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...Dean Monro said yesterday that although a national system of tests is not ideal, it will be preferable to the chaotle situation that prevailed this Fall, when local boards were given no guidelines and each board established its own criteria for classifying students...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...