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...months leading up to the graduation of Harvard’s Class of 1980, student activists had a lot to protest—including the concerns over a potential draft that permeated the campus...
With U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s stalwart support, Congress reinstated draft registration for eligible men aged 19 and 20 starting July 21, 1980. The draft had been abolished in 1974, near the end of the Vietnam...
...though draft registration was not officially reinstated until after graduation, students protested Carter’s plan on the steps of Widener Library and on college campuses across the country...
...January of 1980, over 800 students and Cambridge residents gathered outside Widener Library in the bitter cold to express opposition to the legislation that would reinstate draft registration...
Jamin B. Raskin ’83, who organized the demonstration along with a roommate from Canaday, says “there was a very strong sentiment on campus against draft registration and against a reheating of the Cold...