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October 27, 1980
The Wolverine Observer
Page 11
NEWS OF INTEREST
News Flash
MORRIS BROWN STUDENTS
ARE MISSING JOBS THAT ARE
FLOWING THROUGH THE CEN
TRAL PLACEMENT OFFICE ON
THE CAMPUS OF ATLANTA
UNIVERSITY.
ALL STUDENTS ARE URGED
TO LOOK INTO THEIR FUTURES
BY AT LEAST GOING BY THE OF
FICE.
WANTED ARE SENIORS AND
UPCOMING SENIORS BUT THE
PROGRAM IS OPEN TO ALL
INTERESTED PERSONS OF THE
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER.
LOOK
The Phyllis Wheatley YWCA
located at 599 Vine Street is spon
soring an Old Fashion FLEA
MARKET, on Saturday 25th from
11:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Table
rentals are $15.00 (Individuals) or
$25.00 (Origanizations), which
provides a table to display your
merchandise. If you have
something which you do not
need or really can not use, why
not share it with others?
The community will be filled
with hundreds of visitors atten
ding both the Morris Brown and
Clark Homecoming games, so
the area will be filled with high
spirits and eager shoppers.
Interested? Then call Derryll
Anderson or Joyce Tetteh at 523 -
0543 for further information.
Write Your Way
To Washington
Here's an opportunity to win
an expense paid weekend in the
historic nation’s capital while
participating in the upcoming
year's most important forum for
minority communicators,
Howard University’s Tenth An-
nual Communications
Conference.
The School of Com
munications at Howard invites
you to enter its Tenth Annual Es
say Contest and write your way
to Washington.
All college students with an
interest in communications are
eligible to enter this contest. If
you are interested, submit an
original essay of 750 to 1000
words on the subject THE IM
PACT OF COMMUNICATIONS
ON THE FAMILY: RES
PONSIBILITIES AND
STRATEGIES. Essays must be
typed, double - spaced, on one
side of the paper, with ma rgins of
one to one and one - half inches
on all sides. The manuscript
should be identified only by title.
A separate cover page should be
attached with your name, ad
dress, phone number, student ID
number, and the school
location. (Manuscripts will not
be returned.)
Awards to the first place
winner are an expense paid trip
to the Howard University School
of Communications Tenth An
nual Communications
Conference 12 - 16 February
1981, lodging for four nights at
the Harambee House Hotel,
registration and admission to all
conference events. The second
place winner is promised four
nights of lodging at the
Harambee House Hotel, regis
tration and admission to all
conference events. The third
place winner will receive regis
tration and admission to all
conference events. A
commemorative award will be
given to all three winners at the
Frederick Douglass Luncheon on
Saturday.
All entries should be sent as
soon as possible to Ms. Peggy
Pinn, Conference Coordinator,
Tenth Annual Communications
Conference, Howard University,
Washington, D.C. 20059, 12
January 1981 is the absolute
deadline.
Howard’s annual com
munication’s conference
provides a forum for exchange of
vital information for minority
communicators and serves to es
tablish contacts which will in
crease the presence of minorities
in the communications industry.
A wide range of representatives
of media outlets will be on hand
to interview students and profes
sionals for prospective positions
in the industry.
ENTER NOW AND WRITE
YOUR WAY TO WASHINGTON.
Contact:
TENTH ANNUAL COM
MUNICATIONS CONFERENCE
Howard University
School of Communications
Washington, D.C. 20059
202 - 636 - 7491
Legal Way
Campus Digest News Service
Does divorce revoke a will?
Q. After we were married, in I961,
my ex-husband made a will naming
his sole beneficiary. We were divorc
ed four years later in California, and
he moved to Nevada, where he died
recently. He never married. The last
will they found was the one he made
in I961. Am I entitled to what he
left?
A. Advise with your lawyer. The
will was made before Nevada enacted
a statute which provides that a
divorce revokes a will. In one case
(540 P.2d ll9) the Nevada supreme
court held such a will to be valid. The
court ruled that the Nevada
Legislature did not intend the state to
apply to wills already in existence
when the law was passed.
