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Dean Monro warns that student testimony "could erode the personal way . . . Matters are taken up" by the Administrative Board. Most undergraduates reclassified 1-A find out that even the government considers it a mistake. General Hershey comes to Harvard and urges colleges "to clean their own stables." Radcliffe begins a $16 million fund drive to overhaul housing...
...service. And the premise that in a situation like today's, a majority of men would be forever free from military service on the basis of mere luck would seem to put unnecessary-and possibly unwise-restrictions on presidential policymaking. As salty old Lieut. General Lewis Hershey, U.S. selective-service chief, said last week for the umteenth time: "I'm un willing to admit that blind chance is better than other methods-bad as they may sometimes be-for solving our manpower problems...
...demand for change is growing. Outright abolition of the draft (as suggested in recent years by, of all people, Adlai Stevenson and Barry Goldwater) seems unrealistic. For. as General Hershey likes to put it: "I don't believe we will ever see the end of the draft in my lifetime or yours. We've never had peace since I started this job, even after the end of wars, and I don't see that kind of peace in the future...
...idea of a lottery in which every draft-age male in the country would have an equal chance of being picked has some advocates. In their view, it would be perfectly equitable: no one would get special treatment, the idiosyncrasies of local boards would be bypassed. But to Hershey, such roulette-wheel selection simply would dodge national responsibility. "A lottery says, I don't know enough to make a proper selection, so I'm going to hide my ignorance behind chance...
...means original with McNamara, calls for a program under which each American youth must spend a year or so in a national organization of his choice -the military, the Peace Corps, the Job Corps, VISTA or some other public service. Last week, before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, General Hershey pooh-poohed the idea as too expansive and too expensive. Since no fewer than 1,800,000 youngsters come of draft age each year, he seemed to be absolutely right about the cost. And the potential waste caused by plucking brilliant scientists or badly needed prospective doctors from college...