Speaking Back to the Speaker Ban: Oral History Practice And Free Speech Activism

But also, we had the draft

But also, we had the draft. And if you were a male student you could get a deferment for four years from the draft but as soon as you graduated, you were drafted. So the campus became a critical factor politically because it was literally life and death. If you agree with the war, well, you could look forward to fighting in it, I mean, you lost your deferment, you were going to go.

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