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PAGE TWELVE

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

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Students
2,400 Quota
Is Allowed U'
Reserve Corps
Opportunity Is Presented
To Freshmen To Finish
Portion Of Curriculum
With our rapidly expanding Army
and Navy drawing upon all sources of
manpower available, students enter-
ing the University this fall cannot
expect to finish their college educa-
tion before being called to service
with the armed forces of the nation.
It is predicted by University authori-
ties that freshmen enrolling in the
fall term will probably not be per-
mitted to continue their studies for
more than two years before being
called to active duty.
It is advisable, therefore, that every
man prepare himself for service with
the armed forces or in war industry
as soon as possible. Such preparation
should include taking courses in
mathematics, physics, map interpre-
tation and other similar courses
which will be of immediate value in
the armed forces or in industry.
It is important to realize that Army
and Navy officials want students to
remain in school until they are called
to duty. The armed forces need men
with training that the University can
give them. To assure a steady supply
of trained or semi-trained men, the
various services have instituted re-
serve programs allowing students to
remain in school until they are need-
ed.
These programs are available to
students now, and will be presented
to the entire student body at a mass
meeting to be held at 8 p. m., Oct. 7
in Hill Auditorium.
At this time Army, Army Air
Force, Navy, Coast Guard, and Ma-
rine Corps officers will present the
various reserve plans to the students.
This merger of enlistment programs
will prevent the competitive bidding
for recruits among the armed ser-
vices.
Outlined below are the qualifica-
tions and purposes of the several re-
serve programs which will be pre-
sented. It is to be noted that the
plans presented are changeable at
any time and as presented include all
changes prior to publication.
Army Enlisted Reserve
The University of Michigan has
been assigned a quota of 2,400 enlist-
ments, under the Army Enlisted Re-
serve Progrom. Under this program
students meeting physical and men-
tal qualifications will be permitted to
remain in school until called for ac-
tive duty.

Ofered

Training

Plans

Works Of Graduates Published

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The status of students enrolled in
the Army Enlisted Reserve Program
has been somewhat uncertain since
the announcement by Secretary of
War Stimson that reservists are to be
called. Stimson stated that men of
draft age enrolled in the Enlisted Re-
serve Program will be called to active
duty early in 1943. Thereafter stu-
dents in the reserve will be called out
as they reach draft age. Freshmen
entering college the fall semester can
probably expect two years in college
under the present plan. If there is a
change in the draft laws and the age-
limit is lowered to 18, in all proba-
bility the Enlisted Reserve Program
will be abolished.
Naval Reserve Corps
The Navy Department has createdf
a plan which permits students be-'
tween the ages of 17 and 26, who can
meet the physical requirements, to
enlist as Apprentice Seamen, Class
V-1, and continue their college work
at their own expense, in an inactive
status. Toward the end of their sec-
ond year they are given a comprehen-
sive examination, and if they pass,
may transfer to Class V-5, Aviation
Cadet, or to Class V-7, Deck or En-
gineering Officer training reserve. In
the event that they choose Class V-5,,
they are permitted to finish the sec-
ond year in college, after which they
go on active duty for further aviation
training in the Navy. If they choose
Class V-7, they are permitted to con-
tinue until graduation if not called by
the Navy. Students failing to pass the
comprehensive examination are sent
at once into active duty as apprentice
seamen.
To date the Naval Reserve plans
have not been changed. However, it
is to be expected that students in
Naval reserve programs may not be
permitted to finish four years of col-
lege.

Wartime Courses To Be Added
To Literary College Curriculum

Summer and fall months have
proved to be fruitful ones for the
publishing of poetry and novels by
Michigan students and former Hop-
wood winners.
"Nearer the Earth," a novel of a
woman's coming of age, by Beatrice
Borst has been sent to Professor Roy
W. Cowden. A Hopwood winner of
1941, the novel will be on sale at book
stores August 21. Random House is
the publisher.
Maritta Wolff, already famous au-j
thor of the Hopwood winner "Whistle
Stop," will have another book pub-

lished by Random House. Originally
titled "Grave Yard Shift" the novel
was changed to "Night Shift" by the
publishers because movie producers
who are interested in the book said
the public wouldn't like the original
title in lights.
"Each Alone," a novel by Harriet
Ball, graduate student at the Uni-
versity of Michigan last year, capi-
talizes on the idiosyncracies, the life,
and problems of the Victor family.
Published by Harper & Bros., the
book is now on sale at various book
stores.

Important new courses-inspired#
by the nation's wartime needs-have
been added to those available to stu-
dents of the College of Literature,
Science and the Arts. These courses
do not appear in the original cata-
logue of courses for the fall term.-
The Department of Political Sci-
ence offers a Training Program in t
International Studies, a program of!
eleven courses designed to train per-
sons preparing for service abroad in S
liberated territories after the war.#
Problems of War and Peace, an in-
terdepartmental course for juniors
and seniors, will emphasize studies of
the war and its aims, peace plans and
post-war reconstruction.
Air Navigation Course
.Covering the same material dealt
with in the first six weeks of training
in the Army's Navigation Schools,
Introduction to Air Navigation will be
offered by the mathematics depart-
ment. The course will concern the
graphical and numerical solution of
geometric problems of air navigation.
The role of government in adjust-
ing labor-management disputes in
the war emergency will be the subject
of Government Control of Industrial
Disputes, offered by the Department
they will be able to graduate with a
degree and complete their officer
candidate training before their twen-
ty-seventh birthday. As in the other
programs described above, a student
who withdraws from college is taken
into active service immediately.
Also available to students is enroll-
ment in the Coast Guard Reserve
through enlistment in V-7. This is
open to students 20-29 years old hav-
ing one semester of college math.
Physical requirements are the same
as for the Navy.
Coast Guard,. and Marine Corps
Reserve programs have not as yet
been modified. However, it is doubt-
ful the students who enlist in these
programs will be permitted to finish
four years in college.

of Economics. The function of the
War Labor Board will also be con-
sidered.
The School of Architecture is mak-
ing available a two-hour course in
civilian camouflage for juniors.
Reading, writing and conversation-
al practice in the spoken Chinese lan-
guage are covered by new elementary
and intermediate courses offered by
the Department of Oriental Lan-
guages. An additional course in Chi-
nese literature, a survey of prose and
poetry from ancient to modern times,
is available to students who do not
necessarily have a speaking knowl-
edge of Chinese.
The Department of Oriental Lan-
guages also offers a beginning and
intermediate course in Thai, stressing
reading, composition and conversa-
tion.
The Department of Speech has
made three additions to its wartime
curriculum. Speech Training for Mil-
itary Service is given for prospective
military officers to train them in
public speaking and proper use of
the voice in military drill.
To Analyze Broadcasts
An analysis of the place of forum
discussion in wartime as suggested by
the Office of Civilian Defense com-
prises the subject matter of a second
course in the speech department.
Wartime Radio Programs will an-
alyze domestic radio propaganda
through news, dramatic and army
camp broadcasts and will study war-
time censorship methods.
The Spanish Department offers a
Survey of Colonial and 19th Century
Spanish-American Literature, cover-
ing the prose writing of colonial, rev-
olutionary and early national periods
in Latin America.
The history department is initi-
ating two reading courses for junior
and senior honors candidates.
The English department is offering
The One-Act Play for Stage and
Radio, designed for juniors and
seniors.

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