Springville Herald | 1946-12-05 | Page 8 | Vets Continue Studies at "U"

VETS CONTINUE STUDIES AT "U" After fighting an uphill battle to become registered and to outline out-line courses of study in an unprecedented unprec-edented era of mass education, veterans at the University of Utah Ut-ah are sticking tenaciously to their books and slide rules. Only 178 of 50000 "G. I. Bill" students who traded weapons for pencils have withdrawn from the university during autumn quarter, Herald Carlston, veterans' coordinator, coordi-nator, said Saturday. And since 81 of 3500 students who are not in training under the readjustment program have left school during the quarter, the percentage .of veteran withdrawals withdraw-als is "anything but alarming," Mr. Carlston said. He indicated that the percent? age of veterans leaving studies at the University of Utah was far below the national average. "Sixty-four of the veterans have quit school to accept employment, which may indicate that a factor causing withdrawals has been the present high cost of living," Mr. Carlston said. Veterans, especially those with families, are finding government subsistence insufficient, insuffi-cient, he declared. For those veterans who found the academic program or the subsistence sub-sistence problems too enigmatic, , .reenlistment, which appealed to eight men, and on-the-job training, train-ing, which took eight others, have proved outlets. The majority of other withdrawals withdraw-als have been for equally valid reasons, Mr. Carlston said. Thirty-seven Thirty-seven men were forced to withdraw with-draw because of illness. Three withdrew to fill church missions, and housing problems compelled eight to leave the university. Thirty-nine others have left for miscellaneous reasons.