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UNIVERSITY Convocation to stress diversity The University's ninth annu al Convocation, marking the opening of the academic year, will stress diversity in educa tion for this year. Mary Hatwood Futrell, for mer president of the National Education Association and cur rent president of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession, will give the keynote address. Her talk. “Are We Ready for the 21st Century?," will begin at 3:30 p.m. today in the EMU Ball Room. This year's theme. "A Uni versity for Everyone."concerns educating students, faculty and staff about diversity and initiat ing a multi-cultural curricu lum. Beginning this year, enroll ing University students are re quired to take at least one course on an issue of race or gender or a non-European American topic to graduate Mary Hat wood Futrell with a bachelor's degree Sponsors for the Convocation are the University's Center for the Study of Women in Society and the College of Education. Teachers from local public school districts have been invit ed to attend. Nine seminars hosted by Uni versity faculty members on the convocation theme are sched uled to be held immediately following the keynote address Futrell is associate director of the Center for the Study of Edu cation and National Develop ment at George Washington University. During her unprec edented three-term tenure as president of the NEA. Futrell stressed raising the level of ed ucation in public schools. In conjunction with the Con vocation. a play and five art ex hibitions are offered at the Uni versity. University Theatre will pres ent a revival of a ktibuki ver sion of "The Hacchae" at 8 p.m. Sept 27-29 in Robinson Theatre at Villard Hall. Orginally performed in May. this production fuses Greek tragedy with a popular (apa nese drama style. Crowding no worse than Fall ’89 With the confusion the new course changes caused, the crowded classes and the formi dable task of adding a class. University students might get the impression it's a little crowded around here. In reality, though, it's about the same as last year, said |im Buch, University admissions director. The University is projecting a fall term enrollment of 17,900, which is an increase of only 82 students over Fall 1989 Enrollment became a large is sue in 1988, when the Univer sity catered to about 18,500 stu dents. The record level forced officials to adopt a two-year plan to reduce enrollment lev els to 18,000 in Fall 1989 and to 17,600 by this fall. Enrollment last fall, howev er, was 200 fewer than planned. In response, the Uni versity had upped this year's cap to 17.800 to recoup lost tui tion revenue That projection was again in creased because the University needed to offset the cost of some tuition waivers for ath letes to assist an already finan cially strapped athletic depart ment. Buch said campus may ap pear to be crowded because the memory fresh in the minds of returning students is that of spring term for 1989-90, where enrollment was 2,000 less than fall levels that year. Official figures won't be known until the fourth week of classes, when actual enroll ment is tallied. However, Buch said the fall term total should be very close to projected fig ures. As of the third day of regis tration. 16.195 students had registered compared to 16,196 for the same time in Fall 1989, Buch said. The number of freshman en tering the University will stay at 1989 levels at alx>ut 3.500, but transfer students will in crease slightly. Buch said. By the time the enrollment cap was bumped up earlier this summer, freshman had already been admitted, so transfer stu dents was the only category ad missions officials had control over. Huch said. Oct. 29, 8 pm Hult Center $17.00/$15.00 adv. 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