Word: draft
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Eighty-two per cent of the 150 undergraduates randomly surveyed yesterday said they are against reinstituting the draft, although 70 per cent said the nation's present volunteer armed forces would not be adequate in wartime...
Students for a Libertarian Society (SLS), the student wing of the Libertarian Party, will begin a nation-wide student anti-draft campaign in response to proposed congressional legislation to re-implement the draft...
...group plans to circulate petitions to over 2000 "college activists," Cosmides said, adding the petitions carry a pledge not to register for a renewed draft...
...claims the United States' global military presence demands a larger military complex than is necessary, Cosmides said. "The real justification, for renewing the draft" is "the maintenance of a global empire," she added...
Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy and Faculty adviser to SLS, said he opposes the draft because "it's a serious intervention on someone's rights to force him to spend two years doing something he would not choose to do," he said...