Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STANFORD, Calif.--More than 3000 Stanford University students received fake draft notices in the mail this week...
Stanford Against Conscription, a student group opposing draft registration, sent the notices as a publicity stunt, but many students said they thought the letters--which came in official envelopes and used three typefaces on letterhead stationery--were real...
...necessarily address the most pressing issues facing undergraduates. The Student Assembly has abrogated its responsibility on the most important issues facing the University community. When the Klitgaard report came out, did the Student Assembly rush to demand Bok's reassertion of the goal of diversity in admissions? What about draft registration, especially the university's role in turning over names? What about student input into tenure decisions, especially for Skocpol and Lange? Finally, the Student Assembly refused to endorse the El Salvador candlelight march despite polls showing student support and some 1400 signatures on petitions. The committee concerned...
Purnell, who helped draft the Sullivan Code--an equal employment policy which 142 of the 350 U.S. firms operating in South Africa comply with, said he thinks that 90 per cent of U.S. companies are committed to racial desegregation...
...distressed by one section of their argument. In arguing against the fact that a draft would more equitably balance the nation's military, they insist that "racial representation becomes an important issue only when lives are at stake, when minorities and the poor do more than their share of the fighting...