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Ramona, CA (San Diego Co.) Ramona Sentinel (W. S,307)

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t ,, 1888 Bar exam tough /Cf.3 • • • Or\ 1 m I nor1t1es SAN FRANtr:1c;co (AP) - Scores on Those repeating the exam after failing last July's California bar exam dropped It in the past had a pass rate of lU for every category of students, but the percent, down from 23 percent In July decline wa especially severe for mtn- 1983 ont1es, according to new figures from the The bar has offered no explanallon for bar. the drop in scores but has denied that the ,lust 11 I percent of the blacks who took test or the grading were more difficult the exam passed, compared to 48.3 per- than in previous years. Bar statisticians ent of the whiles, the report said. The are working on an analysis pa. sage rate wa, 18.1 percent for His- The report also said the pass rate for panics and 30 percent for Asians. women was 1.3 percent higher than for All ethmc iroups declined from the July men, compared to a 5.9 percent gap In the 1983 exam, when the pass rate was 55.1 previous year. However, among first-time percent for white,, 15.8 percent for blacks, test-talters, men had a 2.1 percent higher 24 8 percent for Hispanics and 39.7 percent pass rate than women. for A 1ans. But proportionately, the pass Among ma;or Cahfomla law schools, rate dropped by about one-fourth for min- the best passage rate belonged to the ortties and onHlghth for whites. University of California. a~ Berkeley, at Overall, out ol 7,352 students who took 76 I percent, followed liy UC Davis at 74.4 thl' thrce-

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i:.u 1888 /Harp society chapter to benefit from recital sent a solo harp Sunday, Jan. 20, in Camino Theatre on theU~f San Diego campus. Ticketswilrbe available at the door for the concert sponsored by the USO Department of Fine Arts. Ticket prices are $6 general admis- sion, $4.50 students and seniors, and $3 for children under 12. The program will include Darius Milhaud's Sonata for Harp, Op. 437. Adams, currently the principal harpist in the San Francisco opera and faculty member of Mills Col- lege, was a protegee of Marcel Grandjany al the Julliard School of Music. She attended the Univer- sity of California at Los Angeles, New York University, and the Universily of California at Berkeley. The concert will benefit the San Diego Chapter of the American/ Harp Society. ./ Harpisl Anne Ad~~ pre- p.m.

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La Jollan Steven .M. Grady has been appointed general legal counsel for Income Propeny Group , six operating companies involved in real estate matters. Befo re joining IPG, Grady practiced law in La Jolla and ~ onh County. He is a real estate broker and lectures at the Univer- ~ity of San He holds-; mas ter of business administra- tion, a j uris doctorate from the University o f San Diego and a bachelo r's degree in urban plann- ing from UC San Diego.

- Harvard, 83 percent, and the University of Michigan, 78.4 percent. Several private law schools were par• ticularly hard-hit. notably the University of Santa (;_Iara, dropping frome7 .2percent lo 46.6 percent; the University of Pacific's McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, from 69 to~ percent, and the Uni','erslty of Sa~~':go, from 62.9 to 47.1 perc:eiil.

The decline was even worse for the toir ranking group of students, who were lak• mg the exam for the first time after gr.iduating Crom major law schools, ac- credited by both the state and the Amen- can Bar Association. Their p;Jss rate was 59.9 percent, tlown from 70 percent a year earlier.

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Inland MEMORIAL CO~ ERT/ A memorial concert will be held Saturday night to ra1 ·e money for a music scholarship fund in memory of murder victim Anne Swanke of San Carlos. The concert starts at 8 p.m at Our Lady of Grace Cathohc Church Hall at 2766 Navajo Road in El Cajon. according to Bill Butler Butler has a radio program featunng Irish music and ballads. Swanke, 22. was an honors ·student m music and French at theYniversity of San Diego She was kidnapped and slain Nov. 20 Chns Vilas, a Southern California fiddle champion who specializes m bluegrass music, will be one of the performers. Debra Lee Moody, a pop, ballads and country western singer, also 1s on the program. Tickets are $5 at the door or the church rectory. The Swanke family is part of the congregation Butler said the money from the concert will be added to the scholarship fund started by the university on behalf of the slain student. A_

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falison Bailey was recently named vice president of Zeta Tau Alpha. She is a junior a t the Uolverslty of Sa~ajorlng 1n biology. A 1982 graduate of Escorufiifo High School, she Is the daughter ~f St~ and Betty Bailey of Escondido. ).!!ft>/

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