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...said. “Maybe we need to just look at the sons and daughters of those in decision-making power.” While neither Decker nor the Cambridge City Council intends to pass such a resolution anytime soon, most politicians and activists in Massachusetts agree that Rangel??s proposal is a bad idea. Recovering from his “botched joke” over the intelligence level of troops stationed in Iraq, Senator John F. Kerry discounted the idea of reinstating the draft and had high praise for the volunteer armed forces. “[Senator...
...poor people are to be sent abroad and killed, everybody should have to—even Harvard students. Rangel claims he was surprised by how little direct opposition his proposal met with. What he didn’t understand is that we still don’t get it. Rangel??s idea of a universal draft is interesting and vaguely threatening, but most of us still have to jump on an elliptical for twenty minutes in order to break a sweat...
...question-and-answer session after the speech, one student brought up a perennial attack on Rangel??s plan—that for many of his poorer friends, going into the military was the best option...
Liberal students on campus received Rangel??s proposal with mixed reviews...
Whether or not the campus anti-war factions support the draft, one thing is clear—Rangel??s positions will bring the war debate back to the forefront of students’ minds...