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Greenberg and Milley Top Client Counseling By Doug Sachs Greenberg, Milley and Parisi all pointed The final round involved an accoun­ tions made by Father Malley and Profes­ out that the subject of this year's competi­ tant for a construction company who had sor Bob Smith, who filled in as a finals One of the most difficult scenarios a tion, criminal law, placed the BCLS stu­ participated in a price-fixing scheme. He judge due to a last-minute illness. lawyer can imagine involves the client dents at a distinct disadvantage, consider­ had participated fearing the loss of his Other judges of the final round of compe­ charged with abusing his own child. ing Boston Collegeofferno first-year crimi­ job, and sought counsel because of an tition, held Jan. 30, included attorneys Phyllis For first-years Nancy Greenberg and nal law course. The subject is selected on a impending investigation. Federico and Michael Perry, Parisi said Janet Milley, such a case posed little moral national level, Parisi said. "We tried to give him options, but no "One judge made the point that no dilemma. "It was really hard to know what we definite answers, because he was a lower­ matter what field of law you go into, you The winners of this year's Client Coun­ didn't know," Greenberg said. "So we tried level employee and hadn't been arrested have to do client counseling," Parisi said. seling Competition, Greenberg and Milley not to say too much. There was a lot of yet," Milley said. "It's something you do throughout your advised four clients, each facing some 'We'll have to get back to you'." Parisi noted the valuable contribu- entire career." criminal charges .. A total of 38 two-person teams com­ peted in this year's event, said Board of Student Advisors member Donna Parisi. "It was a treme~dous success," Parisi said. "We got positive feedback from the students as well as the judges." In addition to the fa ther charged with child abuse, the clients included a teen­ aged girl charged with shoplifting, a drug­ possession suspect and a possible white­ collar criminal. Milley and Greenberg said they ap­ proached each client with compassion and attention, attempting to discover as many facts as possible while helping the client' feel supported. The child abuse case provided an op­ portunity for the team to put their client counseling skills to the test, Milley said. "We felt no conflict representing and supporting him," Milley said. "It was a new feeling for us. The general feeling among lay people would be, 'How do you defend this guy?' We both tried to do our best to support the clients and look at them in the most positive light. We tried to help First-year students Nancy Greenberg (left) and Janet Milley took top honors in the recent client counseling them get out of these awful situations." competition. Job Survey: Top 10% Find Work; The Rest- NOT By Katie D'Urso optimistic. Of the third year responses, 53 finding jobs. No one in the top 10 percent impress an interviewer than a man might Associate Editor percent came from students in the top quar­ of either class reported that they were have. A third year woman agreed, sug­ ter of the class while only 14 percent came still looking for a job. Even this figure is gesting that once you get out of the auto­ The results of the job search survey are from students in the bottom half of the deceiving because many of these stu­ matic top 10 percent track there may be in. Approximately 30 percent of the sec­ class. The second year results were similar dents reported difficulty in finding em­ some gender bias. ~ ond and third year students responded. with 46 percent of the surveys turned in by ployment in their geographic location of The greatest p.umber of offers was re­ Sixty-five percent of the 3Ls who re­ students in the top quarter of the class and choice. ported by a second year man in the top 11- sponded currently have post-graduation only 15 percent by students in the lower In both the third year and second year 25 percent category and a woman in the employment plans. Sixty-eight percent of half of the class. classes, twice as many men as women top 10 percent, each of whom received 10 the 2Ls who responded to the survey have Despite the fact that response to the with no journal experience have jobs. offers. secured a summer position. survey is skewed toward the top portion of One second year woman commented that A few students expressed discontent Because many more students in the top the class, a few interesting observations although she did not experience overt with the fall recruiting season. part of the second and third year classes may be made. It appears that the top 10 discrimination during recruiting season, filled out surveys, these figures are overly percent of both classes had little trouble she felt that she had to work harder to See JOBS, p. 7 Page 2 • The Alledger • February 28, 1992 COMMENT .

