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To The Editors of the Crimson:
After his Wednesday night speech in the Science Center on Selective Service, General Turnage invited dozens of questions by pointing his finger and saying "Yes. Sir." He never said "Yes, Ma'am" because he didn't call on any women. This is the question I never got to ask: "General, you say that nine million registered men are more than enough to fight a war. If only white men and women were drafted, they would probably be enough too, but Selective Service registration doesn't discriminate explicitly with regard to skin color. Why then does it do so on the basis of gender?"
"You feel it is wrong for a man to neglect to register because it unfairly increases his fellow man's chance of being drafted. If it's immoral to let another person risk dying in one's place, how can we let you call away our sons and brothers when you won't call us?" Jan Steckel '83
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