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Although a large-scale move by American colleges to abolish ROTC is extremely unlikely, it is possible that many colleges will adopt a policy of dissociation similar to the one approved by the B.U. faculty this winter. This possibility arises partly from the increased sensitivity to the military presence on the campuses since the beginning of the Vietnam war. But that is not the most important factor, and even without the war it is quite conceivable that many colleges would soon be trying to reduce the official status enjoyed by ROTC on their campuses...
...effects of the decision to abolish occupational deferments are not so certain. Since local draft boards will still have wide discretion in granting job exemptions on the basis of community and defense needs, most of the men presently deferred may still escape service. They will not have automatic deferral, however, and instead of one standard rule from Washington, noted Senator Edward Kennedy, there will now be 4,000 rules laid down by the 4,000 different local boards. There is, however, one certainty as a result of last week's edict. Hundreds of thousands of men and their families...
Second, students are asking the University to tear down all the playpen fences. School, they contend, should be reduced to a place where one takes his studies, and no more. The University should not restrict students at all. One evidence of this school of thought is the movement to abolish parietals. Another is the contention of some that the University should not protect them from outside police and should not place them in double jeopardy either...
...Federal Government. In this case, the biggest part of the job was to beat the red-tape-ridden FHA at its own game. The door to competition was opened by FHA's rigid 6% ceiling on interest rates, which President Johnson last week asked Congress to abolish. In recurrent periods of tight money, banks and other lenders have increasingly shunned FHA and Veterans Administration loans to get higher interest rates on conventional mortgages. M.G.I.C. and other private firms not only approve any interest rate agreeable to both lender and borrower but have also devised faster and cheaper ways...
...lengths. Slavery might be intolerable for a white man, they admitted, but the black was different: his mental and neurological inferiority did not permit him to "suffer as a white man would have." Slavery, in the words of Boswell, was a "happier state of life" for "African Savages." To abolish it, he protested, would be the real crime-"robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow subjects," meaning the slaveowners...