From the Editor's Desk Pro-Choice Reflects Rape Concern for Quality of Life Letter to the Editor: take all this in, I am convinced that I could By Doug Sachs I would like to respond in a general never bring a child into this world who Editor-in Chief way to the letters from Mr. Fallon and Mr. might be forced to live such a "life." Kelley regarding the issue of a woman's When I hear some people argue that' In the hours following Mike Tyson's conviction for brutally raping an 18-year­ right to choose. Mr. Fallon states that his women who become pregnant should not old beauty pageant contestant, the shockwaves reverberated like a runaway roller group cares very deeply for the quality of be able to choose whether or not to raise coaster. life, but that his group's priorities must their children in these ranks of despair, I In the wake of the two recent major defeats in the Battle of the Sexes, all bets center on allowing the unborn fetus to wonder where our priorities are. Why has were on Tyson to walk. have a life before they can concentrate on the potential life become more important But he didn't. He went down harder than he did two years ago in Tokyo at the the issue of quality. Paraphrasing his sen­ than the actual? Why is the aborting of an fists of Buster Douglas. timents, we need not have a beautiful field unfeeling, unthinking fetus more heinous At first, the taste of victory was sweet. Believers in the truth winning out against if there is no child to walk in it. While the than the suffering of a breathing, thinking, all odds had cause to rejoice. Finally, society believed her. With the likes of pro-life position expostulating the sacred feeling child? Why are such groups' ster­ William Kennedy Smith and Clarence Thomas erecting a seemingly impenetrable nature of life has a laudable sentiment, I ling efforts and laudable sympathies not wall of protection against charges of sexual harassment and violence, women felt believe that it is neither practical nor hu­ being put toward helping children who are knocked out cold. mane. alive to live? None of these groups, while The Tyson conviction turned everything around. Here was a wealthy, powerful Unlike Mr. Kelley, I am -less con­ requiring a woman to give birth, are advo­ man convicted of a violent and depraved act on no other evidence that the cerned with the quality of the world as a cating the means to help her feed, clothe, testimony of the lone eyewitness. whole than I am with the quality of the and protect her child. They merely insist But quickly, the mood took an unpleasant turn. People felt sorry for Mike basic life of a child, a child who deserves that she have it, regardless of its future or Tyson. This incident should not have caused the end of his career, they said. to be nurtured, nourished, loved, and pro­ lack thereof. With sentencing scheduled for March, most watchers expect Tyson to receive tected. I walk through the streets of Bos­ Infant mortality rates in this country's between six and nine years of hard time. That means Tyson, 25, will be in his mid- ton and I see homeless children whose inner cities continue to grow and children 30s by the time he gets out. A little old to mount a comeback. Even if he could eyes tell of deprivation and sorrow. I see living in poverty continue to die, yet we compete physically, his rape conviction will force him to change his name and statistics of a growing number of children are willing to force a woman to subject her appearance like Tony Danza in some pathetic "Taxi" episode. living below the poverty line - an exist­ child to such terrors and uncertainties. Before we all shed a tear over the tragedy that has befallen Iron Mike, let us not ence that most of us cannot even fathom. Where is our humanity? Our society must forget the tragedy suffered·by his young victim. With all this, I hear citizens and politicians first take responsibility for the born before In an Indianapolis hotel room last summer, a young woman lived a nightmare alike disparaging "welfare mothers" for we can take responsibility for the unborn. that will haunt her for the rest of her life. The act of rape violates its victim like no their so-called abuses - having more chil­ Sincerely, other crime. dren so that they can stay poor. And, as I Kathy M. Vanderziel Her life has been changed forever, with every date bringing back fear and suspicion of what could happen. She will never fully recover the dignity and self­ confidence stripped of her by Mike Tyson that night. In addition to the pain and humiliation she suffered in Indianapolis, the young It's the end of February again woman had to relive the experience each time she was forced to tell the story. The stakes for her were extremely high. If the jury had acquitted Tyson, it meant and you know what that means. accusations of liar and opportunist. With the conviction, she must endure the scorn of those who wish she'd just kept her mouth shut. The Tyson conviction truly is a victory. A victory for women and men who That's right, it's time for the annual believe in a system of justice that works. A system of justice in which thugs and rapists are exposed and punished for their evil deeds. The conviction will help women who have been vfctimized sexually to come forward in a way to which the Anita Hill experience can only pay lip service. The best televised comment I heard the day after the conviction came from a GUESS THE TUITION 10-year-old boy playing in Tyson's hometown of Brooklyn. When asked if Tyson was still his hero, the boy thought for a moment and softly said, "No." Why? "Cause he's a rapist." INCREASE POOL!

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LawSpeak by Doug Sachs ] Q: Who would you vote for in the presidential election?

