Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present pause should not, however, obscure the fact that some fundamental assumptions have been altered: the national opinion of a war, the nation's draft policies, attitudes toward pollution and ecology. Today elders as well as the young know that many things are profoundly wrong. Warfare is widely seen as inglorious. There is a growing public, if not yet legal tolerance for marijuana. Still, like England's 19th century Chartists, the radicals are seeing the larger society adopt and subsume much of their revolution. "Cooptation" is an infuriating and unsatisfactory denouement for the revolutionary. The Chief of Naval Operations grows...
...trouble, campus quiet is not synonymous with campus health. Oases for ideas, universities should be places of ferment. The violence of the past few years was, of course, unacceptable, but the student movement has called the nation's attention to some of its weaknesses?a hidebound educational establishment, inequitable draft laws, unrepresentative political procedures, to mention some of the most legitimate targets of protest. Despite the new calm, the turbulence of recent years cannot be written off as a mere episode, a minor aberration. The memory of the violence will endure, but so will the existence of students...
...drama at the present, Father Daniel Berrigan's The Trial of the Catonsville Nine is a play in name only. It is a documentary recital of evidence presented at the trial of Berrigan, his brother Philip and seven other Catholic defendants in connection with the napalm burning of draft records at Catonsville, Md. Insofar as it can be classified, Nine falls within the area of the theater of fact. The subjects discussed have particular pertinence for a U.S. audience: the maltreatment of blacks, the exploitation of the poor in Latin American countries, the war in Viet Nam. This...
Admissions officers doubt that the new draft lottery is freeing high-number boys from the pressure to go to college and get deferred: most students do not get their draft numbers until after they have entered college. The favored explanation is economic: thousands of recession-hurt families are hunting for cheaper colleges near their homes. Thus applications have risen by 10% at relatively inexpensive state universities like Maine and Massachusetts. Community colleges are getting a big play almost everywhere...
Also appearing before the subcommittee, which is chaired by Sen. James O. Eastland (D.Miss.). will be David Landau, an activist who has been involved with the Old Mole and the Boston Draft Resistance Group (BORG...