V-12 Rules Changed

ON THE BASIS of two months' experience, and after consultation with faculty, administrative and staff officers, several changes in the original regulations governing the Dartmouth V-12 Unit were made recently.

The revised rules deal mainly with weekday and weekend liberty and leave. Taps is now at 11:00 every day except Saturday, when it is at midnight. All men are required to be in their dormitories after 10:30, and after 8:00 unless they are in the libraries or laboratories, in attendance at a proper College function, in Robinson Hall, or in the Hostess House. On one optional weekday night each week, the trainee may have late liberty, until 10:30, within the academic limits (Hanover and Norwich, including the golf course and Storrs Pond, but not including White River and Lebanon).

Weekend leave for trainees in good standing according to the new rule begins at the end of calisthenics Saturday, or at the end of a man's last Saturday class, and expires at 2:00 A.M., Monday. Men taking weekend leave but remaining within the academic limits must observe the regular weekend liberty hours.

Watches have been reduced to the minimum necessary to protect dormitories from unauthorized civilians and to answer the telephone, and men are now permitted to study on watch if it does not interfere with their duties.

Other new regulations prohibit smoking on dormitory steps, walks, or grounds, and in classes except when invited to do so by the instructor.

In contrast to a former rule, it is no longer necessary for a trainee to check in and out of the library.