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Friday, December 18, 1942 DAILY NEBRASKAN Reserves Called (Continued from Page 1.) within the time available will maintain discipline and superior physical education. Standards of academic proficiency which will be main tained by students who are trained under the program will be formulated after consultation with the American Council on Education. The method of initial selection of students, the report said, will include such tests as will determine the intellectual, tem peramental, psychological and educational qualifications of the candidates. The report indicated that a system of numerous screenings will be applied at all colleges participating to insure students' meeting the academic standards. Standardize Curricula. Curricula will be standardized; training will be as speedy as possible; the soldier will be prepared for a concrete mili tary task. At the termination of the course, the soldiers will be se lected for either, Officers Candidate School, a technical non commissioned officers' position or return to troops depending upon his success in the training. The assignment of soldiers to the army specialized training program will begin during the month of February, 1943, ex cept for such action that may be required prior to that time, the report added. The Navy Program With the calling of all navy reservists to active duty at a date to be announced soon, the navy has announced that they will be required to spend full time in following courses of train ing as outlined by the bureau of naval personnel at an institu tion designated by the navy. All courses will be given throughout the calendar year. V-l Still Open. Enlistments of college students who have not passed their 18th birthday will be accepted in the present V-l program until March 15, 1913, according to the report. Thereafter, college students will be eligible for the program only through the regu lar procedures established for all other applicants. Eligible for the program besides the college reservists are high school students between the ages of 17 and 20, and enlisted or inducted men between 17 and 23. A preference for college to which students wish to be as signed will be respected when possible wilhin geographical limits and the "exigencies of the situation. No guarantees are granted. ' Students will also be permitted preliminary choice of the branch of service including the marine corps and the coast guard at the time of assignment to the program, but this choice will not be binding. May Transfer. juen assignea 10 wie program may ai ineir own request oe transferred to V-5 naval aviation if qualified. Like the army, the navy has arranged contracts with the institutions to provide for training, housing, feeding and medi cal service. The navy will furnish each institution at least one officer, however, for administration. The navy will prescribe the curricula which are necessary to insure production of officer material for the various branches of the service. Curricula will vary in length depending on training requirements. It was announced, however, that courses for the first two sixteen-week terms will be similar for all students with em phasis on mathematics, science, English, history, drawing and physical training. There will also be instruction in naval organ izatioii ana orientation. Maintain Grades. Achievement examinations will be given by the navy; un satisfactory grades will drop a student from college and move him to other naval duty. Upon satisfactory completion of college training, all stu dents wll be assigned to appropriate specialized training, selec tion based on the students preference, counseling ana accep tance of the service, such as the marines, involved. If found qualified upon completion of this training, they will be commissioned in the appropriate reserve. Special requirements are listed for engineering and tecn- nical reservists. For deck, pre-aviation and general service, one year of English, one year of math and one year of physics will be requirements at the training schools. Names of the schools participating m the navy program are expected to be announced at the same time as those co operating with the army. 'When Do We GoT Is Query Of Nebraskans A CAUTION TO fAEMBERS OP QOTC ENLISTED IIESERVE... Cash U dingecoui ocxnptnion. It tempts thieves or k mj be lost. It ii both wlte and Inexpensive to turn rhii c$h Into AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELERS CHEQUES. 