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Son Diego Union Color Photo by Thone Mclntc and theological units housed in architectural stylin of Spanish Renaissance. I

Women at University of San Diego. Alcala Park campus contains 1,400 students in four academic

Jim Shultz, a senior, and Marcy King, a junior, hold conversation at _garden in front of College for

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CAMPUS PROFILE 'WE'VE TURNED CORNER'I USO Growing-And Planning One of a series •By CHARLES DAVIS The San Diego Union's Education Writer of Law has a record W7, and 77 attend the School of Theology. The Catholic institution is permeated with a concept that, not only is knowledge important but so is moral, Christian maturity.

It was Feb. ll, 1952, that doors opened to admit the first 50 students to the University of San Diego. The doors were to USD's College for Women, a striking example of Spanish Renaissance which set the architectural styling for all the campus' build- ings that have followed. Now, almost 14 years later, there are 1,457 students in four distinct units at USD. They represent a com- munity resource of future teachers, scientists, busi- ness, legal and religious minds. "We've turned the corner," is how the Rev. John Paul Cadden, president of the College for Men, puts Subscribers desiring extra copies of today's newspaper to send a Campus Profile to friends will find them available at news racks, news stands, or at any of The San Diego Union it. "We've upgraded the curriculum. We've up- graded the academic standards." And plans are afoot to do even more, including a proposal to accept Latin American students and teach them in their native Spanish during freshmen and Father Cadden heads a college with 383. In less than three years he has helped build the new acade- mic emphasis of which he speaks, and now looks for doubled enrollment-perhaps as soon as two years. In addition to the separate men's and worn n colleges, the latter having 700 students, ..,U..,:s offices. sophomore years.

Let Marsha Zandi, a senior planning a career in probation work and who is president of the women's college student body, tell her reasons for attending USD. She has found a "classroom advantage" when girls do not compete with boys. And, she adds, there is a direct advantage for girls who seek positions of lead- ership. Last summer Marsha went to meetings of the Na- tional Student Association in Wisconsin. There she discovered, with one exception, all coeducational in- stitutions were represented by men. "I wouldn't be where I am if I were not attending a women's college," Marsha said. Marsha does, however, concede it desirable to have closer contacts between the College for Women, con- ducted by nuns of the Religious Order of the Sacred Heart, and the men's college, a diocesan school. The two colleges do participate jointly in social functions, and a move toward greater cultural and intellectual togetherness was begun this year with a One advocate of closer ties is the Rev. I. Brent Eagen, director of school relations at the men's col- lege and a counselor of potential high school appli- Father Eagen sees academic advantages if, say, received fine arts instrnction at the cooperative film festival. cants in behalf of both colleges. en udent

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