| Show Campus in the Crisis A Summary of University Wartime Activities By Robert Cutler from page j Only applicants who have the educational requirements to be matriculated as college and university students will be A for training at the University of A division of veterans' rehabilitation program also which is effected with high eludes a sub-college program 1 and in which high school training can be Consider Type of Schooling Applicants may request the type of schooling that they J desire to The staff of the administration and university will take this into consideration and give the applicant aptitude examina- that will determine whether he is mentally qualified to take the course de- The program is open to any mem- W ber of the armed service who is disabled whether it be Wac or other women's service SM The once he is accepted for the will be paid a monthly allotment for maintenance and may continue his school as long as four providing that he shows the proper aptitudes and study ability and is successful in retaining passing grades in his Although the contract does not now cover Robert courses in law or it er is expected that at a later date another contract will be enter- ed into that will include those courses of 1 Participate In Activities laboratory and breakage supplies and equipment will all be furnished to the trainee according to the terms of the Also included will be all activities and privileges enjoyed by any other registered student-such as extracurricular student functions and health service and student Eight disabled veterans have already been taken into the program and started with the beginning of the winter Dean chairman of the university committee on rehabilitation of disabled who has followed the contract says that the eight just a trickle of the larger number that will be enrolled in the spring of 1944 and by the fall of 1944 the number will probably increase to at least and will consistently increase in size as the war progresses and the casualties and disabilities mount and are discharged from the He estimates that the program can grow to be a very sizable one with no limitation on numbers now provided under the existing Cost of Program The cost of the rehabilitation program will be footed the federal government and is provided for under a federals appropriation voted by Another veteran's program now pending in congress is signed to provide benefits for service men and women who have not been The second program will be vastly more size-j able than the first and although definite plans cannot now be the university is expecting a share in this when it clears the halls of Beeley The University of Utah is the first university or college the state of Utah that has completed its contract for such a rehabilitation Several meetings have been called in the last few months which were attended by officials of the Brigham Young the Utah State Agricultural college and the University of Utah at which the problem of rehabilitation both for disabled and non-disabled army personnel has been Assisting Beeley to carry out the school's share of the program A. Cyril dean of the school of M. C. George Heber R. Herald R. Carlston and J. B. |
