Word: options
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conference committee adopts the House plan, 19-year-olds could choose between the service or a college deferment until their graduation or 24th birthday (whichever came first). Such an option would cripple the President's plan to ease the heavy burden of conscription on lower income groups through the lottery system. It would permit 19-year-olds who have the resources to attend college to wait out the Vietnamese war in school while forcing young men without those resources to serve...
...draft age who oppose the present United States policy towards Vietnam, we believe that the establishment of an "alternative service" option would extend the inequities in the existing draft system and, more importantly, cut off potential sources of effectual protest among men in our "dilemma...
...want not to fight in Vietnam more than we want to avoid going to jail? If so, we must consider civil disobedience. [Of course, one can apply for Conscientious Objector status, but currently so few are actually receiving this classification that it has ceased to be a real option for most.] In any case, before the U.S. Congress will provide alternatives to military service in wartime, it would vote unanimously to withdraw all our troops from Vietnam...
...language requirement was prompted when the Harvard Policy Committee proposed last fall that an alternative route to fulfilling the requirement be established. The HPC suggested that students be allowed to take a full course in historical and descriptive linguistics and a full course in comparative literature as an option to the two full courses in a language...
...that Mrs. Bunting has consistently disregarded wide-spread student opposition to her pet project. The bitter protests over the destruction of Gilman House two years ago, last year's furor over the flat room and board rates, and the recently concluded hunger strike are indications that Cliffies want an option to the restrictive dormitory living Mrs. Bunting would like to see effected throughout Radcliffe...