Word: referendum
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After several long hours of debate on parliamentary procedure, the Harvard Graduate Student Council last night voted, 13-11, to sponsor a referendum on the war in Vietnam...
...earlier poll called the "New England Referendum on Vietnam," coordinators Kim Marshall '68 and Peter Rousmaniere '69 found Harvard students to be overwhelmingly against the war. The poll administered in late November to the students, faculty and staff of New England colleges indicated that three out of four respondents described the war in Vietnam as a civil war and said that the U.S. commitment was not in the best interests of the South Vietnamese. The referendum also found that 83 per cent of the Harvard students polled did not approve of the manner in which President Johnson was handling...
...somewhat similar question, the CRIMSON poll found that 94 per cent of the seniors disapproved of LBJ's Vietnam stand. The ten per cent disparity can probably best be explained by considering the difference between the two samples. The Referendum, which covered a large age group and included women, asked questions of people who are not as vulnerable to the draft as seniors -- thus the result was slightly less radical...
...fact that both the Referendum and the CRIMSON poll found a huge anti-war vote at Harvard tends to reenforce the credibility of each of the studies. Further coroboration comes in that both polls found approximately the same percentage of adamant draft resistors. While Marshall discovered that 29.8 per cent of the Harvard students polled endorsed sit-ins, draft card burning, and draft resistance as a legitimate form of anti-war protest, the CRIMSON poll found 22 per cent of the Harvard students would resist the draft by either leaving the country or going to jail if such...
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...