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Admissions Discussed

A recent Board of Visitors
statement recommended
limitation of yearly
out-of-state admissions for
"the next several years" to the
preliminary estimate of 1,465
students entering this fall.
Out-of-state students
comprised 36.08 per cent of all
new students this year.

Mr. Shannon said the
number of entering students
has been revised to 1,575 since
the earlier estimate.

"The General Assembly
might not take action to
restrict out-of-state
enrollment," Mr. Shannon
said yesterday.

"The admissions issue is
clouded right now by pending
court decisions on out-of-state
tuition requirements."

Several faculty members
criticized affixing a
non-resident student limit to
both undergraduate and
graduate schools, saying, "We'd
be dead if we had only 15 per
cent non-resident graduate
students. We couldn't defend
our Ph.D. program."

The faculty adopted a
memorial resolution on English
Prof. Emeritus Arthur K. Davis
Jr., who died in September. He
was a widely known collector
of Virginia folk songs and an
expert on poet-critic Matthew
Arnold.

Faculty Dean Robert D.
Cross commended to the
faculty Pres. Shannon's
recommendation that faculty
members "facilitate and
encourage student
participation" in election
processes and "carefully
consider possibilities of
absenteeism when scheduling
exercises on Election Day,
Nov. 7."

Mr. Cross announced his
proposal to department
chairmen for renumbering Arts
and Sciences courses
uniformly. He also criticized
"overcrowding of classrooms at
peak hours, and emptiness of
rooms at other times."