Word: sss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deferments will probably be granted only to students in the exact sciences and related fields. Those planning to do graduate work in urban sociology or in the economics of underdevelopment, for example, will be asked to do the fighting while the chemical engineer and the mathematicians stay home. The SSS has decided that only the latter are in the "national interest...
...intensified enforcement of SSS regulations has not been enough--the rules have been extended to include punitive measures. General Hershey's original directive "suggested" the reclassification of demonstrators and obstructors because their actions were, again, not in the "national interest." The exercise of the right of dissent changed their status from that of a student deferred in the national interest to that of a person in a "nonessential" endeavor...
That a suggestion from General Hershey might be adhered to quite strictly within the SSS is indicated by a state SSS director's remark: "The two greatest men in my life," he told me, pointing to two photographs on his wall, "are the late John F. Kennedy and General Hershey...
...physical examination; a member of a midwestern SDS chapter was re-classified by virtue of his membership; anti-war demonstrators at the University of Michigan have been re-classified; and the list could go on and can be expected to grow. Many guidelines have been thrown overboard by the SSS in its concern to "unify" the nation by squashing dissent...
...question is forced upon us: when has an institution, with its present structure, outlived its usefulness? Is the SSS (established in its present form during the 1940's in the context of a declared war and national emergency) no longer set up in the interest of the country? Is the SSS itself perhaps not in the "national interest" which it is, paradoxically, empowered to define...