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...Scrap Soldiers Field; just give me Sanders...
Much like the trainer whose stunt horse finally begins acting out of habit and not merely for sugar, draft officials think it is time to tighten student deferments and other exemptions or else scrap the whole Selective Service system and substitute Universal Military Training. Draft officials sense that students and everyone else of draft age now know they will have to serve sometime. With a dwindling manpower supply they contend that this is the opportune time to decide whether to skimp on deferments or institute UMT. But until President Eisenhower and Congress decide which course they will take, the present...
...council election committee should either investigate these conditions at once and keep closer check on this in future elections, or else scrap all election rules if they do not feel they are able to enforce them. (name withheld by request...
...maids got a locker room in the House basement, and saw their eight a.m. check in hour moved up to nine. Finally, in 1936, the University agreed to scrap the employer employee relationship that left every maid for herself, and recognize a union as the official intercessor...
Each succeeding class has added to the collection. When scrap iron was scarce during the war, students rounded up 300 tons of the stuff. With the proceeds, Rock Springs bought paintings by Manhattan's Raphael Soyer, New Jersey's James Chapin and Connecticut's Ernest Fiene; with a bit left over, Halseth started a fund to buy Grandma Moses' $400 oil, Staunton, Virginia, The kids put on dances, stage shows, wastepaper campaigns, badgered their parents for contributions. People as far away as Manhattan heard about Rock Springs' art craze, wrote advice on what...