Departmental Status Goes to Fliers' ROTC

Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps is now a department in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on the equal footing with the Army and Navy ROTC programs, Provost Buck announced last night.

Plans for implementing the new Departments of Air Science and Tactics have not yet been made public.

Three changes may be in the offing:

1) The program may get a new director. At present its commanding officer is Colonel Mark McClure, USA, professor of Military Science and Tactics, who has up to now been in charge of both Army and Air Force branches. His assistant in charge of the Air Force program is Major Jarvis R. Kingston, USAF, associate professor of Military Science and Tactics.

2) The department may move out of Shannon Hall, the Army's headquarters. No substitute has been suggested.

May Drop Mil.Scl.1

3) The department may establish its own basic course. Under the present system, both air and army students take Military Science 1, though the branches drill separately. In advanced courses the branches are separate. Army offers Mil, Scl, 2, 3, and 4; Air Force 20, 30, and 40.

All three reserve officers training corps give students commissions as second lieutenants or ensigns upon satisfactory completion of the course and receipt of the College degree A.B. College credit is given for all courses according to normal College procedure.