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From: slf@panda.UUCP (Scott Fisher)
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Subject: Re: "Universities need not verify draft status of students . . ."
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Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 12:18:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  5 12:18:19 1984
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Summary: Why are men the only draft targets?

In article <577@pucc-k> ag5@pucc-k (Henry C. Mensch) writes:
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>	Lifted from the Chronicle of Higher Education 7 November 1984:
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>	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. ^^^^^^
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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.