Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many campuses in the United States, more especially, it seems, in the East, there are faculty members who continue to lead what amounts to evangelical campaigns urging students to turn in their draft cards and defy their government's Selective Service process. These men are, of course, well beyond the reach of the Selective Service Act. They speak from the safe sanctuary of age or physical impairments. The morality of their advice is highly questionable...
...Harvard Business School has decided to hold a special session this summer for the benefit of first-year students who will become eligible for the draft in June...
...Francisco area, where last year almost 60,000 housewives, hippies, businessmen and beards marched, only 15,000 zealots turned out despite a blanket invitation to protest "against the war, racism, repression, poverty and the draft." Most of the 200,000 young Americans who took part in a day-long "student strike" by cutting classes the day before the marches just sat around on campuses, strumming guitars and singing folk songs. Remarked a San Francisco State professor: "Isn't it great that all these people came out to celebrate William Shakespeare's birthday...
...disobedience to protest the 1954 Supreme Court decision for desegregation of schools. Out of this developed the pattern of sit-ins, lie-ins, marches and some violence. After civil rights, the second issue was Viet Nam. This was not merely a question of sticking up for somebody else; the draft made it a highly personal issue for many students. They did not like the prospect of getting shot at in a war that many of them considered to be unjust and immoral...
Among reform proposals were immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, opposition to the draft, and support of certain of Afro's demand...