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...butterfly events, newcomers Norma Barton and Kathleen McCloskey should head the Crimson charge. Kathy Davis and Terri Frick should give the squad needed depth in the individual medlies...
Several of the freshmen are Senior National AAU qualifiers, and Barton, Gildea, and McCloskey plan to use the season to prepare for June's Olympic Trials...
...Kathleen McCloskey and Dove Scherr, also freshmen, both qualified for the Easterns in the 1000-meter freestyle, clocking times of 10:48.59 and 11:36.6, first and second, respectively. McCloskey, with a second-place 1:02.32 in the 100 fly also made Easterns in that event...
...duty of every citizen to serve his country. Yet in the past the selective draft has singled out the poor, minorities, and people without conneetions for service. A nation's army should reflect all of its citizens. The McCloskey bill, HR 2206, would solve the problem of inadequate amounts of people by requiring some service, either civilian or military from everyone between the ages of 18 and 24. Universal conscription would also give employment to the sector where it is most needed--teenage and early twenties," also, young people could learn skills in the army which would be impossible...
...programs which McCloskey would have young people join--the Peace Corps, ACTION, etc.--are based on concepts of voluntarism. And herein lies the contradiction: what a recent Library of Congress study labels the "highly questionable" constitutionality under 13th amendment which prohibits non-military "involuntary servitude." Even within a framework of military or civilian choice such as the one McCloskey offers, young people have no choice but to serve. The estimated $20 billion cost of compulsory service seems better spent on ensuring freedom of choice while making the volunteer army a more attractive alternative. The fear of the draft has returned...