cu th tH Fi m h: Y, n ti s Nancy Kriegel, 3L Lisa Ciolino, 2L Rich Lara, 2L John Hope, 3L c ''Nobody is striking me as worthy candidate. "I would vote for Lenora Fulani." "I think either Dean Coquillette or Arnold "Jerry Brown. Our country is run for the I'd love to say Giorno, but he might have Schwarzenegger because Arnold's more benefit of the wealthy 1 percent, and the idea s something in his closet He seems to be more electable than Bush." ofequal distnbution ofwealthappeals to me." 1 worthy than the people out there." Nick Danger BC Law-1ypes Lead Hectic and Intriguing Double Lives Hello crime stoppers, it's me, Nick Dan­ Procedure/Lab Professor. By night, a jet DEANDILUNA morning, guest host on Regis and Kathie ger, on the job to protect the integrity of the setting, cross dressing Parisian runway model By day, caring administrator and loving Lee. By night, medium for ghost of Micheal few people at B.C. Law who have any. Who who loves champagne and wants to dance, mother to eight hundred students. By early Landon. What a gal. are they? Well, clearly they are the ones dance, dance. without jobs, those who were weak enough SANFORD KATZ to share information in their first year oflaw By day, family law guru and school. Everybody knows you'll never be­ Famsworthian contracts disciple. By night, Rumors Carry the Day come a partner at a big firm by helping Master of Ceremonies of the Annual West By Bradford S. Babbitt others. That schmack went out with making Newton Beauty Pageant renowned for his your mate breakfast the next morning. But KC. and the Sunshine Band and Public Law schools are hotbeds of misinformation. In the winter months rumors run those with integrity don't envy the "success­ Enemy greatest hits medley during closing through the law school community like the flu, with similar effects. A good rumor, ful ones". Sure, they'll make money and ceremonies. like a nasty case of the flu (or a taste of the cafeteria's "shepard' s pie") can make your have a long term relationship with a shallow RENEE LANDERS palms clammy, your stomach chum, and your knees feel weak. You know it will pass, but attractive person. But in the end, they'll By day, long, red penned constitutional as all rumors do, but you're not sure you can survive till then. die one of those lonely successful deaths, in law professor. By night, anchor of the Red Rumors are the law student's favorite indoor sport. They are denounced as lurid run-down nursing home in Florida where Devil Roller Derby Team known for her and vile and without basis in fact, but spread just the same. They bring endless mirth you lay unattended in your own feces for ability crack the whip with a vengeance. to those who create them, endless woe to those prone to woe, and general bother to days on end and your grandchildren never PEIBR DONOVAN everyone in between. visit because you billed that extra hour each By day, fleshy torts, products liability, There is no rhyme nor reason to what will be a good rumor. For instance, civer the week instead of attending their little league and corporations professor. By night, candle­ past 18 months 76.8% of the female professors at BCLS have been rumored to be games. Good luck to the bluebooking law stick bowling league captain, and periodic carrying the love-child of Elvis or Judge Kozinski, or both. Interestingly, 2.4% of the reviewers!!!! slimfast spokesmodel. · male faculty have been the subject of identical rumors. But folks, this has absolutely nothing to CHARLES BARON In recognition of the fact that rumors are the athletics of the future, and just to prove do with my current assignment, which is to By day, constitutional law/ACLU eso­ that we are no better than anyone else, The A/ledger is proud to announce a new find out what the prof~ssors of Boston Col­ teric academia nut and town meeting enthu­ feature. From time to time we will present what we consider the most outstanding lege Law School do in their spare time. I've siast. By night, couch potato who enjoys rumors spread at Boston College Law School. been following a selecli~n of professors, watchingSpartucus andBenHurtapes while 1. Justine Bateman will be part of the class of 1994. A classic in its simplicity and staff and students for the past several weeks cleaning his twenty gauge, smoking believability. The judges gave this one honorable mention for the lengths the and what follows may surprise you. I realize unfiltered Camels, and whistling the theme "authors" went including putting her name on a student mailbox. Bravo. that it was risky to peer into their master song to the Andy Griffith Show. 2. The Library heating and cooling system is going to be fixed. This deserves honor bedrooms on those lazy Saturday mornings CYNTHIA LICHIBNSIBIN simply for being around so long and the absolute conviction with which it is put forth. when their kids are downstairs watching By day, international law expert and Performances worthy of the Academy. Congratulations. cartoons, or follow them into saunas after defier of fashion trends. By night, assistant 3. 