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[email protected]. -, -. : :, ' / ' ~ I -..,,···: .:!_ _. ·.. : .L1'.} The avler l?UlS Vol. Lii CINCINNA'f'.I, OHIO, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1968 ·TEN CENTS No. 17 NE\N DRAFT EASY ON XU By BOB WILHELM, News Reporter Sweeping draft change's announced Feb. 16 by President Johnson mean one-third of all male gradu ate students may be drafted this summer. The National Security Council refused to permit draft deferments for graduate study except for medic~! (medicine, dentistry, and allied health specialties) and divinity students. The directive applies to incoming and first year graduate students - including an estimated 400,000 male students receiving their bachelor's de grees this year. Undergraduates will continue to be deferred for four years of full time study, as in the past. A panel of educators before a leaving the service and continuing House subcommittee predicted that their education under the G.1. bill. failure to broaden the range of "In other words, the suspension is graduate study deferments could not a death blow ta us," Dr.