White House Silence on Draft
Brings Chaos Amona Grads
By RICHARD ANTHONY
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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.
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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.
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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.
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