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Also in New Haven Gov. Ronald Reagan of California criticized Selective Service director Gen. Lewis B. Hershey's recommendation that the draft be used to punish anti-war protestors...
Wilcox, who is chairman of the Committee on General Education, has recommended that students be allowed to take one of their three basic Gen Ed courses pass-fail and one of the middle-level courses required for distribution...
Columbia University has banned all on-campus military recruitment because of Gen. Hershey's recent threat to draft those who obstruct recruiters for the Army. Columbia's move in no way contradicts the principle of open recruitment, but merely specifies that agencies cannot attach extra-legal threats to the presence of their recruiters on campus...
...effect of Hershey's edict is not limited to students actually inducted, nor even to students who obstruct army recruiters. Draft policy, as Gen. Hershey likes so frequently to point out, has a great deterrent impact on all men of draft age. Selective Service has made much of the 2-S deferment as an inducement to higher education. Presumably Gen. Hershey now sees his recent statement in a similar vein, as a means of discouraging student protest against the military...
Harvard, faced with the same challenge as Columbia, should react the same way, by barring military recruiters until Gen. Hershey agrees to play the game by the University's rules...