Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though most of the college's trustees are Presbyterians, as are two-thirds of the faculty and 46% of the students, chapel attendance is voluntary, and Christianity, in so far as it comes up in the core program, is taught in an ecumenical spirit. "Our task is not to...
According to Friedman, it would take from $4 to $6 billion to attract enough men into the service to end the draft. A Defense Department official, who argued that "econometrics is still an art, not a science," painted a picture of the voluntary army that would cost $17 billion a...
Political gyrations turned the last two sessions of the conference into what one professor described as "intellectual anarchy." In their effort to stall the voluntary army bandwagon, Sol Tax, chairman of the conference's planning committee and professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, and several colleagues at that...
In short, economic interests have displaced ethnic interests. But sociologists insist, with some justice, that this new melt in the melting pot extends chiefly to the political and economic spheres. In other areas, what they call "structural separation" persists. According to a theory first propounded by Sociologist Ruby Jo Reeves...
The resolutions which were drafted in the last hours of the plenary session were an attempt to reconcile two factions: those who wanted a simple condemnation of forced conscription, and others who were willing to condemn the involuntary system, but wanted to include concrete reforms -- in the likely event that...