Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students, who have been demanding apologies from the regime, reinstatement for those expelled from school and fair press coverage, Go-mulka's speech was an official brushoff. Many continued cutting classes or staging sit-ins outside them, even after signs went up threatening expulsion-and a loss of draft exemption. At Cracow's Ja-gellonian University, students staged a sitdown strike for two days running. Warsaw University authorities locked the campus gates when thousands of students refused to attend lectures. At War saw's Polytechnical Institute, some 5,000 students sacked out in the hallways, playing cards...
...itself is unpopular, and most students would rather gamble on the uncertainties of the draft than join cadet programs, which include at least two years' active duty as a military officer. Besides, the current college generation takes an anti-Establishment view that scoffs at polished buttons and stiff-necked discipline. A military regimen has become an unappealing burden to add to academic chores...
...estimate is correct, the number of college graduates inducted could jump to as high as 150,000 out of a total draft of 240,000 projected for fiscal 1969, which begins July 1. This represents a jump from 5 to 60 per cent in the proportion of draftees who have completed college study...
...CRIMSON story gave the impression that the service offered was primarily draft counseling. Although the impetus for its establishment came as a result of and in response to the new draft situation, it was conceived of neither as an agency for dispensing information nor as one chiefly concerned with draft resistance. Both of those kinds of services are already capably fulfilled...
...United Ministry Counseling Service is an attempt to expand and centralize counseling in all areas, including problems related to the draft. (The Rev.) W. J. Schneider Chairman, United Ministry at Harvard and Radcliffe (The Rev.) T. H. Evans Chairman of Committee on Counseling