Bundy Approves Army ROTC Plan Substituting Senior Paper for Exam

Dean Bundy has approved a change whereby Army ROTC seniors may substitute a long paper for the usual final examination in the Spring term.

Col. DeVere P. Armstrong, professor of Military Science and tactics, said yesterday that this new academic requirement is part of an overall effort "to strengthen and increase the value of Army ROTC." The Spring course is too varied and "chopped-up to be integrated into a suitable final exam," he added.

A further wide-scale revision of the present Army ROTC program has also received Bundy's approval and is now awaiting action by the government. The plan recommends a reduction in Military Science courses to give the students more freedom in planning their schedules and "hopefully, to draw a larger number of undergraduates into the program," Col. Armstrong said.

Col. Armstrong's proposed change would substitute a six-day summer session on weapons and map reading for the present half course in the Fall of Freshman year. This intense course would be given at the College immediately before ROTC juniors would leave for their normad Summer Camp training.

The proposed new program would reduce the number of strictly ROTC courses even further, by eliminating the required course during the first term of the Freshman year.