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This account of intellectual struggle exemplifies the individualism and sophistication which characterize conscientious objection by Harvard students. As one draft counselor in the Square said, "We don't get many around here who say, 'I'm a CO because God told me not to go.'"
It is impossible to tell if there is a parallel increase in conscientious objection at Harvard because there are no statistics. But Stephen Hedger, a staff worker at the American Friends Service Committee Draft Information Service in the Square, said that five to ten Harvard students a week contact the...
Few, if any, Harvard CO's are members of religious sects traditionally opposed to war--Quakers, Mennonites. Jehovah's Witnesses, Brethren, and Seventh Day Adventists, for example. Few, if any, base their conscientious objection on any orthodox creed. Few, if any, have an orthodox conception of God. These are by...
But the law does not recognize select objection as a valid basis for a CO claim. Consequently, these Harvard CO's try to state their objection to war in terms absolute enough to satisfy the draft board while preserving enough of their situational ethic to satisfy their own integrity. This...
Now 71, MacLeod lives in an Edinburgh flat, identified not by his name plate but by a passport-size portrait. He travels much of the year, preaching the lona ideal in a glass-shattering baritone that still needs no microphone to reach the farthest corner of the loftiest church. He...