Word: drafted
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...director of the Selective Service System confronted a crowd of demonstrators and an auditorium full of hostile, jeering students as he defended draft registration last night in a speech at the Science Center...
...yesterday's letter to The Crimson from the Harvard Republican Club, the HRC publicly comes out against the First Amendment of the Constitution by condemning Draft resistors for their expression of their values in a way that we of Harvard Radcliffe Students for Social Responsibility (HRSSR) feel is so necessary and vital in our violent world. Instead of being impressed with the moral strength of those who have failed to register and who have opposed the Selective Service System, as several judges who have tried and unfortunately prosecuted resistors themselves have felt, the HRC has voted to "support registration, prosecution...
...form of coercion. Even at Yale University, an institution of nearly equal reputation and academic quality as Harvard, the administration took it upon itself, before the need became acute, to pledge financial support and full compensation for any government aid lost because of their refusal to register for the draft. We of HRSSR applaud Yale's decision and strongly urge Harvard to adopt a similar policy...
This is why HRSSR urges everyone to go to Science Center D on Wednesday night, December 1, at 8 p.m. to hear Mr. Thomas Turnage, director of Selective Service, speak on the Draft. If you are united in opposition to the Draft, are undecided on the issue, or even support the views of the HRC, we feel that is important for you to attend this event to let your views be heard by others. In this way we can show that there is sympathy and support for Draft registration-resistors--for the 480,000 unregistered men and the handful...
Tosteson said that a faculty planning group, formed this summer to consider the program will soon submit a preliminary draft of goals to three student faculty working groups, each of which will focus on different aspects of the plan. After discussing the program, the committees are scheduled to draw up a final recommendation for faculty approval this spring Tosteson added the Med School plans to spent the next academic year retaining the program, choosing faculty and selecting students for the program...