Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site panda.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!slf From: slf@panda.UUCP (Scott Fisher) Newsgroups: net.college,net.flame Subject: Re: "Universities need not verify draft status of students . . ." Message-ID: <147@panda.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 12:18:19 EST Article-I.D.: panda.147 Posted: Wed Dec 5 12:18:19 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 01:38:10 EST References: <577@pucc-k> Reply-To: slf@panda.UUCP (Scott Fisher) Distribution: net Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 27 Xref: watmath net.college:464 net.flame:7113 Summary: Why are men the only draft targets? In article <577@pucc-k> ag5@pucc-k (Henry C. Mensch) writes: ><> > > Lifted from the Chronicle of Higher Education 7 November 1984: > > Most male students will still have to certify to the government >that they have registered for the draft in order to receive aid, however. >... > Under a 1982 law -- often referred to as the Solomon amendment, >after its chief sponsor, Rep. Gerald B. H. Solomon, Republican of New >York -- young men are not eligible to receive federal aid unless they >have signed up for the military draft. > > Originally, the Education Department planned to ask financial-aid >officers to begin providing proof in the 1985-1986 academic year that they >disbursed aid only to young men who had signed up with Selective Service. >This year, students must simply sign a form certifying that they have >registered or that they are exempt from registering because, for instance, >they are female or too old. ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ |||||| Why are men the only ones to be drafted if there is a war? I'm not suggesting the women go into combat (unless they want to) but there are other jobs where they can serve their country too. Such jobs might include (but not restricted too ) comunications, electronics, and any desk jobs. If healthy young men can be made to help the fight for their country why not women? No flames about being sexist please, I personaly wouldn't mind seing them do any job currently being done by a man.