Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Marshall's poll shows that 4.5 per cent advocate increased bombing and military activity, our poll indicates that only one per cent of the seniors would like to see the war stepped up. Similarly while the Referendum had only 14.5 per cent of the sample advocating immediate withdrawal, the CRIMSON poll found that 38 per cent wanted the troops home...
Ninety-four per cent of the students polled do not approve of present U.S. policy in Vietnam. Of these students only one per cent feel that the war should be escalated. All the others are for greater efforts to achieve a negotiated peace and/or a de-escalation...
After this there can be little doubt in anyone's mind as to the extent of anti-war sentiment at Harvard. What is surprising is that 38 per cent of those who are against the war are now calling for immediate withdrawal. If anything, this shows that radical solutions are becoming eminently respectable among students. Another 42 per cent said the military effort should "be reduced on the assumption that it will lead to a negotiated peace," indicating that a vast majority of those polled were in favor of some form of military pullback...
Three out of four students say that they will only join the Armed Services with "reluctance." Less than six per cent of the graduating class plans to enlist next year...
...have to have someone dead to take his heart," Nadas noted. "Granted we are killing 50,000 persons per year on our highways, but there still is a possibility of a shortage of donors. One imagines the prospect of vultures waiting for these people...