University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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Transition The Courier-journal, Student Government President Mark Metcalf said that he thought most UK students felt positive toward registration for the draft. Pepper disagreed with Metcalf, saying that students just hadn't realized the full implications of such a measure. I guess they (the students) don't realize it's not going to stop at registration, said Pepper. While the members of L-CARD were sincere about their proposals for opposing registration, they were just as determined that their opposition would be a peaceful one—more organized than the marches of Jjthe '60s. I don't see that we're the seedlings of the flower children, said Pepper. While the prospects of draft and war are unfamiliar for most students, Don Pratt remembered a more violent time. Pratt, a former UK student, was involved with the I anti-draft, anti-war movement of the '60s. He spent 20 months in prison because of his resistance to the draft. A continuing dedication to personal freedom led him to become an active member of L-CARD. Pratt said that, although their purpose is the same, students in opposition to the draft have not reached continued on page While a supporter of the draft read the KERNEL in the background, Steve Hirscb, a junior arts and sciences major, advocates L- CARDS plans to rally against registration for the draft. Marching in front of the Administration Building in the fall of 1978, these Iranian students and their supporters shade their faces to avoid recognition. TRANSITION-5 K. Stephens the level of emotional involvement needed for the anti-draft movement to reach mass proportions. They're not emotionally involved because they don't have the conflict of war, said Pratt. Right now, the students haven't formulated their ideas as completely as they did through experience and over time in the '60s. He agreed with the organization's attempt to get an early start in opposing the draft. Draft registration is obviously preparation for the draft, and the draft is obviously a call to war, he said. Pratt also recognized the potential for the mass demonstrations of the past to happen again but said the issues may be different. I think that the demonstrations are not going to be over war-type issues, said Pratt. They're going to be on economic issues. People will be unable to pay for and keep up with inflation rates. While the issues of the draft were obviously related to the crises in the Middle East, there were those. Pepper and Koopman included, who felt the possible reinstitution of the draft was a political move to improve Carter's chances in the 1980 presidential election.The skepticism was heightened when the President suggested women be considered for the

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Pam Yackey, a sophomore education major, listens during a prayer service for 30 American hostages in Iran. Although Iran agreed to the formation of a United Nation's committee to investigate the actions of the deposed Shah and U.S. involvement in Iran, the Americans were still being held captive in mid-April.

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L-CARD attracts supporters from the campus and the Lexington £ community. The variety of political beliefs among members of the group % led to some difficulty in forming a cohesive organization. George Potratz voices his opinions during a February L-CARD meeting. Potratz once supported Iranian students who were arrestedfor interruping a speech by former CIA director Stansfield Turner in 1978. T. Moran 6-TRANSITION