Defense & College

Last week U. S. campuses began to reopen under the shadow of war. Not a few jittery college presidents had feared that defense jobs and impending conscription might induce some students to drop out. Counting their fall enrollments last week, most colleges found them close to normal. An exception was huge University of California, which had 15,342 students, 700 fewer than last year, and blamed the war.

At University of California, the undergraduate season last week got off to a turbulent start. As 2,000 undergraduates staged an anti-conscription hubbub outside the college gates, President Robert Gordon Sproul warned his students that when & if conscription was enacted, he would regard further agitation as "interference with national defense," might expel agitators.

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