Students required to have
45 hours to be sophomores
By JOHN LANIER
Of the Emerald
A recent faculty decision or
class standing requirements maj
leave many unsuspecting fresh
men in the position of still being
freshmen next year, and may
cause serious problems where the
draft and draft deferments are
concerned.
The decision, passed as a mo
tion at the Feb. 4 faculty meet
ing, redefines class standing ac
cording to the number of credits
earned toward a degree.
Under the new definition,
which went into effect immedi
ately, a freshman is any student
v/ho has completed 0-44 term
hours; a sophomore 45-89 hours;
a junior 90-134 hours; and a sen
ior 135 or more hours.
This new definition involves
two changes from past Univer
sity policy. The number of hours
required to become a junior is
reduced from 93 to 90, and the
number of hours required to be
come a sophomore is raised from
36 to 45.
And it is in the latter of the
two changes, where there is a
difference of nine term hours,
that the problem has developed.
Concerned about freshmen
“It’s really the freshmen we’re
concerned about here,” Robert
Bowlin, associate dean of stu
dents, said, and particularly
freshmen men who face the draft
if they do not maintain “normal”
academic progress toward a de
gree.
Under the old definition, Bow
lin explained, a freshman could
attain sophomore standing by
completing only 36 hours of
study, thereby maintaining “nor
mal” progress toward a degree
while not being overly-pressured
during his first year on campus.
In the past there would have
been no problem with such a
course of action as far as the
Selective Service System is con
cerned. Draft boards, once they
have granted a II-S student de
ferment, receive from the Uni
versity only a record of the stu
dent’s class standing and use
that record to determine wheth
er or not he is making satisfac
tory progress.
Under the new definition, how
ever, a freshman who has plan
ned his schedule so as to have
under 45 hours completed at the
end of this school year, will find
himself defined as a freshman
once again next year.
And so will his draft board,
which Bowlin fears is just likely
to reclassify him 1-A and avail
able for military service on the
basis of his failure to make "nor
mal" academic progress toward
a degree.
Bigger study load advised
A freshman with a deferment
who expects to keep and renew
that deferment, but who does not
at the moment plan to complete
at least 45 term hours this year,
should consider an increased
study load next term or enroll
ment in summer school, Bowlin
advised.
University Registrar Donald
Rhoades said that he is aware
of the potential problem that the
change in hour requirements
creates.
He said that the Registrar's
Office has ordered "stickers" that
will be added to forms sent to
draft boards beginning as soon
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of the change.
“We think that the stickers will
be 90 per cent effective in taking
care of any problems,” Rhoades
said, adding that he “has no rea
son to believe” that the boards
will not be “reasonable” and “co
operative”in the matter.
If any problems involving re
classification or failure to grant
deferments develop as a result
of the change, Rhoades said, his
office “would be responsible for
writing to draft boards to fur
ther clarify the matter.”
DMIC disagrees
Dave Walruth, director of the
University’s Draft and Military
Information Center (DMIC), dis
agrees adamently with both the
change in hours and the claims
that the Selective Service System
will be “cooperative” in the mat
ter.
“I definitely feci that the de
cision to institute the change as
of the day it passed the faculty
was like changing horses in mid
stream,” Walruth said.
“I think that local boards are
simply going to reclassify” the
freshmen Walruth said, “I don’t
see that any board is going to
accept this type of change as
valid.”
Walruth said the DMIC feels
that supporters of the proposal
in the faculty were “shortsight
ed” in not seeing the very serious
problems that they have created
for male freshmen at the Uni
versity.
In light of this, Walruth said
that the DMIC is working with
several faculty members on a
proposal to be submitted to the
faculty that would amend the
original proposal so that the
change in hours would not apply
to individuals presently enrolled
at the University.
This, in effect, would put the
change off until the beginning
of the next school year in Sep
tember, he explained.
The proposal would thus elimi
nate the problem created by pass
ing the change in hours in the
middle of the year, and allow
the change to take place without
causing “unfair jeopardy” for
any party concerned.
Administrative steps
If this proposal fails to gain
the approval of the faculty, Wal
ruth added, the DMIC will take
other administrative steps at its
disposal to have the change post
poned.
Contacted Thursday, Eugene
Selective Service Board 13 indi
cated that it had not developed
any policy to deal with the
change.
According to a board secretary,
any problems that develop as a
result of the matter, including re
classification and failure to grant
deferments, would have to be
brought before the board as an
appeal and ruled on “at the
board’s discretion.”
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