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Selective Service System
Clarifies Policy Changes
The Selective . Service System
last month clarified expected
policy changes on undergraduate
student deferments.
College students who were
enrolled full-time in the 1970-71
academic year will be eligible for
student deferments in the 1971-72
school year if they continue to
make satisfactory progress in
their programs of study,
Selective Service officials said.
However, young men who entered
school for the first time this
summer and those who enroll as
freshmen this fall will not qualify
for student deferments if the
pending changes to the Selective
Service Act are passed by
Congress. The House has com
pleted action on the bill and final
Senate action is expected in
September.
Dr. Curtis W. Tarr. Selective.
Service Director, said: "Few
incoming freshmen students are
likely to be inducted in the near
future because of the student
deferment phaseout. Of the
1.034,000 incoming freshmen
males estimated by the Office of
Education, approximately 80 per
cent are 18 years old and only 20
per cent are 19 years of age or
older. The 18 year olds will
receive their lottery numbers in
1972, and they will not be subject
to induction until 1973, when draft
calls should be low. The 19 year
old freshmen received their
lottery numbers August 5 of this
year and will be subject to in
duction next year; at least 1 / 2
should have high enough lottery
numbers to preclude their in
duction. Of those remaining,
approximately 50 per cent will be
disqualified on mental, moral or
physical grounds. This means
that a maximum of 50,000 men
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will be directly affected in 1972 by
the student deferment phaseout
and !/2 of these, or 25,000 will
probably not be inducted because
of enlistments in Regular,
Reserve or National Guard units,
participating in commissioning
programs or • because_ of
procedural delays.
Dr. Tarr said that college
students will not be drafted in the
middle of a semester or term. "If
called while enrolled, they will be
allowed to postpone their in
duction until the end of the
semester, or term. If in their last
academic year, they will be able
to postpone their induction until
after graduation."
Dr. Tarr advised incoming
freshmen and students who
started their program of study in
the summer of 1971 or later not to
file applications for student
deferments even though the
current law authorizes granting
deferments to students in full
time programs of study.
“If the pending Selective
Service legislation does not
pass,” Tarr said, "it would not
be in a registrant's best in
terest to obtain a student
deferment which would extend
his liability until age 35. Should
Congress change the legislation to
provide for deferments for new
incoming freshmen, which is
most unlikely, applications for
deferments will not be jeopar
dized by delaying their sub
mission until after passage of the
new law."
The President's authority for
the induction of all men under 35,
except for those who have or who
have had deferments, expired on
June 30,1971. If Congress does not
reinstate the general induction
authority, the President could
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authorize the induction of those
registrants who hold or have held
deferments. In this unlikely
event, Selective Service officials
believe that manpower
requirements of the Department
of Defense probably could be met
by inducting those young men
who have recently dropped
deferments because they
graduated, dropped out of school,
or changed their occupations.
Recent college graduates or
dropouts would make up the bulk
of inductions, the officials said.
The officials added that can
cellations of deferments probably
would not be necessary nor would
it be necessary to call those who
have passed into the second
priority selection group.
Currently, there are ap
proximately six million young
men under age 35 with defer
ments. Approximately 500,000 of
these normally lose their
deferments during a 12-month
period. The largest groups of
deferred men are those who have
received fatherhood, oc
cupational or student deferments.
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• Die Buddenbrooks, the last film
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be shown Thursday, December 2,
at 8 p.m. in the RUB lecture hall.
The film presented by the Ger
man department under the
direction of Sonja Eilenberger,
will have no English subtitles.
Die Buddenbrooks is based on
the novel by Thomas Mann which
has as its theme the human and
social decline of a Hanseatic
patrician family.
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State AwardsPSU
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University Park, Pa. Nov.
The $lOO,OOO awarded to the
Pennsylvania State University
from State funds for disad
vantaged students will be used to
conduct a "bridge to college"
program for 300 freshmen
Educational Opportunity
Program Students.
The 10-week program will be
held at University Park next
summer for EOP students who
will enroll as freshmen in the fall
of 1972.
In addition to the State grant,
made from the $1,500,000
authorization by the Legislature,
about $140,000 in University funds
will go into the program.
Behrend
Council
The informal Behrend Council,
made up of students, faculty and
administration, met November
30. The recently formed council
will now meet every two weeks.
Topics discussed-included the
Improvement of the Teaching
Committee and the Grubb
Report.
Those present were: Students
Larry Bayle, Ray Geiger, Al
Quinlan, Joe Bayle; faculty:
Louis Balmer. Assoc. Professor
of Chemistry. Norman B. Pat
terson, Assoc. Professor of
Mathematics, Dr. Richard
Tomsic, Asst. Professbr of
Psychology; Administration:
Robert C. Baughman, Business
Manager, Irvin H. Kochel,
Director of Behrend Campus, and
Betty Seanor, Asst. Dean of
Student Affairs.
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University officials said that
while EOP students had the
potential to complete college
work, many had educational
aeticiencies that should be
overcome before they are ad
mitted to regular graded college
work. The intensive summer
program, with instruction in
communication skills,
mathematics, physical and social
sciences, reading and study
methods, is expected to bridge
the gap so that participating
students will have the same
educational opportunities open to
others.
A staff of 40 instructors and 20
counselor advisors will conduct
the program, which will em
phasize individual instruction
and counseling.
The proposal' leading to the
award was prepared by Mrs.
Thelma T. Price, acting director,
Educational Opportunity
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