The Draft Bite

University officials have been worried for months about the impact of new draft rules lifting the exemptions of most graduate students next year (TIME, Nov. 24, 1967), but without any reliable estimate of just how hard they would be hit. Last week they had some solid figures to consider, and there was indeed cause for gloom. Based on the probability that almost all draftable men aged 22 through 25 will be called (the draft takes older eligibles first), a survey by the Council of Graduate Schools and the Scientific Manpower

Commission found that there will be over 100,000 fewer men entering such schools next fall. With women providing the difference, first-year enrollment will be cut in half. Mrs. Betty M. Vetter, executive secretary of the Commission, could offer only one bit of consolation. Said she: "We will certainly have the most educated Army in history."

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