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* College Faculty Votes
Bachelor of Science
‘Degrees in Two Depart-
ments at Meeting

Sweeping changes in residence re-
quirements for students in the Col-
‘lege were made yesterday afternoon
at a meeting of the College faculty
in which two departments were
given permission to offer four year
courses leading to bachelor of sci-
‘ence degrees and other minor
changes were authorized.

Hereafter, exception to the regu-
lation requiring college. students to
complete the last 30 hours in resi-
dence will be made. Those students
taking the regular course who have
earned a-C average in both their
total and residence records and have
completed at least one previous full
semester of enrollment in the col-
lege, will be required to earn only
24 of the last 30 hours in residence.

The departments of geology and
physics will offer hereafter a new
four-year curriculum leading to the
degree of Bachelor of Science ‘in
| geology and physics, it was an-
nounced following the College fa- |.
culty meeting yesterday. The re-|.
quest. of the two departments to
offer a five-year curriculum leading
to the degree of Bachelor of Science
in geophysics was also granted.
Master of Science

Hope was expressed that the
Graduate School will approve the
granting of the degree of Master: of |:
Seience in geophysics _ on, completion
of the five-year course, in which
case both degrees will be granted
at the same time.