Ben Gurion University of the Negev expects to have a student body of 10,000 by 1980, it was reported today by Harry T. Dozor of Philadelphia, president of the American Associates of the University. The present student body is 3500, he added, as compared with 1300 in 1969. Dozor will be formally installed as national president of the American Associates at a national dinner Oct. 2 at the Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia.
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