Wednesday, April 24,1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Draft causes crisis in college life
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — "Right now, we're not selecting we're just taking," says Gustave O. Arlt, president of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States. "It's not a Selective Service at all."
Hell, no, we won't go, say 38.4 per cent of the men at Yale, according to a survey.
"The lame, the halt, the blind and the female" will be left in graduate schools unless the rules are changed, says Nathan Pusey, president of Harvard.
All of which prompts Lt. Gen.
Lewis B. Hershey to observe that they can criticize the draft system, but: "We got 'em. We got 'em."
While he's been draft director, Hershey has gotten 14 million for three wars—World War II, Korea and now Vietnam.
These comments are all aroused by the fact that it is entirely likely that 240,000 to 340,000 young men will be drafted in the 12 months starting in July and that virtually all of them will hold one or more college degrees.
These are a few of its projected consequences:
-There will be a 70 per cent drop in the number of college men entering graduate school next fall and a 40 per cent drop in overall enrollment.
—Newer and weaker graduate schools may not survive as older institutions find room for students who would normally be turned down by the prestige universities.
—Undergraduate college enrollments will have to be cut because of a shortage of graduate students who, as teaching assistants, assume most of the burden of teaching freshmen and sophomore classes at many big schools.
—Junior colleges have been opening at the rate of one every four days in the United States. But junior colleges will be "unable to find adequate staffs for next year. In the years ahead, as the supply of new teachers emerging from the educational pipeline slows to a trickle, the situation will be even more serious, and will be felt at all levels from the elementary school through college."
The average age of Army inductees will rise from 20 years and four months to about 24 and
Snow, rain halt game
MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL — (UPI)—The scheduled Minnesota-Baltimore baseball game Tuesday was postponed because of heavy rain and occasional snow flurries.
the army, according to one congressman, will be "the best educated, least efficient army in history." It is going to take most of its inductees from that portion of the population which has been most vocal in expressing and most experienced in exhibiting its distaste for the Vietnam War.
The President and the National Security Council eliminated draft deferments last February for all graduate students not now in their second year of study, except those in medicine and dentistry. They decided not to reverse the order in which young men are drafted so as to take the youngest rather than the oldest first.
The effect of those two decisions was to put at the top of the draft barrel 764,000 young men in graduate schools. About 319.,000 of these are subject to callup first.
The National Security Council left occupational deferments to the discretion of local draft boards, based on a judgment of "essential community need." The effect of that action is not predictable, depending as it does on the individual judgments of 4.088 local draft boards.
It was out of fear that young men were dallying in graduate school to evade the draft that Congress authorized the President to abolish deferments for grad students. But it retained de-
ferments for undergraduates.
The elimination of undergraduate deferments was recommended by the President's National Advisory Commission on Selective Service. The commission wanted to reverse the order of call "so that the youngest men,
beginning at age 19, are taken first."
The commission reasoned that if a young man got through his 19th year without being drafted he could expect not to be called and could plan his education and his life on that basis.
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