College Not Hit by New Draft Rule

College students' status remained unchanged this week, while Selective Service directed local boards to reconsider the position of some classes of graduate degree-seekers. Under a new rule, for example, law students, who are studying for a bachellor-of-law degree, are classified with undergraduates who are also trying for a B.A., though in Arts and Sciences.

At the same time, both the Princeton Testing center and General Hershey's headquarters in Washington stated that neither could release any further information on the tests given students last spring and this summer.

It is not possible, therefore, to tell how individual colleges made out, since no breakdown of scores has been made along that line. University authorities said they did not know yet themselves.

Selective Service has already announced that nationally 70 percent of those in the upper half of their classes and 40 in the lower passed with a score of 70 or better. This included 53 percent of freshmen taking the exam, 54 of sophomores, 72 of juniors and 77 of seniors.

Colonel Robert Hart, an assistant to Hershey in Washington and a director of Selective Service publicity told the CRIMSON Wednesday that no immediate changes were expected in college students' status. Officials could not clarify a week-old statement by Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna Rosenberg, who told a Congressional Committee that deferments for students might have to be ended altogether during this coming year.

Massachusetts draft headquarters could only repeat its previous advice to college freshmen: keep up with the policy of local boards. The office said that the Army expected to take more draftees and more reserve units this fall and winter; most will be used to replace men who must be sent to Korea under the rotation system.