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Acording to Thomas K. Sisson, assistant dean of the GSAS, present first-year Black Fellows are assured of continuing support, but there is no guarantee that individual departments will enroll new Black Prize Fellows, as opposed to a larger number of other graduate students, under the committee's plan...
Paul spent the Wednesday morning of his arrest before Judge Wyzanski, hero of the Sisson conscientious objection case. The judge set Couming's bail at $10,000 and Paul was taken to Dedham prison. The CRIMSON on Thursday reported his father as saying. "Paul wants the money to be raised not for his own use, but for the Movement." Right...
...Postponed action on whether a draftee may claim conscientious-objector status because of specific objection to the Viet Nam War. The selective C.O. issue was put off when the court ruled that the case of John Sisson Jr., a recent Harvard graduate who had refused induction because he opposed the war, had been improperly appealed from a federal district court. At the same time, the court accepted two cases for next term that raise the same issue. (In similar fashion earlier last month, the court decided a case challenging the constitutionality of capital punishment. The court disposed...
...ruling does not exempt those who object to the Viet Nam War specifically and not to wars in general. This seemingly illogical notion is, in fact, the point of another C.O. appeal before the Supreme Court, which was argued the same day as Welsh. That case involves John H. Sisson Jr., a recent Harvard graduate who refused induction on the ground, among others, that Congress cannot constitutionally force a man to fight in a war to which he is conscientiously opposed. How the court will handle that complex and intriguing argument cannot be predicted, but a ruling on Sisson...
...second case, the government is appealing the decision obtained by John H. Sisson'67, which ruled that the draft law unconstitutionally discriminated against non-religious objectors. The ruling of U.S. District Court Judge Charles E. Wyzanski'27 on Sisson's case, if upheld, will allow conscientious objection to a particular...