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...SSS worked in strange and wondrous ways. It was arbitrary, erratic, and unpredictable. The disposition of thousands of lives was enigmatic, inscrutable for mere mortals. You heard directly contradicting cases of IVF qualifications, of C.O. is won and lost, of prosecution of resisters. The moods of your board-members, the weather on the day your case came up the length of your hair, and most important. you finances were all factors that played on your draft situation. You couldn't know anything until they came to your case...
Because a number of college students find the war and the SSS opposed to their values, the "we-won't go" reaction is becoming more wide-spread. A recent Crimson poll of the Harvard senior class revealed that roughly a quarter of the seniors would go to jail or leave the country, if all other alternatives failed, rather than fight in the present war. Finally, the "resistance" reaction makes it clear that many have decided that the time to say no is now. The hundreds of cards which have been turned in or burned signify not only unwillingness to fight...
...seems that the nation's "trouble" with its youth concerning the draft is growing. This is partly because more students are wondering if the SSS is something more than an insignificant aberration from the values of our society. More and more are concluding that the SSS does represent the prevailing outlook, and that the only way to prevent the disastrous fulfillment of the self-fulfilling prophecy is to resist the organization which most inflexibly enforces that outlook--the SSS...
...increased "trouble" comes from the concerned members of this generation who are beginning to realize that the effects of the SSS's definition of "national interest" are not to be limited to the present. Quite the opposite. Because the military-science attitude affects primarily the youth of our country, not only the progress of the present but the progress of the future is being stagnated...
...college as well as the student, the issue of the war has finally been brought home--if not by radicals, then at least by the SSS. Students who are concerned about occupational choice cannot fail to see the sacrifice of academic freedom. Finally college administrations, if their concern is education rather than simply the supply of "more effective human beings," cannot fail to see the sacrifice of academic goals...