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...deferment screws were also tightened upon the national service organizations like the Peace Corps, VISTA, and the Teacher Corps. The National Security Council will probably classify them as essential to the national interest since McNamara and General Hershey both favor the idea and the other Council members are Administration officials not anxious to kill Great Society programs. But even if national service volunteers (mostly college graduates) receive occupational deferments for the duration of their national service, under the new law they can expect to incur maximum liability to the draft when they complete their term--even if they are over...
Pell added that "for purposes of commissioning, however, the cadet who receives an unsatisfactory grade (below 70) is in doubtful status. His acceptability for commission would be contingent upon demonstrated and estimated leadership potential and officer qualities...
This year it has been made quite clear to freshman proctors that they are obligated to turn in drug abusers (users, sellers, possessors). But perhaps characteristic of the wake-me-when-it's-over attitude that the fears and pressures have brought upon the deans, F. Skiddy von Stade said nothing to the freshmen last week about drugs in his annual address. Proctors, however, have said something, and it has generally been tough...
...University that the sympathies of most of the B&G men were with it and not with the other unions seeking official recognition as the B&G bargaining agent. Because there were so many unions exercising claims on the right to represent the B&G men, Harvard insisted upon a state-run election as the means of choosing the bargaining agent...
Legerdemain of this sort is the special talent of 29-year-old Joyce Carol Oates. As she demonstrated in an earlier novel (With Shuddering Fall) and two volumes of short stories (By the North Gate, Upon the Sweeping Flood), she is a literary oddity. An upstate New York Yankee, she creates countrified characters who burn with the kind of short-fused violence and curious pride of privacy that have always been the exclusive hallmark of writers from the South...