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For more information, please contact [email protected]. .esta.e STUDENT NEWSPAPER oF THE UNIVERSITYOF MICHIGAN LAwScHOOL September 17, 2009 Vol. 60 No.1 Happy Accident or Vast Conspiracy? • • New ILs Have Some Unex ttes By Brett DeGroff Brendon Olson did some intrigu­ st.? , 8 2�09 ing thingsbefore coming to the Univer­ sity of MichiganLaw School thisyear. L\aAAR'{ 1heonly thingis, he can'ttell you about v..W most of them. For the past two years Olson worked for theNational Security Agen­ cyevaluating information gained from intercepting wire and radio signals. For five years before that he worked in Operations. "I can't talk much about that," Olson said. 1Ls -already hard at work! For more on Service Day, see page 4. Put Olson in a room with 370 randomly selected people and no Law School randomly. And the mem­ ability rights backgrounds," Zearfoss one would have a story to match the bers of this year's crop of lLs have said. "We also had more people iden­ stuff Olson can tell you. But of course done some pretty fascinating things. tifying themselvesas serious political Assistant Dean for Admission Sarah Among them are a political analyst conservativesthan we normally do. Zearfoss doesn't admit people to the for the Israeli embassy, a NotreDame tight end,four Peace Corps volunteers, "It's nice to get a critical mass On The Inside: and a woman who had never been in viewpoint. It changes the dialogue a ·• Letter fromEd.: 60 years?!, p. 2 a motorized vehicle until she got on a bit." a e plane seeking politicalasylum. ����oi�!��'lb. There were also a couple trends :: ����!. �!i 3 That Zearfoss assembled an in­ pretty obviously attributable to recent � Pride and tDLA) Piper, p. 5 • Save Yourself: Get OutNow, p. 6 teresting group of people is nothing economic difficulties, with a spike of • This is Water: Calm Down, p. 7 new. She seems to do that every year. applicationsfrom people withjournal­ • When YotiWere Cooler: But, she has noticed a couple inter­ ism and finance backgrounds. Rock BandEdition, p. 8 esting trends this time around that she doesn't see as attributable to any Seventy percent of this year's lLs • Best of LawOpen: An E&E, p. 9 • Betweenthe Briefs:Real Sex, unifying factor. took at least a year off after earning Posner-style,p. 11 their undergraduate degrees and 12 • p. 16 "We have several people withdis- Grade Curves, CONTINUED on Page 15 · eph 17, 2009 ��� -------------------- � �=2======�=.=·=· · =-=· ====�== s===�£s=f� �==·�== ===� � mh�er===��=� A Laurel, & HeartyHandshake �.es (lf).esta.e Hey yall, our 60 year history is merely a click �nl fill, �0- 1 �iflersitllof .,1H!{icJrigan�cJrool lllit£u away. We'll be working with thefab Goodness but we're old. 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