Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike some left-wing groups, the Communists advocate reform from within the two-party system as well as from without, Green said. "The problem of choice [between traditional parties and third parties] is a sterile one. We are for the running of third party candidates, but the time has not come for abandoning the two-party system...
...there is no agreement about the type of reform needed. Some wish to abolish the draft altogether, replacing it with either a professional army or nothing at all. Others support the concept of universal service, which would encompass a whole range of military and non-military programs. While such "total" solutions have their merits, discussion of them should be postponed. Abolition of the draft and universalization of the draft would both require truly massive bureaucratic alterations. Congress would understandably hesitate to ask such changes from a military establishment already occupied with other matters. The Selective Service System should be reformed...
This qualification obviously limits the appeal of any proposed reform. By definition, a selective service system involves elements of coercion and arbitrariness. No such system can be comfortable to live with. But the present system is more than uncomfortable; it is shockingly unjust, a scandal in a nation which pretends to be democratic. The injustice has its source in the 2-S deferment, and reform efforts should center on the abolition of this feature. The 2-S deferment means in practice that most of those with the money to go to college do not get drafted. The provision makes...
...draft has finally entered the university to the detriment of the university, and it is now incumbent upon students and educators to lead a nation-wide lobbying campaign for reform of the Selective Service. On most campuses, the students have been ahead of their administrations and faculties in recognizing the importance of reform. At Chicago and CCNY, the split between students and administration has provoked the former into employing singularly inappropriate tactics. To protest military intrusion in the academy, the students themselves set a dangerous precedent by using brute force to dramatize their position. A whole host of milder methods...
...students have over-reacted at some universities, they have under-reacted at Harvard. Dean Monro long ago recognized the need for reform, and he has now joined in a national effort to convince other educators, and Congress, of that need. His proposals closely parallel those outlined here. He deserves, and has not yet received, the active support and help of all students who agree that class-privilege legislation will eventually undermine the integrity of the university and the society it serves...