Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more remarkable to find the College worrying about the problems of students who have decided to enlist. Yet the College thought over these problems and on Monday produced some sound and sane answers. Students who leave for service will get an examless two week breathing period; they will not have to spend those two weeks plugging away at a final. Those who leave after ten weeks of the term will still have a chance to get credit for their courses, with the amount of credit correctly left up to their instructors. There will be refunds on board and lodging payments...
...University yesterday released a four-point plan dealing with students who enlist in the Armed Forces before completing their regular course of study here. The announcement, touching on course credit, tuition, and board and lodging charges was released by Dean Gill after a four-hour Administrative Board meeting in University Hall yesterday afternoon...
...second point deals with students who decide to enlist during the regular semester. The University still offers the student two full weeks at home before he must report for service. If the call is to come ten weeks after the semester has started, through the cumulative credit system the student may receive a full semester's credit for work he has already done. The method of determining the grade is still up to the course instructors...
...second section of the program deals with the consideration in financial matters given to students who enlist. Board and lodging will be charged only as long as the student is enrolled. Once the student submits his 14-day notification he may request a refund of any money paid for accommodations post that...
Later that day Popko was taken to the Pusan airfield and flown to a hospital near Tokyo. Two weeks later they sent him home to Bayonne, NJ. A lot of people asked him would he do it again-enlist if he knew what was ahead? Said Stan Popko: "I guess I would. I can't see myself spending my life as a counterman or hanging around streetcorners...