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Because his extensive knowledge of the current selective service setup is for the time being irreplacable, Beecher has written a farewell address to Harvard's prospective, if somewhat reluctant, troops. Despite a deadly title, "The Relationship of Students and Universities to the Selective Service System," the report is an incisive guid to the mysteries of the draft...
...grasp of the selective service system's complications displayed in the report does not reveal Beecher's personal uncertainty about the equity of current draft arrangements. But it is his belief that as long as the system is set up as it is, college students should be aware of their rights under it as well as their responsibilities. Many of the rights, even the most basic ones, go unexercised only because students are unaware of them...
...appeal is an important example. A student has "the right and obligation" to appeal a 1-A classification within ten days after it is mailed, the report says. "But appeals are rarely used because people aren't aware they have such rights open to them," Beecher explains. "More often than not, they forfeit the rights by just not using them...
Many students according to Beecher, accept their 1-A classification with a shrug of resignation even though they completely fit the requirements for 2-S. This is particularly chilling in light of the report's revelation that some local boards are sending 1-A classification to all their students in order to determine who is 2-S on the basis of the expected appeals...
...pretty obvious that some fellows at Harvard just accept these classifications," Beecher says. "They say 'that's the way it goes' and don't appeal. They're either resigned or just ignorant of their rights. Or they may be involved at the time and say 'I'll take care of it in a few days'. But you can't take care of it in a few days. You have only ten days from the time they mail...