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Wednesday Febr. 2, 1966
The Daily Nebraskan
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Draft Asks
Grade
Report
Requests for information on
student's grade standing and
the number of hours they are
carrying have already been
made, according to Dr. Floyd
Hoover, registrar.
However, Hoover said that
he would not release such in
formation until after Feb. 8
when students are through
adding classes to their sched
ules. Hoover also said that
complete grade reports should
be finished by tfhat time.
"We look upon grades and
class ranks as being confiden
tial and we don't report them
without the authority of the
student unless it is a special
case," he said. ''In this case,"
he said, "either we provide
this information or the stu
dent will have to give us per
mission and then e provide
it." ;
Dr.. Hoover said that "it
would simplify the whole mat
ter if the grades would go to
the state board which would
sort them out."
When informed of the re
quests for University grades
and number of -hours, Col.
Francis Drath, director of the
Nebraska Selective Service,
said, ""I undetstand some lo
cal boards have made this re
quest but if any of them have,
it has 'been action by the local
board itself and is not state
policy now."
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He explained that the only
state policy is that students
are to be deferred if they are
carrying a full-time course of
studies satisfactorially. Local
draft boards are allowed to
interpret the meaning of this
policy.
Col. Drath said that even if
a student is renlassifiprt 1.A
and called up for induction,
he may appeal the reclassi
fication. If the student were
doing satisfactory work, he
would then receive a 1-S rat
ing which would allow him to
finish the academic year.
"We at Nebraska have lpan.
ed over backwards to hp fair
and interpret this as liberally
as possioie, ne saia.
Col. Drath said that a stu
dent could receive the 1-S rat
ing only once in his college
career and that at the Pnl nf
the "academic year" the stu
dent may be classified 1-A.
But the student may, if the
draft demands subside, be
given a 2-S rating again, but
never a 1-S rating again.
He said that the onl yway a
student can be drafted is to be
classified 1-A.
Regarding means of estab
lishing class ranks, Col. Drath
said, "We hope the national
office will come up with some
guidelines in this area."
University; ROTC students
in the -advanced program are
now receiving 1-D classifica
tions, according to Col. Drath,
director of the Nebraska Se
lective Service.
"If students are accepted
for advanced ROTC, then the
local board will classify them
as 1-D as soon as they are
notified that they are ac
cepted and will be classified
as such until we are notified
th t they are not performing
satisfactorily," he said.
"At long as the student has
this military connection, he
cannot be drafted," he added.
ROTC officials said that if
a ctudent refused a commis
sion, he would then have to
go on active duty as an en
listed man, thus making it
better for t'ie sudent to ac
cept his commission.
The Army. Air Force and
Navy all offer either four
year programs or a two-year
program preceded by a sum
mer camp for students who
wish to work for a commis
sion. Maj. Warren Lawson, as
sistant professor of military
science, said that he did not
think the 1-D classification
was very well known on the
campus. He added that if it
became known," we might
get some more ROTC stu
dents in."
Col. Drath said that if a
student is ordered up for in
duction, he can enlist in the
regular forces until the date
set for his induction. Then the
board will cancel his induc
tion.
"Before last summer, no
one could enlist if he received
orders for induction," Col.
Drath said. He noted that a
person cannot enlist in t h e
local reserve after the order
for induction is made.
Although people may have
trouble getting into the re
serves or the Officers Can
didate Schools, Drath said he
knew that the Armv j
Marines would accent the
person into the regulars
right away."
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Opinion
Divided
On
Undeclared War
Grades and a selective service test may soon mean the difference between the IA
draftable material card and the IIS student deferred card.
In an undeclared war that
rages in a far off country
American servicemen are
dying and the nation is asking
"Why?", as more and more
American boys are called to
serve. Public opinion is
divided, and divided and
divided.
The Daily Nebraskan asked
a number of campus student
leaders and faculty members
to voice their opinions about
the war and President John
son's current Viet Nam
policies.
"I'm oppossed to it, totally,
completely, it's an impossible
u:nr " cnirl T"r Rirharrt f)pho
assistant professor of history.
"I don't believe that the U.S.
can obtain it's objectives in
the war, the Vietnamese peo
ple definitely want peace, in
order to win the peace," Debo
said.
Al Spangler, secretary of
the campus Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS),
stated he, too, is opposed to
the war. Spangler however,
offered different grounds for
his opposition than Debo's
political stand. "I'm against
all war morally," Spangler
said. "I'm against the war
mostly in moral rather than
political terms. I think most
of the young people who ob
jected were objecting on mor
al grounds not political
grounds," he continued.
Spangler's analysis of the
situation in Vietnam was "we
just sort of fell into this
thing."
Gene Pokorny, president of
the campus Friends of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinat
ing Committee (SNCC), pre
sented somewhat the same
view. "We've failed into a
trap because of the stupidity
of our policies in the 1950's."
