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65 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1977)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec65 and id is 1 raw text is: HA R VA RDLWRCR VOL 65, NO. 1 America's Oldest Law School Newspaper 1 t977 BY ThE HARVMn LAW SOWIL KO COPOPATMO SEPTEMBER 23, 1977 TWENTY CENTS Enrollments Up Author Turow Chronicles By 22 Per Cent First-Year Life at ILS For 1L Women By Tammy Jacobs By Barbara Kritchevsky It's up to 27.4 per cent. There are 154 women in this year's entering Harvard Law School class of 561. The number of women enrolled is 16 higher than last year, and the percentage of women in the class has increased from last year's fig- ure of 25.2. This increase in the number of enrolled women occurred because more women admitted to Harvard have chosen to attend. 208 women were admitted both this year and last. More women applied to Har- vard this year, also. Although the number of total applicants decreased by 47, from 6,559 to 6,512, the number of women ap- plying increased from 1,774 to 1,842. The admissions officers appear pleased with these results. N. June Thompson, Assistant Director of Admissions, said the office is con- cerned primarily with getting more women to apply to Harvard. Once they apply, she said, one finds that the women are as qualified as the men, Their applications reflect as many well and poorly qualified candidates as one finds among the men, Patricia Lydon, Assistant Dean and Director of Admissions, said the admissions system is as sex- blind as possible. Thompson also emphasized that there was no spe- (Continued on Page 5) A strange thing has happened to Scott Turow's book. When people read it, he says, it becomes a chameleon. Within what Turow intended to be a fairly straightforward account of his first year at Harvard Law School, faculty members see criticisms of the faculty, and students see criticisms of the student body. Of course, One L has things to say - though not necessarily the things people read into it. The recently-published book is a narra- tive of actual events, using disguised composites of the professors and students that peopled Turow's first year. People in the community come to the book with such strong emotions, says Turow, now 28 and a 3L. But it's not a chameleon. Properly read, all of my conflicting, ambivalent feelings about Harvard Law School can be deduced. For the first 100 pages of the 300-page book, Turow says, I decided I wouldn't have anything to say. Further on, opinions and judgments creep in. And the last pages make some pretty blunt points about how Turow feels about legal education. There are the certainty rap and the brutality rap, Turow says, in a kind of verbal shorthand. The former is a criticism of enforced stratifica- (Continued on Page 4) Scott Turow, author of One L

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