USD Magazine, Winter 2002

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HOW HAVE WE BEEN CHANGED?

Students on Opposite Ideological Sides

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by Michael R. Haskins T he son ofa Department ofDefense employee, sophomore Adam Case grew up on military bases. In the mid-J990s, while living at England's Lakenheath Air Force Base, he often awoke in the middle ofthe night to the roar ofF-l5s on their way to

bomb Serbian ground forces in Bosnia. Much of the rime, Case wished he could join them - in his early teen-age years, Case wanted to be a fighter pilot and Naval officer. But the more he studied history, the more he questioned America's use of its military power. He still admired the values of those who serve in the military, but decid– ed that he could not be one of chem. Case, a political science major who plans to join the Peace Corps before pursuing a career in public interest law. "I realized I couldn't do char, because I don't believe most wars need to be fought. " This includes, he says, che current American war in Afghanistan. As a leader of che campus group Just Cause, which he co-founded in 2000 continued on page 24 "You have a contract when you join the military that says you will always follow orders, especially in rimes of war," says the 19-year-old

"We should think about ensuring the basic needs, dignity and human rights of people before situations get to this point." - Sophomore Adam Case

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