By January, 2,000,000 men had secured college deferments.

They may have felt uneasy knowing that while their college deferments protected them, others were being drafted.

Vietnam veterans, for example, had a profoundly different experience of the period than did those who avoided the war through college deferments.

So they would be happy to have mostly poor kids, without college deferments, fight the war for them?

And Mr. Ivanov dropped his proposal to end college deferments for the draft.

Many would avoid military service altogether through college deferments, by becoming fathers, or serving in various exempt jobs (teaching was one possibility).

I graduated from college in 1966 and received my draft notice when my college deferment ran out.

The undergraduates at Yale would be shutting down the campus if we had a universal draft with no college deferments.

He adds that Jewish combat deaths were lower, in demographic terms, than those of any other population group, owing to college deferments.

So at age 20 he didn't have a college deferment to keep the Selective Service at bay.