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Vietnam Week.

JUNE 1967
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Vietnam Week.
JUNE 1967

The week of May 14 to 20 was designated "Vietnam Week" by the Undergraduate Council which sponsored a series of lectures "to educate students about Vietnam and the draft."

Because of transportation difficulties, the first speaker of the week, Professor of Economics Robert S. Browne of Fairleigh Dickinson University, a former member of the American Aid Mission in Vietnam and Cambodia, didn't go on. He was expected to speak against the Government position. Assistant Professor of Chinese Jonathan Mirsky, a critic of the U.S. action in Vietnam, filled in.

On the second evening the UGC-sponsored speaker was Lloyd Norman, a military specialist for Newsweek, who was quoted by The Dartmouth as saying that after his most recent visit to Vietnam he "was not quite as sure of the war" as he was last October.

The third session was a panel discussion with John McLaughry, a special assistant to Senator Mark Hatfield; Howard Whiteside, national board member of the American Civil Liberties Union; Conrad Lynn, a New York lawyer; John Pocock, a Canadian artist and a member of an ad hoc committee to aid Americans wishing to emigrate to Canada to evade the draft; and Dartmouth Peace Corps Director Phillip Bosserman participating in a discussion of the ethical and legal aspects of the draft.

The speaker for the final session was Mrs. Pat Griffith, secretary for the Inter-University Committee for Debate on American Foreign Policy. She discussed her visit in February to North Vietnam. All sessions were open to student comments and questions from the audience.