Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provisional committee will study the popularity of this program among the 200 graduate students in East Asian Studies who did not attend Monday's meeting. In February it will call a general meeting of East Asian Studies graduate students to vote on a final draft of the activists' proposals. Two general this draft to the Faculty...
Discussion of the Anti-War Committee statement centered around whether SDS was the official voice of all the Paine Hall demonstrators. Several of those who helped draft the statement were not members of H-R SDS. The members present decided that in the future the writers of all statements would sign their names, together with the organization to which they belonged...
...different one than physically blocking the movement of a Dow recruiter. It therefore merits milder, not more severe, punishment than the probation slapped on those who sat in at Malinckrodt--either admonition or no punishment at all. Expelling the demonstrators from the Harvard community (subjecting them immediately to the draft as well) would be entirely out of proportion to the metaphorical obstruction at Paine...
Confronted with this statement, Zinn devastatingly probes into some of the Court's recent decisions on draft protests and civil rights and finds Fortas' view of the Court as a balancer more than a little one-sided--in fact, hypocritical and patently untrue. The Court is not our stalwart friend and defender, as Fortas would have us believe. What the Court should be doing, Zinn then argues, is standing squarely on the side of the individual's rights, protecting him as best it can from the already stifling massiveness of the federal bureaucracy...
...sometimes, for justice always." This is an exciting, romantic, beautiful idea: that we might order our society on morality and so live together in peace. But Zinn has not carried his theory to its logical end. If he wants the Court to recognize his right to oppose laws (the draft laws), institutions (the Army), and conditions (poverty) in an illegal and sometimes violent way, he must also concede the Court's duty to respect the right of other individuals with different views of justice--the Chicago police, for example--to act according to their consciences...