Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduate students whose "education is interrupted because of Selective Service" will be readmitted without loss of credit, even if they go to jail, John P. Elder, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said Friday...
...himself, his protagonist, in the third person throughout) gets invited to this March on the Pentagon, and how he goes to Washington and marches on the Pentagon and gets arrested for "transgressing a police line," as he tells a reporter (me, in fact), and how he goes to jail and gets tried and gets out of jail and goes home and decides to write about his adventures for Harper's Magazine (hello, Norman Mailer...
...claimed, however, that the New York Times, in an article published yesterday, misquoted him by saying that such a policy would also apply to students who had fled to Canada rather than go to jail here. "The question is much less clear here," he said, "and would have to be decided on individual cases...
...Students who come back from Canada will probably also have to go to jail," he added, "so that this second group is really only a subset of the first, but they have to be regarded from a very different point of view. They may have paid their civil debt but they ran away from it in the beginning...
Pittendrigh added, however, that he did not expect many students to follow this course, since "no graduate students is likely to be so stupid that he won't think his decision out carefully. Going to jail or running off to Canada is more than simply a way to avoid something distasteful...