Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What the President regards as successes, students often regard very differently. Reducing the troop level in Viet Nam by sometime in 1971 to something over 200,000 men seems to many in government a formidable achievement. The President so proclaims it. Yet to the young, who face the draft and think on the time scale of youth, these withdrawals seem wholly inadequate. They are not seeking to avoid personal danger. Rather, they abhor personal involvement in a war they perceive as "immoral...
...Acion Group grew out of last spring's strike. It has sponsored draft resistance in Newton and has engaged in two peaceful confrontations at the Boston Army Base...
...satisfaction of remarking "Oh, look! It's their version of the panty raid!" Suddenly, radicals are clean, attractive (long hair for men is now as chic in Hollywood as in Cambridge), and loveable kids who are merely frustrated by puritanical school mating policies, by strict drug laws, by the draft and the war it serves...
Direct war expenditures accounted for $113 billion. In terms of production lost because young men went into service or stayed in school to avoid the draft, the civilian economy lost another $82.5 billion, by Eisner's estimate. The human cost of the dead and wounded is incalculable; the economic drain, in terms of demand and production that will never be realized, is calculated by Eisner at $23.1 billion...
...Gergens, fully one-third of the students polled felt that the war had lowered their interest in graduate study as well as their respect for the way their colleges are administered. An equal number changed their career plans as a result of the war -many aiming for draft-exempt occupations. Ironically, the Gergens discovered that students at high-standard colleges were twice as likely to feel that the war "devalued" their education as were those at less difficult schools. Regardless of school, students with higher grades were more commonly affected by Viet...