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...faculty member's dilemma is his dual role as citizen and professor. During his interview, when Shenton inveighed against 2-S on the grounds that it is "lunatic" to exempt a man while educating him only to jeopardize him afterwards, he prefixed his remark with, "As a private individual, I think...
...face, they are amazingly resilient. Job Corps Sociologist David Gottlieb, 36, who was himself a dropout, finds in the Now People "a certain fidelity and loyalty that older people don't have." American G.I.s in South Viet Nam, for example, evince little envy or disapproval of their draft-exempt brothers-on-campus at home, despite student protests against their sacrifice. "This is an experience you get a lot out of," says Sgt. James Hender son, 21, of Guthrie, Ky. "If you live through...
Pure Agony. Manchester noted that at least half of the people he interviewed "experienced moments of emotional difficulty" when asked to relive the assassination. Nor was he exempt. Months after Kennedy's funeral, Manchester recalled how "I still wake up at night and hear the stutter of the drums on Penn sylvania Avenue." An intense, emotional man, he became so immersed in his subject that he began referring to his wife Julia as "Jacqueline." As a result of the pressure, he became ill earlier this year, required hospitalization and received treatment from the same psychiatrist who tended Novelist...
...American Council of Education, the most powerful university lobby, has failed to find a philosophical argument for II-S that would sway the dullest head. The II-S is, however, convenient: with the draft pool now twice as big as the military requires some way must be found to exempt men. It also maintains the colleges as a source of ROTC officers, and "channels" -- to use the Selective Service word -- young men into careers which serve the national purpose...
...that a draft is necessary to supply the military, but contends that other forms of service should be voluntary. They would offer young men (and women, in some versions) a chance to volunteer for military or non-military service. A term in some Peace-Corps-like agency would not exempt a man from the draft, but it would put his name at the bottom of what Selective Service cheerfully names the order or call. In anything but a general mobilization he would not be touched...