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They voted to distribute "voluntary service cards" across the country, which would commit students to some kind of social service, like the Peace Corps or VISTA. These cards will some day replace draft cards, predicted Sherman B. Chickering, publisher of MODERATOR magazine, sponsor of the conference...
...grounds for conscientious objection, the extension of alternate service, and the exemption of young workers in apprenticeship programs, as means of diminishing available draft material and expanding the base of the anti-draft movement. We must recognize elitist procedures, however, in the selection of Peace Corps and Vista trainees, and exclusionary practices in apprenticeship recruitment as we recognize class discrimination involved in the 2-S deferment. Real alternative service should include "community people," working in their own neighborhoods, without being able to read French or kiss asses...
Fewer Harvard graduates enter the job market than go to law school. Last year's senior class sent 167 to work. The proportion is standard for Harvard, but the distribution of jobs was a striking change. Almost half of those who are working are in social service: Peace Corps, Vista, ACCION, etc., most of which, of course, qualify for draft deferments. This is a 25 per cent increase over '65. The big shifts the other way occurred in the category of "general management," down from 16 per cent to a minute two per cent, and in engineering, down by half...
...self-analytic group, which has been used to prepare Vista Volunteers for work in racial ghettos, might also be of help to pupils who have been told that their schools will soon be integrated, Cottle suggested. By letting students find the psychological origins of their prejudice, the tensions of impending integration could be reduced, he added...
...Exemptions or deferments should not be used, even indirectly, to encourage volunteering in service organizations like the Peace Corps or VISTA. Military conscription must be used, they say, solely to satisfy national defense needs...