Word: draft
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...first public action Rudenstine had ever taken against prevailing views of the military establishment. In April 1968, as an assistant professor at Harvard, he and 400 other faculty members placed a two-page advertisement in The Crimson pledging their support for students at the College who resisted the Vietnam draft...
...change the draft itself brought about, according to panelist Joyce E. Peters '68, was American law schools' increasing openness to women. Peters was one of the first ten women to join the army's legal board...
Despite being told by the draft board that he could finish his college studies, Hutchins was drafted in December of his senior year and immediately began his officer training. He returned for summer school in 1946, weeks after he finished his service...
...avoid the draft, students who might have benefited from taking time off were forced to remain in school, says Lewis...
Lipkin says that while his undergraduate years were a very trying time as students dealt with the war, the draft and a pair of assassinations, "threats that face students today are not as immediate...