Of Politics and Baseball

To students, draft is a very frightening word. It implies certain death or injury in a war. A war which, college students that we are, is by default -- and take your pick here -- unjust, immoral, evil, imperialistic, oil-driven, politically-motivated or, to quote Kofi Annan, just plain "illegal." A draft is not to be taken lightly. That is why I was at once saddened and infuriated when about one year ago, some particularly insolent students (or teachers; I wouldn't put it past them) barraged the hallways of my former high school with insipid bills purporting that a vote for George Bush is a vote to be drafted.