Show March 25 1967 Student Utah State University Life Page 5 Aoaswes Gives Draft Ansvms IjS sHs°vlce rf Richard Anthony CPS different Selec classifications are the foil it is suggested for future list be retained f fie different There are which are identified as follows: 18 fictions ectve Service CLASS listed Classifications 1 Available for Class service rLs 1AO: Conscientious ob for noncomba Hor available j military service only of the Arm rlass lC: Member United States the of Wees Environmental Science Ser or the Public Admin ces able to the Selective Service Sy stem regarding scientific person nel? Ans: Each State has a Com mlttee on Engineering and Sclen tific Personnel available for gen eral advice or specific counsel on Individual cases Q: If there is a shortage of mathematics teachers in a city but a surplus In the State how is uniform classification within the State possible? Ans: It isn’t That is why the Congress has given broad auth ority to local boards to meet the problems of the localities they represent Q: What facts are considered by the local board In determi nlng a registrant’s classifica tlon? Ans: Classification is deter mined solely on the basis of the official forms of the Selective Service System and such other irv training written information as may be Conscientious ob contained In a registrant’s file available for civilian work Oral Information should be maintenance mtrlbutlng to the in writing and placed In health safety He national the registrant’s file Interest Q: I want my attorney to go with Student deferred Class me when I have my personal ap statute pearance before the local board Conscientious ob Class Must I file Ills name with the civilian work dor performing local board clerk In advance? jniributlng to the maintenance Ans: It Is not permissible for health safety i gig national him to go with you in that Se Interest (or who has com lective Service regulations pro eted such work) vide that no registrant may be Registrant qualified Class In time of represented before the local r military service board by anyone acting as attor-near or national emergency or legal counsel Q: I began graduate study in CLASS II September 1967 and am making satisfactory progress Will I be Occupational def Class entitled to continued deferment In rment for my second year of school Class llC: Agricultural defer next September? ent Ans: No Under the advice of Student deferment Class the National Security Council on III CLASS February 16 1968 deferment for graduate study was limited to registrants in medicine dentis Class lllA: Registrant with a try or an allied medical spec and registrant ild or children laity or those who had entered inferred by reason of extreme the second or subsequent year of lardslup to dependents granduate study last fall Q: Under what authority does CLASS IV Council the National Security make recommendations on grad Class Registrant who uate and occupational defer is completed service sole sur ments? Who are members of the rmg son Council? Class Official deferred Ans: Congress by law has directed the National Security Class Alien not current Council to advise the Director of liable for military service Selective Service periodically Class IVD: Minister of re Lwn or concerning deferment of needed divinity student Class IV F: Registrant not qua professional and scientific per sonnel and those in critical skills dud tor any military service and other essential occupations Members of the Council are the CLASS V President Vice President Sec of State Secretary of Class Registrant over the retary and Director of the : of liability for military ser- - Defense Office of Emergency Planning Q: Now that the National Se Q: How many deferments may curity Council has recommend person have? ed that the lists of essential ac Ans There is no limit to the tlvlties and critical occupations 'umber that may be be suspended Is there a change in given pro ided each is the authority for granting oc adequately suppor ed by current evidence which cupatlonal deferments? Mil convince the Local Board Ans: No Local draft boards le deferment is In the national have the continuing responsibill ealth safety or Interest ty under law to use their dis 5: Is any expert advice avail cretlon to grant occupational de alth Service lD: Member of reserve iponentor student taking mil lr d y II-- IV-- IV-- law IV-- 1) ferments in Individual cases based on a showing of essential community need Q: What Is the first htstorl cal record of conscription of manpower for military service? Ans According to the Bible 2 3 the following Numbers is related: “Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel after their families by the house of their fathers with the number of their names every male by their polls from 20 years old and upward all that are able to go forth to war In Israel thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies’’ Thus with divine sanction a military enumeration was conducted by a lawgiver no less than Moses himself and Israel thereby rals ed a conscript army numbering 603550 Q: How can I find out how a friend of mine In the same Lo cal Board was classified at a meeting last week? Ans The Military Selective Service Act provides that there shall be posted In a conspicu ous place at each local Board a list setting forth the names and classifications of those per sons who have been classified by such local board Q: When registrant or other person is given a certain num ber of days to furnish tnforma tion or perform some other duty on what day does the time be gin to run? Ans: The period of days al lowed a registratn or other per son to perform any act or duty required of him shall be count ed as beginning on the day following that on which the notice to him is posted or mailed Q: May I volunteer for through the Selective Service System even If I have a Class m-deferment? Ans: Any registrant may make application for voluntary Induction by signing Application for Voluntary Induction (SS Form however the Local 254) If Board on review of your case should classify you In Class llA you llC or retain you In III-will not be processed as a vol unteer Q: Does the Military Selective Service Act provide any special consideration for the National Guard? ' Ans: Section 1 (d) of the Act states “that it is essential that the strength and organization of the National Guard both Ground and Air as an Integral part of the first line defenses of this Nation be at all times main tained and assured” Section 6(c) (2) (A) of the same Act for the deferment from for members of the NaGuard as long as they tional satisfactorily participate In training They are to serve in this capacity for 6 years during which time they must complete not less than four consecutive months of active duty for training 1 pro-vid- WASHINGTON (CPS) Last education officials were that chaos would result saying If President Johnson didn’t act to clear up the uncertainties 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 students are seeing the first signs 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 drafteligible men the second Is what academic fields If any are to be designated as providing draft deferments for those doing graduate work In them Under the terms of the 1967 draft law the National Security Council actually has the power to decide the second question The Council includes high of ficials such as the Vice Pres ident and the Secretary of State as well as the President In fact though the President will undoubtedly make the final de cision on both questions con cerning the draft if any decisions are made Graduate school deans have Does