Weekend Attracts Junior Parents

Because they weren't on a computer list, parents of almost 40 transfer students affiliated with Dudley House did not receive invitations to the annual Junior Parents' Weekend, which starts today.

Thomas E. Crooks '49 director of the Parents' Association said event organizers did not realize the omission until earlier this week, when students--all of whom received invitations--began complaining it their parents had not been invited.

"I'm going to write a latter of apology and invite them to come next year," Crooks-said.

Elizaoer H. Wang '86, a transfer student from MIT, said that her parents did not receive an-invitation but that they would be able to come anyway. "I was a little miffed that they didn't actually rectify the fact by sending a real invitation," she said.

We've been excluded from too many lists," she added, although she said that her transfer student status does not generally alienate her from the undergraduate community.

Although this is the first time that transfer student parents have been forgotten> for parents weekend, Eleanor C. Marshall, assistant to the director of the Parents Association, said students occasionally are omitted from the computer list. In those cases, she said, they give the students invitations and hope that they contact their parents