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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.
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