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The new draft law, which no longer defers all graduate students, has caused a 40 per cent drop In applications to graduate school at MSU» according to Milton E . Muelder, Dean of Advanced Graduate Studies, "Students have held off applying to graduate school until they find out how graduate students are going to be affect­ ed by the draft," he said. Muelder said the uncertainty caused by the new law could have serious con­ sequences on the country, If it kept grad­ uate school applications at their present level. “ It could affect the training of teachers and professors for our universities, the manning of important industrial executive . positions and other positions now being ’ manned àtfd sttiïèa By gfadüatd sWBents," he said. Lt. Col. Robert Lundquist at the state headquarters of the Selective Service said that the law deferred for one year any student who was In graduate school as of October 1, 1967, Graduate students pursuing a course of study In medicine, dentistry, veteri­ nary medicine, osteopathy or optometry will also be deferred until they graduate. Lundquist said that deferments would also be given to graduate students who were working towards a doctorate, but not for a period of longer than f i v e years from when they received their bachelor’s degree. " I t Is anticipated that the National Security Council will be coming out with a list of critical occupations that will be deferred as necessary to the country's well-being," he said, “but this list has not yet been received by u s." The Council of Graduate Studies (CGS), which represents about 250 universities, has sent a formal letter to President Johnson explaining the consequences of the "lav« uM asking for a more explicit ruling on the law, Muelder said. "So far no word has been received from Washington, although Gustaf Arlt,