Monday, April 2, 2001
Santa Clara U. ends Greek system
Administrators at California’s Santa Clara University have decided to end its fraternity and sorority system. The decision follows a five-month study of the Greek system by a committee that had recommended better financing for the system and greater university engagement with it. But Santa Clara’s president rejected that advice in favor of initiatives aimed at serving all students.
The university, which is not allowing the fraternities and sororities to recruit new members, will phase out financing of the groups by June 2003.

More women entering law school
For the first time in the United States, more women than men are expected to enter law school this fall, according to the American Bar Association. As of March 16, 33,884 women had applied to enter law school this fall, compared with 33,355 men.
But the increase in female law students does not mean that schools will significantly alter the way they teach. According to the dean of Yale University’s School of Law, that change occurred years ago when law schools stopped practicing the Socratic method, where professors “ruthlessly interrogated students and reduced them to tears.”

--Juliett Dinkins
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