Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well as its generals are now arguing over what that plan should be. Basically the debate is one between proponents of programs providing deferments for some men, and those who firmly believe that all men should be drafted together, that no one should be allowed to postpone or avoid service. Two plans have so far emerged as successors to U.M.T...
...first year in college all men below the top 50 percent of their class would be subject to draft. In third year the student would have to stay in the top 33rd percentile; the senior must maintain a record above the 25th percentile to avoid service...
...every year he spends in school after deferment, and that such men not be eligible for deferment on grounds of dependency. Thus, a man deferred for a four year college course would, under the present age limit rule, be subject to drafting until he reached 30, and could not avoid service by marrying...
President Conant's proposal for Universal Military Service, which includes no deferments, would avoid the problem of an intellectual elite being created in the nation's colleges, Bender stated. But, if U.M.S. were adopted, problems of financing schools for at least the first two years--when there would be very few men left at home--might prove insurmountable, especially for smaller schools...
Maids are probably serving their last year at the University. Vice-President Reynolds said yesterday that there is a "grave possibility" that an expected rise in wage demands will force abandonment of the service to avoid increased room rents...