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Wednesday, March 5. 1980
Speakers argue merits of draft
University Daily Kansan
By JON BLONGEWICZ Staff Renorter
The draft, bulled as an "Issue for Our Time," was opposed and defended by three speakers at an open forum last night in Green Hall.
Although they said they were not experts on the draft, Carl Lande, professor of political science at the University of the Kansas City chapter of the National Organization for Women; and Ion Kuby, president of the National Organization, gave their views on draft registration before a crowd of 30 persons in St. Louis.
Laude cited pros and cons of the present all-volunteer army and concluded that the main problem was a lack of reserve
military strength. He said that the present armed forces had nearly enough active troops, but that "reserves have a serious problem."
Lande, who supported the draft, said that a million of those 25 million reserves, but that they actually had only 800,000. Thus, according to Lande, is compared to the Soviet Union's 25 million.
"Registration won't send a message to Russia, but a strong and ready reserve will," Iande said.
Lande said that the Soviet Union was in a period "of willingness to seize opportunities."
"It seems to me, war is least likely if
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Kuby answered his own question by listing Jimmy Carter as one person who benefited from the policy. He had learned that if one kept the public thinking about foreign involvement the public would not think about domestic problems such as inflation and unemployment.
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Kuby questioned the draft and registration for the draft, by asking "who benefits from the draft?"
circumstances approach a balance of power," Lande said.
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The third panelist, Thurston, said that she and NOW were opposed to war, but that if a draft were instituted, women should be included.
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Kuby said others that benefited from the draft were "the people who make bombs," or the people who had "fat Defense Department contracts."
"Dr. Dande argued that we had learned our lesson from Vietnam." But Kubu said that the same people who pushed us into Vietnam are pushing the draft on us.
Thurston called the present military "racist and sexist."
BREAKAWAY
"Men and women should be drafted according to their ability and not their gender." Thurston said.
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Sperm bank experiment said to advance genetics
By DON MUNDAY Staff Renorter
A controversial and very selective sperm
represents the most radical step in the advancement of genetics research, according to Andrew Torres, professor of systematics
The controversy centers on millionaire Robert K. Graham, who recently announced he had implanted sperm from three Nobel scientists into highly intelligent women.
Graham has said that his intentions were not to develop an elite master race, but to add a few more intelligent individuals, who may not have been born, to society.
Torres said that Graham's work might be based on an erroneous assumption, because the chances of intelligent children being born were not necessarily increased.
The probability that a particular sperm will meet with a particular egg in a specific combination and produce the desired result, is extremely low. "Torres said."
ALTHOUGH BOTH the donor and the recipient of the sperm are above average intelligence, the nature of the offspring, if possible, would be largely dependent upon chance.
"Of course, on the average you will enhance the probability if you start off with favorable combinations," he said. He said, "but without an exact probability would be impossible."
There's no way to assign a probability value to it, such as saying the chances are 8 in 10 or 9 in 10," he said.
The Graham experiment has some similarities to the grafting of healthy plant specimens in the hope of creating healthy plant offspring, Torres said.
ALTHOUGH THE chances of producing very intelligent children are not necessarily greater in the experiment than if the mother and father were of average intelligence, but Graham facility is not "elitist" but the sperm banks already in existence.
"Sperm banks on the East coast have been fairly selective as to the state of health, the physical characteristics and the sperm content of the donors." Torres said.
Graham has said that he used artificial insemination in three women about two months ago, but that it is not yet known whether any have become pregnant.
"The principle is good. It's inevitable that someone will try the idea, which Muller advanced nearly 25 years ago."
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Artificial insemination does not represent genetic engineering as most scientists would view it because no actual removal or addition of genes has occurred, he said.
HERMANN J. M. MULLER was a Nobel
hermanian of science, conceptual
of selecting intelligent donors for
artificial inseminations. Torres said that
Muller, too, was criticized for being
"crazy."
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