1T.cn if thee Cheque are misplaced or roJrn (before you hive affixed your identification aignature) their value U re funded to you. You spend them at you do cash. They wrruin food o long ai you earn- them around unspent. You can buy them at Banki and Railway Kxprew oflkti. Tbey cost 75 for each 1100.00. AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELERS CHEQUES Michigan Med School Gives Special Course UN Men Bombard Daily With Questions; Uni Students Sick Of Rumors "When do we got" Three phones in the Nebraskan office rang continually with de mands to know the answer to the question in the minds of university men. In rooming houses and fraternities, in the grill and on the campus, they were discussing the joint army navy plan of induction of the KKC. When the news was released 1 1 1 ! ,3 HA..m in local papers, narrieu news editors and reporters answered questions and gave information to UN students, most of them i junior and senior men who wanted to know what their col lege future will be. On the sidewalk in front of the Union were groups of men engaged in earnest comersa tion. Some had procured cars and were bound for an all niffht celebration and talk- n? session. But nowhere was there any . . . . I1ATI grining. As one junior uun officer expressed it, "Hell, why should I erine? It s a relief to know what's coming instead of wait in!? around for crumbs of information. I'm sick of these rumors." Women were still slightly be wildered bv the suddeness of the act. They wanted to know what significance it had and how soon their men would be roine. As the explanation came, it was evident that coeds regarded the step with the se riousness it demanded. Senior men in KUlU were hannv that their courses were not to be interrupted just be fore attainment of their de irrees. They, however, were an xious to get in, too, and their only regret was that the young er men would not have th same chance they had had. As the fervor died down n rou lid 6:30 last night, men urp PYtiric? home to talk the thfnir over. Before the enela thev were jovial and care free, but in their own groups, they were thinking of the consequences and of their future. Bob Flory, '42 Graduate9Baih From Bomber One of Nebraska's graduate Is now a member of the famous "caterpillar" club of the air. Bob Flory, '42 graduate, was forced to bail out from an army bomber when it was shot down in the thick of North Africa fighting. according t) a report from Ma George H. 'Jutru. Flory was one of the squadron which wan to bomb Rommel's headquarters when the big drive against the German leader started. Upon the failure of the first at tempt, the bomber returned to its base with 150 bullet holes. "On the second trip," wrote Major Gutru, "LJcutxnant Flory was one of eight members of a bomber crew which was shot down and all eight parachuted to safety.. They landed in the desert 100 miles from their base and were 'picked up latex by another plane. ANN ARBOR, Mich. (ACP). Seventeen army medical officers are being given a special course in laboratory training and methods in the medical school at the Uni versity of Michigan. The officers are the first of three groups the army is sending to the university for 12-week in struction periods. The extensive course provides the army physicians with latest Vacation Extended The lengthening of Christmas vacation was officially announced by the UN Senate yesterday aft ernoon, according to G. W. Ros enlof, chairman of the schedule committee. Vacation will now last from Tuesday evening, Dec. 22 until Wednesday morning, Jan. 6. or iginally vacation was slated to come to an end on Monday, Jan. 4, but in compliance to an Office of Defense Transportation appeal the university extended vacation dates. Students can thank the acute transportation situation for the extra three days of vacation. Trav eling is less heavy during the week than week-ends. Out-of-Lincoln students are urged to make bus and train reservations early. developments in laboratory meth ods and is designed to develop the officers into "one-man laborator ies" so they can perform any ordi nary type of procedure if they are established at isolated posts. Union Two WW To Show in i ar rums 7. Living conditions and war time' occupations of the Russian people will be shown in all their realistic details in "One Day in Soviet Rus sia," one of the two war movies to be shown in the Union ballroom at 8 p. m. Sunday. The second film, "Target for Tonight," pre sents the tast moving story of a RAF squadron in action over nazi Germany. Considered two of the best mov ies or this war, these rums, co- sponsored by the Union and the War Council, are being presented in order to give the student body the story behind the news. Reporter Is Narrator. "One Day in Soviet Russia" was written and narrated by Quentin Reynolds, ace reporter and Ameri can Press attache at the Three Power Moscow Conference. The most complete pictures of life fn the Soviet Union ever made, it was filmed simultaneously on one day by 97 top-notch cameramen over the entire U. S. S. R. This unique panorama shows the Rus sian life, economy, culture, trans portation, agriculture, towns, and ports. "Target for Tonight begins with the preparations necessary for a bombing mission by a RAF bombing squadron, and then un winds the complicated detailed in structions each plane of the bomber squadron must complete before the raid is successful. Thrills are added to the story by the troubles encountered by a damaged plane as it tries to re turn to its home field in a typical English fog with members of its crew injured. 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