The Michigan Daily-Thursday, September 4, 1980-Page 7-A Despite opposition, registration begins By MAUREEN FLEMING Despite heated debate, national and Ical protests, and a court ruling that declared registration for the draft discriminatory, 19 and 20 year-old men began to register July 21 LOCAL ANTI-DRAFT groups have been demonstrating as early as last January to show their disfavor. Tom Schomaker, a spokesman for the Wesley Foundation, said at a rally held January 30, "If the world goes to hell, 'r lends, you go with it. We must convin- e Washington that there is strong sup- port to say no to the myth that we need registration." About 225 University students joined thirty thousand other protesters at a' rally held in Washington D.C. on March 22. "We're here today to prevent another excursion into mrilitary mad- ness," Rep. Ted Weiss (D-N.Y.), told the crowd at the Capitol. "The time to stop the madness is before it starts." Despite the protests, draft egistration passed in Congress in une. The Senate passed the bill June 13, by a margin of 58-34, after more than a week of debate and delaying tactics, including a filibuster and an all-night session. THE FINAL plan called for registration of all males born in the year 1960 and 1961. Beginning in January of next year, men born in 1962 will register. After this, men will egister when they turn 18 years of age. Penalties for not registering for the draft could be a fine of up to $10,000, imprisonment of up to five years, or both. Although President Carter sought registration of both men and women, Congress decided to exempt women. Because of Congress' choice, draft registration was declared uncon- stitutional July 18 by a Philadelphia panel of three appeals judges. Michigan's two senators were op- posed to the registration plan from the start. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Detroit) said he "was displeased that the bill did pass" and considered it a "first step toward the draft." Sen. Donald Riegle (D-Flint) also voted against the plan. THIRD U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Edward Cahn wrote in the 41- page opinion, "Congress could not con- stitutionally require registration under the Military Selective Service Act of only black citizens, or only white citizens, or single out any political or religious groups simply because those groups contain sufficient persons to fill the need of the selective service system." Draft registration opponents celebrated for a day until U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan set aside the federal appeals court ruling on July 19. He issued the stay after deciding the prospects for a full court reversal later on this year would be fair. He said the court could go either way, and expected a ruling in the fall. The Washtenaw Committee Against Registration for the Draft (CARD) is one of the most active anti-draft groups in this area. Once registration was ap- proved by Congress, they formed workshops and trained counselors to advise men of available options to draft registration. EDITH HEFLEY of CARD said, "Of- ten these young men are confused about what they should do. They just want to talk to someone." Hefley said that there are four op- tions available to persons eligible to register: O PLANNEDR PARENTHOOD 912 N. 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She added that CARD is also providing stickers, stating "I register under protest," that can be placed on the form. THE PURPOSE of registering under protest, Hefley explained, is to im- mediately start building a conscien- tious objector (CO) file. She said a per- son seeking CO status must prove to the draft board that he has had a moral conviction against war for more than a few days. Hefley also cautioned that when a statement of protest is made on the form, a duplicate copy, signed by the postal clerk, should be made for per- sonal records. "Often forms are lost," she explained. Dale Ewart of CARP said he didn't register for the draft. "I'm convinced that after the election, within a year, the next president will ask for the authority to induct, or Congress will try to give him the authority without his asking," Ewart stated. He explained that was why he did not register for the draft. ON MONDAY, July 21, CARD mem- bers were stationed at post offices around Ann Arbor and a rally was held at noon in front of the Federal Building, which also houses a post office. Students grade professors By MITCH STUART The Michigan Student Assembly plans to publish the results of a limited course/instructor evaluation project this fall, which was undertaken at CRISP last April. THE LSA EVALUATION program is the first stage in a proposed University- ide program which would evaluate every course offered by the University. While there is plenty of local con- troversy involving how to use course evaluations once collected, there is also heated debate on whether the evaluations produce valid results at all. Psychology Prof. William McKeachie, director of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT), said evidence indicates faculty can benefit from student reac- on on evaluation forms. McKeachie said the evaluations "are highly valid for one important goal of education - finding out how successful teachers are in getting students in- terested in the class." McKeachie said another valid goal of evaluations is to determine the relationships between the students' performances in class and their satisfaction with the class and instruc- tor. He said that results his office has Ixamined in the past indicate that students who perform better than most others in the class tend to rate the class higher than their peers. MSA President Marc Breakstone said his two major goals for the project are providing an index for students to choose their courses and "making a very powerful statement to the ad- ministration that course evaluations are very important to students." Such a "powerful statement" is Wrobably needed if students are to con- vince faculty and administrators that they should consider evaluations im- portant and even necessary for a quality educational institution, Breakstone added. MANY UNIVERSITIES across the country - including the University of California system, the University of Massachusetts, and Cornell - -have evaluation programs. The key stumbling block in getting any type of student-oriented program underway here has been a conflict in in- terpretation of the various uses for evaluations. Evaluations have three primary uses: * Instructors can use them to receive constructive personal criticism; * Administrators can use them to make personnel decisions, e.g. tenure, salaries; and, * Students can use them to make, in effect, "market decisions" on instruc-, tors and courses. LSA FRESHMAN Michael Goldman, after filling out the evaluation form, said, "I'd like to see the new students get an idea of what's going on - my courses are the ones a lot of freshmen take." University Vice-President for Student Services Henry Johnson said, "I really think, effective course evaluation is a faculty matter. I think faculty has the responsibility for evaluating courses and the results thereof they can use to monitor them- selves." ALTHOUGH Johnson said he things the evaluation concept is a good one, he added, "I really don't think that's a primary function of MSA." Johnson also said he would not be in favor of using Office of Student Ser- vices money for an evaluation program. Breakstone said he disagrees with Johnson's perception'of MSA's role. "I see MSA primarily as an advocacy body for student needs. As this is one of the fundamental needs of students that is not being addressed by the Univer- sity, MSA is making this one of its major projects." 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