Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Echoing this argument, David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, thought the resolution would inevitably become tied to Vietnam. "It's a poor way of fighting the war--a war to which I am also opposed," he said after the meeting...
...know if this [argument] is true," White said last night, "but this illustrates the complexities of discussing the general 2-S system." For this reason, White introduced the motion to "post-pone indefinitely" the anti-deferment resolution...
Though both Albritton and Rawls said they saw the issue in these ethical terms, they did have figures to substantiate their argument -- that 2-S discriminates against non-college students. Rawls conceeded last night that he had made an error in not introducing the statistics into the debate. Culled from testimony before a Congressional subcommittee, the figures showed the following: In the summer of 1964, of men aged 26, only 40 per cent who had completed college had served in the military in contrast to 57 per cent for high school graduates and more than 60 per cent for those...
...argument advanced against the anti-deferment resolution is that universities are just like any other interest group, and that they should not voluntarily seek to surrender privileges they have won -- in this case, the deferment...
There are persuasive and honorable arguments, of course, against extending the privileges of graduation from this male preserve to women. But Cliffies are affected just as heavily by decisions of the overseers as students at the college. And since Cliffies know as much (if not more) about the affairs of the University, there can be really no valid argument against giving them the vote, unless it be determined that they are inherently inferior...