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Show 'IT ASKS RECOGNITION AS MILITARY SCHOOL Faculty Wants Graduates Accepted in Various Training Camps. STUDENTS ASK WORK Officers Now at Institution Volunteers, Not Assigned From Washington. As a result of a faculty meeting held yesterday afternoon, immediate steps are to be taken in Washington, D. C, with a view to having the University of Utah recognizee! by the war department depart-ment as an accredited military school from which graduates may be accepted in the officers' training schools. The matter is to be taken up at once with Utah representatives in congress, and a representation is also to be made to the war department with indorsements indorse-ments from military officers here. In this way it is hoped that the school may be given standing as a military school, and thereby enabled to send men to the officers' training schools for training for commissions as offi-sers offi-sers in the reserve corps. At the present time tho Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural college is the only accredited military school in the state, and it will send men to the fourth series of officers' offi-cers' training schools to open. May 15. Utah Has Candidates. At the University of Utah tliere are about thirty or forty young men who have had military instruction under regular army officers, and who are anxious anx-ious to enter the officers' training school. But, under the ruling of the war department, only graduates from accredited military schools are permitted permit-ted to enter the present training camps. Captain W. C. Gullion, adjutant of the Twentieth infantry at Fort Douglas, Doug-las, was invited by the faculty to attend at-tend the meeting yesterday and was in attendance. The presence of the cap-captain cap-captain was requested at the meeting that he might furnish the faculty with information relative to the rules and regulations governing selection of men for the training camps, and might advise ad-vise the .-faculty as to how to proceed in an effort to have the University of Utah made an accredited school. The regulations provide that civilians entering the officers' training camps now must be graduates from some accredited ac-credited military school, and it further provides that they must have had instruction in-struction under a regular army officer who was detailed for instruction purposes pur-poses to the school. Officers Volunteered. The men of the cadet battalion at the University of Uth have had training train-ing under regular army officers, but these officers have served voluntarily and not by detail of the war department. depart-ment. Hence there is some question as to the eligibility of the school on this point. However, in new of the fact that officers of the active list have had charge of the training, it is believed be-lieved that the school should be recognized. recog-nized. It is a further requirement that the men must be graduates of the schools before they will be accepted in the training camps. The men now at the University of Utah are not graduates but are completing their courses. This is another point that must be settled. In an effort to get these points decided, de-cided, and, if possible, have the university uni-versity recognized as a military school, the faculty proposes to take the matter up with the Washington authorities at once, and every effort is to be made to secure recognition for the institution. |