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...Nunn bill would do more to upset equality of educational opportunity than anything since Plessy v. Ferguson. This is the issue for April...
IMPORTANT as the ROTC predicament is, though, it looks like so much fluff when you hear about the proposed Citizenship and National Service Act, introduced in Congress by Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and Rep. Dave McCurdy (D-Ok.) in January...
...this bill becomes law, the very concept of equality of opportunity will no longer exist in practice. Although Senator Nunn claims that the bill will "promote upward mobility," it is hard to see how it will serve to do anything but freeze people's current positions in the social structure...
THESE fundamental problems of unfairness and division are inherent in any service-for-financial-aid trade-off; they would exist regardless of whether the requirement is for civilian or military service. What makes the Nunn bill even worse is that--in the manner of the current ROTC but on a much grander scale--it would force people into the military. Raymond Davis of the D.C. Student Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism concludes that, because the proposed military voucher is so much greater than the voucher for civilian service, young people "would be likely to take one of the military options...
...while educators were critical of theNational Service Act, they are more receptive toother Congressional legislation that provides analternative to the Nunn proposal...