Q. After all I have read about the
illegality of corporation’s money go
ing to politicians, I do not wish again
to be the man who doles out the
money for my company. What does
the law say about the punishment for
the bagman?
A. In your state of Arizona the law
(ARS Sec. 16-471) here quoted says:
“The person through whom the viola
tion is effected shall be punished by
imprisonment in a state penitentiary
for not less than one nor more than
three years.”
Most of the states have a similar
law. The punishment varies.
Q. I checked my bag at an airline
ticket counter in Boston. Inside was
a $1,500 Indian rug and other
valuables. Three days after my ar
rival at Albuquerque, N.M., the
airline still couldn’t find my hag.
When I told them about the rug,
they said I could collect no more
than the $500 limit provided by law
and printed on my baggage-unless I
had extra insurance (which I didn’t).
What does the law say about this?
A. Airlines have a legal right to set
a reasonable limit o the amount they
will pay for lost or damaged goods.
But that limit does not apply if
negligence or misconduct by the
airline can be proved. You, as owner
of the bag, will have to prove
negligence or misconduct if you hope
to collect more than $500. (98 Mass.
239, U.C.C. Sec. 7-309)
Q. Your answers to letters, writes
a New York State resident, usually
cite the law of one state. Residents in
49 other states may not be as in
terested in the answers as they would
be if you wrote about the law that
would apply to all of us~say an ex
planation of the basic legal re
quirements of a court-enforceable
contract.
No other law, the New Yorker
continues, touches people, corpora
tions, other entities even between
countries, called treaties, more than
the law of contracts. It’s the law we
all live by in our daily transactions
with each other.
One hundred and fifty words in
each column about contracts along
with your answers to questions, he
concludes, would become productive
reading for all of us.
A. Thank you for your suggestion.
We’ll do it. We will call the item in
each column: The Law of Living
Contracts. The nine* basic re
quirements of a court-enforceable
contract will be explained: mutual as
sent, consideration, competent par
ties, legality, reality of consent, writ
ten or oral contracts, rights of third
parties, performance and discharge,
breach and remedies.
Q. Six months before he died in an
auto accident, my husband made me
the beneficiary of a $25,000 life in
surance policy. Now the insurance
company refuses to pay me the pro
ceeds because my husband’s
creditors have obtained a court ac
tion. They say he took out the policy
“in defraud of creditors.”
My insurance agent says the in
surance proceeds will go into my
husband’s estate, the creditors will
be paid, and I’ll get what’s left. Is
that right?
A. The law in your state of Con
necticut says you are entitled to the
proceeds of the policy, with prior
Mother Crusades
Against Hazing
Campus Digest News Service
Eileen Stevens is fighting back -
fighting back against a college tradi
tion that took the life of her son,
Chuck Stemzel.
On Feb. 25, 1978, she was notified
that her son had died of a hazing test
during a fraternity’s'initiation rites.
Her son had been locked in the trunk
of a car. He could’ not be released un
til he had consumed a pint of bour
bon, a bottle of wine and a six-pack
of beer. His death has been one in a
series of unindicted killings by hazing.
Mrs. Stevens has been determined
not to allow this tradition to con
tinue. In memory of her son she
formed “Chuck,” the Committee to
Halt Useless College Killings.
She lobbied to get an anti-hazing
bill passed in New York. Last month
the bill was passed and signed by the
governor.
Abolishing physically dangerous
hazing is not enough for Mrs.
Stevens. She is also working to
abolish psychological hazing, which
she has found in some fraternities.
Psychological hazing can involve
sleep deprivation, examinations with
no correct answers, phony notes say
ing that a student has failed a course,
“third-degree” interrogations under
bright lights and threats of retribu
tion.
Psychological hazing may lead to
breakdowns, prolonged crying and
sobbing and permanent psychological
damage.
Women are not immune from these
rites. In recent years at least four col
lege women have died during hazing
incidents.
In the West and South there is the
strongest support of hazing. People
brag about these exploits and call
them a necessary tradition.
claim over the creditors-unless the
policy (or your designation as
beneficiary) was obtained to defraud
creditors.
But fraud must be proved. If it is,
the proceeds go into the estate, the
creditors will be paid, and you will
get the remainder. (Conn. Gen. Stat
38-161)