Word: lynn
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F.C.C. has already chosen 2400 students for the inaugural class. As an experiment, they did not use normal criteria of admittance, but chose students at random. "Testing is a particularly in-exact science for people coming out of a ghetto," Lynn said...
...Lynn said yesterday that he had had a "utopian impulse" and decided to act on it. "This school could be an instrument of reconciliation, a model interracial, urban university. It gives you a chance to believe that your presence makes a difference. His decision parallels a recent move by John U. Monro '38, former dean of the College, who is now director of freshmen studies at Miles College in Birmingham...
Within five years F.C.C. expects to have more than 10,000 students, Lynn added. With the majority of the students drawn from Washington D.C., approximately 25 per cent will be white, and 75 per cent negro. However, students will be accepted from the rest of the nation, as well as from abroad...
Evaluating students wil be part of Lynn's job, as will be faculty recruitment, curriculum planning, and creation of an American Studies Department. Lynn said he is going to try to keep his classes small--under 25--and to have group tutorials...
Plans call for F.C.C. to be a large school, similar to the University of Michigan, Lynn said. It will probably be located in downtown Washington--a site has not been chosen yet--and will have several branch campuses...