WASHINGTON (CPS) a young man who burns his draft card engage In an act of “sym bolic speech” which in no way interferes with the legitimate processes of government? Or should his action be label-eas conduct rather than speech and does this conduct hinder the effective operation of the Selective Service System? The US Supreme Court heard arguments both ways In a highly controversial case testing the constitutional validity of a 1965 law making it unlawful for any person to knowingly destroy or mutilate his draft card This is the first test of the law the Supreme Court The case was initiated by P O’Brien 2l‘1Twho was convicted under the law In the Boston Federal Court In 1966 However the Court of Appeals for the First District struck down the law as unconstitutional but found that O’Brien was gull-tof not possessing his draft card and he was sentenced to prison anyway The case reached the Supreme Court on appeal from both the and O’Department Justice Justice The Brien’s attorneys decl Department appealed the sion that the law Is unconsti-tutlonand In a separate case O’Brien appealed that it was unconstitutional for him to be d be-fo- Da-vi- d y Get one of our cute Sun Bikinis or ° Swim Suits by Catalina Beach Party and Villager NOW!! 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East 4 th North Logan tlonal Security Council) will not grant deferments to all grad students In the natural sciences math and engineering A special government commit tee set up to study the defer-mequestion last year recom mended deferments of this kind Although the White House has not said anything publicly about a decision education officials have been told privately that the President has rejected the com mittee’s recommendations Whether he and the Council will designate certain narrowly defined fields as draftdeferrable Is at this point unknown On the question of how draf tees will be chosen there is only one thing that can be said with a relative degree of cert White ainty at this point-t- he House will do something If It doesn’t and if Congress also fails to act then the traditional Selective Service method of draft ing the oldest eligible males 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 is not do and when however clear at this point John Morse an official of the American Council on Education believes the President (ACE) will set up seven age groups one for each year from 19 to 2 5 and then order draft boards to choose a certain percentage of each group for service Pre sumably about a third of draft eligible college men would be taken under such a system since draft needs for the coming year are anticipated at about a third of the total drafteligible pooL Whether Morse’s prediction is borne out or not it is safe to say that not all drafteligible col lege graduates will be drafted Unfortunately there Is no way of predicting which of them will be taken Priority may be given to those with birthdays early in the year as some have suggest ed but then again It may not Morse and other education of ficials In Washington are now concentrating their efforts on getting Congress to clear up the draft situation Although there is not much an Individual student can do to get action from the White House students can assist in pushing for Congressional action by writing to Senators and Representatives Supreme Court Considering Case Sun - Swim - Fun Let Us Put Your been predicting that their lncom lug classes next fall would be made up primarily of veterans and women since they assumed most graduating male seniors would be drafted This predic-tio- n may turn out to be true but at this point there’s no way of knowing because the Presl dent hasn’t yet said who he’s going to draft Therefore graduate schools which are beginning to make de clsions 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 and first-yea- r 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 be cause there really Is no way of knowing Education officials with close contacts in government pre dieted action by the President and nothing before Christmas came of it There are however a few observations that can be made It appears that the President (or In this case the President and other members of the Na fall Awaits you!! It’s Fun To Shop at THE SPORTSMAN Main USU UB and 129 No 0 sentenced for nonpossesslon of his draft card when he was In dieted and tried for burning the card Marvin M Karpatkin an Amer lean Civil Libertieis Union law yer who argued O’Brien’s case before the Supreme Court said O’Brien burned his draft card as an act of “symbolic speech” and the 1965 law therefore Is an abridgement of the freedom of speech guarantees of the First Amendment Karpatkin said previous Court decisions have as serted that free speech includes not only verbal expression but also “appropriate types of Among the acts of sym bolic expression protested by the high court are the right of pro testers to display red flags as a symbol of opposition to the government and the right to picket and demonstrate peacefully US Solicitor General Erwin N Griswold conceded that some acts may be considered sym bolic speech but he argued that burning a draft card does not fall into this category “I sup pose that assaulting an official of the Selective Service System could be thought of as symbolic speech or that refusing to re port for induction could be con sidered symbolic speech” Gris wold said Karpatkin told the Court that Congress passed the draftcard burning law “for the pupose of suppressing dissent” and said the law has no legislative pur pose “The destruction of a Selective Service certificate by Its In no way affects the economic or military capabilities of the United States” he said In his brief to the Court However Grlsowld said Con gress passed the law under Its constitutional authority “to raise and support armies” The legislation is constitutionally valid he said because it facilitates the effective operation of the Selec tlve Service System The Supreme Court Justices who questioned both Karpatkin and Griswold indicated they think the Important point is whether or not a draft card has an im portant governmental function other than to notify a registrant of his draft status Their questions indicated that if a draft card does have an Important function then it would be unconstitutional to destroy It Justice Abe Fortas asked “If somebody decides to pro test high taxes by burning their c tax records would this be speech?” Chief Justice Earl Warren Indicated he thinks draft cards have a legitimate purpose because of the way “millions of young people are floating around from place to place” But Karpatkin said the Selec tive Service System has extensive records and a draft card only “helps to identify a young person as 18 years of age In a state where you have to be 18 to buy alcolholic beverages” bearer sym-boli- The Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutional issues prob ably will be handed down in about a month O’Brien who Is now a student Boston University said he would not attempt to predict how the Supreme Court will decide the case “But I know what they should do’’ he said at SUMMER JOBS Over 4000 actual job openings listed by employers in the 1968 Summer Employment Guide (lives salary job description number of openings datand es of employment name of person to write dude ranches Resorts summer theatres United Nations national parks etc Also career oriented jobs: banking publishing engineering data processing electronics accounting many more Covers all 48 states Price only S3 money back if not satisified Our fifth year! 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