ON THE ACADEMIC FRONT

The new year will see no major curriculum innovations, but many departments which have been conducting long-range studies since the adoption of the three-term, three-course program will now be putting into effect refinements of their courses and majors. The Department of Government, for one, is inaugurating a new honors program for a selected group of senior majors. Changes being adopted in the Army and Air Force ROTC programs will affect men in the Classes of 1963 and 1964 and will mean a reduced "overload" of courses, or no overload at all, for the degree, since these military departments have substituted courses in the College's regular liberal arts curriculum for some military science courses formerly required by ROTC but given lesser degree credit.

The Great Issues Course, opening its fourteenth year, lost no time in taking up issues of this fall's Presidential election and had as its first guest lecturer, on the opening day of college, Robert C. Sprague, consultant to the National Security Council, who discussed "The Formulation of National Security Policy." Scheduled for succeeding Monday nights are Thurgood Marshall, "The Race Problem in Election Year"; U. S. Representative Thomas B. Curtis '32, "How Should We Allocate Our Resources?"; Roy Jenkins, M.P., "A Britisher Views the American Election"; Willard Wirtz, "Government and the Unions"; U. S. Senator George D. Aiken of Vermont, "The Farm Issue in the Campaign"; President Robert K. Carr '29 of Oberlin College, "The Civil Liberties Issue in the Campaign"; and, on November 14, Prof. James MacGregor Burns of Williams, "The New President and His Campaign Promises." Professor Burns has the choice of preparing two lectures or waiting until after November 8. Before the end of the fall term the senior class will also hear two of Senator Kennedy's leading advisers, Prof. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. of Harvard and Prof. W. W. Rostow of M.I.T., and also Raymond Aron, from Paris, political commentator for Figaro.