Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, a statement defining the nature of a teaching fellowship at Harvard will be provided to assist students in their dealings with individual draft boards, Elder said. In the statement, he calls teaching fellowships "an integral part of our undergraduate instructional programs...
...interview yesterday, Elder stressed that Harvard's situation differs considerably from Cornell's. The educational process at Harvard will not be particularly hard hit by the draft, Elder said. "If our faculty and remaining teaching fellows work a little harder, we can get by," he commented...
Cornell, however according to its graduate dean, "cannot function without" those teaching assistants who now face the draft. Cooke said last night that Cornell will ask local boards to grant II-A (occupational) deferments and will appeal if they are refused. "We don't know what will happen, but we are going to ask for them because we absolutely must have them," he said...
Cooke said that the larger universities would suffer most from the draft. "Purdue has 300 teaching assistants in chemistry alone. The draft would decimate their program. Smaller schools might get by, but larger ones like Cornell and Purdue will be seriously handicapped if they cannot get deferments for their teaching assistants," he said...
...Quincy House chapter, Dion said, has been one of the most active since the Union was formed in February. Quincy has held two meetings on draft resistance and a special session in draft counselling, he said...