Word: jails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back but told them there was nothing the University could do about it all but Good Luck. The Dunster House Senior Common Room lent its sympathy in a weak-kneed petition, defying a rule against such pronouncements. But it meant little. Two Harvard students may well go to jail for their political and moral beliefs while the University, in true laissez-faire fashion, invites the Navv and Colgate Palmolive to recruit more "highly trained young...
Everyone had been in Chicago last summer. They tried to surround the auditorium where the Democratic Convention was going on. They had little to lose. They were going to jail anyway, they said. One of the troops fired, and there was a riot. The black neighborhood exploded. That was Chicago. Everyone was in Chicago last summer. But now it is fall, and Chicago is gone...
...them, Drafting Harvard should not be a game. They do not want to play at all. Many of them refuse. They resign, and the Selective Service gobbles them up or throws them into jail...
...draft calls increase, the pressure on potential draftees is more intense. "The first question we ask is whether the person would go to Canada, to jail, or into the army," explains William A. Hunt, a teaching fellow in Social Studies and a regular draft counsellor...
...person is eligible for one of the 13 Selective Service deferments. If not, Hunt recommends a multi-issue approach for several months before the probable induction date: make a claim for conscientious objection (even if it is unrealistic it will waste time and tends to lessen the jail sentence if you eventually refuse induction), begin seeing a therapist and complain about your fears of entering the army, engage in anti-war activities, write a series of indignant and inflammatory letters to your draft board...