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...past few years, the Selective Service System has made explicit much that in the past has been implicit in the regulations. The SSS has shown that it is not merely rereading the old regulations; it now feels empowered to create new ones. As the intensity of the war escalates, the SSS appears to expect a similar increase in its own power. The recent hyperactivity of the organization has attracted unprecedented criticism from many quarters, and, quite understandably, repercussions from its actions have been felt on almost every level of college life...
...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...
Upperclassmen can pick up an SSS Form 109 to maintain their 2-S deferments from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at Memorial Hall. Every student must bring his Harvard bursar's card, his Selective Service Registration Certificate, a letter addressed to his local draft board requesting defermen, a stamped envelope addressed to his local board, and a ball point...
Israel gave up his 2-S deferment by refusing to file an SSS Form 109 last fall. He said he regards 2-S an "unfair class privilege," and that he will enter the army if inducted...