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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pessimistic about the chances of establishing a lottery system for the draft. The federal government has been committed to the present system too long, Monro said...

Author: By Jonathan Fuerbringer, | Title: Monro Backs Draft Lottery System; Urges Alternate Forms of Service | 2/26/1966 | See Source »

...Dean Monro said Wednesday that he would prefer a draft deferment procedure along the lines of a lottery to the current system based on class rank and national tests. Under the lottery system, he said, there would be no deferment for students...

Author: By Jonathan Fuerbringer, | Title: Monro Backs Draft Lottery System; Urges Alternate Forms of Service | 2/26/1966 | See Source »

...criticized the present procedure because it creates an army composed chiefly of the underprivileged. The poor--and especially Negroes--are "intensely subject to the draft," Monro commented...

Author: By Jonathan Fuerbringer, | Title: Monro Backs Draft Lottery System; Urges Alternate Forms of Service | 2/26/1966 | See Source »

...Monro's criticism emerged as a result of the debate on the draft created by the institution of a deferment procedure similar to the one used during and after the Korean War. General Lewis B. Hershey, national Selective Service director, has said that present deferments will be re-examined now in light of class standing and scores on a new national test...

Author: By Jonathan Fuerbringer, | Title: Monro Backs Draft Lottery System; Urges Alternate Forms of Service | 2/26/1966 | See Source »

...students ask the College in advance not to send any information to the draft board, Monro said that it would not sent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Draft | 2/24/1966 | See Source »

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