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The purpose of the Viet Nam exam, according to Don Olson, La Mesa, Calif., sophomore and president of SDS, is to help those students taking the draft test to see their role in the war.
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"WHERE THE Selective Service gives its exams, we will be there with our own tests," Olson said. "Ours will ask questions about the war-fair and objective questions that you will have to grade yourself. Then the person can decide if he knows enough about the Vietnamese to some day take the personal responsibility for their deaths."
The Viet Nam Exam is being distributed across the country through the national organization, Olson said.
"We in SDS think it's a wrong kind of war unnecessary, unjust and un-American," he said. "Our feeling is that 'when your brothers are over there dying while trying to do something you think needs to be done, why are you back here at home trying to pass a test in order to stay out of it?'"
OLSON SAID the government should ask students what they think they would be killing and dying for, and "what the other side wants, where they came from, and why they've been fighting against the French, then the Japanese, then the British and Chinese together, and then the French again and now we Americans, for more than 35 years."
He said the millions of students taking the draft test will do so for one reason only—to stay out of the Viet Nam war.
"Those who pass will have their II-S deferment intact, at least for a while," he said. "Those who fail can start coloring themselves khaki. So we want to ask some questions of our own. It seems that if you're white and middle-class and a Dean's list kind of guy, relax. If you're not, fall in."
THE SDS exam consists of 18 multiple-choice questions concerning the country of Viet Nam, its history and United States policy towards it. Answers and explanations are also included.
Answers and explanations "Passing our test won't get you a deferment, and failing it won't put you in a jungle foxhole," Olson said. "But maybe thinking through some of our questions will make you a little shakier, a little freer, and a little prouder of your own conscience."
Frosh to plan for Congress
The Class of '69 will hold a convention in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union tomorrow from 1 to 3:30 p.m.
Ken North, class president, said the "purpose of the convention is to discuss common interest and formulate specific plans for the Sophomore Class Congress next year."
The Congress is a new form of student government for KU. Every living group will send delegates to the Congress. The goal of the Congress is to establish lines of communication between sophomore class officers and students.
"THE CONGRESS will be more than a glorified social committee," said North. "The class officers want the students they represent to express their opinions in class actions."
Four major areas of class concern will be emphasized by Congress committees: financial, social, promotional and service. The service committee will sponsor a class service project each school month.
More than one-half of the living groups have sent in the name of their convention representative, but the remaining houses can still submit applications, said North. About 60 appointed delegates are expected.
Final draft test soon
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The fourth and final national draft deferment test for students will be held June 24. A Selective Service spokesman said Thursday it will be open for those who do not take three others.
The spokesman said students eligible included those who were late in applying; did not register but have changed their minds; and students who were required to travel excessive distances to the tests.
The first of the tests is scheduled for Saturday. The second and third are scheduled for May 21 and June 3. Applications for the fourth must be postmarked no later than June 1.
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they are notified by an IBM card with five boxes on it. The highest box, to which a student qualifies, is checked. They include upper one-fourth, upper one-half, upper two-thirds, upper three-fourths and lower one-fourth of his class.
A student can also be informed of the rating which is given to his board.
"DO THE GRADES I make this semester or in the last several years count," another KU man asked. "Should I study especially hard for finals this semester," still another student asked.
Law students honor Smith
After accepting a Certificate of Merit from the national Phi Delta Phi Law Fraternity and a statue of "Lady Justice" from the law students, Smith told why he had persisted in a program of teaching which had not always been popular.
About 150 law students and alumni attended a banquet honoring James Barclay Smith, professor of law, who is retiring after 31 years of teaching at KU.
In the classroom he said he tried to give students something "they had to reach for but was always attainable.
"I was sure that if I could hold to that goal you could leave here with a chance for opportunity equal to that of anywhere you could have gone," he said.
Yes, the final grades this semester will be very important. They will be combined with those of last semester and the summer session if the student was enrolled.
Hitt explained this was a break from the usual system of rating on the cumulative grade basis.
The local draft boards will probably receive the rankings of KU men around July 15 to 20. These must be processed and prospective students should be notified sometime late in the summer.
Two KU students in traffic mishaps
Two KU students were involved in traffic accidents in Lawrence yesterday. There were no serious injuries reported.
In a two-car accident on Massachusetts Street south of Eighth yesterday afternoon, a car driven by Cheryl S. Milford, Kingman sophomore, received an estimated $150 in damage. Damage to the other car, driven by Harold R. Skinner, R.R. No. 2, Lawrence, was estimated at $45.
At 10:17 p.m. Thursday, a car driven by David R. Branine, Cheney senior, was involved in an accident at 17th and Tennessee Streets with a car driven by Dan E. Menzies, 2511 Bell Crest Dr. Damage was estimated at $150 to Branine's car and $250 to Menzies' car.
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