, in which they would serve. Sheri explains that this will probably mean that women will have to fight in com bat. “During the Vietnam war a large number of black men were drastically decreased and I fear that the same thing would happen to black women, in the event of a war, in which women had to fight.” To draft or not to draft?