15 D-s given by Hillinger in Secured. Wins the award for most exquisite results. their low impact aerobic classes, or watch manager of the Armstrong Chalk Factory. This one can still make a usually rational student become a blithering mass ofneuroses them pick out just the right cucumber at Star GLEN DEEGAN regardless of how improbable it is. Market; especially when the administration By day, LSA president and heavy petter/ 4. Law Review is good experience. This stands out as the most untrue, yet most is prepared to go to any lengths to silence occasional caddy of Dean Coquillette. By often believed rumor of the top five. this rebel without a job. But don't worry night, lightening bug enthusiast who enjoys 5. B.C.L.S. professors are paid $80,000 for teaching 4 classes over 8 months. This about my chances of graduating, after all, eating mayonnaise right out of the jar. wins the understatement award of the year. Of course it's not true; most of them only Danger is my name. JEFF THEILMAN teach three classes over eight months and earn well above $80,000. By day, mildly confused law student Do you have a favorite? One that you have used to panic your friends and destroy PROFILES IN SCIIlZOPHRENIA AT whose favorite color is plaid. By night, East your enemies? Write in and share it with the rest of the class! B.C.LAW Coast operative in Peruvian drug cartel and Write your favorite rumors here, and place in Alledger Box! JAMES REPETTI Juan Valdez wannabe. By day a corporations/tax professor with RINAMAYMAN r------, funeral director clothing and Johnny Carson By day, well balanced and strangely pro­ I humor. By night, leathered bathroom atten­ vocative law student whose birthday falls on I Write your favorite rumors here, : dant at the Ratskeller in Kenmore Square, graduation day. By night, Army National I kickin' ass and takin' names. Guard self defense instructor with penchant I and place in Alledger Box! : 1 MARK SULLIVAN for camouflage, blr" : leather belts, and I I By day, librarian with a wealth of knowl­ brooding malcontents. I I edge having no long term effect on GNP. By DEAN BRODIN I I night, concession beer guy at Bruins games By day, administrator who refuses to let I I who demands proof of age from grey hairs. anyone takecoursesatB.U. By night, family I I MARK SPEIGEL man who refuses to let anyone else use the By day, a shy but caring Fed courts/Civil remote control. L------~ February 28, 1992 • The Alledger • Page 5 NTER Law Finn Games Test Speed and Endurance By Mike Klein pants in the Downhill Slide often attain her back. Orders to "File this!" or "Do more Cross Country speeds of 85 miles per hour. research on that!" act as the starting gun for This is where most Law Firm participants With the world's attention focused on Several actions may trigger the start of lungers to reach for copy machines, anno­ go upon completing the Law Firm Games. Albertville for all the skating, skiing, and the Downhill Slide: tated statutes or antacids. curling (whatever that is) of the Games of • a late-night or early-morning voice Skating the XVI Winter Olympiad, it seems a shame mail message from a partner; Slalom Law Firm athletes perform this event on that there has been no publicity for the Law • a note reading "see me" on a contestant's Lungers often participate simultaneously thin ice heated by the tight job market. Firm Games. Unlike the quadrennial for­ chair; or in the slalom, weaving around the firm and Unlike Olympic figure skating, which has mat of the Olympics, the Law Firm Games • a pink slip on a contestant's desk. avoiding the offices of partners to whom eliminated the compulsory figures, skating happen every day. They feature people like This last triggering action signals the end they owe memos and briefs. in the Law Firm Games still requires partici­ you and me who, over three years or more, of the recipient's participatipn in the Law As deadlines draw nearer, the event trans­ pants to pass a compulsory bar exam. Also, have built their strength and endurance Firm Games. He or she will find packed bags forms into the Giant Slalom. there are no short programs in Law Firm through such grueling exercises as the and boxes filled with personal items by the skating, only interminably long programs. Sheppards Toss, the Digest Dodge, and the elevators to the Law Firm Village. See "Clos­ Biathlon Scoring ranges from the low 20,000's in Course Registration Shuffle. ing Ceremonies." This event has two parts. It requires Small Law Firm Games up to the high Shining the spotlight where it is de­ partners to run as fast as they can up to 80,000'sin theNewYorkLawFirm Games. served, we present to you the events of the Partner Hockey associates, and then shoot them. Athletes falling through the ice immedi­ Law Firm