Panel
Khosrowpour, chairperson of the
information systems program, discussed
the eight year Iraq-Iran War and Iran's
current position.
Khosrowpour, a native Iranian, said
both wars started in a similar manner.
Khosrowpour, who recently returned
from a trip to Iran, said that in 1980
Hussein broke a treaty and occupied part
of Iran in the same manner he now
occupies Kuwait.
He said 138 SCUD missiles and
chemical weapons killed innocent people
in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
"The U.S. made a mistake,"
Khosrowpour said, "arming a known
loose cannonball in that part of the
world.”
As for the Iranian position now, he
said Iran doesn't have the resources due
to a $3OO billion war debt.
Offering a German perspective on the
War, Alex Hartzler, a 1990 Penn State
graduate currently studying in Germany
at the University of Cologne, broke the
German reaction into three sections: the
popular support of the War, the peace
movement, and the government
position.
Hartzler said 60-70 percent of the
German population supports the Allied
position but only 28 percent support
German troop deployment.
"It's hard for them to understand we
have a volunteer force," he said, "because
they're required to serve."
He said German students protest so
adamantly because they are required to
serve either 12 months military service
or 18 months civilian service like
hospital or forestry work.
"In January, they [German students]
were very hostile about American
imperialism," Hartzler said.
The movement turned away from
"anti-America" towards peace in general
when it was discovered the German
government had helped build Hussein's
bunker and supplied him with chemical
weapons, he said.
Hartzler added that the German
government was caught off guard due to
reunification, but they have now
contributed $5.5 billion to the war effort
plus aid to Israel.
"Germany is not ready to take a world
leadership role like the U.S. would
want," Hartzler said.
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After having been feverishly attached
to both the television and the radio in
trying to find out as much as one can
about the progress of the war in the Gulf
like everyone else, now I find myself
completely repelled by all utterances of
the war, for I do not want to know
anymore about it; for I can't help but
think over and over that one way or the
other, whether we (the allies) win or
not, we (humanity) will all lose once
again through our own destructive
nature. The wailings and cries of the
people, both wounded and killed and
those that remain behind who have lost
someone will echo throughout many
years of the world's future history in
ways we cannot even imagine now. And
what about the assault on Mother Earth
ecological warfare-which we now only
began to see the horror of? Thus, the
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Students in the reserves know that a
phone call ordering them to report could
come at any time arid any number of
them could be confronted with being
called up. Greg Norris, 22, a Penn State
Harrisburg student and member of the
National Guard, explained how he is
dealing with the possibility of being
called to active duty.
Generally, after being ordered to
report, you'd get 72 hours "to take care
of business," Norris said. "This time
could be shorter, depending on the
situation."
"My unit has not yet been activated
- it has not been put on alert," Norris
said.
Norris, of Saxton, Pa., lives at
Meade Heights and is a
business/management senior serving
with the National Guard's Company C,
1-110 Infantry Unit, in Everett, Pa.
Norris joined the Guard when he
was 18. "This March, I'll have five
years in," he said. "When I joined, I
didn't really believe I'd ever be called
up."
"I joined to say that I served my
country and because I needed money for
college, using G.I. benefits," Norris
said. "I'm not exactly sure what enticed
me to join. I kind of jumped on it a
little hastily, I guess."
”1 saw this opportunity when I
wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I
knew college was in the future," he said.
"I thought, 'I can do this and still go to”
school and in the meantime get my
military service out of the way,' instead
of joining the Air Force for four years,
then going back and taking four years of
college - taking care of two birds with
one stone."
Norris also works at United Parcel
Service. He says he has not experienced
any changes in his studies or work since
the Gulf War began.
"It's been business as usual," he
said. "There isn't any sense worrying
about something you don't know will
come about. I may go and I may not
go. I'm not going to sit around and
worry about it."
"I try not to think about it," he said.
"Life goes on as usual. If I'd dwell on
it, I'd probably go nuts thinking about
everything that could happen."
Norris said his family is more
concerned.
"My grandparents worry about it,"
he said. "Dad doesn't say anything, but
Mom's a nervous wreck. Mom panics
easily. If she sees a guy in uniform
driving down the road, she thinks I'll be
activated. I tell her, 'Look, Mom, If I
have to go over, there's nothing you or I
can do about it.'"
casualties of this conflict, like many of
those in the past, will not be restricted
to just the participants. The collective
human conscience will also be a casualty
even though this war "may" have a
"just" cause.
Laura McElroy
Behavioral Science