Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plan for putting Marine Paul Olimpieri in Andover Chapel was hatched by seven Harvard Divinity School students who decided during the summer that their chapel should be open to draft resisters...
...group of Harvard SDS leaders late Sunday night rejected a proposal to set up a second sanctuary on the Harvard campus for draft resisters in addition to the Divinity School's Andover Chapel...
...serious questions and thorny questions" raised by an AWOL marine seeking sanctuary in the Andover chapel. Students have already pledged to support Paul Olimpieri with passive civil disobedience, should federal marshals come to remove him, and for a faculty that last fall supported divinity school students resisting the draft, it would tortuous to cast out a marine deserting in moral disgust at the Vietnam War or to condemn students trying to help...
Discovering a Lie. However easy or unpleasant his prison stay, the draft evader who has served his time soon finds that his problems are not over, despite the fact that social censure is usually no more a problem than it was before conviction. By and large, the resisters have families and friends who stick with them through their crusade; many return to school or go to work around universities or in peace movements. But all felons are still legally eligible for the draft. Even though the law suggests that those convicted of crimes punishable by more than a year...
...felons, draft resisters cannot vote in some states, drive cars, own property, work for a government agency or get licenses for certain businesses and professions. In San Francisco, Robert Anderson, 26, a college graduate, decided that it was best to lie about his prison record when he applied for a job at the Bechtel Corp. His employer discovered the truth. Although he was allowed to keep his $90-a-week job as an office boy, Anderson is now convinced that he will have an endless amount of trouble advancing above the level of "a flunky...