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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1968)
Photo by Doan Tonn LES DANSEURS AFRICAINS PERFORM IN McARTHUR COURT Dancers, musicians caught up in their art. (See story page 1.) Higher Call-Ups Expected Soon Draft May Still Affect Grads Editor’s Note: The following news analysis was released Nov. 1 from the College Press Ser vice. It suggests the draft im pact on grad schools is yet to come. By SUSIE SCHMIDT Collegiate Press Service WASHINGTON — Although graduate schools did not face the 70 per cent reduction in fall enrollment some predicted last year because of the draft, the second semester crunch may hurt them badly. Most universities were taken by surprise when the 25-50 per cent of their students expecting to be drafted returned to school. Analysis They had failed to calculate this fall’s election and its rami fications on the draft in their estimates last spring. In February, when the Selec tive Service System announced that graduate students would no longer be deferred “in the na tional interest,” both universi ties and the government pre dicted schools might lose up to 70 per cent of their first-year students. They forecast a great increase in female and middle aged graduate students. Selective Sei'vice officials pre dicted students would make up as much as 90 per cent of the draft call-ups in many states. The Defense Department said 63 per cent of the 240,000 draf tees predicted for 1969 would be students. Students made up 3.8 per cent this year. But the crunch failed to ma terialize this fall. Draft calls be ginning in July were drastically lower than those for previous months. And they will stay that way until January when the elec tions are over. How much calls wil rise will depend on the manpower needs of the armed forces, the status of the Vietnam war, and the mood of the new President. But they are sure to rise at least a little, according to Mrs. Betty Vetter, an official of the Scientific Manpower Commis sion, a private research agency in Washington. Her prediction is based on the fact that draft calls for the last few years have run in 18-month cycles; the high point of the latest cycle is due in January 1969. Any increase is sure to hit students harder next semester. Under present draft regulations, the oldest eligible males are first to go, and graduate stu dents newly classified 1-A are perfect targets. Those who re ceive induction notices during the present school term are al lowed to stay in school to finish the term, but must then report for induction. But despite the fact that total graduate enrollment has chang ed very little—in numbers, the Morse 'Yes' Said Possible In an interview with KEED radio announcer Gary Scott Tuesday, a friend of Sen. Wayne Morse said he thought the Sena tor would consider becoming president of the University if he were convinced “he would have wide latitude in effectuating programs at the University.” The friend, Roseburg lawyer A. C. Roll, told the station he felt Morse would be “uniquely qualified” to be president, be cause he “would give a new air of democracy and confidence not only to students at the University, but at schools throughout the state.” Roll said whether Morse ac cepted “would depend largely on the amount of freedom that he would have in making pol icy at the University." He would need. Roll said, “to be assured by the governing body at the University that he would have the freedom to in stitute a completely new and modern approach to university education.” Sen. Morse was suggested Monday by Oregon House Speak er F. F. Montgomery for the president’s job in an exclusive interview with the Emerald. Montgomery said he had writ ten a letter to Chancellor Roy Lieuallen of the State system of Higher Education suggesting Morse’s name. Montgomery told KEED in an interview Tuesday he back ed Morse even though he had campaigned for Robert Pack - wood, Morse’s opponent for the Senate. Montgomery said he felt Morse would be able to communicate with both students and faculty. Lieuallen said Tuesday he had not yet received Montgom ery's letter, but when he did he would forward it to the University Presidential Search Committee for consideration. edict has not been without ef fect. Graduate schools at several universities have reported drops in enrollment from one to 20 per cent. At Valparaiso University, 25 of 150 student enrolled in the Law School didn’t register in September. And at many schools, graduate departments found that women and men over 26 made up larger portions of their enrollees than ever before. Some schools claim ed that their students are of lower ability than before the draft. Decline in Morale Such intangible evidence as decline in quality is almost im possible to document. More evi dent is a decline in morale among graduate students. Young men faced with the prospect of being drafted have always been burdened with an overwhelming anxiety few other people experi ence. And graduate students this year, knowing they are sitting atop the proverbial powder keg and may get the letter any day, are unusually nervous and fear ful. Universities, are reacting to their students’ concern in many ways. Several heavily graduate universities, among them Massa chusetts Institute of Technology, have announced that students whose education is interrupted by the draft will later be able to resume their degree work where they left off, and will stand a good chance of having their fellowships renewed. Several schools are also in vestigating new degree programs like MIT’s five-year engineering program in which the student does not officially receive his bachelor’s degree until he re ceives his master’s in a fifth year (and so is classed as an undergraduate for five years). Two-Pronged Attack The institutions are under standably vexed. Many of them concurred with the 1967 recom mendations of the President’s Commission on the Draft. The Commission's report suggested a two-pronged attack on the draft’s present inequities and in justices: abolition of student de ferments and reversal of the present oldest-first system so that 19-year-olds would be draft ed first preferably by lottery. As it happened, policy-makers decided to implement only part of the recommendations, hoping that their move would be popu lar with those who consider that students are un-American and should be drafted, and would at the same time be lauded as needed reform. Now the results of their at tack on “pointy-headed intellect uals” will be felt, not only by the schools and the Army, but by those elements in the nation which depend on educated (and reasonably contented) men and women for existence and grow th. Miss Eugene to Hold Reception Downtown Joanne Saraceno, Miss Eu gene for 1968 will host a recep tion for potential Miss Eugene candidates, according to the Miss Eugene Executive Com mittee. The reception will be held in Harris Hall at the Lane County Courthouse at 7:30 p in. today. According to committee offi cials, Miss Saraceno will discuss her experiences as Miss Eugene and answer questions from the audience. At the same time, the execu tive committee released the names of four new candidates for the 1969 title. The four are: Beth Delyea, a University sophomore; Shira Wright, and Sandra Sires, Uni versity freshmen, and Devonna Legler, a senior at South Eu gene High School. We Give Our Used Volkswagens A Complete Inspection WHY DON'T YOU? 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