Show Selective Service Changes Explained By State skate e Director The change concerning th the n new w c- c tive Service Law is ls a point of great concern con cern corn for Utah c college Students COLONEL RICHARD V. V director Ion tor or for Cor Selective Service in Utah clarified the college students student's position He lie stated registrants who met the requirements for student deferments during the 71 1970 regular academic school year will con to be deferred until they graduate reach age 21 24 or cease to pursue a course of study satisfactorily whichever comes first COLLEGE STUDENT deferments will wilt willbe willbe be eliminated for those who entered college college col col- lege In the summer of 1971 or later Colonel stated that non deferred college students are arc eligible to lo have their inductions postponed until the end of the semester or term or academic year Inthe in inthe the case of their last academic year or until they cease satisfactorily to pursue such course of instruction whichever is earlier COLONEL PEAS stated another major point the ongoing going college student should consider is the already established policy policy policy pol pol- pol- pol icy permitting men to lo drop their II S II-S S student deferment at will The policy polley means a man with a student deferment can abandon that deferment whenever it is to his advantage without waiting wailing the end of the deferment peri period d for which it is granted For example he could choose to enter the I-A I manpower pool late in a year when it is apparent his draft lottery number will not be reached Exposure for even part of the year counts for the entire year and if a man ends a year in I I-A I A status without being drafted he is moved into less vulnerable ries in the following years ars Colonel said lottery number will be the highest called this year and he encouraged men who were born in 1951 or before and received lottery numbers numbers num num- bers in the 1969 or 1970 lottery to lo take tako advantage of the opportunity to face their maximum exposure this year fear ANY REGISTRANT who holds a lottery number of or above and who is classified class class- S II-S may request in writing to his his' local board that they terminate his S II-S deferment and place him in a I-A I status will on on December 31 1971 be placed in a aless aless aless less vulnerable c and not subject t to call in the following years of his lia Ua- The advantage of college students with wilh lottery numbers above is obvious and andall andall andall all Utah local boards have instructions to accept written requests for the classification classification classification cation change |