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Show j Policy Announced for Enlistments i Of Students While Still in College Dr. H. Wayne Driggs, director of the Branch Agricultural college col-lege stated today that the secretary secre-tary of Defense, Gen. George Marshall, has announced a new basic policy for enlistment in the armed services by college students. stu-dents. The new ' policy was recom- j mended by Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, assistant secretary of defense for manpower, and was concurred in by Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, and the military oepartments. The policy is intended to prevent the waste to the nation and the damage dam-age to the educational system that is involved in having young men leave school in mid-term because they desire to enlist in the service of their choice before they are called for preinduction physical examination by their local draft boards. Under the old rules no armed service would accept a voluntary volun-tary enlistment after a man had received notice to report for his pre-induction physical examination. examina-tion. The new policy provides that students enrolled in colleges or universities and thus automatically auto-matically entitled to deferment for the school year in which they receive their induction notice, shall be allowed, to the extent of available openings in each service, serv-ice, to enlist in the service of their choicce at anytime in the two-months immediately preceding preced-ing the final month of their school year. .' 3 in the past, each service would accept enlistments only to the extent that places were open for those who desired to enlist. Under the new policy a young man called by Selective Service during the academic year could continue his studies and still retain re-tain the right to designate his choice of service by enlisting in the period beginning 90 days before be-fore the termination of the school year and ending 30 days before the termination date. Services accepting ac-cepting enlistments during this two-month period would not call the students to duty until they had finished their school year. General Marshall expressed the opinion that the new rules would prove of benefit to the students, the colleges and the national defense de-fense effort. He emphasized the importance to the nation" of maintaining a vigorous educational educa-tional system and eliminating the unsettled conditions that developed on many campuses as a result of large-scale enlistments enlist-ments by men who wanted to enlist en-list before they received their Selective Service calls. At the same time the change in enlistment policy was announced, an-nounced, Gen. Marshal urged college students enrolled in the Army, Navy or Air Force reserve officers' training corps to make every effort to complete their courses as a patriotic duty.ROTC is a fundamental element in all Department of Defense planning for expansion and maintenance of the armed forces, Gen. Marshall Mar-shall declared. For this reason, he said, the selective Service Act defers from induction under its provisions during all their college col-lege years selected ROTC students stu-dents who sign agreements to accept commissions and to serve a minimum of two years on active ac-tive duty in the military service for which they are being trained. Gen. Marshall stressed that all ROTC students who successfully fulfill the training and physical requirements are assured of commissions com-missions in the regular or reserve components of the armed forces. |