Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Law School officials this week announced they will limit the number of students allowed to take their third years at other law schools in order to be closer to family members and close friends...
Mary D. Upton, assistant dean of the Law School, said yesterday the Law School Admissions Committee (LSAC) decided to allow only ten third-year students per year to participate in the school's "hardship" program because of the steadily increasing number of students requesting third-year transfers...
LSAC decided to limit the number of third-year "hardship" transfers because "We don't want to give the message that Law Schoob is a two-year experience with a third year elsewhere," Upton said, adding, "Law school is a three-year experience...
...Several Law School students said yesterday they believe the limit is very arbitrary. "A lot of people want to go for valid reasons, and they admit that the reasons are valid," one student said, adding, "They ought to take each case on its merit...
...theory circulating in Washington goes like this: after the disaster in Vietnam, the U.S. grew so timid about flexing its muscles in the Third World that it lost the will and ability to defend "legitimate interests" there. As a result, when the Tehran mob broke traditional standards of international law and took the embassy occupants hostage, America felt powerless to respond. To avoid such embarassing nuisances in the future, the Pentagon's friends in Congress argue, the U.S. must develop a "quick-strike force" able to dump a motorized division anywhere in the Third World within 60 days. Congress approved...