Broward Community College - Silver Sands Yearbook (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

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, Y' 5'--. 'rf .Nga -..J '91 Siigxwl f T . .Vg Q ., , gf-2 955 ' 'vi wi'-gp I I .TI-IGSE WH 2 The Bible tells us that for every1 under the sun there is a time am season. Itis 1968 and Summer! here. Students scurry across 1 campus. It is a time to learn. A For young men of draft age,.i also a time to wait, watch and wonu The total numher of male studfl at Broward Iunior College is 1,3- 836 are between the ages 18-22, prime draft age. More than 251 veterans. The remaining 30 are C 22 years old, some subject to dr call, some not. The Armed Forces do not dk men. Staff Sgt. Douglas Coodeg! the local Army recmiting office, S that most people are not award: this, Each month the armed servit submit a request for the amounti men they need. The Selective I vice processes these needs and ci the necessary drafting. To obtain a student deferment! young man must offer proof thabf is a full time student, earning that quired credits each year. This ddl ment increases his draft eligibilityf 36 years old. , Those with mental, physicalli moral defects are given a 4F clasi cation. IQ Anyone who refuses to submisf induction is reported to the U. Sal torney Ceneral's office. This is gl sidered a federal offense and is E1 ishahle hy law. A person who refif to sign the Oath of Allegiancell ceives the same penalty, usual minimum sentence of five year f V, 1. lr tl 1 V1 3 1 T! 1 1

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the greatest amount of work goes on long before the curtains part on open- ing night. Endless rehearsals. hour upon tiresome hour of set design, con- struction, costume making. fitting, prop gathering, line learning and back breaking. The players who come for- ward for the curtain call at the end of the play are only a part of the S.,-I il. +- team effort that goes into putting on a successful production. Every single part of play produc- tion will be accentuated in the work- shop - no one segment will receive more attention than another. At one point in the movie Valley of the Dolls the main character stares at the young starlet and says in his Q V X?-er f '! ' f M K Tu M V . -I f. ' i best big brother voice. It's rough. This may be the cliche to end all cliches hut there is a ring of truth to it. Play production is a rough game. But any actor who has just come out for his second curtain call or any set designer who has received plaudits for his work can tell you that it's well worth the effort. 23 ii ls

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VAIT WATCH AN nr a maximum of twenty years. :casionally, there is someone who 'S the service as a conscientious rtor. This means that it is against eligious belief to kill. He must, ever, still serve his country. These are given non-combatant duties. ' do not carry arms. Many of serve on the front lines, as cs. le war in Vietnam has opened gates of student unrest. Some 'rustrated by their political help- ess. Others wish they could ge the course of the war. anuel Gutierrez, a BJC student, rs from Cuba. As a permanent ent in the United States, he is ect to draft. think the war's a fake, he ed out. The ultimate purpose of should be to win, not to sit it All we do is retaliate. They i, we shoot hack, he said. olitieians run the war. How can e in Washington know what's on in Vietnam well enough to he war from their desks? They're ar away. Bob Hope knows more the war than they do. esident johnson and his ad- : are not letting the military the ball. This is bad. I were drafted today and sent etnam, I'd try to join the 'Black ' as soon as I could. They know to fight communism, he said. lhe United States has to start lng to win. It's the only way at the enemy. We must get them now, before they become any stronger. The communists are playing for keeps. They are out to bury us. Wie must bury them first. Besides 'rightf we need 'might', Gutierrez said. I feel it is imperative that we de- clare war. If we show courage by doing this, other countries will follow suit. XVhat we have is a 'now' prob- lem. VVhy not get is over with now? XVe should also stop giving aid to Communist countries. XVe give them money to buy wheat. They use the money to buy guns, which they ship to North Vietnam to be used against us. Isn't that crazy? XVithont aid these same countries will crum- ble, he said. Democracy is a wonderful system, but it doesn't work. It allows men like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown the freedom to protest. By al- lowing them to speak np, they are able to gain support for their ideas. YVhy do we let them get away with this? Isn't that stretching freedom a little too far? he asked. David Rossi, 19, has a dark, thick mustache and a short beard. His blue eyes illuminate his face. He wants to be a writer some day. He feels en- tirely different from Cuitierrez. XVhat will he do if he's drafted? I'll refuse to serve. I won't let any- one or anything infringe upon my right to think for myself. By submit- ting to induction, I would be allow- ing the military to control my life, he said. XVill going to jail he a better alter- native? No, it would he just as bad. I'd leave this country before l'd let that happen. I could take up citizenship in Canada. No matter what the cost. I must retain my iden- tity and my integrity, Rossi said. He doesnit consider himself to be one who waits. VVaiting implies a state of doing nothing, he said. In- stead, he prefers to be thought of as one who anticipates with positive plans. I watch and wonder but I do so without worry or fear, he said. Does he feel any sympathy for the boys fighting and dying in Vietnam? No, when they volunteered to serve this country, they surrendered them- selves to an ideal, Rossi said. XVhat about our foreign policy? Aggression should be rechanneled to intellectual force, instead of a brute force, he said. Before our foreign policy can be resolved, there will have to be a fundamental change in our domestic policy. There is too much emphasis on individual wealth in this country. Dis- trihution of this money in a socialistic type arrangement would work out better for all, he said. Communism is too dictatorial and dogmatic. A person would be equally as enslaved in that system as he is under our present capitalistie onef' Rossi said. Iill go,if they take me, but even Cod wouldn't stay there CYietnaml for two years, said Benjamin Clark, winner of a National Forensic award. The eighteen year old champion pre- 25