Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty, last year, failed to decide whether the University as an institution should disassociate itself from the Selective Service System by refusing to compute student rank lists. Now that II-S deferments are no longer granted on the basis of an undergraduate's scholastic standing, this issue of University draft "involvement" is gone. But President Johnson's February draft decisions pose a more practical question: Will units of the University help their graduate students to secure legal deferments to keep them out of the army...
...move is both necessary and appropriate at this time. President Johnson's refusal to extend graduate deferments to fields other than medicine was fair. But he did not change the order of call, thus seeing to it that each month's draft call starting June will be two-thirds filled with this year's college seniors and first-year graduate students...
STUDENT deferments themselves are of dubious validity. Secretary of Labor Wirtz has testified that they are unnecessary for maintaining an adequate supply of skilled manpower. They should be abolished entirely--but only as part of comprehensive draft reform, such as the Marshall Commission recommendations or Senator Edward M. Kennedy's reform bill now pending in the Senate...
...Harvard Law-Graduate Democratic Club voted last night to support Robert F. Kenedy's candidacy for the Presidency, and to urge the Law School Faculty to readmit students whose studies are interrupted by the draft...
Johnson added that he hoped the Selective Service would not draft II-S Divinity students...