Word: exam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those who favor the use of ranks point out that to discontinue them would leave only the draft exams as a criterion for deciding whether to give a student his deferment. This, they say, would be even more unfair than the present system, by which a student who fares poorly on the draft exam may rely on his grades, and vice versa. As long as student deferments exist, it is argued, as many factors as possible should go into each decision made by the local board...
...approached with timidity the demand, raised during the 1963 demonstrations and frequently thereafter, to put Negroes on the force. Officials of the new mayor-council government privately assured prominent Negroes that the force would be integrated. But it seemed that Negroes just couldn't pass the stiff civil service exam administered by the county Personnel Board. Encouraged by city officials, Negro businessmen organized schools to train Negroes to take the test, while the city diligently quaried officials in some 89 other Southern towns to see how they had made out with Negro cops, and even paid...
...white folks made up their minds that we would have Negro policemen, we'd have it." But many of the wealthier Negroes had talked at one time or another about what one called the "nagging thought in my mind that not enough people have gone down to take that exam." There was the feeling that they, as self-styled Negro leaders, were at leas tpartially to blame for the delay in hiring Negro cops...
...graduate student is likely to be deferred if he goes to graduate school the year after he leaves college and if he is in the upper quarter of the male section of his graduating college class and scored an 80 on the exam. These conditions not withstanding, the 15-20 per cent of the students at the Law School who did not go there directly after college have not been bothered by the draft. At the Business School, where 60 per cent of the students "interrupted" their education (many, however, to fulfill their service obligation), there has also been virtually...
...memory of high quotas. Then came a long period in which the University first debated and then adopted Selective Service's plan to use scores on a mental aptitude test and class rankings as guidelines for deferment. Some students weren't happy with the decision -- SDS leafleted the draft exam and another group collected 1200 signatures on a petition protesting the use of class rank -- but Harvard officials cited an "institutional obligation," and complied with the government requests...