Games. Sponsored by Mylanta. Most of the rules of traditional ice hockey ately participate in the Closing Ceremonies. apply, except that first-year associates take Jobsled The Opening Ceremony Sprint the place of the puck. Six partners on each Associates in teams of two or four par­ Closing Ceremonies • Contestants to the Law Firm Games side knock the associate around the office ticipate in this event. The teams race to the Law Firm Olympians, proudly waving must arrive at the playing field by 9 a.m. or for eight 60 minute periods. Overtimes oc­ bottom of the partnership track. Not all their acceptance letters to government jobs, risk disqualification from the day's events. cur frequently, allowing for unlimited extra jobsled members remain in the sled to com­ graduate programs, or psychiatric wards, The Games administrative committee calls play, especially on weekends. When the plete the race. make one final lap around the Law Firm your attention to the Games Manual, which associate bounces out of bounds, a substi­ Each team consists of pushers and Village to say farewell to all the people who states, inter alia, "While lawyers do not tute is allowed, subject to the discretion of steerers, with steerers occupying the most made their Law Firm Games experience so have fixed office hours .. . you should ar­ the partners. prestigious position in the sled. At the begin­ memorable. Cheers may sound, tears may rive at the office no later than 9 a.m." ning of the Games, positions are based on fall, and beer will flow. Lunge grade point averages and law review experi­ Downhill Slide Much like the luge, its Winter Olympic ence. After several trial runs, however, team Contributor Mike Klein is currently par­ This event takes place immediately af­ counterpart, the lunge requires a single per­ officials will assign positions according to ticipating in the Law Firm Games between ter the Opening Ceremony Sprint. Partici- son to perform at high speeds, often on his or number of hours billed. viewings of the film "Wayne's World." Book Review o·rweu Biography Provides Fresh Look at Literary Master By Larry Friedman teen Eighty-Four came very late in his a time previous to the war he and his wife ran round out a biography that is a good deal Senior Editor career; befory that time he produced hun­ a small general store in a remote village. An more than just the facts and figures of a dreds of essays, many in the form of book essay on Dickens reveals Orwell's general recorded life. Orwell: The Authorized Biography reviews. Between 1933 and 1939, he wrote admiration of individualism; he equated George Orwell had a passion for new by Michael Shelden a book a year, with subjects ranging from Dickens' staying power with the author's experiences and strove to become involved 497 pp. New York: HarperCollins. $25. the fate of the inner-city homeless in Down ability to weave tales of the common man in the world around him at every opportu­ and Out in London and Paris to reflections which could touch any reader. In so doing, nity .NineteenEighty-Four, published a short , The successful literary biography not of the Spanish Civil War in Homage to Dickens made lives unheroic both memo­ time before his death, represented the culmi­ on,,ly reveals something of its subject's Catalonia. In addition, there were the nov­ rable and meaningful. nation of a career. The book embodied ideas private life, but also reflects on how that els, from Burmese Days, an indictment of Michael Shelden has also written developed through a lifetime's experience, private life influenced the author's work. It the .British Empire, to A Clergyman's Friends ofPromise: Cyril Connolly and the combined into a work of superior literary is all well and good to learn of a person's Daughter, Orwell' s attempt at Joycean fic­ World of "Horizon ". Connolly was a con­ and political worth, and of a quality so daily routines, the luncheons, assignations tion. temporary and friend of Orwell's; Shelden's enduring it has become part of the fabric of and preoccupations of everyday living; but The political voice developed naturally work is informed by a number of sources our everyday lives. And just as Orwell con­ of more interest is how these events illumi­ in his work as Orwell found himself writing who met Orwell only briefly or who worked nected the events of our lives with a degree nate the author's work. When the subject is more and more about his life experiences. with him for a short time. These observa­ of meaning, so Michael Shelden has made as complex as George Orwell, who was at After time spent among the balkanized left­ tions, along with many of the recollections some sense of the disparate elements of once writer, critic, and political activist, wing organizations during the Spanish Civil Orwell provided in his voluminous essays, George Orwell's life. there is an even greater need for the biog­ War, Orwell became a