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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 13, 1968
Graduate students feel draft pressure
Thanks to Uncle Sam and the Selective Service System, the KU Graduate School table has seen less business this year than in previous enrollments.
The Graduate School could possibly lose several hundred students since the Selective Service's decision Feb. 16 to rule out draft deferments on the basis of graduate study in any field except the medical specialties cited by law.
Since the ruling does not affect graduate students already in their second or subsequent year of graduate study, many graduate students have returned to KU. However, there has been a drop in 1968 graduates and graduate students who entered the school last fall.
Just how great a drop in enrollment the school will experience will not be known until enrollment has been completed,
but it may be heavy among 1968 graduates.
This drop will be partly compensated for, however, by the return of many Vietnam veterans who are entering the school.
On the national level, Pentagon authorities estimate 68,000 graduate students will be satched up by the draft. However, experts like Mrs. Betty Vetter, executive director of the Scientific Manpower Commission in Washington, D.C., predict more than twice the Pentagon's estimate. They say the total will be more like 175,000 men pulled out of graduate schools.
In the meantime, graduate students across the country can only worry about their futures.
The Selective Service System's decision was brought about primarily by cries that a moneyed few could keep out of the service indefinitely. A young man
could enter a graduate school and leave not only with a higher degree, but with a wife and family and perhaps an "essential occupation," all of which would diminish his chances of being called into service.
Congress passed a law in July, 1967, which continued graduate deferments in medicine and the ministry, but left it up to the National Security Council to determine what other "essential fields" would receive deferments.
Their answer: none.
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Those KU graduates and first year graduate students who have not yet been drafted are walking on thin ice. They still may be called up. If this happens, they will be dumped into the 19-to-26-year-old draft pool, most of them as the oldest men in it.
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