Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Court ruled 6-3 that Congress did not intend in the Selective Service Law of 1967 to deny court appeal to men entitled to exemptions by statute. The law restricted the right of men to go to court to challenge the actions of their draft boards. Divinity students, persons under 19 years of age, military veterans, members of the National Guard and the Reserves, and sole surviving sons are affected by the high court decision...
...three Harvard students affected are James Prior and Leland Sanderson, second-year Divinity students,. and Dick Behm, a third-year student. All three handed in their draft cards at a rally at Arlington Street Church on October 16, 1967. The Supreme Court ruling came on a case appealed by James J. Ostereich, a divinity student at Newton Centre, who also handed in his card at the rally...
...slate is probably clean," Behm said, "and perhaps we won't be bothered any more." He emphasized, however, that this was a case brought against the government, and it remains to be seen whether the Selective Service will file suit against the men for non-possession of their draft cards...
Several other Harvard students turned in their cards during the rally, but for personal reasons were forced to ask for their return, although they still wished to be a part of the anti-war movement. In one case a local draft board returned 4-D status to a student who brought suit, but most of the local boards held firm on the basis of a directive issued by Selective Service head Lewis B. Hershey asking reclassification for demonstrators...
...hardly feel repentant and shall not apologize for wanting to observe a debate on an issue of crucial interest to me. For some students, facing exile to Canada or prison sentences for draft resistance, it is difficult to view expulsion from Harvard as much of a tragedy. Indeed, one might even look forward to a period of exile from a University where Faculty and Administration members are determined to decide important matters primarily on the basis of petulant solemnity and irrational self-indulgence. Jon Livingston...