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...Gergens, fully one-third of the students polled felt that the war had lowered their interest in graduate study as well as their respect for the way their colleges are administered. An equal number changed their career plans as a result of the war -many aiming for draft-exempt occupations. Ironically, the Gergens discovered that students at high-standard colleges were twice as likely to feel that the war "devalued" their education as were those at less difficult schools. Regardless of school, students with higher grades were more commonly affected by Viet...
Litton has been fighting for that contract for three long years. The company first persuaded the Mississippi legislature to vote a controversial $130 million tax-exempt bond issue to build the most modern shipyard in the country. Litton then contracted to lease the facility from the state for 30 years, paying enough to retire the bonds. The yard uses speedy, cost-cutting "modular" techniques developed by the Japanese; sections of ships are built separately, swung into place and welded together. Litton's hopes for defense work were hardly dampened by the fact that Mississippi's Senator John Stennis...
...political activity between passive disobedience and streetfighting. The essays deny that every challenge to the constituted authority is implicitly revolutionary. The state would find it beneficial to broaden the range of permissible dissent, particularly against corporate authority. The larger society should recognize some groups' claims to limited primacy and exempt them from state harassment. The right to strike must be generously defined. Pushing pluralism to the limits, he sanctions dispersal of authority consistent with market socialism. The state must accept "limited violence" (i.e., not directed primarily against the state) to force corporations into collective bargaining. To Walzer this...
...potential draftee keeps it until he is 26 and his eligibility expires. However, under the new draft system inaugurated last December, he is only eligible for a period of one year-that is to say, if he survives a year of draft eligibility without being called, he becomes exempt from the draft except in times of national emergency...
Even though college students stand to gain most from the Welsh decision, many students will not be all that happy. Reason: the ruling does not exempt those who object to the Viet Nam War specifically and not to wars in general. This seemingly illogical notion is, in fact, the point of another C.O. appeal before the Supreme Court, which was argued the same day as Welsh. That case involves John H. Sisson Jr., a recent Harvard graduate who refused induction on the ground, among others, that Congress cannot constitutionally force a man to fight in a war to which...