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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...None of the seniors who plan to join the Reserves next year approve of present U.S. policy in Vietnam...
...addition, 23 seniors plan to apply for a IV-D deferment, reserved for divinity students or practicing ministers; 112 students will request occupational deferments; and 45 students will attempt to petition for conscientious objector status. Another 60 students will try to join either Vista or the Peace Corps which usually allow the student to at least put off military service...
Cross tabulations show that even those students who plan to enlist, join the Reserves, or start some kind of military training (such as ROTC) are neither enthusiastic about going into the Armed Services nor do they agree with U.S. policy in Vietnam. A small minority of these students who intend to start their military careers next year indicate that they would be unwilling to follow orders which sent them to fight in Vietnam...
None of the students who plan to join the Reserves approves of U.S. policy in Vietnam; two of them indicate that they would refuse to fight in Vietnam if their units were mobilized for that purpose. Three out of four of those joining the Reserves say that they are doing so only with "reluctance...
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...