Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson's draft decision in late January along with a new sense of futility with the war brought on by the Tet Offensive together seemed to bring a new sense of hopelessness to Harvard. There was another Dow demonstration and the Draft Union began to grow...
...university is seen in this split image also. In an interview I had early this spring with a top Harvard administration official, he talked about how healthy and constructive activism is. Yet, at the same time, he argued that students should not resist the draft because it is not worth it. "It will ruin the rest of their lives," he said. "This will pass. Harvard students have always been able to cope with outside pressures well. They can find ways out." (And they have too. They see their friendly local doctor or shrink...
...dominated everything. And the October action began with massive protests against the war--draft-card turn-ins that were supposed to symbolize a new direction for the anti-war movement, "from dissent to resistence...
...October 16, turn-ins were organized across the country to begin an anti-war, anti-draft week that would culminate in a march on the Pentagon "to confront the warmakers." In Boston, 237 men, including 23 Harvard students, burned or turned in their cards. In New York, Baton Rogue, and San Francisco the scene was the same. In Oakland, California, all through the week, anti-war demonstrators trying to march on the induction center there battled police, and the New York Times showed you the blood on the front page...
...intensity of feeling against the war, the draft, and the "politics of joy" will keep practically all the traditional liberals from endorsing Humphery, forcing them down the radicalization trail they were beginning to follow last winter...