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...unofficial committee in the Behavioral Sciences departmnt endorsed a resolution yesterday calling for the university to suspend all on-campus military recruitment until the directive of selective Service head Lewis B. Hershey is reversed...
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...
...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...
Columbia has decided, quite reasonably, that it will not become a tool in Hershey's scheme. The issue is not one of the military on campus, but of an outside organization attempting to dictate the rules for on-campus activities. Whether legal or illegal, Hershey's directive is an infringement on the rights of a university...
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...