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Show Fall semester at BYU to open three weeks earlier in 1969 The entire 1969-70 school year will be shifted approximately approxi-mately three weeks earlier at Bngham Young University, President Ernest L. Wilkinson announced today. He said the Board of Trustees Trus-tees has authorized the administration admin-istration to work on a calendar calen-dar which would provide for the completion of the autumn semester before the Christmas holiday. The previous schedule called for classwork to begin on September 22. A notice received by the BYU faculty Tuesday announced announ-ced that the new schedule would be discussed In the faculty fac-ulty meeting Thursday at 4:15 p.m. in Joseph Smith Auditor- ium, and asked for suggestions as to procedures. No definite calendar has been drawn up, but president Wilkinson said the first semester sem-ester would begin around the first of September and end before be-fore Christmas. This apparently apparent-ly would advance the start of the spring semester to early in January. Under the semester system on which BYU operates, the Christmas holiday is an interruption inter-ruption of classwork. This year, for example, students leave campus on December 20 and return on January 6 to complete the semester on January Jan-uary 30. BYU converted to the semes- ter system in 1960. It include; two regular semesters, eacl with 16 weeks of instructor plus registration and examination examina-tion periods. The state universities univer-sities and colleges in Utah are operated on the quarter system sys-tem which provides three periods, per-iods, each with 12 weeks or less of instruction. |