No draft changes planned for state
By GARY MURRELL
KU administrators have tightened semester hour requirements for draft deferment, but Kansas Selective Service officials plan no major changes in their policy.
At least one Big Eight college, Iowa State, faces difficulty in keeping some students who will lose their college deferment because of a change in that state's policy.
EARLIER THIS week, Col. Glenn R. Bowles, director of Iowa's Selective Service, announced a more stringent application of the normal progress rule, which has been used there for several years.
He said undergraduate students in Iowa colleges should complete four years of academic work in exactly four years. Prior to this change, students had taken two extra semesters to complete degree requirements.
At KU the situation has changed.
JAMES K. Hitt, registrar, along with other administrators found it necessary to require a 14-hour semester load for full time student classification. It had been 12 hours a semester.
He said the Kansas boards seem to act fairly in their classification of KU students.
Undergraduates, according to Hitt, usually need four and one-half years to attain a degree; and in the case of engineering degrees, the normal period is five years.
HE DESCRIBED the KU situation as well-in-hand. "Students here are not having difficulty meeting requirements of their draft boards."
Major Roy R. Bartlett, assistant manpower officer of the Kansas
Selective Service Board, Topeka, said Thursday his office requires 30 semester hours for undergraduates and from 12 to 15 semester hours for graduate students.
"WE HAVE asked local boards to consider hours accumulated during one year of college rather than one semester," Maj. Bartlett explained. "But we act in an advisory policy; our decisions are not binding upon local boards."
He believes a student should be given an opportunity to make up for lost hours. This could be accomplished through lighter semester loads for working students, or a complex five-year program for specialists.
"Kansas will possibly have difficulty meeting draft calls before January," he said. "The October quota was 348, and we are presently filling a quota of 546 for November."
Bartlett said to predict future calls is almost impossible.
ONE EXAMPLE was the recent decision to draft men between the ages of 26 and 35 years. In Kansas, men in this age bracket are being given physical examinations and some are being drafted.
"The state calls can be filled but not with case," Bartlett said. "We are turning to older men for more manpower."
The state draft clerk said 19,213 student deferments are still in effect in Kansas. The number was increased by about 2,000 this fall. These range from a regular student classification of II-S to the statutory category of 1-S.
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Daily Kansan Friday, October 28, 1966
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