Studnets in Genral Aint Energetic By Doug (Will Rogers) Parsons When coming into a classroom some studnets look very lazy. Some look almost like they had been sent for and couldn't come. Most college studnets seem to dislike any physicle exertion. However, in genral they are quite the opposite on the mental end of it. But they never get so enerjectic that they think more than is necessary. Some studnets walk in very slowly, looking forward to a nice plesant hours sleep. This type usually slumps doun in his seat like a flour sack with a string tied in its middle. He sits in the very back corner of the classroom where he will get the least amount of disturbence from the rest of the class. Still another type comes in with the idea that he would like to become educated but dosn't want to do any work. He has the impression that it is the teacher who is getting paid to teach him so why should he work. Then of corse we have the clown. He walks in laughing, mainly because no one else will laugh at his jokes. He makes all kinds of wise cracks and tries to show off his jokes. He makes all kinds of smart cracks and tries to show off his knowledge, brightness and sence of humor. We also know the studnet who just didn't quite get his assignment finnished. He rushes in, sits doun and starts working fevorishly. He usualy asks his nabor a question or two on the assignment and just gets it finnished in time. Then, last of all, comes in the absent minded professor. He forgot to tell the studnets that they were going to have a test that day. When he announces this there is usualy a low toned grown, like someone had a belly ach. Sometimes the class will try to talk him out of it but usualy in vain. A test like this is always bad because the students have had no time to prepare any cheating devices. But like I say, there a great gang if you go for studnets. 24 THE STUDENTS PART IN AMERICA AT WAR Life is continuing to be mighty complicated for persons of high school and college age. They wonder what is their duty in a world that promises to be kept at war readiness for a period of years farther than any of us can see. The author, assigned to study the matter for the college by the college president, clarifies some of the questions. By Dean A. Gardner The United States of America needs a strong armed force. Experts estimate that we must build this force quickly and maintain it for a decade or more. Everyone has a part to play. Let us examine this question: What is a student's role? The lawmakers in Washington are now yangling back and forth about a bill to create a civilian unit, National Security Training Corps, to operate a universal military training program. Regardless of what may be the outcome of this proposal, students and non-students of eligible age are being registered, classified, examined and inducted. So this discussion would better be spent upon the specific place that a draft-eligible student has under the persent law rather than upon predictions. Statutory Deferment of One Year The selective service program guarantees every student a deferment of one academic year after he becomes eligible for the draft. To obtain this deferment a draft-eligible student must be enrolled in school before he receives his orders to report for induction. It would be best to get this information to the draft board immediately after receiving orders to report for the pre-induction physical examination. In the case of most of the fellows presently enrolled in Weber, that information has already been filed with the draft board. Additional Deferments Further deferment is on an individual basis. The law specifies that "No deferment . . . shall be made in the case of an individual except upon the basis of the status of such individual." To qualify for this deferment a student should demonstrate to his local draft board that his activity in study is necessary to the "maintenance of the national health, safety, or interest." Preferred Courses of Study The preferred courses of study under the law have been "any or all categories of persons whose activity in study, research, or medical, dental, veterinary, optometric, osteopathic, scientific, pharmaceutical, chiropractic, chiropodial, or other endeavors ..." Favorable consideration goes to all students engaged in learning the technical skills and trades. Recent regulations, however, eliminate mention of these or any other specific fields. The draft board is left with instructions to apply the general test of finding that a student's further training will contribute to the health, safety, or interest of the country. Securing Deferment To qualify for consideration for this deferment all that a student needs to do is to complete the academic year of his statutory deferment in the upper half of his class or obtain a score of seventy or more in the college aptitude examination. The draft board can then, at its discretion, defer the student during the remainder of his college study. This information should be brought to the attenion of the draft board as follows: 1. If the student did not take the qualifying test, he should have the institution file with the local board SS form 109 to report class standing. 2. One who took the qualifying test should ask his local board for a statement of the grade made on the test so that the information may be used, if necessary, in an appeal. He should make sure that SS form 109 has been filed. Continued on page 28 25