Wednesday, Sept. 30.1964 University Daily Kansan
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KU Forms Needed For Draft Boards
Forms must be filled out and the draft board is interested in every man over 18 years of age.
Any KU man with a question concerning selective service regulations could clear up the problem by consulting James K. Hitt, director of admissions and registrar.
For KU men that time of year has come again.
Since coming to KU in 1940, it has been Hitt's responsibility to keep up to date on the selective service and answer student questions. Hitt said yesterday that he enjoys this part of his job because it keeps him in contact with the students.
EVERY CASE is different. Hitt said, thus the student who isn't sure should take the time to find out.
said, thus the student who isn't sure should take the time to find out. The registrar pointed out several general principles of the selective service law—both old and new:
As soon as the individual male reaches his 18th birthday he must register with a selective service board. It doesn't make any difference where he registers since the information will be sent to his home board where it will be kept permanently.
As soon as the local board assigns the registrant a number, he is sent a classification questionnaire which will be the basis of classification.
Only those classified 1-A are inducted. Most college students, if they keep their course work up and their draft board notified, need not worry about being inducted before they complete their education, Hitt said
College students are not given physical examinations at age 18. The government feels these individuals are in general above average physically and mentally and it hopes to save money in this way.
THE CHANGE was inspired by the government's poverty and manpower conservation programs. Now, those who are not up to selective service expectations, either mentally or physically, will be in line for rehabilitation programs. Approximately one-half of those examined are unfit for duty, Hitt said. To the government this represents a tremendous waste of manpower.
In the past the individual was given a physical examination only when induction was near. Since July 1, 1664, this policy has been changed and most are given physical examinations soon after their 18th birthday.
Hitt urged students to keep their draft boards informed of their activities. The University helps by sending local boards an information card filled out at registration time.
LHS to Teach Adults In Business, English
Two adult education courses, business education and English for Spanish speaking students, will be offered in the evenings at Lawrence High School this fall.
The business education classes will be held in a newly constructed data processing unit at the high school, which is designed especially to train students for immediate jobs or part time work in college.
E. J. Logsdon, director of adult education at the high school said that KU students would not be given credit for the evening classes.
"But we believe the training can be of great value to them. Several of the courses are filled already and others are growing, but we'll also have the evening classes this spring," Logsdon said.
The new business unit, containing classrooms for programmed
There will be an all-membership meeting of the KU-Y at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Big Eight room of the Kansas Union.
KU-Y to Have Meeting
All program chairmen will be present to inform students about their programs.
The meeting is open to all students.
typing, secretarial training, trade and industry and distributive education classrooms, was officially opened last Tuesday.
The English classes taught in Spanish are offered to KU Students from Latin America and their wives, or others wishing to enroll.
The classes will be held from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday evenings, beginning a week from today. The enrollment fee is $30 per semester.
The program was organized by Robert E. Nunley, associate chairman of Latin American area at KU, and E.J. Logadon. Miss Ana Herzfeld, KU graduate student and Spanish instructor, will teach the classes.
"This could be one of the best extra-curricular programs offered by the University for wives and husbands," Nunley said. "We often have wives of Latin American graduate students who arrive here knowing nobody and speaking little or no English. Now they'll have the opportunity to learn."
Nunley asked all students who may know an interested party to inform them or the Latin American office at VI3-0016. In the event the class fills, another section will be added.
Greek Value to Campuses Cited
(Editor's note: This is the second article in a two-part series concerning the advantages of sorority-fraternity living.)
By Linda Ellis (Feature-Society Editor)
In addition to the contributions that fraternities make toward the individual betterment of their members, they also provide many practical values to universities and colleges, according to the Stewart S. Howe Alumni Service.
- Fraternities and sororities are
Howe, who is founder and president of the service, has outlined several of the most practical values provided by national fraternities and sororities:
- By providing attractive housing for a significant portion of the student body, they save the school the cost of building and operating more dormitories. A school's limited capital funds or borrowing credit can thus be used, instead, for other campus buildings. As a tax-supported institution, the taxpayers' load is lightened insofar as self-sufficient groups provide housing for their members.
effective volunteer recruiting agencies that attract desirable students to the institution. Without their efforts, most private schools would have to spend thousands more dollars every year to make themselves well known and attractive to many desired students.
- The U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare recently completed a study of the growing number of students who leave college without being graduated. The study revealed that "fraternity and sorority membership was clearly associated with 'a persistence to graduate'" Institutions with no recognized fraternities or sororites had a lower rate of graduation than schools with them. Schools with national fraternities had higher "persistence" rates than those with only local groups. And members of fraternities and sororites at the same institutions had better persistence records than non-members.
- College and university administrators find it easier to maintain student discipline among fraternity and sorority members, than among non-members. They can use the
local chapter undergraduate and alumni officers, and the national officers, as tools to control and inspire the 50 to 100 members of each group. They can also enlist the help of local fraternity alumni "advisers" in supervising their respective groups. Without these means of control, the school would have to hire more "proctors" to live in residence halls, and expand student disciplinary staffs. The results would not be dependable.
- Organized student groups—the healthiest are the fraternities and sororities on each campus—give color and spirit to student life, making the university more than a drab institution, and inspiring loyalty to it. College and university administrators are, on occasion, eager to secure student cooperation, or a generous turn-out for a university event, or a demonstration of support for some project. The administrators know that the only effective way to stir action and get a good response from the student body is to enlist the cooperation of the fraternities and sororities.
(Next: Independent Living.)
The Classical Film Series
presents
IL GRITO
An indication of the power and mastery of Michaelangelo Antonioni's work which marks him as a great artist
PLUS (Two American Shorts)
A LA MODE (Stan Vanderbeek) and
STONE SONATA (Carmen D'Avino)
Wednesday—7:00 p.m.
Fraser Theater
Admission 60c
- IMPORTANT -
KU YOUNG DEMOCRAT MEETING
Dr. George Brown, Professor of Political Science, speaks on Goldwater's critique of American Foreign Policy: or, Why I'm Going to Vote for Lyndon Johnson.
Forum Room—Student Union
Thursday, Oct.1, 7:30 p.m.
All interested persons and members are urged to attend.