Word: draft
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Inaccuracies such as the above could be eliminated from the final draft of an evaluation by checking that evaluation with the course instructor. Also instructors should be questioned with respect to the changes they anticipate making in the course in response to student sentiment. Phil 8 this year will be different in a number of respects from the course offered last year, but readers of the Guide have been led to assume that it will not. By failing to determine what changes are to be made in a course, you miss the opportunity to make the Guide as informative...
Wright remains unfazed by the often personal attacks. He holds that it is unfair to let those who can afford high bail buy their way out of pre-trial imprisonment while sending to jail those who cannot produce the money. He likens the bail system to the draft exemption laws which existed during the Civil War. "For three hundred dollars a man could purchase an exemption from conscription to the Union Army during the Civil War. In New York, for example, this meant that those who were sent off to die in the war were mostly the poor, notably immigrants...
PRESIDENT FORD should have granted unconditional amnesty to draft evaders and deserters. Since he won't, Congress should. Everyone should support the activities of groups like Cambridge's recently organized Students for Amnesty...
Moreover, many young people still follow and react to big political developments, though not to the rancorous extremes of a few years ago. Not surprisingly, President Ford's promise of limited amnesty for Viet Nam War-era deserters and draft dodgers won him a measure of popularity in campus communities, while his full pardon of former President Nixon produced cries of outrage. On a Sunday evening a student called a talk show in Lawrence, Kans., and suggested that instead of pardoning Nixon, Ford should have urged him to go to Canada...
Even before the pardon, there were signs in the press that skepticism was beginning to revive. Editorial writers on both right and left began to complain about Ford's vacillation on the issue of amnesty for draft evaders. A number of columnists chided Ford for his inaction on the problem of inflation. Typical of them was the Washington Post's Tom Braden, who labeled Ford's summit conference on the economy as "public relations and nothing more...