Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...postwar world. Karlheinz Stockhausen and Hans Werner Henze have emerged as composers of worldwide status, and a younger group of West Berliners is experimenting with "post-pop realism." Just about every West German town of any size has opera and repertory theater. And for those who prefer to stay at home, West Germany's two state-owned TV channels pipe some of the world's most original and tasteful tube-borne entertainment into more than ten million West German homes...
...faculty can easily unmask the student deferment as discriminatory, since it basically protects only those fortunate or rich enough to stay in college and graduate school until they are no longer draftable...
...must be a "full-time student in good academic standing with his school." If "a full-time students" scores above 70 on the draft exam he will be safe as an undergraduate, while he must score above 80 to continue through graduate school. The other route lets a student stay in college if he can maintain an average which places him in a certain upper fraction of the class...
...student must prove at all times that he is a full-time student in order to stay out of the Army, there is no latitude for the "year off" or "year abroad" which is often recommended by educators. Thus eliminating the leave of absence represents the first in a series of impositions which the Selective Service has introduced in the colleges...
...student described 2-S as a "class-conscious deferment which protects only those who are rich or fortunate enough to stay in school until they are no longer draftable." A number of professors at the conference complained that the student deferment had placed a "false value" on formal education by allowing students to avoid the draft and "hide in the endless catacombs of education...