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...campaign was followed by the "We Won't Go" advertisements, signed by almost 200 Harvard students. Students who had been unmoved by the questionable morality of the Vietnam War were stung into activism by the personal threat of the draft. SDS had found a popular alternative. In December, 1967, three Harvard SDS members initiated a twice-a-week counselling service, which has processed 15 students per week...
...They went in on a moral basis without thinking what political effects their actions would have," says Mark Dyen '70, SDS co-chairman at Harvard. Dyen and most other experienced organizers consider the Resistance, which is primarily campus-based, an admirable effort, but "politically amateurish...
...Lerner's articles encouraged us," said Dyen, "but the idea of a coordinat-committee originated before that. The Resistance and the SDS Draft Project started talking about it seriously over intersession, he said...
...purpose of the new committee, according to Mark R. Dyen '70, head of the SDS Draft Project and one of the committee's organizers, is to unite all Harvard students who oppose the draft. The committee also intends to provide draft counselling and education about draft laws, he said yesterday...
...emphasized that the Harvard Draft Project "was organized by individuals, not by political groups. However, members of the Resistance, SDS, the Boston Draft Resistance, the Graduate Student Organizing Committee, and some unaffiliated students compose the committee's organizing forces," he added...