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Show : Dean's Office queries s critical draft handbill; I' plans cabinet meeting trants' draft records," he said. "- Dean Patton said it "wpultTappear thai the Draft Counseling Serivce doesnt know what the University function regarding the draft is." He explained that the University only; informs the draft boards of the number of hours a student is carrying. Otherwise, "only the information that a student ; authorizes is sent." He also expressed concern that people talking with the service were being improperly improp-erly informed about wh& the University would and wouldnot dcrfr--..;,. Valuable Siervke "A draft counseunservrcT'fcan perform a valuable service fqj students.'Nie said, "but it is difficult to see thj&oujKelingN, service as unbiased. Mt comes aSross as pretty one-sided." f (' The Draft Counseling Service wasestab- lished last February underlie aiispicei3T the old Executive Council, he counseling ' service was givepa4300 appropriation at that time. Harold Spark sid he presently J has eight-people worJcirjg at theUniversiry as draft counselorsxfy , x Spark, who is 2 said he has done draft counseling jf or '.nine years and has worked ; in Washington, Baltimore and Alaska. He said in the past he has done counseling with theAmericah Friends Serivce Committee Com-mittee and other organizations. He claims three goals for the service: fair and impartial representation on the draft boards,' making available complete" information on Selective Service operations opera-tions to everyone and an end to the draft. Spark criticizes Utah's draft boards as being "very loaded" and says, "We want to, -' make people in the valley aware that young people are discriminated against." to,addition to circulating the handbill, Spark said he wants three members on his list ','off their draft boards immediately" because of conflict of interests. Tbe three are: Roy Gibson, of Board 24; Ben G. Bagley, chairman of Board 24, and Marvin L. Pugh, of Board 24. Conflict of Interest Spark said Mr. Gibson is faced with a conflict )f interest because he must serve the publip as a newsman and also serve the government. ""v """Mr. Gibson rephld that it was "entirely possiblejo be a reporter and to serve the public! y'If you can't have an interest in the affairs of your community, then you can't c-good reporter," he said. NMr. Bagley serves on the Jordan District School Bjaar and Mr. Pugh is the director yf SpecjajServices for Salt . Lake City Schools. Spark charges that these men's 'position constitute a conflict of interest becauser"tfie schools have allowed the Selective Serivce, the national guard and military recruiters to 'make presentations at the schools, but have -refused to allow draft counselor's an equal opportunity. I 'Only One Letter Sent' " f ' k ' Mr. Bagley who has been on the draft board since Worl4 War II said he had only been a member of the Jordan school board since January and that to , his' knowledge only one letter had been sent to the school board requesting! that -presentations be allowed. He said theletter was unsigned but that, school board president Marlin Bateman had called JSUJJ to find out about it, but that no one was iij the office to take the call. V " i w A handbill describing members of Salt Lake Valley draft boards circulated by the ASUU Draft and Military Counseling Seres: Ser-es: we has raised questions in the Dean of Students' Office about appropriateness of -counseling service's methods. Dean Mike Patton said Monday that he requested a meeting of the ASUU cabinet j o make sure that the cabinet is aware of ways that the counseling service was advertising itself." ' ' Pu handbm. which draft counselor "arold Spark said had been circulated aoout a month and a half ago, lists the t board members for Salt Lake City 18, 21 and 22, Murray Board 24 Kearns, Midvale and Magna Board 25 . Along with the names, ages, addresses, nS' church affiliations and draft Zl C5f r ience of bod members, of h a tadudes a objective synopsis ' ..members' attitudes with regard to bs ening to prospective draftees. obiect8 fthiS Synopsis which hS111 enCtlnsfrom the dean's office. Bated eight of the 17 board members colHn u"6 described as closed-minded, cod or bigoted. StatS ?aUn a representative of the his offT W Service 0ffice had called fa e handbulbjeCted t0 statements Dean Patton also objected to the statements state-ments calling them a form of "unfair character assassination" which he thought "put the counseling service in an unfair light" and which would "prevent many students from using the facilities." Mi. Bagley, of Board 24, questioned the responsibility of ASUU in allowing "such a sheet" to be circulated under that organizations organi-zations name "without checking the facts." John W. Holmes, of Board 24, called it "nonsense and rabble rousing." He said he had "always tried to be fair-minded" and said "no campus organization organi-zation had any business putting out a sheet like that." Harold Spark, the draft counselor chiefly responsible for the list, said the judgements about the board members were based on his experience with 350 draft counseling cases. He charged the Utah boards with "representing our parents' generation, not the draftees' generation." Objects to Practice Spark also charged the University with . violating the demands of the state draft director that academic information be sent to draft boards only at the request of the student. "The University daily files change of registration information with the regis- |