Vis Stud Proposal Has No Effect On Other Elites

Procedures for admission to Social Studies and History and Literature are not expected to change much this year, although the Visual and Environmental Studies department is taking steps to adopt a policy of open enrollment, chairmen of the two restricted programs said yesterday.

Richard M. Hunt, senior lecturer on Social Studies and acting chairman of the committee on Social Studies, said yesterday that admission to the selective Social Studies program will "probably still be limited to the same numbers of applicants as last year," or 49 of the 120 applicants, he said.

Applicants will still be required to submit both an application form and a sample of their written work sometime in April to the program's admissions committee, Hunt said.

John L. Clive, professor of History and chairman of the committee on History and Literature, said the decision reached last Wednesday by the Visual Studies faculty "had no bearing" on his department's actions, and that History and Lit will admit roughly the same numbers of applicants as were admitted last year.

Approximately 65 freshmen were admitted to History and Lit last spring, boosting total enrollment to 180 undergraduates, John Etting, assistant head tutor for History and Literature, said yesterday.

Dean Rosovsky, who must approve the Visual Studies department's recommendations before they can be implemented this spring, said yesterday that he will decide the matter after he presents the proposal to the Faculty Council "sometime in January."