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June 7, 1981
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PRINCETON WHEN the Class of 1981 gathers Tuesday on the campus of Princeton University, 80 black students (42 of them women) will receive bachelor's degrees, as will 48 white Hispanic students, 39 Asians or Pacific islanders and three American Indians.
And although there are no precise figures on Jews, because they are not formally classified as a minority, about 20 percent of the 1,129 young men and women in the graduating class are Jewish.
The makeup of the class dramatizes how far Princeton has come from the days when its reputation was that of a school with a ''half-open door'' through which only a sprinkling of minorities and no women were admitted (until the end of World War II, Princeton, like other Ivy League schools, admitted Jews under a rigid quota system).
Those days are long gone; Princeton granted its first undergraduate degree to a black in 1947 and since 1969 - the year in which it admitted its first woman - it has been actively recruiting minority students.
Of its current student body of 5,969 (4,521 undergraduates and 1,448 graduates), a third are women. About 20 percent identify themselves as Roman Catholic. About 8 percent are black, almost 5 percent Hispanic, 3.5 percent American Asians and an even dozen American Indians. Four percent are foreign.
The admissions office says that the university is trying to find and encourage gifted students in inner-city schools and that its policy is to grant a scholarship to every student who needs one.
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