Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sanctuary, however, Stendahl refused to confront those injustices. He was under no obligation either to defend or to oppose the politics of Olimpieri's action; but without a word about politics, without a word about the war, and without a word about the Divinity School's stand on draft resistance, Stendahl could have responded to the situation. As a man in the service of God, he could have faced the young Marine and said, "We share your troubled conscience. We, too, are looking for answers. You are welcome in our community, and we will give you food and shelter...
...Divinity School Faculty, for its part, was equally negligent. Last December, after eight Divinity School students had turned in their draft cards, the Faculty unanimously adopted a statement in opposition to the war in Vietnam and in support of draft resistance. "Accordingly," it read, "we are prepared to help bear the burdens of those who have been conscientiously led to extraordinary means of dissent." When Olimpieri took sanctuary on Sunday, Harvey G. Cox, associate professor of Church and Society, said he hoped the Faculty would "do something together." It didn...
...have spoken under pressure from the Marines. He may or may not have been entirely moral and intelligent in his reasons for leaving the Marines in the first place. But what is more important is that the issues his sanctuary raised--the war, the draft, resistance, and their implications for the Church--are painfully relevant. Stendahl has scheduled a colloquium for this spring on "Moral Responsibility in the University." The spring is a long time to wait...
Brewster reportedly asked for the article's removal because he felt that it would appear almost simultaneously with the conclusion of Spock's trial in Boston, at which Spock and three others were accused and later convicted of conspiring to encourage draft resistance. Brewster also reportedly felt that publication of such an article would appear close to the time when the Yale Corporation was considering the re-appointment of Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., one of Spock's co-defendants...
...draft new regulations, and it has no by-laws...