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Yes. They are too busy focusing on their academics and don't have the time for jury duty.
Jury duty is the civic duty of every American citizen of legal age. Even as a police officer I took my turns at jury duty – and even some defense attorney's actually approved of a working cop on the jury, so I did my civic duty.
No one should be exempt because they are a student, not even Jared!
No way, Jared, you can't get out of it that easy! o.0
They should not be exempt from jury duty. But they should not suffer grade-wise because of time missing from classes during jury service. I'm not sure if there is a law regarding that topic, in the same way you cannot be fired by your employer for time missed while serving…
I don't know how much time you have to devote to it, but other than graduate school for writing dissertations, etc, I cannot remember actually having to devote my time and energy to regular college course material. Certainly not to an extent that a few hours in a court room would have thrown it down the drain. Indeed, many college students already have part or full time jobs in addition to schoolwork. I don't see them complaining about not having time (they may not have as much time for social life and complain about this, but this is very different from not having time to manage their classes).
I'd second LT down there, that if you are selected to do so (which seems doubtful in most cases) and serve on a jury, you shouldn't be docked academically for it.
Whether or not a jury pool would include an active college student in it through to the jury's selection, that may be a different story and a different question than whether they should have an automatic out. I'd speculate that they may often be an easy out anyway for one side or the other to object to. Might depend on their philosophical ideas on justice.