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Show Effects minimal Lack of deferments still faces grad students proved overestimated, Mrs. Betty Vetter, executive director of the commission, said recently that "as far as I can see, the ultimate prediction pre-diction is right. Only the time schedule was off." She accounted for the less-than-expected drop in enrollments by pointing to the "unbelievable slowness slow-ness of local boards in reclassifications, reclassifi-cations, the relatively low draft calls last summer, the large number num-ber of reclassification appeals by draft registrants, and the fact that, for financial reasons, no military physical examinations were conducted during all of August Au-gust 1968." WASHINGTON (CPS) The nation's graduate schools have felt the impact of the elimination of graduate school deferments; however, estimates last summer that male enrollments would drop by as much as 70 per cent were unfounded. According to a study made by the Scientific Manpower Commission, Commis-sion, the draft policy announced in February, 1968, took its greatest toll among first-year graduate students. stu-dents. Second-year students were also significantly affected. The manpower commission, a private corporation, questioned 568 university uni-versity departments of chemistry, physics, and psychology, and received re-ceived responses from 356 of these representing some 10,185 graduate gradu-ate students. The study shows that 15.9 per cent of the graduate males in chemistry in the fall of 1968 were either in the services as of last month or had already received induction notices. The figure for physics graduate students was 12.5 per cent and for psychology 13.3 per cent. Indications are that the impact im-pact of the changes in the draft will be felt more strongly this fall. According to the study, "One normally co-educational chemistry chemis-try department (which cannot be identified) reported that its entire incoming class for 1969 will be fe-male." fe-male." In March 1968, the commission, with the Council of Graduate Schools of the United States, made a report that predicted a 70 per cent drop in male graduate school enrollments. While the figure |