 | The Cavalier daily Tuesday, January 6, 1970 |  |
Colloquium
Coping With
The Draft
Thomas Gates
Mr. Gates is an assistant professor
and is the Assistant Director of
the Student Counseling Center.
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"In view of the dramatic changes
and developments in the draft laws
and the ways in which they have
affected the most vulnerable portion
of the young, a great many of
our students constantly need to
update their information on this
subject. Many tell us of their
agonizing efforts to make any but
the most vague and temporary
decisions with respect to their
immediate educational, career, and
/or personal plans; and even those
dedicated to laboring in 'draft
counseling' (and who are particularly
knowledgeable about current
conditions) have varied difficulty in
helping students find satisfactory
solutions and/or alternatives to the
draft. Because we are receiving
many more requests for information
tailored to the needs of
graduate students, the Counseling
Center felt that useful information
which comes to our office should
be forwarded to The Cavalier Daily
not only for students in general,
but also for the academic community
at large; in addition, we
hope this will reach more people
with many less man-hours, and by
so doing, we can use our limited
time as advantageously as possible.
A student (graduate or not) who
is having difficulties with his draft
board, either present or impending,
should avail himself of the draft
counseling services through the
Dean of Student Affairs Office or
the locally, well-organized draft
services for students. The main
reason for submitting this article is
to supplement our existing services
with a pool of references and
resources found to be helpful by
students all over the country. The
Counseling Center does not maintain
bibliographic handouts of the
information below nor can we
account for the quality of any
particular source. This is a compilation
of material which happened
our way and was collected in a
random manner. It would be up to
each student to use the list to his
own advantage.
Resources
1. American Friends Service
Committee (Quakers), 160 North
15th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19102.
2. Brethren Service Commission,
1451 Dundee Avenue, Elgin, Illinois
60120.
3. Catholic Peace Fellowship, 5
Beekman Street, New York, N.Y.
10038.
4. Central Committee for Conscientious
Objectors, 2016 Walnut
Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19103.
5. Fellowship of Reconciliation,
Box 271, Nyack, N.Y. 10960.
6. Jewish Peace Fellowship, Box
271, Nyack, N.Y. 10906.
7. Mennonite Central Committee,
21 South 12th Street, Akron,
Pennsylvania 17501.
8. National Service Board for
Religious Objectors, 15th and New
York Ave. N.W. Washington, D.C.
20005.
9. Peacemakers, 10208 Sylvan
Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45241.
10. War Resistors League, 5
Beekman Street, New York, N.Y.
10038.
Reading Material
1. "Handbook for Conscientious
Objectors," ed. Aro Tatum. Philadelphia
Central Committee for
Conscientious Objectors, 1968.
($1.50 copy).
2. Lynn, Conrad, J. "How to
Stay Out of the Army." New York,
Grove Press, 1967, ($1.25 copy).
3. "You and the Draft," published
by the New York Workshop
in Nonviolence, 5 Beekman Street,
Room 1031, New York, N.Y.
10038.
4. "Uptight with the Draft,"
published by the War Resister's
League.
5. "Can a Catholic be a Conscientious
Objector?" published by
the Catholic Peace Fellowship.
6. "The New Draft Law: A
Manual for Lawyers and Counselors,"
ed. Ann Fagan Ginger,
Nat'l. Lawyers Guild, ($10.00
copy).
7. "Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants
to Canada," ed. Mark Satin,
House of Anansi (Toronto, Canada).
($1.00 copy.)
8. "The Draft: A Handbook of
Facts and Alternatives, ed. Sol Tax,
Univ. of Chicago. ($12.95 copy).
9. "1001 Ways to Beat the
Draft" by Tuli Kupferberg and
Robert Bashlow. New York, Grove
Press. ($0.75 copy).
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