Draft Advisory Group Will Assist Physicists

A newly formed student committee in the physics department will aid graduate students who plan to avoid the draft by transfering to a European or Canadian university.

The committee agreed at a meeting Thursday to solicit faculty assistance in corresponding with foreign universities to establish contacts.

A committee member stressed that "we are not advising people to resist the draft. But if a physicist comes to us and has already decided to leave the country permanently, we want to help him find a place where he could at least continue his work."

The committee also resolved to investigate possibilities of obtaining occupational deferments for physics students and outlined many things a sympathetic faculty could do to protect draft-eligible students, including granting them teaching and research assistant posts.