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Once again old men talk of sending young men to war. With war mechanized, there is no valid reason why only young, poor men should serve. AU citizens between 18 and 62 should be subject to a random draft. Only the severely handicapped should be exempt. We might all be less inclined to rattle sabers if we thought we had to carry one into battle...
...test. In college and graduate school admissions they say tests are only useful when used in conjunction with high school transcripts and other materials. Many find it convenient to place more emphasis on the test than they had intended, they say. "Tests are the most valid measure that anyone's devised," Churchill says...
...procedure has been streamlined, and the grounds-once limited to such strict factors as force, fraud, bigamy or impotence-have been quietly loosened. Many diocesan court judges now accept evidence of serious psychological "immaturity" as ex post facto proof of a couple's inability to enter into a valid marriage. In a little-noticed speech two weeks ago to the Vatican's marriage tribunal, John Paul said that psychological theories pressed upon judges are "not always correct," and insisted that judges must reach a "moral certainty," not just a "probability," that a marriage was invalid. Continued relaxation, warned...
However, the youths who oppose the draft as increasing the risk of inadvertent transition from "cold war" to full scale war have valid historical argument on their side...
...critical problems reduces their insistence on greater input to a joke, she says. Parker may have overreacted to their short-sightedness, though, by failing to solicit adequate faculty input for her Futures Report. One feels that she has constructed an elaborate excuse for here behavior, while making a fairly valid point about the ineffectiveness of faculty committees...