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41 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1965)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec41 and id is 1 raw text is: Negro Students' Summer Study A Success a,1 ACA MW W SChOl 9&W uM VOL. 41 NO. 1 FIFTEEN CENTS CAMBRIDGE. MASS. SEPT. 30, 1965 F Jorenberg to Crime Post On August 20, 1965, Professor James Vorenberg was named by President Johnson to serve as Executive Secretary of the Presi- dent's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, known un- officially as the national crime commission. Prof. Vorenberg now holds two high govern- (Continued on page 6) By John Spitzer If you were a Southern Negro, and you were brought up under a regime in which law often means oppression, would the legal profession be a likely career choice? Prob- ably not. It was this dilemma that led a group of Harvard law professors to organize a Spec- ial Summer Program to acquaint Southern Negro students with the study and practice of law. The program was financed by an $87,500 grant from the Rockefeller Founda- tion. Just all of a sudden we were discussing cases, stated Reginald Lewis, one of the 40 students from 27 colleges to attend the eight- week session, which began July 6. It was the probing nature of the questions that was exciting; the searching for answers that weren't readily there. Most often you'd come out with a response that would surprise even yourself. With only minor reservations, the profes- sors were as enthusiastic as their students. I was soon impressed with the immediacy of their interest and participation, stated Professor David R. Herwitz who, along with (Continued on page 4) Changes Decreed In Job-Hunt!'Rules By Paul M. Branzburg The annual stampede of lean and hungry third- and F 'T ... second-year students seeking jobs and summer clerk- ships has already broken loose at the Placement Office. All participants, however, will play the job-hunting game according to a new set of rules promulgated by Placement Director Eleanor R. Appel. There are two principal changes. One is that firms using the Placement Office facilities in the fall have agreed that job offers to third-year students will re- main open until at least December 1. Autumn offers of summer clerkships to second-year students will remain open until January 1. Students will still be free, of course, to accept or reject offers at anytime before the deadline set by the prospective employer. The other change is that only those firms who have conducted interviews at the Placement Office in the fall of both 1963 and 1964 will be invited to interview during the 1965 fall interviewing season - October 4 (Continued on following page) Placemont Director Appel

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