Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediate military career plans 30 students intend to enlist, 13 will join the Reserves, and 44 plan some kind of military training such as ROTC. The other 424 students (or 83 per cent of the sample) have no immediate plans to "join...
...same 30 Harvard students who say they will enlist next year, two of them indicate that they will not fight in Vietnam. Five of those who are willing to go with "enthusiasm" while 16 of them indicate that they are joining only with "reluctance." Of those students enlisting, 85 per cent do not approve of U.S. policy in Vietnam. Two of these students think "the military effort should be increased," 10 of them feel the "military effort should be continued with an increased effort to achieve a negotiated peace," 10 of them argue that the military effort should be reduced...
Students who plan to start some form of military training next year (ROTC) indicate that two of them will refuse to fight in Vietnam, 42 per cent are joining their training programs with reluctance (35 per cent are indifferent), 88 per cent do not approve U.S. policy in Vietnam, and 27 per cent (10 students) advocate immediate withdrawal as a solution to the war in Vietnam...
While only about one quarter of the students polled expect to be drafted next year, 96 per cent of those who do expect to be drafted disapprove of U.S. policy in Vietnam. None of them want the military effort to be increased, and 83 per cent of them either ask that the military effort be reduced or that the U.S. withdraw entirely. One out of every three of these students who expect to be drafted say that they will not follow orders to fight in Vietnam. Almost 60 per cent of the students in this category say that they will...
Among those students who say they will go to jail if their applications for deferment are rejected (a leading example of this will probably be seen among students in the non-sciences who request 2-S deferments for graduate work) 77 per cent advocate immediate withdrawal. The remaining 23 per cent want the military effort reduced. Of those who threaten to leave the country if called for induction, 71 per cent call for immediate withdrawal while 26 per cent want the war effort phased down