The Academia Waltz was Berke Breathed's first cartoon, published daily from 1978 to 1979 in The Daily Texan at The University of Texas at Austin, where he was a student. The strip focused primarily on college life, although it sometimes made references to big news stories of the time (such as the incident at Three Mile Island in 1979).
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9 to 5 by Harley Schwadron
Adam@Home by Rob Harrell
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simpsonfan2 said, 8 months ago
The shrub could avoid starting the draft by trashing the economy. In a great economy, more jobs available means less people resorting to enlisting.
Omnius said, 8 months ago
Now that we’ve seen the fallacy of an all volunteer army we need to bring back the draft so soldiers aren’t doing 5 or 6 deployments to war zones. Bring back the draft and don’t give anyone any exceptions, especially rich cowardly brats like Mitt R’money during ’Nam.
bpullin said, 8 months ago
Should be like Israel. Everyone serves in the military for 2 – 3 years after high school. Then they get help with their college tuition.
Fourcrows said, 8 months ago
@bpullin
You’ll probably find a lot less wasted college educations that way as well. By holding of college and doing service work (military or civil service) until you are 21 or so, I find students are more focused and mature and less likely to treat college like 13th grade.
basicallystupid15 said, 8 months ago
40 years later and this cartoon still holds true. What does this say about our country?
lifebyc said, 8 months ago
@basicallystupid15
Thank you. A cartoon from the 70s talking about the senseless tragedy of war, and a bunch of geniuses posting how we should be REQUIRING military service. If that’s not irony, I don’t know what is.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago
A draft hasn’t been needed as long as the hidden Great Depression keeps filling the ranks with the unemployable.