Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...School of Arts and Sciences, reported to the Faculty on his letter guaranteeing readmission to entering students "whose education may be interrupted in consequence of the Selective Service regulations." Elder explained last Friday that this guarantee applies to students who choose to go to prison instead of accepting the draft...
This spring, thousands of seniors and graduate students here and around the country are wrestling with this decision of whether to resist the draft. The CRIMSON supports those students who, for moral reasons, refuse to serve in the Armed Forces during the war in Vietnam...
...Harvard Draft Union, an autonomous organization sponsored by SDS, has begun anti-draft organizing on campus. If successful at Harvard, the Union could easily spread to other universities across the country. But the problems it faces during the take-off stage are no less formidable than its potential...
...broader base would be preferable for several reasons. Though this kind of Union may look like a cop-out to Harvard militants, its impact on society at large would be impressive. Most Americans would be shocked to hear that a vast majority of Harvard students support draft resisters. In addition, a broad-based group would attract many students who shy away from anti-war and anti-draft organizations. These are the students who must be mobilized and counted in the ranks of the anti-war movement, if it is to break with its parochial tradition and blossom into a national...
...Union can be especially effective by giving an idea of the numbers of students who are, to one degree or another, opposed to the draft for the war in Vietnam. Many students will make their decision to refuse to serve only if they know that they are not part of an insignificant minority, and that others are acting with them and still others are willing to help them. This knowledge of support would be a long step towards making anti-war politics effective...