Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question of who is to man the armed forces is left unanswered. The traditional precept of a broad-based citizen soldier army, with the dangers and sacrifices of military duty shared equally by all able-bodied men, is conveniently forgotten. There is no hue and cry to make the draft law fair and equitable or to provide an acceptable substitute for ROTC, if needed a substitute can be found...
...ROTC to our defense establishment. They persist in the notion that the armed forces will continue to exist and perform their functions, somehow, without ROTC. The blunt truth is that Officer Candidate School (OCS) programs are not attractive to college graduates unless there is extreme pressure from the draft. One reason is obvious: the Army OCS volunteer must serve a three-year tour of active duty not two years as in the case of the ROTC graduate or the college graduate drafted into the Army as a private...
...sessions where the draft papers are criticized or challenged are closed to the public. The conference encourages an author to revise his draft before publishing it in Daedalus, to use the perspectives of other papers, and to respond to the critiques of his peers. For this he recives an honorarium from the foundations through the offices of Daedalus. Other members of the conference donate their time for travel expenses only...
...should be borne in mind that the majority of Army ROTC and Air Force ROTC students are in the Law School, or elsewhere other than the College. These students are now taking ROTC on a non-academic, extracurricular basis. We see no reason why their participation--and thus their draft deferment--should be ended by the unilateral action of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...meet. The only reason for requiring the military to meet more stringent conditions would be political opposition to the military itself, or to the policies' the military are required to implement. We believe that the CEP is acting in accord with prior decisions of the Faculty (as on the draft) that the Faculty not make collective political statements but instead choose and carry out academic and educational policy...