Word: draft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been spilled in the past few months over the question of the draft. Now that the war is over, all the pundits and prognosticators will probably return to the savings and loans crisis or the drug problem or the refusal of the pandas in the National Zoo to mate...
Although the collegiate Drury immediately showed the skill which made him a second-round draft pick of the Calgary Flames in 1989--netting 22 points his freshman year--Mallgrave and Flomen-hoft took longer to raise their play to its high-school heights...
Weisbrod said he definitely wants to continue playing hockey after the conclusion of this season, either for Minnesota or San Jose, an NHL expansion franchise. While Minnesota selected him in the fourth round of the 1987 draft (73rd pick overall), Weisbrod said he may be selected in the dispersal draft as one of 14 players that the Sharks can sign from other teams...
...Crimson's provocative Opinion piece by Kenneth A. Katz on restoring the draft is a commendable opening argument. Arguably, this and like communities have in late years shown remarkable concern for elitist self-protection. Much of Harvard has also shown a disingenuous capacity for contradiction and ignoring its own history...
Katz might have noted, for example, that the citizens who chased ROTC off campus now complain that Blacks and the poor are unduly represented in the military. (The poor part of this claim is somewhat specious according to current statistics on Army enlistments.) Despite draft deferments in the Korean War, the elitist colleges, including Harvard alumni and this writer, were well represented in the officer corps. Katz might examine what influence--heavy casualties aside--the military service of elitist college alumni had on the ultimate disillusionment with the Korean conflict that beset decision makers in Washington, the press, the academies...