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Upperclassmen Not Affected

Upperclassmen are not affected
by University attendance requirements
unless they miss over 50
per cent of their classes in a
course, in which case they fail.

In way of justifying the regulation
of first-year men, Mr. Cauthen
said that "Parents need to be
assured that someone is caring
whether students are attending."

Under the present system, the
first communication a student
guilty of excessive absences receives
is what Dean Cauthen
described as a letter of "friendly
admonition." His parents receive
a carbon copy and therein,
says Mr. Cauthen, lies the
strength of the system.