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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 $200 each and the chance to take Harcourt’s law review course at half-price. Pre-Law . . . (Continued from Page 13) dergraduate. In short, while a law-related course may help you decide whether law is a field which interests you, un dergraduate law courses neither help you get into law school, nor do they help you once you are there. Academic work is often related to the specialization of attorneys, and much of that specialization may occur at the undergraudate level. The pattern of specialization in law is very different from that of the pre-medical student, who first completes broad pre-medical courses in basic sciences, then proceeds to basic medical sub jects in medical school, and *$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 (Continued on Page 17) Real World 101