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...secret ballot a constitutional myth? A University of Michigan pre-law student, Susan R. Van Hattum, 21 , has put the issue to a test by refusing a judge's order to identify the candidate for whom she voted in last April's mayoral election in Ann Arbor. Van Hattum was among 20 men and wom en who, unknown to them, lived just outside city limits and should not have voted at all. Any one of those 20 votes could have proved decisive, since Democrat James Wheeler defeated Republican Louis Belcher by a margin...
...most people, there are two real theories of course-choosing. You can go with the liberal-arts look, in which case you try to sample every discipline under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Or you can take a pre-professional route, finding all the courses in various departments that seem likely to give background for a needed career. Pre-law types, for instance, can take courses like "The American Lawyer" (History 1682), "Law and the Social Order" (Soc Sci 158), or "Thinking Like a Lawyer," (Dudley 108). Sounds like...
...Yard. In the interest of more normalized relations between the sexes, the Class of '81 boasts the best male-female ratio in the history of the University: 1.87-to-1. Finally, 80 per cent of this year's crop of future leaders have already declared themselves either pre-law or pre-med, according to the Freshman Dean's Office, a statistic that boggles the minds of those who believe in free will...
Interest in law school peaked in 1973-74, Joel S. Russell '71, pre-law adviser at OCS-OCL, said yesterday. The following year applications fell by more than 1000, and while 1975-76 total applications registered an increase, the trend downwards is reasserting itself, he said...
...Harvard, to maintain an "unfair" distinctiveness in the Quad Houses. And even if Aldrich's party of fairness existed, its members would not necessarily find themselves opposed to the careerists. There is no reason a pre-med would be any more likely to favor master's choice than a non-careerist VES major; conversely, a fairist could as easily be an egalitarian pre-law student as some one with no plans past tomorrow...