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The policy of granting deferments to college students and its impact on affluent young men.
was administered by the Selective Service through a system of classifications that determined who was "available" for induction and who could delay service via deferments such as student, occupational...
The draft lottery replaced a “channeling” system of that had systematically insulated better‑educated and more affluent young men from frontline service, introducing a birth‑date lottery intended to r...
received five during the era — four student deferments while in college and a later medical classification that permanently disqualified him from service — a record documented in contemporary reportin...