sharper critic of the rapher to draw connections between the left, yet remained committed to his own ·private and the public. particular brand of socialism. Later, he turned Orwell: The Authorized Biography his criticism more specifically toward the Postcard of the Week works because Michael Shelden does not · Soviet Union and Stalinism. In his essay avoid the seeming contradictions ofGeorge "Catastrophic Gradualism," Orwell warned Orwell's life, incorporating its many as­ of "the dangers of accepting either the aim­ pects with the many roles Orwell played. less leadership of 'practical men' or the Shelden builds a firm foundation of under­ dictatorial rule ofpower-hungry ideologues." standing by centering the book on Orwell (p. 401). No doubt, Orwell would not have the writer rather than Orwell the political been surprised to see the modem dissolution figure. Orwell thought of himself as first of the Soviet state. and foremost & writer; in his essay, "Why His view of socialism was marked by an I Write," he noted that "from a very early individualism that surfaces on virtually ev­ age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew ery page of Shelden's biography, and gives that when I grew up I should be a writer." Orwell its strength. Orwell loved the com­ The politics would come only after experi­ mon affairs of life. He attributed signifi­ ence, and even after Orwell brought poli­ cance to the independent experiences of tics into his work, he continued to write everyday living; from early age he set him­ novels such as Coming Up For Air, more self apart with his habits and preoccupa­ concerned with storytelling than commen­ tions, which included botany, gardening, tary. science experiments and an inordinate Orwell was extremely prolific, writ­ amount of reading. 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BAR REVIEW Toll-free: (800) 343-9188 Fehnrnrv 2R 19C:l2 • The AllerlPer • P;ipe 7 J , ~ ~ ■ JOBS, from p. 1 cause ofmy own solicitations and follow­ ups. On campus interviews were a joke Second Year Response: 91 Students (Approx. 30% of class) "I did not get my job through on­ this year." EMPLOYED: 62 (68% of 2Ls who responded) campus recruiting," wrote one 2L. The overwhelming majority of students Another 2Lcommented, "Career place­ chose to extend their job search to geographic Female: 29 Male: 33 Combined: 62 ment office had nothing to do with me locations outside of Boston. This was particu­ 7 Top 10% 9 Top 10% 16 Top 10% getting this job!" larly true ofthe second year class, with students 10 11-25% 11 11-25% 21 11-25% A 3L expressed even stronger frustra­ traveling as far as Puerto Rico, Denver, and tion, "Most of my interviews were be- San Francisco this summer. 9 26-50% 12 26-50% 21 26-50% 3 Lower 50% 1 Lower 50% -4 Lower 50% Third Year Response: 78 Students (Approx. 30% ·of class) 20 Journal 12 Journal 32 Journal EMPLOYED: 51 (65% of 3Ls who responded) -7 Generic -9 Generic -5 Third World -2 ucc Female: 20 Male: 31 Combined: 51 -3 Environmental -1 Environmental 6 Top 10% 6 Top 10% 12Top10% -3 ucc 8 11-25% 15 11-25% 23 11-25% -2 International 5 26-50% 7 26-50% 12 26-50% 9 No Journal 21 No Journal 30 No Journal 1 Lower 50% 3 Lower 50% 4 Lower 50% 25 Law Firm 29 Law Firm 54 Law Firm 12 Journal 15 Journal 27 Journal -15 Large -14 Large -6 Generic -5 Generic -9 Medium -9 Medium -4 ucc -4 ucc -1 Small -6 Small -1 International -3 Environmental -12 in Boston -13 in Boston -1 Environmental -2 International 4 Government 2 Government ' 6 Government -1 Third World 2 Public Interest 2 Public Interest 8 No Journal 16 No Journal 24 No Journal 14 Law Firm 24 Law Firm 38 Law Firm STILL LOOKING: 29 (32% of 2Ls who responded) -10 Large -14 Large Female: 15 Male: 14 Combined: 29 -4 Medium -9 Medium 0 Top 10 % 0 Top 10% 0 Top 10% -0 Small -1 Small 2 11-25% 3 11-25% 5 11-25% -8 in Boston -10 in Boston 9 26-50% 5 26-50% 14 26-50% 3 Clerkship 6 Clerkship 9 Clerkship 4 Lower 50% 6 Lower 50% 10 Lower 50% 3 Government 1 Government 4 Government 3 Journal 3 Journal 6 Journal -1 Environmental -3 Third World STILL LOOKING: 27 (35% of 3Ls who responded) -1 International Female: 16 . Male: 11 Combined: 27 -1 ucc 0Top10% 0 Top 10% 0Top10% 12 No Journal 11 No Journal 23 No Journal 6 11-25% 011-25% 6 11-25% 8 26-50% 6 26-50% 14 26-50% Celebrate Diversity Month at Boston College Law School 2 Lower50% 5 Lower50% 7 Lower50% - March 2nd-27th, 1992 - 2 Journal 5 Journal 7 Journal Campus student groups present a month of films, lectures, and discussions on diversity -1 Third World -2 International A few highlights • Patricia Ireland, National President of N.O.W. -1 International -2 ucc • Environmental Racism.Lecture Series • Haitian Ambassador to the U.S. -1 Third World • A.I.D.S.Panel • The"LongWalkHome",Film The final schedule will appear in the Counselor on March 2. 14 No J0urnal 6 No Journal 20 No Journal

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