Friday, October 4, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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"DON'T WAIT UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE BEFORE GETTING HELP."
"DON'T WAIT UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE BEFORE GETTING HELP."
Peace Center Director Louis Wolfe and volunteer Karen Mills, Convent Station, N.J., senior, give draftables advice.
Lawrence Peace Center helps students avoid draft
By FRED PARRIS Kansan Staff Writer
KU students seeking to avoid the draft have a helpmate in the Lawrence Peace Center.
The Center, located on 7th Street between Massachusetts and Vermont, is a project of the American Friends Service Committee, an offshoot of the Religious Society of Friends.
Louis Wolfe, project coordinator, said an average of two young men a day come to the center seeking help or advice.
"Some are only casually interested in the draft, having two or three years before their deferments are up," he said. "Others, however, are in immediate danger of being drafted and need quick advice."
A major project of the center is its draft counseling unit, which assists individual students with selective service problems. The unit has between six and ten members and includes ministers, faculty members and graduate students.
"Counseling is on a private basis," Wolfe said, "and matters discussed are kept strictly confidential."
A major task of the counselors is helping students convince their draft boards they should be given a certain deferment.
“This is especially important in cases concerning conscientious objectors,” Wolfe said. “Until recently, C.O.'s were required to have strictly religious grounds for their opposition to military service. Now certain philosophical and personal moral codes are sometimes admissable. We try to help a student discover if his case is included here.” Wolfe said most boards are highly subjective in deciding who to draft and who to defer.
"It can depend on how long your hair is, what kind of clothes you wear, or how many persons are needed for the month's quota.
At present, the center serves mainly students, Wolfe said, but it is attempting to expand its services to the Lawrence community as well, especially to young Negroes and Indians.
Wolfe estimated between 250 and 300 students have been counseled since the center opened last fall.
Permission has been sought to speak to the student body at Lawrence High School, Wolfe said, but so far, school administrators have refused it. Last summer, however, an advertisement was run in the LHS student newspaper and others are planned for the future.
A side activity of the center is a speaker's bureau, which provides lecturers on such topics as the Vietnam war, Latin American problems, and the United Nations. Films and tapes are also available without charge.
More than 75 per cent of the center's operating funds come from local supporters, Wolfe said. The remainder are obtained through bread sales and similar affairs.
Each Tuesday, the center sponsors an information table in the lobby of the Kansas Union.
Wolfe urges students to consult the center on any draft problems which arise, no matter how trivial they may seem.
"Anyone with questions about procedures to follow should contact us. Don't wait until it's too late before getting help," he said.
WINNERS
MONTREAL (UPI) - The Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs have won the Stanley Cup more times than all the other teams in National Hockey League history combined.
Pioneer open-chest surgeon to speak on smoking hazard
Dr. Alton Ochsern, a pioneer of open-chest surgery and one of the first to link smoking with lung cancer, will speak on "The Increasing Health Menace of Tobacco" here Oct. 24.
Ochsner contends that tobacco has become today's greatest health hazard. He estimates that in 1964, more than 350,000
"For every cigarette smoked, one shortens' his life 14.4 minutes," Ochsner said. A 50-year-old person who never smokes has a life expectancy $8\frac{1}{2}$ years longer than one who smokes a pack a day since age 21.
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