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Co-eds Advise
On Transition

By Brian Siegel
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

A special committee of University
students, faculty, and staff members has
had three female undergraduates added to
its ranks to help plan for the admission of
women to the College of Arts and
Sciences next fall.

After several members of the committee
complained at the first meeting that
there were only two female members on
it, measures were taken to add three
more.

The new members of the Advisory
Planning Committee for Undergraduate
Women are Miss Mary Jane Harrold, Miss Celie
Smith, and Miss Ann Lescallect.

President Shannon

The committee, formed at the request of
President Edgar . Shannon, Jr., is in charge
developing and exchanging information concerning
the preparation and co-ordination of
planning for women entering the College in
September.

Chairman of the committee is Ralph Cherry,
professor of education and former dean of the
School of Education.

The committee, first established as a
sub-committee by D. Alan Williams, but since
changed to a special committee, will advise the
Vice President for Student Affairs and recommend
ways to assist in the smooth transition of
co-education in the College.

The idea of a committee of this type was
proposed by Student Council last December,
When Mr. Williams appointed the sub-committee
this month it consisted of students James
Roebuck, president of Student Council; Miss
Judy Wellman, Whit Clement, Kevin Mannix,
Miss Karen Wester, and George Brown.

Faculty and staff members appointed to the
committee were Irby Cauthen, dean of the
College; Ernest Ern, dean of admissions;
Richard Shutts, business manager of the
University; Warren Knapp, director of financial
aid to students; James L. Camp III, director of
student health, and Wade Bromwell, director of
security.

1400 Applications

According to one committee member's
statistics, approximately 1400 applications
were received by the admissions office as of the
February 1 deadline, 1100 of which were for
the College.

Of the 1100, 65 per cent are in-state
applicants. Transfer applications may still be
sent in from University extensions until the
May 1 transfer deadline. The expected enrollment
of women to the college next September
is around 450. However, the enrollment of
first-year women will be less.

As far as housing regulations are concerned,
female students will be governed by the same
rules and regulations as their male counterparts.