Fellows, your jealously guarded civilian status is in no way endangered, or even changed, by the "notice concerning selective service" which emerged from your registration envelopes, according to University officials.

The invitations to come register, if you Want to, for student deferment at Memorial Hall this week "does not imply one solitary bit of change in selective service policy," according to Sargent Kennedy, Registrar. The Memorial Hall deferment clinic "has been set up merely as a convenience to students so they will not get lost in the Holyoke Center elevators on the way to the Registrar's office if they deside to seek a deferment," Kennedy said. "Any student who wants the form sent gets it stamped and sent; if the student doesn't want it sent we don't send it," he added.

Student Deferment

The University will not contact local draft boards about a student's affiliation with Harvard unless the student requests it, Kennedy explained. Students are not required, either by the University or by the selective service, to apply for a student (IIS) deferment student extends draft eligibility from age 26 to age 35.

The innovation of a deferment clinic was prompted by a technical change in selective service procedures. In the next, if a student requested the University to officially determine his status as a student for the purpose of deferment, the request was made at the end of the school year. The selective service now asks students who seek deferments to make their requests within 30 days of the beginning of the academic year.