 Some of the new changes include mandatory study time each night for all Midshipmen, secured all weekday liberty (which Seniors had Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and Juniors Tuesday and Friday), and mandatory meals Sunday night through Friday night.Fowler stressed, however, that the Academy was not in a state of emergency, and that these changes were merely to keep the recent graduates ready to enter into wartime service.He cast the changes as having more to do with preparing future Navy and Marine officers for wartime duty than with cracking down on misbehavior.