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Perenially popular Ec 1 is second with 719 students, followed by Soc Rel 10 with 536, Fine Arts 13 with 398, and Gov 1a with...
History 134a, a legendary gut under the late Crane Brinton '19, was last year's largest course with 765 students. This year, taught by H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, it has dropped off the list, along with Math 1a...
...home, Gregory is challenging the police claim that they had a right to disperse peaceful protesters simply because angry hecklers near by might have become violent. Among the draft-dissent cases, the most important is an appeal from James Oestereich, who was reclassified from 4D (divinity student) to 1A by his draft board last year after he turned his draft card in to the Justice Department. At least 18 other suits that question the Selective Service System's power to use the draft as punishment for antiwar activities are currently pending in federal courts. Also under attack this year...
...stands before his local draft board very much like a man on trial. But unlike an ordinary defendant, he is, in effect, guilty until proved innocent-that is, he is 1A until he can demonstrate that he deserves to be deferred. Moreover, draft boards, made up of well-intentioned but often legally untrained pillars of the community, are not courts of law. They are federal administrative agencies charged with producing a quota of inductees each month, and they have wide latitude in deciding when, why and who shall...
Hard Time. Some matters are rigidly prescribed, such as a requirement that a man be given at least 30 days to appeal a 1A classification, but many others have purposely been left to the virtually unfettered discretion of local boards. Recent changes in the draft have removed most graduate students and many so-called "critical-skills" workers from their semi-automatic deferred status. But even before the change, local boards were not absolutely required to grant deferments, and now a deferment can still be issued if a board is persuaded that there is a "community need...