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Harvard officials have agreed to issue rebates on meals missed by fasting students. Under an agreement with the Committee on Houses, the Harvard Undergraduate Council will forward the rebates to the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), which will use the money to support their already-established relief programs for Vietnamese civilians...
...open letter issued yesterday, Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of History and Science, and Charles P. Price 41, preacher to the University, called upon members of the faculty to support the fast by missing their noon meal on Friday and by contributing the cost of this meal to the AFSC...
...really very brilliant--unless they are fantastically talented. If they are only moderately talented, say in the top one-tenth of one percent of the population, they are likely to come out with the feeling of being only first-rate second-raters. The Peace Corps and like experiences (ACCION, AFSC, PAPAL Volunteers, etc.) may give such students a second chance for self-confidence...
...knowledge the Friends have never tried to do this, I in fact assume (and the Career Plans Office confirms) that such recruitment would be sanctioned just as the Marines' or Dows' or Colgate's would be. But while the secondary privilege of recruiting is thus guaranteed, were the AFSC to seek a platform for the presentation of ideas here it would need the protecting cover of a student group's sponsorship to be welcomed. Indeed, with a group of our own Faculty, sought last year to co-sponsor with the Quakers a conference at Harvard on Conscription, university facilities were...
According to Stephen Hedger of the AFSC, nearly all CO claims, even unorthodox ones, are being won somewhere in the appeal process or in the courts. Nevertheless, there are about 40 CO's now imprisoned because their claims for I-O status were turned down. Others pay for their conscientious objection in different ways. For example, one Harvard CO who had been planning a career in the foreign service was advised by the CCCO that he would have small chance for advancement...