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...committee has a heavy dropout rate: 50%. But survivors have done well. Bradley Patterson Jr., the first committee student, is now executive director of the Peace Corps. Most others teach, in fields from science history to political philosophy, at schools from M.I.T. to Cornell. On the committee itself are two alumni, Arabist Hodgson and Classicist Redfield...
...measure its methods, NSSFNS President Richard L. Plaut launched a survey of 1,278 recent proteges. The overall dropout rate turned out to be 33.4%-as against the national rate of 60%.* Of 509 willing to provide complete information, 1% made Phi Beta Kappa and 10% graduated with honors. Southerners topped the Northerners at high-standard campuses...
...Main reasons: money, military service and (especially among girls) marriage. Harvard's dropout rate is 25%, Wisconsin's 46%, Indiana's 56%. Many eventually return or graduate elsewhere, but this still leaves the national net dropout rate...
...solution to the problem. Each year 500,000 men are inducted into the military. One hundred thousand are drafted the others enlist. If the draft were abolished, the services would lose not only the 100,000 draftees, but also most of the other 400,000. As the above mentioned dropout figures suggest, nine out of ten men enlist because of the threat of the draft. Once free of that threat, they show little eagerness to stay in uniform...
Sadly, it was the Wallace line that was emphasized when the country's newspapers and magazines suddenly discovered Washington this summer. The crime statistics for the District were quoted ad nauseam. The rickety schools and the high dropout rate were cited again and again, and attention was always called to the fact that the schools were 35 per cent Negro in enrollment. No less than six major magazines, plus the New York Times, ran lengthy articles emphasizing crime in the District and the city's racial problems...