Word: exam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THOUGH graduation is many months away, a select corps of college seniors has already completed its toughest course: three long, hard seasons on the gridiron. For most of the students, Jan. 28 will bring what amounts to the final exam. That is when the 26 teams that constitute the National Football League will meet to select their draft choices, and the pros are nothing if not thorough in casing the prospects. College records, glowing press clippings, gaudy trophies mean nothing in themselves. All that counts is a player's potential for prospering in the brutal world of pro football...
First, there was Ronald Hughes, 35, who had casually met Manson a year earlier. A onetime conservative turned hippie, Hughes had flunked the bar exam three times before passing, and had never tried a case. Manson took him on after he agreed to grow a beard. Now the amiable Hughes talks of quitting law and becoming a character actor. Manson brought in Irving Kanarek, 52, whom he regarded as the most obstructionist and time-consuming lawyer in Los Angeles, in hopes of badgering the judge into allowing him to defend himself. When the judge continued to refuse, Kanarek proceeded...
Another recommendation in the CUE report, which will be published in the CRIMSON next week, would change the fall exam period to before Christmas vacation and abolish the College wide reading periods and institute the January study program...
...ingenious youth aggravated a mild hernia by lifting 100-lb. sacks of sand prior to his exam. Doctors disagreed on the seriousness of his condition, but agreed that anyone so determined to avoid service would make a bad soldier and excused him for psychological reasons. Another failed color tests until he was awarded a 4-F classification, while a married registrant succeeded in convincing doctors that his wife would go crazy in his absence. The prize for determination goes to a six-footer who managed by careful dieting to keep his weight below the minimum for his full height until...
...Faculty Council decision allows students with religious conflicts in the January schedule to take the exam in mid-April while make-up exams for the final exam period are held the following October. Jewish leaders contend that the three to four month waiting period is unfair to Jewish students...