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Navy, Marine
Candidates
Trained Here
West Quad Had
1,100 In Summer
More than eleven hundred men are
now studyingat the Universityas
members of the Navy college pro-
gram, according to the latest statis-
tics released by Navy headquarters.
A breakdown reveals that 520, al-
most half of the total Navy comple-
ment at the University, are enrolled
as members of the NROTC, while 290
are members of the V-12 program.
When the program was established
here in July, 1943, the enrollment was
numerically dominated by the V-12,
with NROTC trainees making up only
a small portion of the entire unit.
The reversal in numerical superiority,
according to a headquarters spokes-
Man, represents the gradual assimila-
tion of the V-12 program into the
NROT.C, a process begun last year.
Marines Here Are Combat Vets
The Marine unit, stationed in the
West Quad along with the V-12 and
NROTC, account for 150 men. All
but 42 of the Marines, now studying
at the University, have seen action
overseas.
Navy medical and dental students,
numbering 158, and the RONAG de-
tachment of 30 men, bring the total
to 1,148. These specialized students
receive living expense allowances and
are permitted to reside and eat at
places of their own choice in Ann
Arbor.
Taking a combined program of
electives and Naval subjects, men in
the NROTC program are assigned
here, with some exceptions, for seven
semesters. They are required to elect
33 hours in Naval subjects, taught by
officers attached to the NROTC
headquarters staff. Under the super-
vision of Navy and University person-
nel, all men drill and take physical
education, as part of their regular
daily program. Under the uresent
liberal set-up, NROTC members may
choose either an engineering of a
general curriculum, and, according
to Prof. Clarence F. Kessler, Program
Supervisor of the Navy V-12 Unit,
"There is no reason why a man may
not select journalism or architecture
or any other field of study if he wish-
es to do so."
Transfer to Midshipman's School
When this program is completed,
NROTC trainees are transferred to
Midshipman's School for an addition-
al semester of training, from which
they graduate with the ensign com-
mission in the U.S.N.R.
Navy medical and dental students
take the regular University program
of eight terms, whereas the RONAGS,
studying Naval architecture, complete
their training in about eight months.
Commanding officer of the entire
Navy college training program at the
University since January is Capt.
Woodson V. Michaux, succeeding
Capt. Richard E. Cassidy, who retired
at the end of last year.
Capt. Michaux, a Navy veteran who
has sailed every Navy ship but the
submarine, came here after 30 months
at sea. After commanding an auxil-
iary troop transport in the Atlantic
during the early months of the war,
Capt. Michaux was assigned to the
Pacific to establish an advance base.
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Army Legal Officers Trained Here
Army Officer Candidates Study
Japanese Language at Michigan
"The Lawyers' West Point," the
Army Judge Advocate General's
School, has trained 1,857 officers and
officer candidates as legal officers
since it came to Ann Arbor from the
nation's capital in September, 1942.
Sixteen hundred officers and en-
listed men with civilian experience in
the law have been assigned to the
School, many from overseas stations,
for training as judge advocates.
Trained by a staff and faculty of 30,
under the direction of Col. Reginald
C. Miller, commandant of the School,
the men are brough , here in groups
of about 75, and organized into class-
es for officers and officer rindidates.
250 JA's Now Enrolled
Of the 2,341 graduates since the
school's establishment at the National
University Law School in Washington,
D.C., seven months before it was
transferred to Ann Arbor, 834 enlist-
ed men have completed the 17-week
officer candidate course and received
commissions as officers of the JAG
department. During this period 1,023
officers, ranging in rank from second
lieutenant to colonel, have completed
a similar eight-week course. The re-
maining 484 officers were trained in
a special one-month Contracts and
Readjustment course from May, 1944,
to March, 1945. r
The gnduation of the 12th Officer
Candidate Class and the 23rd Officert
Class July 21, brought the total offi-
cer strength of the JAGD to 2,576, by1
far the largest total in the depart-t
ment's history, which dates back toc
July 29, 1775, when it was established
by the Second Continental Congress,l
meeting in Philadelphia.
At present there are 250 men in
three JAG Schoolclasses: the 24th
Officer and 13th Officer Candidatet
classes, graduating September 22, andt
the 14th Officer Candidate Class,t
graduating November 24.
More Than 60 Decorated
Graduates of the JAG School areI
assigned to all points of the globe,
wherever American troops are sta-
tioned. One four-man JA section, at-
tached to Lt.-Gen. Robert L. Eichel-
berger's Eighth Army Headquarters
at Leyte, P.Z., is composed entirely of
recipients of the Bronze Star. More
than 60 JAGD officers have thus far
oecn decorated hi World War 11, 28'
receiving the Legion of Merit; 24 the
Bronze Star; four the Purple Heart;
three the Distinguished Service
Medal, one with an Oak Leaf Cluster;
two the Croixrde Guerre of France;
one the Soldier's Medal and one the
Silver Star.
Without precedents to guide them,
the training program has been break-
ing fresh ground since it was or-
ganized soon after the beginning of
the war. Field and Training Manuals
prepared by the War Department for
various branches of the Army, were
almost entirely lacking for the JAGD.
