THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF LAW
VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2
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OCTOBER 22, 2002
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Majority of suspended students return to faculty Several receive on-campus interviews BY COLIN GREY
said he· knew of six students. one of whom is still suspended, who had been given onJ\t least six of the students who returned to campus interviews by firms. The intcn'lews the law school this year aftt>r being suspend- took plact· Octobt•r 10 and 11 at the Metro ed fi1r lying about their graJcs n:cei\cd on- Toronto Convention Centre. l.nw firms call campus inrcrviews two wccb ago, one of student<; to invite them for second round those stuut•nts said in an inrervtew. inter\'iews on ( >crobcr 25, so no one knows "\VImt I \\.~\s so surprised at was that if any of the ~tudcnts intcrvinved will actuthere seemed to be lJUitc a few firms that ally get job offer~. were willing to do that," said the student, The studc:nt said he was not asked direct\!.ho ~poke on condition that his name not ly about his mvolvemcnt 1n the lying scandal be used. "I had three, and that seemed tO be by intervtewers. But if he is asked to come about tht• average numbcr that people got." to a second-round intCrvic\1.; he expects the "1 certainly know that there's a wide vari- subjeCt to come up. ety of responses that different ftrms \!.ill "I think they would want to hear m y have to the situation So I'm not surprised explanation for the situation," he 5atd. ":'\ly that out of 30 firms or however many par- position is there wert• a lot of rhmgs that ticipated in the [on-campus interview] went into creating the problem. But at the process that there might have been some end of the day it was my dccis10n to submit that were at least willing to hear us and give a mark that wa:-; inaccurate, and l take full us an opportunity to say how it happened respon!'.ibihty for that, anu 1 have borne the anc..l g\vc our st<\t• n£ the ~tory hcf•>re th<.;o
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BY ROBIN RIX Dean Ron Daniels presented a draft docu .. ment outlimng the administration's 17 priorities ar a Faculty Counc1l meeting on ~eptcmher
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'lbt· document was discussed bnefly, and will be dcbatnl more fully at Faculty Cmmcil's next meeting on ~ovember 27. A meeting on October 30 was cancelled on Octobt•r 4 <ming to a "lack of business," according to the dean's assistant, Pat~)' Chard. !\!any of the pnonocs arise from last year's prou·ss to draft the l:lw school's fiveyear plan. Some of the priorities that rccciYc particular attention tnclude:
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Accessibility- Daniels has retained Stephen Brown, the financial aid directo: of I ·ordham University's law ~chool, to rc\'ICW and to 6uggest imprmemcnts to the law school's financial aid system. A new c<)m· mince on acccssibility - whtch, the document note~. rcmains \!.ithout a chair - will address tht• rdationship between fmancial aid and acccssibtlity, and will contribute to the report being undertaken by the Provost's Office to assess whethcr law 5chool tuition should continue ro rise by $2,000 each ) car. Building Projects- Items includ~ a major addinon to l'lavelle House, poss1ble
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2001, \!.hen it c;mJc ro /rghr rhar $Cvcral firsryear studen t~ h;td suhmtttcd falsrfied grades to law ftrms and other potential employers when apply1ng for summer jobs. Thirtv-four students were ininall~· implicated in. the scandal, out of about who apphcd fo r summer jobs. The law school ultimately suspended 17 of these students for one yt~r. a University of Toronto spokeswoman said at the time. Five other students recci\·ed lesser sancnons, ranging from a reprimand to a notation on their academic record and tramcript. Three student~ were referred to the Univer~ity of Toronto provost on more serious charges, and were l:tter given suspensions mn_1,rtng from one to five years. The suspended students \!.111 also have a notation on thctr academic tr:tnscript for three months ;tfter gr:tduarion, the U of T spoh'Swoman said. lkcause of the nota· cion, law firms and other potcntial employers can still identify the students involved. This year, a "maJority" of the suspended studwts rcturnt·d ro the law school. As.,istant Dean Lots Chiang said last week. Hut it remains unccn:un what their future will be instde the It-gal profcssum-whether they \\111 be able to get summer jobs or articling posuions, or even be admitted to the bar. The Mudcnt who spoke to Citra Vires
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rhar ask me about it," he ~:ud. Assistant Dean of Career Services Bonnie Goldbt.'fg said that she was nor surpri~cd some of the formerly suspended students got tnterv1ews. "':lome of the studenb applied and some of the ~tudents who applied gor. some interviews," .Assistant DL"an of Career Services Bonnie Goldberg satd. "I think every ftrm IS lookmg at this in a very uniyue manner." "I think that these arc students who have reintegratt·d mto the faculty. They ha\·c concluded the pt·nahy ass1gned to them . The law school has st·en fir to hring them back into the community,'' sht· said. "How an employcr responds to that message would be a ch01ce for the cmplo)er to make."
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