Feature magazine of The Daily Tar Heel
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Thursday, January 31. 1980
By MELANIE SILL
Junior transfer students comprise what may be the most
neglected and least visible minority at the University of North
Carolina.
No organized coalition works to improve the lots of junior
transfers, nor does any specific office cater to their academic or
personal needs. But transfer students, who number approximately
1,600-1,700 in any given semester, encounter problems and
frustrations unlike those of other students at the University.
"I feel like I've come in durine the middle of a movie' said Lisa
Simmons, who transferred last falffrom Lees McRae,a junior'college
in Banner Elk. "It's like I've missed something strategic."
Approximately 884 transfer students entered Carolina during the
summer and fall terms of 1979, said Timothy Sanford, assistant
director of institutional research at UNC. The number of transfers
enrolled, however, fluctuated during the five-year period since fall
Carolina 's in visible minority, junior transfers,
face special challenges while trying to cope
with a new academic and social atmosphere
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