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November 30, 1984/The Maroon Tiger/Page 15A
ON CAMPUS CAPSULE
♦THE CONTROVERSY OVER
AN ALLEGED GANG RAPE by a
U. of Florida fraternity goes on
even after lengthy negotiations
resulted in a settlement between
the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity and
UF officials. That settlement ends
the fraternity’s Little Sister
program, requires Pi Lam to hire
a permanent live-in house
parent, and restricts some
membership drives and social
activities for two years. Fraternity
backers believe that penalty is
too strict, while some professors,
city officials, and women’s
groups protested the sentence as
a slap on the wrist.
♦THREE STUDENTS WHO
FOUGHT what they thought
were overly high charges for a
■ law review course recently won a
$225,000 settlement for
themselves and 1,997 other
students. The trio sued Harcourt,
Brace, Jovanovich and an Atlanta
distributor, BRG of Georgia. Inc.,
claiming the cost of review
courses doubled after the two
firms agreed not to compete for
the business, giving BRG ex
clusive rights to the Georgia bar
review courses. Under the settle
ment, law students will receive
$200 each and the chance to take
Harcourt’s law review course at
half-price.
Pre-Law . . .
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dergraduate. In short, while a
law-related course may help you
decide whether law is a field
which interests you, un
dergraduate law courses neither
help you get into law school, nor
do they help you once you are
there.
Academic work is often
related to the specialization of
attorneys, and much of that
specialization may occur at the
undergraudate level. The
pattern of specialization in law is
very different from that of the
pre-medical student, who first
completes broad pre-medical
courses in basic sciences, then
proceeds to basic medical sub
jects in medical school, and
*$TUDENTS‘ NAMES will no
longer be passed along to ap
propriate campus religious
groups at the U. of Wisconsin-
Madison. Two local residents
and a student obtained a tem
porary restraining order forbid
ding the UW from passing along
information on religious
preference, which is voluntarily
provided by students on their
registration forms. The trio
claims the practice violates
separation of church and state. A
hearing was to follow.
♦''REVENGE OF THE NERDS"
didn’t get rave reviews on the
campus where it was filmed —
the U. of Arizona. Among those
unhappy with the finished
product were fraternity and
sorority leaders who had met
with producers during the film-
making, to discuss ways of more
accurately representing Greek
life. Few changes resulted, say
those students. Some UA of
ficials were unhappy enough to
wish they’d stuck with their
original decision not to allow
filming on cmapus. On the
positive side, UA did receive
$10,000 in improvements of
handicapped services, courtesy
of the film crew.
♦FOUR AUBURN U. FRATER
NITIES may have to relocate
under university plans to build a
finally may spend additional
years of study in residency
specializing in a chosen field.
Although most attorneys
specialize after law school, they
generally dosothrough practical
work in a particular field, if
academic preparation for
specialization work in a par
ticular field. If academic prepra-
tion for specialization is a factor,
it is most likely to have occurred
during the undergraduate years.
Thus, many patent attorneys are
ones who studied engineering or
the sciences as undergraduates.
Many corporate attorneys have
backgrounds in economics or in
fields related to their employer’s
products, such as electrical
engineering. You need not know
$12 million hotel and convention
center on the school land the
frats now occupy. While Auburn
officials are making other land
available, and may increase their
current $125,000 limit on loans to
fraternities, many frat members
are upset at losing their current
houses. One fraternity posted a
For Sale sign in its front yard-,
listing AU President James Mar
tin as the realtor, and including
his phone number.
♦A GAY STUDENT GROUP AT
TEXAS A&M U. must be
recognized as a student
organization, the Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals ruled recently.
Refusing recognition violates the
gay students’ First Amendment
rights by denying them freedom
to choose and to organize. The
controversy over the Gay Stu
dent Service group dates back
eight years, to A&M’s original
decision not to let GSS on cam
pus.
♦ADVERTISING FOR
STUDENTS in major magazines is
one way the U. of Montevallo
plans to boost its student body.
The Alabama school recently
hired an ad agency to run full-
page color ads in such magazines
as Newsweek, Time and Sports
Illustrated. The print ads are
aimed at parents, while televi-
which type of practice you wish
to pursue before you enter law
school, but it will help you to use
your undergraduate time wisely
if you can explore the varied
fields. Ifyou have alwaysthought
a course “would interest you,"
do not avoid it like the plague.
You should explore. You may
find that once you are exposed
to unfamiliar territory, it may
become a very exciting academic
interest. Take courses as an
undergraduate that will keep
open options which are of
potential interest to you as a
prospective attorney.
* Drayton, is assistant professor of
Law and Director of the Pre-Law
Program at Morehouse.
sion, radio, and even movie ads
are being developed for the
younger market.
A.U. OF TEXAS GRADUATE
STUDENT recently won the legal
right to protest a neighboring
condominium development by
placing derogatory signs on his
property. The developer had
taken the student to court,
claiming his signs (including one
on the roof) were hurting condo
sales. The district court judge
upheld the student’s right to
place signs on his own property
— but ordered the student to
remove debris from his back
yard.
♦MORE HOW -TOs: Forthose
college women finding it tough
to be proper young ladies, help is
on the way. Brooke Shields will
soon publish a "High School and
College Girl’s Guide to Having It
All” — but not until Cornelia
Guest has offered her own
guidebook for young
debutantes. We can hardly wait.
♦THE BOOM IN BUSINESS
STUDENTS at the U. of
Wisconsin-Madison will mean
tough competition for grades —
and less fun for students, warn
two business department
members. A record 19% of this
fall’s freshman class plans to
major in business. Most of those
students will have to get 3.0
Graduating from college can
be one of life’s most disillusion
ing and depressing experiences.
You’ve spent four years learning
how to write, churning out
innumerable papers on
everything from The Iliad to the
Oedipus complex, cramming for
countless exams, translating
Chaucer from middle to modern
English — and you can’t land
your first job because you don’t
type 50 words per minute. Sound
familiar?
The problem with college,
according to Jeff Salzman and
James Calano, authors of REAL
WORLD 101 (Trade Paperback
Original, October 1984, $7.95), is
that facts, not skills, are
emphasized. Students are rarely
taught how to apply their
knowledge to everyday
averages just to get into the
business school, and many will
need to make their college
career choices early to plot
specific course sequences.
♦INDUSTRAIL DEVELOP
MENT GRADUATES at Texas
A&M are in such demand that
many receive up to $3,000 in
bonuses to accept job offers, says
Associate Prof. Gerald Stone.
A&M’s Industrial Development
program is one of only three in
the country. Its graduates take
both engineering and business
courses.
♦COMPUTER COURSES ARE
frustrating and confusing to
many college freshman, accor
ding ot research by Carnegie-
Mellon U. The need to become
familiar with a whole new
culture — including a new
language — is difficult for
freshmen, who are also in
timidated by working alongside
professors and computer
whizzes in the campus computer
center. To combat the problem,
CMU spruced up its center, with
paint, plants and carpeting, and
required all freshmen to take a
computer orientation course, to
ease them into computers. That
hasn’t eliminated students’
negative feelings, but has reduc
ed them.
situations — like job-hunting.
For those still in school, the
authors advise internships, inter
views and counseling with
professionals as the most effec
tive means of getting a head start
on the job market. They also
discuss how to play the money
game, i.e., how to get credit
cards and bank loans before
graduation. For students as well
as graduates, they give
guidelines for:
—how to establish realistic
short - and long-term goals
—how to write an “unresume”
—how to prepare for a job
interview
—how to target the job you
really want
—how to get the highest
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Real World 101