Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week voted to make the referendum binding on the University, and urged that students all vote "no" on the first question, which asks whether the Selective Service system should require universities to compute rank-in-class as a basis for 2-S deferment...
Michael R. Merz '67, vice-president of the Republican Club, said last night that a binding referendum "would destroy the freedom of students who want to comply with...
...Today's referendum on the relation of Selective Service to the university should offer students a chance to evaluate, if not influence, the stand taken by Harvard toward the 2-S deferment. One of the questions in the HUC-sponsored poll simply asks the undergraduate if he believes in the existence of 2-S. But the referendum's sponsors have placed greatest emphasis on whether or not Selective Service should "require the University to compute rank-in-class as a basis for a 2-S deferment." Assuming the continued existence of 2-S, the basic question is what method should...
Always looming behind the question of class ranks is the issue of student deferment. It is now widely conceded that 2-S has produced an army of underprivileged, while exempting those with the means, financial as well as intellectual, to attend college and graduate school. Today's referendum does offer a chance to go on record against 2-S, and thus to add to the pressure for a vastly more equitable lottery system...
Tomorrow's HUC referendum will concentrate on questions about class-ranking and the Selective Service System in general. The SDS phamplet urges students to vote NO to the first question: "Do you feel the Selective Service should require the University to compute rank-in-class as a basis for 2-S deferment...