A campus-wide referendum on the war in Vietnam will be held at Wayne State University on April 6 as part of Student Vietnam Week in Detroit. Student Vietnam Week, April 3-14, will culminate in a mass mobilization against the war on April 15 in New York.
In the elections last November, 40% of the voters in Dearborn voted in favor of withdrawing U.S. troops from Vietnam. The final vote was 20,667 against withdrawal and 14,124 in favor of it. The high percentage of those voting for withdrawal prompted the Wayne Committee to End the War in Vietnam to decide to hold a campus referendum and compare students’ attitudes toward the war with those of the Dearborn citizens.
The referendum question will be similar to that on the Dearborn ballot: Are you in favor of an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam?
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See Fifth Estate’s Vietnam Resource Page.