Pokorny maintains that the
'U.S. Aid Preserving Viet Nam'
. . . Says Sdkai
Regents Name
Schripsenia To
Hospital Post
The University's Board of
Regents has approved the ap
pointment of Richard C.
Schripsema as administrator
of the University's College of
Medicine Hospital in Omaha.
Schripsema succeeds Ed
win F. Ross, who resigned to
accept a position in Cleve
land, Ohio.
Schripsema, a native of
Grand -Rapids, Mich., has
been assistant administrator
of Uie hospital since Decem
ber 1963.
By Julie Morris .
Senior Staff Writer
Editor's Note: The Daily
Nebraskan interviewed Dr.
Robert Sakai, specialist In
Far Eastern history, in order
to get his view on why Presi
dent Johnson needs to con
tinue sending more American
soldiers to Viet Nam.
South Viet Nam today is
experiencing chaos in the
capital, Viet Cong insurrec
lion and terrorism in the
countryside and extensive of
fensive military maneuvers
by large deployments of U.S.
land troops.
This is the view of the tiny,
war-torn country presented by
Dr. Robert Sakai, chairman
of the department of history
and a specialist in Far East
ern history.
United States military as
sistance in Viet Nam "has
preserved the country," Sa
kai said. "The committment
of land troops has been quite
drastic," he explained adding
that the bombings in N o r t h
Viet Nam were begun as a
retaliatory measure to Viet
Cong destruction of U.S. !
planes.
'There would be a much
Nam," Sakai said. "A lack of
support would be evidence
that the United States is not
really interested in stability
ami order; the United States
is not a policeman, but we do
have responsibilities."
Sakai noted that our re
sponsibilities include inter
twining alliances and our
ticial poncv of assistance tn
night in Saigon, as Vietnamese
rush to cash in on the money
unloaded by American serv
icemen. The Vietnamese, who have
watched a parade of military
coups and governments since
the overthrow of Ngo Dinh
0f ;l)iem in Nov. 1963. are "not
ni-iai puuuy ui assistance 10 " -"""
countries that petition for it j Xam government. On the con
Our actions in Viet N a m, i th? atre "ot necri
Sakai said, are "important i I attracted to Communism,
not only to South Viet Nam j , ' saia
but to various other countries I 'Control of t h e village
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"The war." Sakai said" is 1 spread over most of South auveiy '"active m the early
)t a natural spontaneous j Viet skai said. Some . ye" after the Conference
sources nave esnmaiea mat
allowed to move North or
South to choose the govern
ment which they prefered.
Nearly a million people
m o v e d to the south," Sakai
said, to escape the Commu
nist oriented regiem in t h e
north. A number of Commu
nists remained in the south,
however, rather than to move
north. These people form
part of the basis of the "hard
core Viet Cons todav." ac
cording to Sakai. These Com
munist elements were "rel
atively inactive" in the early
not a natural spontaneous
movement of the people, but
one directed from the out
side. The people of South
Viet Nam have been the vic
tims, they have not been giv
en a choice."
Saigon is a c h a o 1 1 c state
with an unstable government
and a shaky economy. Sakai
said that South Viet Nam has
always been able to produce
enough food for its popula
tion and has throughout its
history shipped rice to the
less-productive north. X o w.
however, he said the chaotic
conditions brought on bv an
extended war have made as-
jricultural production diffcult.
in ne economic picture, too
greater chance of world con-1 numerous ppt-rich-nnift hud.
flict if we were not in Viet nesses have Drun? im nimr.
- -i a -r
I as much as 80 of the coun
; try is under Viet Cong con-
trol. "Viet Cong are overrun
jning newly the entire coun
try," he said.
Sakai said the Viet Cong
are still employing their
"principle tactic" to "terror
ize the villagers by killing off
the leadership." A "few thous
and" village leaders have
been disposed of since t h e
Viet Cong began their terror
ism in the last few years.
Sakai noted.
The Viet Cong do not rely
entirely on northern infiltra
tors, Sakai said. He pointed
out that at the time of the
Geneva Conference in 1U54.
the Vietnamese people were
and tne division of the coun
try along the 17th parallel,
Sakai said.
How ever, the Viet Cong
elements became more active
as Diem's autocratic rule
tightened, he explained. To-
rday the Viet Cong are at
tempting to undermine any
system of government that
could be established by keep
ing the countryside in a con
tinual state of terror and
chaos.
Any lasting settlement in
Viet Nam, Sakai stressed,
would have to be built upon
an improved "social, econ
omic and political situation"
in the country. He said t h e
United States would have to
do "far more than we have
been doijg" to change the
present situation.
Sakai said the most equit
able settlement wuld be a
"return to the provisions of
the Geneva Conference." He
said it would be "hard to
tell" how much longer t h e
war would last.
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Pokorny said the United
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