Draft Union Outlines Plan For Fresh Drive in April

The Harvard Draft Union met last night to evaluate its first month of existence and to decide upon its political future.

The Union agreed:

* to sponsor a series of forums beginning in April, for seniors and first year graduate students, on draft resistance and alternatives to service in the armed forces.

* to take part in a national "Academic Day of Conscience" on April 15, which "Resist" is coordinating at 400 campuses across the country. The Union hopes to hold a large anti-war rally in the Yard.

* to join the April 25 march on the Boston Selective Service Headquarters called by the regional office of SDS.

About 50 people attended last night's meeting at 2 Divinity Avenue. The Union--which is an autonomous affiliate of Students for a Democratic Society--drew a crowd of 125 to its first meeting on February 26.

At the moment, there is no formal membership in the Union, but proposals have been made for either a list which members would sign or a token donation to the Union, which would entitle donators to membership cards.

Reporting on the Union's achievements, Barry Margolin '70 said that 200 workers are now draft counseling in the Houses, the Yard, and in 13 graduate departments. He said that the Union has reached a "majority" of the senior class.

"Our major problem has been to disillusion people," Margolin said in an interview last weekend. "Most seniors still don't believe that they will be drafted after graduation. They think their draft boards are different--but 70 per cent of them are going to end up in Vietnam."

Margolin said that the candidacies of Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy '48 (D-N.Y.) were not drawing workers away from the Union.