[raccoonradio]

>>what was the primary motivator that fueled these protests among college students of the 1960s and early 1970s -- the prospect of being drafted

"I don't wanna get drafted, I don't wanna go I don't wanna get drafted, no no no Wars are really ugly they're dirty and they're cold I don't want somebody to shoot me in the fox hole, fox hole"--Frank Zappa

The original op-ed by the college student:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1517458/posts

[martin_fierro]

So you can cloak the Vietnam protest in noble- sounding rhetoric, but at the heart it was a matter of self-interest to avoid being drafted.

That, and hippie chix were easy.