SDS To Distribute Exam On Vietnam at Draft Test

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) plans to distribute one million copies of a "Vietnam exam" to students throughtout the country on the three the dates of national deferment tests.

"We expect to hit just about all the in the country," Paul Booth. SDS's executive secretary, said over the weekend.

Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of SDS will act, in effect, as distribution for all New England. Printing of the exam are expected here today; SDS will print copies of the exam and give them to various college chapters at an SDS regional conference to be held at Amherst this weekend.

Maximum National Impact

The exam is intended to crystallize SDS's opposition to the war and reach numbers of people. "[The Vietnam program] is meant as a skeleton to which local chapters and groups can add...[It] will get much national publicity, and will unite the protests exam centers for the maximum national impact," an instruction sheet from national SDS offices to local chapters says.

There will be 18 questions on the exam, primarily of a true-false, multiple choice type. Along with the exam, a two page "Call for an Examination of Concidence will be distributed.

<"Passing our Vietnam exam won't get you a deferment from the Army," it says. Failing it won't put you in a jungle But maybe thinking through our questions will make you a little shakerer, a little freer...and a little of your own conscience."

Distribution in Examination Halls

The exam will probably be distributed before or after the draft deferment exams. There is a possibility that some SDS members, who are taking the draft will announce the distribution of the "Vietnam exam" within the At Harvard, SDS may have as many as 100 people handing out the Vietnam exams. In addition, it is possible that and Radcliffe students will other test centers throughout England area.

"We can use hundreds of people on this. There are test centers all over New England that have to be covered." Michael S. Ansara '68, regional coordinator for the "Vietnam exam" program, said. Local campus chapters will handle operations at their own schools, but additional manpower will be needed to man campuses without chapters or centers that are not located at a specific college.

Ansara conceded there might be trouble at some centers. "I don't think there will be any violence here, but at places like the University of New Hampshire or the University of Maine, there's possibility that some incidents will occur," he said. Ansara expected that local police would prevent any incidents from developing into serious violence.

Because local chapters will handle most details, it is hard to predict exactly how each chapter will distribute its exams or whether there will be other demonstrations, Ansara said.

"We can use hundreds of people on this. There are test centers all over New England that have to be covered." Michael S. Ansara '68, regional coordinator for the "Vietnam exam" program, said. Local campus chapters will handle operations at their own schools, but additional manpower will be needed to man campuses without chapters or centers that are not located at a specific college.

Ansara conceded there might be trouble at some centers. "I don't think there will be any violence here, but at places like the University of New Hampshire or the University of Maine, there's possibility that some incidents will occur," he said. Ansara expected that local police would prevent any incidents from developing into serious violence.

Because local chapters will handle most details, it is hard to predict exactly how each chapter will distribute its exams or whether there will be other demonstrations, Ansara said.