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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1968)
White House Silence on Draft Brings Chaos Amona Grads By RICHARD ANTHONY Collrgtjit* Prm Mrrvlcr WASHINGTON (CPS)—Hast fall, education officials were saying that chaos would re sult if President Johnson didn't act to clear up the uncertain ties in the draft situation by the first of this year. The first has come and gone, the White House is still silent on the draft, and graduate schools and potential grad stu dents arc seeing the first Bigns of the chaos that was predicted. There are two major questions that still must be decided re garding the draft: the first is, how are the actual draftees to be selected from the pool of draft-eligible men; the second is, what academic fields, if any, are to be designated as provid ing draft deferments for those doing graduate work in them. (Under the terms of the 1067 draft law, the National Se curity Council actually has the power to decide the second question. The council includes high oflicials such as the vice president and the secretary of state, as well as the President. In fact, though, the President will undoubtedly make the fi nal decision on both questions concerning the draft, if any de cisions are made). Nothing Certain Graduate school deans have been predicting that their in coming classes next fall would be made up primarily of veter ans and women, since they as sumed most graduating male seniors would be drafted. This prediction may turn out to be true, but at this point there's no way of knowing, because the President hasn't yet said whom he's going to draft. Therefore, graduate schools which are beginning to make decisions on applicants can't tell whether or not the students they accept this spring will be coming in the fall A similar problem exists for students. College seniors ami first year grad students can't plan for future study until the government's draft policies are cleared up. At this point any speculation about what the White House will do must be very tentative, because there really is no way of knowing. Education oflicials with close contacts in govern ment predicted action by the President before Christmas, and nothing came of it. There are, however, a few observations that can be made. WEAR CLEAN CLOTHES! Wash and Clean: 20c-50c Dry: 10 minutes for 10c Dry Cleaning: 8 lbs. for $2 Bundle Service: 12c a lb. KNIPS COIN LAUNDRY 30th and Hilyard Phone 345-9291 It appears that the Presi dent (or, in this case, the Presi dent and other members of the National Security Council) will not grant deferments to all grad students in the natural sciences, math and engineering. A special government com mittee set up to study the de ferment question last year rec ommended deferments of this kind. Although the White House has not said anything public ly about a decision, education officials have been told privately that the President has rejected the committee’s recommenda tions. Deferments Unknown Whether he and the coun cil will designate certain nar rowly deflned fields as draft - deferrable is at this point un known. On the question of how draf tees will be chosen, there is only one thing that can be said with a relative degree of certain ty at this point — the White House will do something. If it doesn’t, and if Congress also fails to act, then the tradition al Selective Service method of drafting the oldest eligible male first will be followed, meaning that the Army will be full of college graduates. To make sure that there is some diversity in the ages of the draftees, the President will have to take action. What he will do, and when, however, is not clear at this point. John Morse, an official of the American Council of Edu cation (ACE), believes the President will set up seven age groups, one for each year from 19 to 25, and then order draft boards to choose a Council Names IFC Candidates Nominations for Interfrater nity Council officers were made in a council meeting Wednes day night. Sole candidate for IFC presi dent named during the meeting of fraternity presidents was Ed die Ellis of Beta Theta Pi. Candidates for executive vice president are Les DeWitt of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Gary Gillian of Delta Tau Delta. Jack Mullin of Theta Chi, Steve Rudd of Pi Kappa Alpha. George Weston of Chi Phi and Jim Miller of Sigma Alpha Ep silon are candidates for tribunal chairman. Secretary-treasurer candidate is George Neilson of Chi Phi. Nominations for the positions will be open until the next meeting of IFC Council on Feb ruary 7. In other business IFC presi dent Bill Piche announced that Bob Duncan, candidate for U.S. Senate, will speak at the Uni versity as a guest of the IFC January 30. The council also discussed the possibility of a new interpreta tion by President Flemming of the State Board of Higher Edu cation’s policy of admission se lection. Flemming states that fraternities must be free from the nationals in determining the percentage of members needed in admission of new members. Volkswagen Specialists OPEN: Monday-Friday—8 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays—8 a.m. 12 p.m. • LOW REPAIR CHARGES • WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED • FACTORY TRAINED IN GERMANY • FULLY EQUIPPED TO HANDLE ALL GERMAN MAKES GERMAN AUTO SERVICE 2045 Franklin Blvd. 342-2912 certain percentage of each group for service. Presumably about a third of draft-eligible college men would be taken under such a system, since draft needs for the coming year arc anticipated at about a third of the total draft-eligible pool. Whether Morse's prediction is borne out or not, it is safe to say that not all draft-eligi ble college graduates will be drafted. Unfortunately there is no way of predicting which of them will be taken. Priority may be given to those with birth days early in the year, as some have suggested, but then again it may not. Morse and other education officials in Washington are now concentrating their efforts on getting Congress to clear up the draft situation. Atlhough there is not much an individual student can do to get action from the White House, students can assist in pushing for Congres sional action by writing to Sen ators and Representatives. Student Traffic Appeals Denied Two appeals from traffic court were denied in student court Friday. Both defendants were issued citations for parking in a dis abled persons’ parking space. One defendant pleaded guil ty, but felt the $10 fine was too much for him to pay. He also felt he lacked an understand ing of the law concerning dis abled person’s parking places. Disabled persons are assign ed individually to a certain parking space. A passenger in the defendant’s car was blind so he thought he had grounds to use a disabled person’s park ing lace behind the EMU. The traffic code cites illegal park ing in these places as a serious violation. The other defendant was park ed in the lot cast of the Sci ence building. He entered a plea of guilty, but thought he had been charged an excessive fine for only being parked for five minutes. He did not see the officer writing the citation. The court replied that the officer had no idea of the length of time the car had been there. If the per son assigned to the place had arrived he would have been in convenienced by the defendant’s car. Oregon Daily Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald la pub lished Monday thru Friday, Septem ber to May, except during exam and vacation periods. 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