Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Civil Liberties Union, in a major policy reversal, voted Saturday to offer legal aid to persons indicted for counselling draft evasion...
...Civil Liberties Legal Defense Fund, which originated late in January, was sparked by the indictments of the Spock five on charges of conspiring to promote draft resistance. The Fund seeks to "insure that the claims of conscience have a full opportunity to be heard and tested," Rosenthal said. "It is not the work of the Fund to judge the legality of the positions that the resisters have taken...
Most faculty members and administrators here blame this situation on the draft. Until now, Harvard's solution for unhappy students has been to suggest a leave of absence. David Riesman, Harvard's guru-in-residence, expressed this attitude when he said that "in the absence of the draft, dropping out is a very good thing, both for the student and for the school." After a year or so of living in the big outside world, the student decides that either pumping books is preferable to pumping gas, in which case he returns, or else it isn't, in which case...
...draft has messed many things up, not the least of which is the "drop-out program." The war is on, draft calls are up, and the students who insist they march to a different drum than Harvard's must do their marching in the Yard...
...many the relevance and immediacy, the increase in students who feel alienated from Harvard is not surprising. Now that the alternative of leaving is temporarily closed, the student who might have otherwise left will be around to voice his discontent. If self-criticism is a virtue, then perhaps the draft will have served Harvard well...