Nisei College Students Might Continue at Eastern Schools

Berkeley, Calif.–In an effort to maintain the scholastic status of American-born Japanese students at the University of California, Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul has contacted a number of universities in the Middle West with a view of providing continuance for the young people. The results were rather satisfactory.

Dr. Sproul said that among those which have offered to cooperate were the University of Nevada, University of Idaho, Iowa State college, University of Kansas City and Colorado State college.

Thirty-two colleges were asked to consider accepting the students from the University of California and to waive tuition and non-resident fees. Most of them, Dr. Sproul said, have agreed to conoperate. Appoximately 315 students at the university here would be affected.

Only two outright refusals were received, from the University of Iowa, already crowded with a naval aviation training program, and from the University of Wichita, which turned down the request on the basis that Wichita had important war industries which might be endangered.