Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employing what might be termed "shock tactics," COCA has managed to attract the attention it needs to carry out its educational mission. The group's most controversial actions this year--the mock assassinations of "communist" students in House dining halls, and the distribution of mock draft notices to 900 male undergraduates--have been most effective...
...mailbox. Our lives here at Harvard can be very complex. That is undeniable. Yet compared to most of the world's people, we lead easy existences, and we are generally pretty complacent about doing so. An interruption of our habitual activities by an ultimately harmless "shooting" or a draft card can shock us into at least a temporary awareness of our complacency...
...actions have had any effect on the thoughts and discussions of Harvard students in recent weeks. Still, it is likely that there has, indeed, been an effect. The actions have provoked some discussion in the campus press. And surely not every one of the 900 students who received draft notices shrugged it off as junk mail...
Members said their tactic was not a new idea. A group at Rutgers University issued facsimile draft cards to its student body last year, according to Gurner...
Meanwhile, COCA sponsored a burning of the facsimile draft cards yesterday morning in front of Memorial Church. Approximately 50 people attended the gathering, which also featured brief speeches by activists, members said...