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News From the Campuses

The Princeton University Bulletin has announced
that civilian freshmen students in engineering at Prince-
ton are now pursuing courses prescribed for the basic
phase of the Army Specialized Training Program.

Handbooks of regulations, including ‘‘do’s’’ and
“‘don’t’s’’ for A.S.T.P. soldiers, are being distributed to
soldier-trainees at the Indiana University and University
of Maryland.

 

 

A number of colleges and universities have pre-
pared attractive leaflets and folders welcoming ASTP
soldiers to the campus and acquainting trainees with the
institution’s customs, traditions and background.

 

The Ohio University Post (Athens, Ohio), told
recently of the creation of an information center for sol-
dier-trainees at the university.

 

“The Specializer’’, published at the University of
Wisconsin, reported that a trainees’ military band has
been organized,

 

“Private Dumjon at B.T.U.’’ wasthe title of a trav-
esty presented by A.S.T.P. soldiers at Virginia Poly-
technic Institute. The play’s setting was ‘‘Bucolic Tech-
nical University, knownto faculty as ‘Good Old B.T.U.’ ’’,

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An arm-patch insignia depicting the sword of valor
against a lamp of knowledge has been selected as the
official emblem of the A.S.T.P. The sword and lamp are
blue on a yellow octagon patch,

Artists of the Quartermaster Corps and Special
Service Division collaborated to design a series of insignia,

To learn the preference of soldiers in the program,
across section vote was held at Georgetown University
with approximately 150 soldiers viewing a number of
samples of shoulder insignia patterns. The pattern de-
scribed above ran far ahead in the voting.

Productionhas been started onthe insignia and it is
expected they will be ready for distribution in November.

Letters to Parents

President Howard L. Bevis of Ohio State Univer-
sity writes a letter to parents of every trainee shortly
after the soldier arrives at the university. President
Bevis assures the parents of the university’s whole-
hearted cooperation in the Program.