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Black Admissions
Rise In College,
School Of Law

By Tom Jenks
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Admission of Black students in
the School of Law and in the
School of Arts and Sciences this
year is much higher than in any
previous year.

In the Law School, as a result of
recruiting programs at Black colleges,
there are 24 applications
from Black students this year,
compared to six applications last
year.

Out of the six applications last
year, four students matriculated,
one was accepted, one decided not
to come, and one was denied
admission. Albert R. Turnbull, the
Associate Dean of the Law School,
told The Cavalier Daily that he
could not yet say how many black
students would enter the school
next year.

In addition to the regular
applications to the Law School,
there are 100 applications to the
school's Council on Legal Education
Opportunity (CLEO) program,
the CLEO program is a national one
with 10 centers around the country
which take underprivileged, minority
group students and give them
intensive exposure to law school
techniques during the summer.

Forty students will be selected
from the applicants to participate
in a six week program, following
which they will be applying to
various law schools in the country.

When asked how many of the
CLEO students would be remaining
at the University, Jerry Mashaw,
coordinator of the CLEO program
here said that he hoped 10 or more
students would be staying but that
a lot depended on the number of
scholarships that would be available
for the students.

The present enrollment of the
Law School is 693 and is expected
to remain the same next year, and
even if all 24 regular applicants and
10CLEO applicants are accepted at
the University and matriculate, the
school will only have approximately.048per
cent Black students.

In the School of Arts and
Sciences applications and acceptances
of Black students have
more then doubled over last year,
when 29 applied, 19 were accepted,
and 10 enrolled. This year 54 Black
students applied to the College and
42 have been accepted.

Fred Stokes, the Black admissions
officer, told The Cavalier
Daily that as yet there was no way
of knowing how many of the 42
would matriculate, because the
admissions office is still in the
process of contacting the students,
some of whom have yet to hear
from the other schools to which
they applied.

When The Cavalier Daily called
the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences to ask the number of
Black students accepted for next
year, the newspaper was told that
in the School of General Studies no
record of Black students was kept
and there was no way of knowing
for sure how many were enrolled in
the school presently.