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Tuskegee Institute celebrated its 100th birthday this year. So did Spelman, a selective women's college in Atlanta that encourages black women to prepare for high-flying careers with demanding majors in premed, pre-law and computer sciences. Both schools are now getting second-and third-generation students. Partly because the older private schools were the only places where students could get an advanced education, such colleges produced most of the black leaders in America. Martin Luther King graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, as did Georgia State Senator Julian Bond. Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and Novelist Toni...
...Carol Alt, 20, is the youngest model to tie down an exclusive cosmetics contract. Hers is with Lancôme, and she signed it after dropping out of Hofstra University, where she had been a straight A pre-law student. Modeling, she says, "can be a head trip, and you can get carried away. You have to be a businesswoman." She talks sometimes of returning to college to get a business degree. "I'm interested in the way that money works...
...recently published report, the committee recommended that law schools set up some pre-law requirements in an attempt to remedy current deficiencies in the undergraduate training of law students...
...Association of American Law Schools currently adheres to a position, adopted in 1953, that states that the prescription of particular pre-law courses would be "unwise...
Talking to people is what got Rotenberg her position as college coordinator--and responsibility for 54 Commonwealth campuses. She was discovered at the start of the fall term in the crowd of pre-law and pre-political students who flocked to Government 154, "The American Presidency." A Carter campaigner who remembered her as an intern in the Vice President's office two years ago asked Rotenberg is she wanted to take charge of the President's effort at Harvard. At first she was uncertain, but when Rotenberg arrived at Carter headquarters in Boston, she ran into another co-worker, this...