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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, December 13, 1967
Dean gives advise about draft law
If men students wish to keep II-S deferments, they must advise their local Selective Service boards of any changes of address, and furnish evidence of enrollment and progress.
The Kansas Selective Service System headquarters has tightened the belt on student deferments and the dean of men's office has issued some guidelines for KU men to follow when applying for extended deferments.
Many students at the beginning of the fall semester received alarming news from their local boards in the form of I-A classifications, instead of the II-S deferments usually given full-time college students.
Kenneth I. Ivers, assistant to the dean of men, said failure to meet these requirements could result in the loss of II-S classification, replacing it with I-A.
After doing research on the matter, Ivers believes students in this situation could seek I-SC classifications.
It is a special classification used for students who receive induction notices while enrolled as full-time students. It allows one year to complete education requirements, which vary according to degrees.
But students are expected to have completed in one year 25 per cent of the requirements for a four-year degree program or 20 per cent of a five-year program. If a student were enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, he should have taken at least 31 hours or 25 per cent toward the 124-hour requirement.
Ivers said the students lacking a few hours toward graduation, might consider the I-SC route.
"However, this system only postpones the date the induction notices become effective," he
warned. "When students graduate, their cases are re-opened and the draft boards probably will re-classify them."
He said apparently some local boards are issuing I-A classifications to seniors with 90 to 94 semester hours completed or students who are in the fifth year of a four-year program.
Ivers said this is done to remove some of future uncertainties for the student and for the board that reclassifies registrants.
Here is the I-SC procedure:
- The draft board issues a student a I-A classification.
- Soon a pre-induction physical notice is sent and the student reports.
- If the registrant passes the physical, an induction order is issued.
- The student brings the notice to the registrar's office and is told how to get a I-SC classification.
Ivers said the student in this situation may either appeal the I-A to the State Appeals Board or accept the reclassification, take the pre-induction physical, then request the I-SC when he receives his induction notice.
Students must keep the local boards informed of progress, he said. Special statements, replacing the "Blue slips," will be given to men students next semester.
The FL 15A form, filled out and sent to local boards in the fall, is required only once each academic year and need be re-submitted in the spring.
Ivers cautioned seniors intending to enter graduate school, "graduate deferments will not be granted to men who are graduates with a bachelor's degree after Oct. 1, 1967. The only exception to this rule are those students going into the Health sciences."
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