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Show Draft Law Changes Affect College Age Students The change concerning the new Selective Service Law is a point of great concern for Utah college students. Colonel Richard V. Peay, director for Selective Service in Utah . clarified the college student's position. He stated, registrants who met the re-ferments re-ferments during the 1970-71 ferments luring the 1970-71 regular academic school year will continue to be deferred until they graduate, reach age 24, or cease to pursue a course' of,' study satisfactorily, whichever comes first. College Col-lege student deferments will be eliminated for those who entered college in the summer sum-mer of 1971 or later. Colonel Peay stated that non-deferred college students are eligible to have their inductions postponed post-poned until the end of the semester or term or academic academ-ic year in the case of their last academic year or until they, cease satisfactorily to pursue such course of instruc-ion, instruc-ion, whichever is earlier. Colonel Peay stated anoth er major point the on-going college student should consider' consid-er' is the already established policy permitting men to drop their II S college student deferment at will. The policy means a man with a student deferment can abandon that deferment whenever it is to his advantage, advant-age, without waiting the end of the deferment period for which it is granted. For example, ex-ample, he could choose to enter en-ter the I-A manpower pool late in a year when it is apparent, ap-parent, his draft lottery number num-ber will not be reached. Exposure for even part of the year counts for the entire en-tire year, and if a man ends a year in I-A status without being drafted he is moved into less vulnerable catagor-ies catagor-ies in the following years. Colonel Peay said lottery number 125 will be the u i. est called this year encouraged men who J born in 1951 or before and ceived lottery numbers in tht 19G9 or 1970 lottery b Y advantage of the opp0rtunit to face their maximum J posure this year. Any registrant who holds a lottery number of 126 above and who is dassiiJ II-S may request in m to his local board that thev terminate his II-S deferment and place him in I-A status will cn December 31, 1971 placed in a less vulnerable vatagory and not subject to call in the following years of his liability. The advantage of college students with lottery numb-ers numb-ers above 125 is obvious and all Utah local boards have in-structions in-structions to accept written requests for the classification change. 1 |