Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midway through World War II, North Carolinians got some embarrassing news: nearly half the men called to the state draft boards for induction were being turned down as 4-Fs. It was the poorest record in the country. Aroused Tarheels organized a North Carolina Good Health Association, gave themselves a thorough examination and discovered they were in worse shape than they had imagined. Almost one-third of North Carolina's 100 counties were without hospitals, the state stood eighth highest in maternal death rate, tenth in infant mortality, third from the bottom in number of doctors per capita. North...
Campbell said that the decline was caused by an ease in the draft scare. He was optimistic about the final total and felt that the decline in students registering now has been less than in previous years...
Professor Leach's conduct in requesting the termination of the draft deferment of the Lubell Brothers is the final blow necessary to pry the undersigned from their comfortable apathy and contentment. It is no longer possible for an individual believing in the dignity of his fellow men and the Divinity of an Infinite Power before which all men are only partial in their knowledge--it is no longer possible or proper--to remain silent...
...deny the right of Professor of Law W. Barton Leach '21 to file a personal minority report on the Law School Faculty's decision to keep the Lubells. But he has chosen to do it in an unusual and unfortunate way. By implying that the Lubells' draft board--a higher power, so to speak--should take them out of school, he has stoked the coals of what should have been a settled issue and aggravated the most serious public relations problem his school has faced in years...
...advocacy of expulsion for the Lubells was held on convictions that were sincere, held with neither malice nor a desire for favorable personal publicity. but it is difficult to see how his letter could have served any definite purpose. Taken at face value, his reasons for suggesting their draft seem unnecessary. True, the slow, social purge the Lubells have incurred makes them unacceptable, at present, to any bar. But the fact that they may have no vocational use for a law education is no reason to deny them their earned and confirmed right to get one if they want...