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There is a possibility the Commission will vote to abolish II-S and set up a lottery. The American Council of Education, the most powerful university lobby, has failed to find a philosophical argument for II-S that would sway the dullest head. The II-S is, however, convenient: with the draft pool now twice as big as the military requires some way must be found to exempt men. It also maintains the colleges as a source of ROTC officers, and "channels" -- to use the Selective Service word -- young men into careers which serve the national purpose...
...that "the king can do no wrong." Thus, no American Government or its political subdivisions, including school districts, can be sued without its specific consent. Though some do consent, most states insist that school immunity is necessary to prevent public funds from being diverted to private plaintiffs. Urged to abolish immunity by judicial decree, the Missouri court balked on the ground that such decisions in other states have created legal "chaos." In Missouri, said the court, Terry Smith and other students will simply have to pay their own medical bills until the state legislature changes the rules...
...students, perhaps out of a sense of guilt for having themselves been protected, were willing to abolish their own deferment because of its class bias, and because they felt that such a move might, as one student put it, "tame the military monster." The student-faculty alliance prevailed, in a large measure through perseverance -- a number of administrators and faculty members tired sooner and went back to their classrooms before the final vote...
...History Department has voted to give junior general examinations and to abolish its sophomore essay requirement...
...abolish sign-out books...