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University cooperation with the Selective Service System is currently coming under sharp criticism across the country.
At the University of Chicago an estimated 350 students sat-in at the administration building in protest to the school's practice of supplying a student's academic record to local draft boards even at the student's request. A similar sit-in took place at the City College of New York.
A number of schools, such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Michigan, have threatened not to cooperate with the Selective Service in protest to the use of grades in draft selection.
The question of supplying class standing to draft noards is a difficult one. It is generally accepted, and reaffirmed in resolution by the National Registrar's Association, that a student has the right of privacy in regard to his academic record.
HERE AT KU, a group of faculty members have signed a petition objecting to the administration's cooperation with the draft.
But, on the other hand, if a student doesn't supply his record to the local draft board, the assumption will probably be made that his grades are below the minimum for a deferment. And in any case, the local board could subpoena the records.
TOSE OBJECTING to the system maintain
that draft procedure involves only the student and his draft board and that the university should only make information available if the student requests it.
The demonstrators at the University of Chicago objected to even this, maintaining that the university should never supply academic records to local boards. They argue that if a university makes grades available to a draft board even if only at the student's request, then every student would have to give his grades to the local board in order to maintain his deferment. They believe that academic grades should not be a criteria of academic draft eligibility.
UNDER CURRENT circumstances there seems little that can be done. An overhaul of the draft system is needed, but that overhaul is unlikely to be accomplished while the country is in the midst of a war, and it seems likely that the Viet Nam war will continue for some time. And with or without the cooperation of the universities, students will continue to be drafted.
Unfortunately there seems little that a university can do, except permit a student to do with his grades whatever he wishes. The real fault lies not with the reluctant cooperation by universities but with the draft itself and the war, both of which are largely unpopular, especially in academic communities.
By Justin Beck
Gross-out contest
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Jayhawker editor strikes back
To the Editor:
"We would hate to intimate" that there is a wild-eyed editorial writer on the Kansan staff disguised as a mild-mannered gorilla, but . . . Wednesday's Kansan editorial on the various inadequacies of the Jayhawker appears to have been the result of a Sanskrit thesaurus, a gallon of root beer, and a midnight meeting at the Holiday Inn. When the Kansan challenges the Jayhawker to a gross-out contest, we can rest assured that the silly season is upon us.
Seriously, Miss Thayer is grossly incorrect in her deduction that seniors who want fourth editions of the Jayhawker will have to get them through the mail. The fourth edition will be distributed on Thursday, May 26, in the rotunda of Strong Hall. The 75-cent mailing charge is for
mid-year dropouts and seniors who graduated at the semester to have all four editions mailed first class.
PERTAINING TO the implication that the editor and business manager of the Jayhawker "might be padding their bonuses" (i.e., stealing) with the excess of the incorrect estimate of 15 cents per mailing, we would suggest that Miss Thayer check with Comproller Nitcher and Vice-Chancellor Nichols on the amount of graft they allow when auditing our books. It would seem that these veiled accusations are in extremely poor taste and judgment, especially coming from a young lady who screamed bloody libel during the recent campus elections. While the Wednesday editorial is indicative of the amateurism found in any student publication including the
Jayhawker, the accusations implied in the editorial are inexcusable because they arose solely from slothful reporting.
In closing we are forced to concede the gross-out contest to the Kansan. We were disappointed to find nothing the Jayhawker staff could produce at this late date would even remotely compare with the article which appeared in the Kansan concerning the Japanese fisherman who lost honor and life in a most unfortunate region of a whale's anatomy.
John Casady, editor 1966 Jayhawker
"I'm Still Captain Here! Avast! Shiver Me Timbers! Blast Ye!"
News quirks...
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SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—(UPI) Police rushed to the Alamo following reports that two nude men had scaled the six foot fence and were diving in the Texas shrine's wishing well pool.
The reports proved to be all wet.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—(UPI) Police were called to a barroom on a complaint by a man that two men were molesting his wife. When questioned, the woman told officer George Wilson: "The only one who ever bathers me is my husband."
LEFFINGHAM, England — (UPI) - Holes in the road were selling briskly in this seaside village today. The sale was organized by residents to finance road repairs. The holes were selling, according to size, for $1.40 to $5.60. About $280 has been raised so far.
LONDON —(UPI)— Two wallets were stolen in London's high court Thursday. They belonged to judges who left their jackets in chambers while robbed for trial.
IN THE South China Sea, a mammoth whale recently gave birth to a full-grown Japanese whale hunter. It was a still birth.
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Daily Kansan editorial page Friday, May 20, 1966
WHATSAMATTER? YA CUT HIS CLASS AGAIN?"
The people say...
Draft test scoring is 'garbage'; partial to mediocre students
To the Editor:
Hopefully there is a mistake in the quote you attribute to Science Research Associates (page 1 of Tuesday's UDK), as follows:
"The Document Reader Computer will begin grading the tests tomorrow and rank in order all the scores according to standard deviations from an arbitrary mean, to be selected at random later.
"All of the scores which fall within the standard deviation of 70 from the arbitrary mean will qualify for the II-S deferment subject to the local Selective Service Boards.
STATISTICALLY, this seems to be sheer garbage. The scores can be ranked in order at once, but the computation of "standard (sic) deviations from an arbitrary mean, to be selected at random later" must await the selection of that mean. It seems to me that deviations, perhaps expressed in standard deviation units, is more reasonable, but even that fails to make sense later. It strikes me as being most peculiar that the mean should be selected at random, especially after the data has been gathered.
Further, the standard deviation is then given as 70, and yet not even the mean is yet known. Moreover, scores falling "within (one) standard deviation of 70 from the arbitrary mean" will be passing, and those more than one standard deviation above or below the mean will, by exclusion, fail. In other words, mediocre students are favored, but bright students and slow students are considered equally for cannon fodder if the arbitrary mean is near the sample mean.
Please, please verify this statement.
John A. Hendrickson Jr.
Bethel Park, Pa., graduate student
EDITOR'S NOTE—When the reporter talked with Science Research Associates of Chicago, they reported exactly what was in the Kansan. They said to be any more precise the words they used would be impossible for the reporter to pronounce, let alone spell.
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