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While the current situation obviously doesn't rival the anguish surrounding the Vietnam draft or the fight for civil rights in the 1960s, students' sense of an overbearing, out-of-touch and insensitive authority has created a reaction reminiscent of that time...
Just 1.6 percent of male alumni said they took conscientious objector status, compared to 18.5 percent who were drafted and failed a draft physical and 13.9 percent who received a deferment. Not one drafted member of the Class of 1971 served in Vietnam, and only 1.3 percent of alumni enlisted in the armed forces...
Meanwhile, the Associated Press was reporting the U.S. loan of millions of dollars to Poland, the battles between guards and Alcatraz prisoners and the expiration of the draft...
...June 1942, the first members of the Class of 1946 began their college careers under the new trimester system, but this educational device could not enable them to avoid the long arm of the draft...
Others students at the College agreed that the draft loomed over their years there before they joined the war effort...