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Evaluations made by staff and alumni are used more than the reports of teachers and principals, because the admissions committee knows who its interviewers are, and can take their tastes and idiosyncrasies into account. But secondary school reports may provide the crucial fodder for a hunch, Peterson says, "especially if the writer avoids cliches...
...portion of its students would be catastrophic. The other argument--that people in college deserve to be there--is beside the point. In no sense is it moral to use the draft to separate those who are too precious to be sent to war from those considered acceptable cannon fodder. Of course, there are times when a nation must ignore moral principles and worry about self-preservation. Now is not such a time. Because of its clear social inequity, the 2-S deferment should be discarded...
...should they wish to draft students in large numbers now? One and a half millions 1-Y's are being drafted, yet no move is made for training them. They will be cannon fodder necessary for a land war in Asia. A large number of students will then be drafted to create the technical support base such an army will need. These people will not need very much training at all-not a fraction of what the I-Y's would need to become technicians themselves. Thus, absolution of 2-S is probably a precondition for a massive land...
...country in the long run by developing skills in other areas in preparation for positions of leadership in the future. "After I finish my education," says one law school student, "I'll be able to serve my country in some meaningful way, instead of just standing up for cannon fodder...
...gooks about the national government. Many historians say his history is so weak that he must be a political scientist, while the political scientists say that his political science is so weak that he must be an historian. None of Burns's many critics will be disappointed with the fodder he has provided them in his latest view from Williamstown, Presidential Government...