Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After World War II, when thousands of undergraduates were studying under Government grants, universities did not encourage stopping out. In the '60s, another deterrent to would-be leave-takers arose: the draft. But in the less urgent '70s, many administrators have come to promote a year off. "Even those who do work they would never want to do again -vending pretzels, for example-find a year or two off to be a positive experience," notes Princeton Assistant Dean Richard G. Williams. Adds Yale Dean of Undergraduate Studies Martin Griffin: "Students come back with at least marginally clearer focus...
...first player selected by the Mets in the expansion draft...
...Carter decide the war was illegal. Undoubtedly, his beloved deserters and draft dodgers would be our prosecutors...
...cloakrooms about Carter's foreign policy." Said another: "Hell, if we offered [the manifesto] to the whole Senate, we could have got 75 Senators." The widespread carping prompted Senate G.O.P. Leader Baker two months ago to appoint Texan Tower to head a six-Senator committee to draft a Republican policy statement. They produced a hard-line document that Baker toned down with the help of Republican liberals and moderates...
...RESURGENCE of ROTC programs, coupled with the possible return of the draft, casts a different and rather chilling light on the computer games that go down in SAGA's Pentagon office. Games may be fun, but they lose a great deal of their appeal when some of the contestants decide to play for keeps. That is exactly what could happen when the Pentagon brass realize they do not have to fool around with numbers anymore, because all of assudden they have the boys back in uniform. MacNamara and Bundy may be gone, but no one has to tell the Joint...