2 -- The Michigan Daily -- Monday, July 26, 1999 CLINTON It was also am Continued from Page 1 would commit to t dard, where those "I ask you to recommit yourselves ... to fighting discrimina- their time on free tion, to revitalizing our poorest communities and to giving peo- Additionally, t ple an opportunity to serve in law firms who would not other- will strengthen wise have it," Clinton said. dents with chan The call to action marks the 36th anniversary of the first pres- communities. idential gathering of the nation's top lawyers and legal scholars Clinton said du by President John F. Kennedy. disagreement" wit During his address, Clinton said the Department of Justice affirmative action and the White House would continue their support for greater After Clinton's diversity in the nation's law firms, bar associations and within spoke about the 1 the ranks of lawyers. and the College of Representatives from the American Bar Association and the The lawsuits, fli American Corporate Counsel Association said they would also based Center for It commit their organizations to generate greater diversity a factor in admissi FAIRS flflContinued from Page 1 P #,Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (MARRAL). Jennifer N oteboo ks, Anderson, co-president of the campus organization Students for Choice, said she was working at the booth to help spread information about pro-choice Intel Pentiuml- legislation. C366MHz Processor "Having a booth at the Art Fair is 12.1" SVGA Display good because of the sheer size of the 32M5 SDRAM crowd," she said. "Since Ann Arbor is a 4Up to H56Mr ) liberal ci we find good support for our 2xAGP ArI Rage Pro 30 causeAnderson added. 4MB SGRAM After the masses left the streets and (XV OMalabthe artists packed up their goods, the 35" 1.44MB FD cleanup began. 30 Surround Sound A local Boy Scout troop, consisting of MeNiMH atter ynineteen boys between the ages of 12 w itCD and nual and 17, got to work at 5:30 a.m. yester- Carrying Bag and day. They cleared discarded containers AC Adapter included from downtown streets and wheeled 1Labor Wa atad trash to dumpsters for the city to pickup. Beth Hospadaruck, a parent volunteer with the scouts, said there was a lot for nounced that the nation's leading law firms (Yj" he American Bar Association's pro bono stan- A t/i firms' lawyers will spend about 3 percent of work, with full pay. he American Association of Law Schoos service programs by providing law stu-faw Sc/oolgrads ces to volunteer their legal skills in their ring his address that he expressed "respectful TUsaid. th court decisions that have abolished certain S But Terry Pell, senior legal coun- programs. Continued from Page 1 sel for the Center for Individual speech, Lehman said he and the president the number of University law gradu- Rights, the Washington, D.C.-based awsuits facing the University's Law School ates who took government jobs law firm suing the University, said' f Literature, Science and the Arts. declined sharply, minority graduates one way, the study actually discred ed in October 1997 by the Washington, D.C.- were more likely to start out in a the Law School. ndividual Rights, challenges the use of race as position in the government. "I think in releasing this study, the yons. According to the stud,, salaries Law School shows that thev iust 1 t the troop to clear up. "Our troop has been involved in the Art Fair cleanup for the past three years, and this year there seemed to be more trash than usual," she said. An outside contractor, Captain Clean, organized the cleanup for the food ven- dors in the vicinity of the Michigan Union. Captain Clean President Wayne Clements said this area needed particu- larly thorough cleaning. Ronald Peatry, a collection supervisor with the city's Solid Waste Department, said the cleanup after the fairs is the biggest one the city faces each year, sur- passing even football Saturdays. Peatry said there was a variety of things the Solid Waste Department had to take care of. "Ourjob istoclear any boxes from the streets, service all the litter cans and pick up dumpsters throughout the city," Peatry said. "This year's cleanup has been much better than some of the past years, people have been right on top of things." differed on average in the 1980s for white and minority graduates, with minority graduates earning an aver- age of $104,500 per year while whites graduates earned a mean of $127,700 per year. don't get it," Pell said. Pell cited one of the study's find- ings that indicates although Law School Admission Test scores and undergraduate grade point averages may not indica te The authors "we are train!ng. of the survey reported that eople who are this disparityP can be tied to leaders in societv" the fact that white graduates .- Jeffrey Lehman took higher Law School dean paying posi- tions in law firms. CIR has stressed that1 But the differences between initial and undergraduate grad placement in firm and non-firm the determining factorsi positions began to change as most to the Law School, Lehi graduates of the 1990s reported to other factors in admissio have began their legal careers in pri- ing race, socio-econori vate law firms. and educational study Although the study provides inter- better mix of students. esting information about the demo- "When we speak o graphics of the Law School student class, we speak of div body and later success in the legal senses," Lehman said, field, University Deputy General diversity of the student1 Counsel Liz Barry said it is too soon educational experience f to tell whether the study will be used The Law School triali in the University's defense in the scheduled to begin at th upcoming trial facing the school. month in a federal cou "We certainly think that the study but Barry said she susp is a great affirmation of the success will be postponed unti of our admissions policies," Barry fall. " 1 '' % a % success after grad4 ation, they do "corre- late strong- lv with law s c h o o 1 grades." 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