Spring Term ROTC Open To Freshmen

For the first time since the Korean War, the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps at the College will be open to all freshmen who postpone their enrollment until the spring.

Col. Trevor N. Dupuy, professor of Military Science and Tactics, said any student who enters in the spring will not be penalized academically for missing the fall term. This half course will be made up through an intensive junior-year program, he said.

The opening of the ROTC to the freshmen in the spring, Dupuy said, is one result of the new Reserve Forces Act of 1955 and the recent modification of the College's Army curriculum.

According to Dupuy, students entering in the spring will not lose anything academically since Military Science 1b, American Military History, "provides an excellent academic introduction to Military Science." The half course missed in the fall, "Introduction to Military Science," will be given sophomore year.

Other military fundamentals, Dupuy said, "will be covered in laboratory-drill periods during the spring term." In their junior years, the students will have to take two courses in the fall, "Army Orientation" and "Army Communications and Tactics."

The last time that freshmen were admitted to the program in the spring was in 1950, during the Korean War.