Evan Baehr '05 is needed to protect student rights

I am a longterm resident of Princeton Borough and ran as the independent candidate for Princeton Borough Council four years ago. As a longtime observer of local politics, I understand the importance of bringing change to our community.

This Council does not know its boundaries. For example, they hope to pass an underage drinking ordinance that would allow police to enter the eating clubs and arrest anyone underage. Not only does this violate your rights it also puts student health at risk by creating an atmosphere of intimidation and fear and discouraging students seeking help.

Your vote on today for Evan Baehr '05 for Borough Council will ensure that this ordinance will not go unchallenged! Evan Baehr is a student of public policy and an energetic, engaging individual willing and prepared to take the old guard incumbents to task.

And Baehr isn't just the "student candidate." Local residents across the political spectrum are impressed with his ideas and are supporting him to bring change to the Borough. Vote for a candidate that will protect your rights as students and for a candidate who will make Princeton a better community for residents like me.

Fortunately you get both of these with a vote for Evan Baehr. Dorothy J. Koehn Princeton

Leaders shouldn't support war they wouldn't serve in

Faced with the prospect of dying in a nonessential war, many of us, like Dick Cheney during the Vietnam War, would have "other priorities." The members of our present all-volunteer force, however, ranked their other priorities lower than serving in the military.

But our all-volunteer force is now stretched thin. Some argue that we do not have enough boots on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan and that our ability to respond elsewhere in the world is limited by our commitment in Iraq. So now we hear rumblings of the draft being reinstated for the first time since the Vietnam War. Should we send young men and women off to die in Iraq against their will?

With the current troop needs around the world there may be little alternative, but I certainly do not want to see my two 18-26 year old sisters risking their lives in a war that I think could have been avoided. The decision for Iraq war supporters, however, should be easy: Support the draft and send their children, or for young hawks, enlist themselves.

At the very least, war supporters should be clamoring to pay higher taxes, conserve resources and bear other minor sacrifices. The issue of a military draft is difficult, but this much should be unambiguous: The only war you should support starting is one in which you would be willing to die. Dylan Cooke '99 GS