What they had were entirely inade-
quate for the tremendous task con-
fronting them in 1942 and expanding
since then. To meet the need for text
books, the JAG School faculty and
staff, starting almost from scratch,
have prepaied 11 textbooks, Text. No
three on Military Affairs alone com-
urising more than 500 pages of select-
ed material, bibliography, procedural
and substantive law in this field. Text
No. Nine, a companion volume con-
tains up-to-date "Selected Opinions
on Military Affairs." Texts Nos. One
and Two concern "Military Justice,"
procedure, commentary on common
errors and irregularities in court-
martial procedure,
"War Powers and Military Jurisdic-
tion," "Claims By and Against the
Government," "Law of Belligerent
Occupation," are other titles in the
series. Texts No. Five and Six on
government contracts have recently
been replaced by a revised text en-
titled "Government Contracts and
Readjustment."
Biggest Job Ahead
Requested by judge advocates in
all parts of the world, these texts have
seen service in the great metropoli-
tan areas of Europe and the jungles
of the smallest Pacific isles. They
are the tools of the 2,576 Army judge
advocates who, during the war, have
handled nearly six million cases un-
der the legal assistance plan; have
compiled evidence, apprehended, and
laid plans for the trial of those ac-
cused of committing atrocities against
American servicemen and nationals;
and have advised the War Depart-
ment in taking over and managing
industrial plants engaged in wa: in-
dustry.
T wenty-rFve £ en. 'sFroleitti tes
Are Represented, at Uitiversity
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The orgies of fraternity rushing
as practiced by the Alpha Choleras
on one Asa Hearthrug have no doubt
intrigued more than one young gent
who looks toward Michigan as his
future alma mater.
But, since the "Barefoot Boy With
Cheek" never went to Michigan, he
could not know that we have no tar-
pits in which to capture prospective
pledges, and that dragnets stretched
over the doors of chapter houses
were outlawed years ago.
Twenty-five fraternities have
chapters at the University. Although
many of the chapter houses had to
be abandoned during the war, some
of the fraternities have reopened
their houses, while others are plan-
ning to move back this fall.
Advantages Enumerated
Joining a fraternity offers a man
an opportunity to make friends with
whom he can remain throughout his
college career and even afterwards,
accordig to an official IFC publi-
cation. An experience in cooperative
living is gained when a group of fel-
lows are hroused under one roof, the
publication. continues.
Especially of interest to freshmen
is the guidance which can be ob-
tained from upper classnen in both
studies and social life, according to
the brochure.
At the University all rushing is
handled through the Interfraternity
Council, a supervisory body for cam-
pus fraternities. In order to rush,
men must register at the IFC office
in the Union. Registration will be-
gin during orientation week.
During wartime, fraternities de-
voted their rushing efforts to infor-
mal get-togethers, dinners, picnics,
(lances and ball games.
Rushing To Begin Early
Rushing this year will begin some-
time during the first two weeks of
the fall term. and will continue all
year. A man may not become a pledge
until he has been officially regis-
tered at the IFC offices for a period
(See FRATERNITIES, page 8)
Students enrolling in the Univer-
sity for the first time are likely, dur-
ing orientation week, to be impressed
and puzzled when they spot small
clusters of soldiers conversing in Jap-
anese on the campus lawns. Convers-
ing with them will be young Japan-
ese-Americans who, under the lead-
ership of Dr. Joseph K. Yamigawa,
Educational Director of the Army
Intensive Language Course, instruct
about 250 men in the Japanese lan-
guage to equip them as officer inter-
rogators, interpreters and translat-
jr S.
The students, officers and enlisted
personnel of Co. A, 3651st Service
Unit, are here for a 21 month inten-
sive training program, leading to a
commission for the enlisted detach-
ment. Quarters for Co. A is the East
Quadrangle. Many of their predeces-
sors, upon completing the program,
have been assigned to the Pacific
theater where they have taken part
in the campaigns in the Philippines
and elsewhere. Of the overseas grad-
uates of Co. A, a unit training at
the University since January, 1943,
several of the men have attained
the rank of captain and several have
received citations for their work.
New Techniques Used
A great deal ofdiscussion and even
greater speculation has been aroused
among academic circles concerning
the techniques used in language pro-
grams in their applicability to col-
lege language courses for civilians.
"While the intensive language pro-
gram contains many suggestions as
to what may be done in civil teach-
ing," Dr. Yamagiwa said, he men-
tiened a number of factors that have
contributed to its success that would
not appear in the civilian classroom.
"We have been favored," he points
out, "by the fact that the men are
commissioned at the end of a long
period of training. This is an incen-
tive for them to do their best. Fur-
thermore," he added, "the fact that
the Army also wants a top notch per-
formance from each trainee, and will
drop students of low calibre, also
helps to maintain a high level of per-
formance." Men selected for the lan-
guage program are in the top one-
hundredth on Army intelligence tests.
New Mechanical Aids
"Great use," he said, "is made of
mechanical devices: the phonograph,
magnetic tape recorders, movies, and
contests among trainees of skill in
the spoken language."
Small classes and the attention
paid to getting suitably graded ma-
terials for instruction in the written
and spoken language are other con-
tributing factors to the success of
the program enumerated by Dr. Ya-
magiwa. The classes, he said, are
laboratories in the development of
many new tests.
' Each day's lesson is determined at
a daily staff meeting and detailed
instructions are run off for the use
of the teachers.
Lights Go On Again
A sure proof of the end of the war
came last week with the University's
announcement that the lamp beams
lighting the Burton Memorial Tower
at night were going on again. The
Tower, with its Baird Carillon, has
been pitched in darkness when night
fell ever since December 8, 1941.
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