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While many University of Arkansas graduates are looking forward to a few weeks of post-exam rest, Judy King, 21, has already plunged into her next big project: her June 25 wedding to fellow student Kent Hirsch. The two met while taking a freshman placement exam at Methodist Hendrix College, which King attended for two years while completing the prerequisites for the University of Arkansas School of Dental Hygiene. After the wedding, King will work for a group of four dentists in order to help her husband through law school. "You have to devote full time to law school...
...lawyerly jokes. These range from imitations of professors (if they're all as good as the one of Roberto Unger, the only professor whose lecture style undergraduates are likely to recognize, they're very funny--but if you've never taken the courses, who knows?) to jokes about job placement interviews (the recruiter tells an insect-costumed student, "The last WASP we had working for us went to Raid. Isn't that funny, a WASP working for a Raid company?"). All of the jokes rely on knowing the institution thoroughly...
Meanwhile, job prospects for students fresh out of college are perkier than they have been in years. The College Placement Council reports rises of 47% in job offers for B.A. graduates, 74% for M.A.s, 75% for Ph.D.s. Employment for youth, it seems, is all too literally a matter of degree...
...student governing body at the Law School released a long awaited report last week criticizing the school's administration for insensitivity in dealing with the student complaints about job placement procedures and problems of student faculty communication...
Harvard does not begin its on-campus job interviews--the source of the council's survey--until February, five months after many other surveyed colleges, Jean Kessler of the College Placement Council said yesterday...