HITT APPEARS ON KUOK
Draft exam forms are due April 23
By Joyce Grist
April 23 has been set as the deadline for submitting Selective Service Qualification Test applications, said James K. Hitt, registrar and director of the office of admissions and records.
Hitt, a member of the four man committee of the registrar's association which acts as a liaison with the Selective Service, spoke at a forum on the Selective Service which was broadcast on KUOK last night.
TEST APPLICATIONS will be available either the last of March or the first of April, Hitt said. The test will be given at KU May 14, May 21, and June 3.
"The test will be a quantitative and verbal standardized test, similar to the ACT test," Hitt said. "It will be an achievement test designed to test a person's aptitude to do college work."
The Selective Service Qualification Test to be reinstituted this spring was last used during the Korean War. The test may be taken only once and in addition to college students, high school seniors will be able to take it.
Science Research Associates have charge of making up and administering the test. SRA will send the test results to the local draft boards.
HITT COMMENTED on the rumors that the test will favor science and math students. He said that "SRA is probably aware of these rumors and will bend over backwards to create a test which covers all areas of knowledge equally."
Communication by KU with the local draft boards has been limited until now. In the past, students could choose to fill out a card at the time of enrollment indicating their selective service number. These cards were sent to the draft board as a notification that the student was enrolled in college. KU has also sent notices to the draft boards of students who dropped out of school.
Starting this spring, the nation's colleges and universities are being asked to cooperate with a new national policy. Class ranking of those students who have indicated their selective service number will be sent to the draft boards. Students can request that their ranking not be sent, however.
Ranking will indicate whether the student is in the
upper fourth, upper half, upper three-fourths, or lower fourth of his class.
Hitt said that certain draft boards are eying students more closely than others for two reasons. First, these boards may just be short of men to fill their quota. Second, they may look upon the college student with less esteem and they may question the validity of college deferment. This latter attitude is found in some rural areas, he said.
"IF I WERE a member of a local draft board reviewing the case of a student asking for deferment and I saw no Selective Qualification Test score, I certainly would wonder why the student did not take the test. I would say that it is a bigger risk not to take the test than to take it," Hitt said.
KANSAS DRAFT boards now use the criteria of 30 hours per year to classify a man as a full time student. Hitt said that national regulations in this area will probably soon supercede this state policy. "It should be up to the college to determine whether a person is a full time student. I have full confidence that this concept will be developed as national policy soon."
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No.96
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEATHER: SHOWERS
Details on page 5
Thursday, March 10, 1966
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JANET ANDERSON AND AL MARTIN
Rader, Darville given VOX student nominee
By Eric Morgenthaler
Tom Rader, former president of the freshman class and governor of Boys' State, will be Vox Populi's candidate for president of the student body.
Rader, Greensburg sophomore, and his running mate, Dick Darville, Shawnee Mission junior, received the unanimous support of the 55 persons present at Wednesday night's Vox meeting.
IN HIS acceptance speech, Rader said that Vox hopes to "unite students in a common cause—their own welfare.
"Student government at KU should be representing each and every student at KU, but it's not," he said.
Martin, Anderson lead UP's ticket for spring
By Juck Harrison
Al Martin, Shawnee Mission sophomore, fraternity district All Student Council representative and Summerfield scholar, is the presidential nominee of the University Party (UP) for the spring elections.
His running mate is Janet Anderson, Prairie Village sophomore and secretary of the ASC.
Bu Jack Harrington
Martin has been the UP caucus chairman, a member of the Committee Evaluation Board, and is chairman of the ASC special committee to evaluate and codify student regulations. He was also an official delegate to the Big Eight Student Government Conference.
THE CANDIDATES were announced last night at a UP meeting at Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house.
Other UP Candidates . . . see page 5
Other Vox Candidates . . . see page 6
A member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Martin has been house rush chairman. He was chairman for SUA off-campus carnival publicity and a member of the College Bowl Committee. As a freshman, he was awarded the Veta B. Lear award for highest grades in his class.
Secretary of the council since last spring, she has also served on the Committee Evaluation Board, the Constitution Committee, and was a delegate to the Associated Student Government Conference at Purdue University last year.
MISS ANDERSON has served on the ASC from both freshman women's and large women's districts, and is in her second term on the council.
Miss Anderson's first term was
TOM SHUMAKER, Russell senior and secretary general of UP, said the platform is in the final stages and will be published during the first of next week.
representing the freshman women. She is presently the only UP person holding an office on the council.
All of the other ASC candidates were announced by the party.
As of the meeting last night the UP platform had not yet been completed.
The spring elections will be held March 30 and 31. This is the first time in several years that the elections are being held before the semester break.
Voting places will be located in the usual three sites, Strong Hall, Murphy and the Union.
Rader said that the Vox platform, earlier by Mike Grady, Leawood junior and a member of the Vox advisory board, advocated changes that would serve students individually.
The platform contains seven major points:
- Codification of student regulations, so as to make them clear and accessible;
- A general investigation of student rights;
- Legislative reorganization of the All-Student Council (ASC);
- Initiation of a course elective system on a pass-fail basis, which would enable students to take elective courses outside their major without affecting their grade point averages;
- Institution of a "stop week"
system, particulars of which would be worked out pending results of a current ASC "stop week" poll;
Departmental orientation program for incoming graduate students;
- Seeking of a guarantee from the Athletic Corporation Board and the athletic department that both the old and new student sections in Memorial Stadium will be reserved as student seats.
RADER, who has a 2.48 grade point average, is an ASC representative from the fraternity dis-
Rader said that the platform does not deal with "things that are going to happen anyway if no one does anything, but with issues of real significance to students."
See RADER, page 5
—Photo by Mary Dunlap
TOM RADER AND DICK DARVILLE