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Deferment of students by academic rank is a departure from earlier predicted draft policy. Before the draft committee met last month, it was thought here that it would urge blanket deferment for all students...
However, many educators and other prominent citizens have opposed such a policy on the grounds that it would enable a man to dodge the draft by paying tuition at a college...
...half, one-third, one-fourth fractions of deferred students would be made smaller if the military budget is raised and draft quotas resultingly enlarged. On the other hand, if President Truman succeeds in urging Universal Military Training on Congress, this deferment policy will no longer hold...
Proposals for joint Liberal Union-Young Progressives action against the draft and universal military training will get a hearing at tonight's meeting of the HLU in the Lowell Junior Common Room...
...President Truman should act immediately to stop the draft machinery...