The United Ministry of Harvard and Radcliffe voted unanimously yesterday to establish daily draft counseling services for students.
Beginning March 25th at Phillips Brooks House, the Ministry's fourteen chaplains will offer their services to students with "personal problems" regarding the draft.
The Ministry--composed of chaplains from 12 Cambridge churches--will make no attempt to talk students into opposing the draft. "We don't intend to have any stated view towards the draft," said the Reverend Charles P. Price. "We are here to clarify issues and help students make up their own minds about the draft rather than to direct them to a certain end," he added.
Price, who is Preacher to the University and an ex-officio member of the Ministry, will work with the group on the counseling project.
For specific information concerning draft resistance the chaplains will refer students to the American Friends Service Committee.
The idea for the counseling service was proposed three weeks ago by the Reverend Theodore Evans. The group hopes, Evans said, that the chaplains' council would be "one more small outlet for students, other than the University Health Services, or any other advisory organization."
All members of the United Ministry will offer their services on a rotation basis. Two chaplains will be available every afternoon from noon to 5 p.m.
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