Science research faces
draft of grad students
WASHINGTON (CPS)—Unless changes are
made in the present draft regulations as they
affect graduate students, the nation’s supply of
trained Ph.D.s in the sciences will be “seriously
curtailed” in the 1970's.
That is the conclusion of a survey of the draft’s
effect on male students now in their first or
second year of graduate school in the sciences,
released this week by the Scientific Manpower
Commission, an independent Washington research
firm.
According to data furnished by 1.237 Ph.D.
granting science departments in institutions
throughout the U.S., as many as 46 per cent
first-and second-year male graduate students are
potentially eligible for induction in the next few
months.
That’s 50 per cent of all graduate students who
are also employed by universities to teach under
graduate classes, and 47 per cent of those who
are employed to do research in the sciences.
Many unversities told the Commission they will
not be able to find enough students to teach
courses during the next year, and that research
projects may have to be curtailed, reduced or
delayed if no changes in graduate deferment
are made this year.
The present policy of drafting oldest eligible
men first means that first-and second-year gradu
ate students, most recently reclassified since last
spring’s policy change, are first priority to fill
draft calls, which are expected to stay at the
30,000-plus level through the coming summer.
The survey was limited to science departments
because the organizations which sponsor the Com
mission are scientific academic groups. It be
lieves, however, results of this first survey are
roughly applicable to general graduate school
enrollment.
The Commission also speculated about the
reasons for the failure of Fall 1968’s projected
enrollment drop to materialize. The slowness of
the reclassification process, it said, combined
with the summer setback in physical examina
tions, was a major reason.
Another was that many students returned to
or started graduate school although in imminent
danger of reclassification, because "they just
wanted to get as far as they could." or because
they had federal scholarships or grants which
required them to enroll immediately. Those schol
arships would then be waiting for them after they
came out of military service, if they were drafted.
Of the more than 4.000 male graduate students
who were reported to have been accepted to a
department and then failed to enroll, however,
about one-fourth were known to have either been
drafted or to have voluntarily entered military
service.
Many students, of course, when faced with im
minent drafting, have chosen to join a service
other than the Army, hoping to avoid dutv in
Vietnam.
"There is no way,” the survey report states,
"to predict accurately how many of the first
and second year graduate students who are liable
to induction will be called to service before
summer.
"But inductions are likely to be highest among
this group, since current regulations require
that a draft board fill its quota from the oldest
available men. Few non-college men are available
in the age group 22-25, where most of these stu
dents fall.”
According to the Commission, the importance
in all of this is not how many students are lost
during the 1968-69 school year itself, or during
any given semester, but the final toll on students
and universities in the next five-year period.
"Although many may be allowed to complete
this school year if an induction notice is not is
sued before they are in the final term, this does
not change the fact that most of these draft
eligible men may be unable to complete their
graduate training prior to entry into the service.
A substantial loss of first- and second-year gradu
ate students inevitably will reduce ihe size of
advanced Ph D. classes in following years.
"The Commission believes that the results ob
tained in this survey,” the report concludes, "are
substantial enough to provide those concerned
with scientific manpower an insight into the po
tential impact of current draft policy on gradu
ate education in the sciences, and on the future
supply of highly trained personnel in disciplines
crucial to the future well-being of the nation."
Safeway considered
grape boycott target
The Safeway Supermarket on
E. 18th Ave. may be the tar
get of a grape boycott in the
middle of this term. Plans for
the boycott were discussed at a
meeting Tuesday night.
“We’re going to talk with
the manager of the store and
see if we can get them to stop
selling grapes,” said Robbie
Hanna.
Otherwise, students from
South Eugene High School, the
University and the Chicano Stu
dent Union, an organization of
Spanish-American students, will
Term enrollment
close to fall total
Enrollment for winter term
at the University totaled 14,227
Friday, the final day of the reg
istration period.
While a few more registra
tions. by petition, are expected
to increase the enrollment, the
total already is only .044 per
cent below the final enrollment
of 14,884 for fall term of this
academic year. The normal drop
between fall and winter terms
is 5 per cent, according to Reg
istrar Clifford Constance.
Enrollment for winter term,
last year, stood at 13,167 at the
close of registration. Following
that date, some 150 additional
registrations by petition were
tallied.
take part in a demonstration,
she added.
Also discussed at the meet
ing was the tentative re-show- r
ing of the documentary film,
■‘Huelga!”
It features the march from
Delano to Sacramento, the liv
ing conditions in Delano hous
ing for migrant farmers, and Ce
sar Chavez, director of the or
ganizing committee of the Uni
ted Farm Workers which is try
ing to form a union.
It will be distributed to the
dorm complexes for public
viewing by Elaine Berg, a mem
ber of the grape boycott.
Literature on the grape boy
cott and the imigrant farm -
er’s strike in Delano is available
at the Student Community Proj
ects table on the EMU terrace.
An informal meeting is sched
uled at 6 p.m. Feb. 4 in the
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Poet: reading, being
By SHERYL MACY
Of The Emerald
All my archetypes are foods,
and my greatest archetype is
peanut butter. Robert Sward;
professional poet. Almost as
rare as a professional shepherd.
Standing there in his Jewish
hair reading his own poetry. For
all sorts of sound theatrical rea
sons. poets shouldn't read their
own poetry. For all sorts of
feeling non-thinking being rea
sons no one should read poetry
but the men who write it.
Impossible Hurricane Loss—
of—NamePoem. Death’s Thou
sand Year Old Fiancee. Quiet
silent EMU room. Silence ex
cept for the nasal non-oratory
of these poems and their emo
tional offsprings.
Touch us hurts us poke around
the insides of our minds. Show
us what you have felt. We can
understand even if we can't
explain. Eight o'clock, nine
o'clock. Don’t stop now, it's only
Tuesday.
Robert Sward; professional
human organism; intellectual
orgasm. Velvet jacket, nervous
drink water. A poet? You make
a living that way?
In my last life 1 was a Con
federate soldier killed in ac
tion. My foot believes it will be
reincarnated as a chicken, I
am the first human being to
take a vaccine guaranteeing I
will not be reincarnated as any
form of water fowl; duck, goose
or chicken. There are better
things to be in 2001 AT), than
a chicken.
Lived in Iowa, lived in Mex
ico; dreams, hallucinations. My
friend was high for three weeks,
the best hash money could buy.
Lived on a diet of champagne
and bah y food. All my
poems are outgrowths of friend
ships. when I read them they
summon forth my friends, some
times painfully.
I am writing a book. You call
that a book. Pieces of poems,
party of play, a novel whose
main character is Ferdinand
the Pig. I will read you a letter
to my friend Robert from the
book. It is, yes, a book.
Back to Iowa, a tornado fun
nel full of butterflies, a back
yard full of butterflies and rain
bow.
1 must got to bed now.
No don't go.
Take this paper.
It is not you.
It has some of me on it. Lay
your hand on it and feel all
the words like braille.
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