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Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, speaking off the bench, describes Hershey as "a law unto himself [who] responds only to his own conversation." The National Student Association-which has urged an end to on-campus harassment of recruiters-last week filed suit in Washington demanding an injunction against enforcement of the Hershey edict. And even though Hershey at week's end softened his threat by absolving "lawful protesters" from priority call-up, to many ordinary Americans it seemed peculiar that the man who describes military duty as a "privilege" should extend it to those he seeks to punish...
...Winsted, Conn. He worked in a meat market, had a close friend who was seriously injured in an auto wreck (though not through any fault of Detroit: the friend fell asleep at the wheel). Later, he was horrified during his undergraduate years at Princeton when songbirds on the campus began dying as a result of DDT spray-long before Rachel Carson's Silent Spring raised an anti-pesticide furor...
...Grambling College, which has long had a reputation as one of the nation's most prolific producers of big-time athletes. But the demanding new mood of Negro students is no longer satisfied with athletic fame. Grambling student leaders recently shattered the serenity of the piney-woods campus in such a forceful protest over what they call "a second-rate atmosphere for learning" that National Guardsmen were summoned-and discontent over the incident is likely to last for years...
Boycott & Blockade. The protesters recently organized marches through the campus, boycotted classes and blockaded the administration building for 48 hours. They scattered food and shattered dishes in a cafeteria riot, threatened a "lie-in" on the football field to scuttle a homecoming game. Jones, who has headed Grambling since 1936, asked for National Guard protection, and Governor John McKeithen dispatched 600 soldiers to the campus. When Jones expelled 39 of the demonstrators, nearly 1,000 other students quit in sympathy but returned a few days later...
Last night's meeting also considered four resolutions pertaining to on-campus recruiting for presentation to the Student-Faculty Advisory Council...