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I I I U i a n nrn - LJ Ll LJ LJ LJ LJ -,,-wr NZ LJ VJ LJ LJ LJ Ll -J V - ,,rtf-. -A 1 7te Baity f m Hni. Vol. 42, No. 61 Lincoln Nebraska. Friday, December 18, 1942 Plans For Reserves irmy, Mavy Issue The army has annonuced its specialized training program, the navy, its college training program. Complete information on both is included elsewhere on this page. But what of the students in college now? Here is what the army and navy plans to do according to their joint report issued yester day afternoon. Here is the status of students now in col leare as far as the armv is concerned : Medical students (including dentist and veterinary in the ERC will he called to active duly at the end of the first full semester that begins in 1943 and will be detailed to continue courses of medical instruction under contracts to be made by the war department with medi cal school. Medical students commissioned in the Medical administrative corps may, at the same time, resign such commissions, enlist as privates and be detailed in the same manner as medical students in the ERC. Pre-medical students in the ERC will con tinue in an inactive status until the end of the first full semester that begins in 194:? and will then be called to active duty. Those selected at induction or at the completion of Iheir basic military training for further medical or prc inedical training will be detailed for such in struction under the army specialized training program. (See ARMY PLANS, Page S.) The Navy plan is on a different basis than that of the army. Here is what the Navy will do: All V-l, V-5 and V-7 students now enrolled in college will be placed on active duty at a date to be annoxinced as apprentice seamen, with pay, subsistence and uniforms and will then spend full time in completing their college training according to the following schedule: OMnptetHI i July 1. lMt 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 wmin allow for esmpirtfcM M tfWn( 1 2 2 3 4 4 5 V-l and V-7 reserves who are undergradu ates and who qualify as medical, dental and theological students will be continued on ac (See NAVY PLANS, Page 5.) Boucher Announces that UN ay Get Army-Navy Order M Nebraska may get one of any number of different types of specialized schools for training under the new army-navy pro gram, according to a statement made by Chancellor 0. S. Bou cher last night. Several possi bilities are open. Just nhich one Nebraska will get is still undecided. Facilities on the campus are unusually good for a large num ber of men, he said. Six to twelve hundred men could be quartered in the library. An other twelve hundred could be adequately housed in the field house and the coliseum. Fed in Union. The men would be fed in the Union, the women's dormitor ies and possibly in the1 city YMCA. The Y has been asked to consider their facilities and report later if they can provide food for a number of men. The army program will not necessitate the use of frater nily houses on the campus but if a navy unit is brought here the fraternities may be asked for their houses. If a unit is brought here which .demands a dormitory, the women's residence halls may be turned over. These possibilities it must be remem bered are planned for next year and not next semester. Frat for Women. Another possibility if the dormitories do need to be taken over nest year, will be to rent fraternity houses to the univer sity for housing university women. It is altogether possible that the coliseum, field house, and library may be put to use next semester but only those facili ties will be used next semester which will not affect the regu lar university program. Mea and women will be continuing their regular program here : - v W t : : r x --Ml L lLtL Courteay Lincoln Journal. C. S. BOUCHER. . . . the coming semester may find Irregularities in bousing and university program facilities. next semester. The two semesters next year may find irregularities in housing and university program facilities, according tq the chancellor. ft on dl e on ft s Active D on War Big question in the minds of college students for months is answered. The Army and the Navy in a joint statement approved by the War Manpower Commission announced yesterday that: 1. All members of the army enlisted reserve corps, except those in the senior advanced ROTC course and students in specialized tech nical study such as engineering and medicine, will be called at the completion of the present semester. 2. All members of the Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard Reserve will be placed on active duty at a date to be announced and will then continue guided study for a period determined by the number of semesters completed by indi vidual students. 3. The University of Nebraska was selected as one of the educational institutions at which special ized training units will be set up to train army and navy-picked men. UN Member School. In a detailed report to the American Council of Education, of which Nebraska is a member, the army and navy outlined a detailed program for the na tion's colleges and college students which contem plates that the educational training will be carried on while the men are on active duty, in uniform, re ceiving pay and under general military discipline. Both government and university officials urged students to remain calm, to stay in school, and to pursue their studies as diligently as ever even though they may be in a group to be called at the end of the semester. The army action is a part of its new specialized training program which is designed to meet the need for specialized, technical training of soldiers on ac tive duty for which army facilities are inadequate. Universities will be used; young men to take the training will be selected on a democratic basis with out regard to financial resources. Call as Seamen. The navy plan, too, calls for calling of students as apprentice seamen, paying them and assigning them to designated colleges to follow courses of study designated by the navy department. "This plan will permit the selection of the country's best qualified young men on a broad democratic basis, witliout re gard to financial resources, and thus permit the navy to induct and train young men of superior ability for officers and special ists," the navy report read. Very shortly, an announcement is expected that will name the universities chosen to talte part in the army-navy program. The universities will provide instruction and also necessary housing and mess facilities. The Army Program The army program provides for the calling of reserves, with certain exceptions. After basic training, certain of such re. serves plus regularly enlisted men will be selected for special ized training at universities. The selection will follow the general plan for the choosing of enlisted men for Officers Candidate School with such addi tional methods of ascertaining qualifications as may be deemed appropriate after consultation with the American Council on Education. Train as Privates. All selected students will train as privates; commutation allowances will not be permitted; quarters and rations will be furnished by government contract; military training, organized under , 'cadei j system, subordinated to, academic instruction, (See RESERVES CALLED, Page 3.)