Word: draft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard students did not deeply involve themselves in debate over Vietnam until they were personally threatened. Even then, as James M. Fallows '70 has noted ("What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy," The Washington Monthly, October 1975) Harvard students minimized risk to their careers by deliberatedly flunking draft physicals or by skirting service in Vietnam by other strategies (e.g. gaining remaining physical deferments, joining the National Guard or Reserves...
...Calgary Flames picked Drury out of high school in the second round of the National Hockey League draft, just after they chose another rising star--Cornell forward Kent Manderville...
...November 19 opinion piece ["Bring Back the Draft,"] John L. Larew proposes the draft as the best solution to an effective discrimination against the "poor and ignorant" who volunteer for the army and die while Harvard men think of clever ways to evade...
Furthermore, the draft is not a solution because the principle behind it is that the state has a right to send people to die for a cause in which they may or may not believe. The main moral evil of war is that human beings are used as ciphers in an account between political entities (nations or, more frequently, governments). Calling for the draft in the name of a class struggle only inflicts this evil on more people more quickly. Jendi Reiter...
...Iraq may explain why so many Harvard students have ignored the buildup and impending war. But it cannot excuse such ignorance. The crisis in the Gulf will affect all of us soon enough--whether through friends or relatives killed, through an ensuing domestic economic crisis or, eventually, through a draft. By then, many will belatedly wonder what the fighting...