Literary College Plans 'Ranking' Poll

Literary College Plans ‘Ranking’ Poll

All 1,200 faculty members in the advisory poll was ordered the University's largest college will be asked whether class rankings should be offered to draft boards to help students obtain military deferments. 

The advisory poll was ordered by the faculty of the Literary College at its meeting here yesterday. Some 224 faculty members attended the meeting, in contrast to the 600-plus at two sessions during the height of student unrest last month. 

"The meeting lacked some of the intensity of other recent ones," said Dean William Haber. 

In an unusual mail poll faculty members will be asked to recommend whether draft boards should receive a statement of a student's rank in his class, as is now submitted, or simply a transcript of his grades instead with no indication of class standing. 

Professors will also be asked to suggest whether the report should go to he state Selective Service office, as it does now, or directly to the local draft board, or to the student himself for relaying to his draft board. 

Suggestions are also being sought on when any change should take effect: next May 1, Sept. 1 or Jan. 1 (the start of the next three terms), or "as soon as possible." A fifth choice is that it would apply only to students entering the University after the change is ordered. 

The faculty's positions on student deferment itself, a subject of warm dispute, will be debated at its next meeting on Feb. 6. 

Also at the meeting the faculty will decide, on the basis of returns in the poll, whether to recommend a change in University policy. 

The present policy is to rank all male undergraduates but to send reports only for those students requesting them to support deferment applications. A student must stand in the upper portion of his class, or else pass the Se a vote of 6,389 to 3,518. 

Yesterday's resolution authorized the poll was introduced by Prof. E Lowell Kelly of the psychology department.