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40% Would Not Serve in Army, Says GSA Poll

By Michael J. Barrett

The Graduate Student Association has released the answers to two questions included in its poll of the Vietnam war held for five days last week. 40.4%--381--of the males polled have indicated that they would "go to jail" or "leave the United States" if called for induction into the Army next year.

The GSA will disclose the complete results of the poll and accompanying referendum this Wednesday. Yesterday, in conjunction with the GSA release, the Graduate Student Organizing Committee announced that 72% of graduate students voting in a referendum worded exactly like the GSA's called for the "immediate withdrawal" of American forces from Vietnam.

Alternatives

In answer to the question which offered imprisonment and expatriatism as two alternatives to serving in Vietnam, another 29.5% of those polled said they would "exhaust all legal means but serve rather than break the law," and 19% decided they would "serve reluctantly. 11% indicated they would "serve willingly."

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