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SCHOOL OF LAW
The University of Miami School of Law,
along with 19 other law schools around
the country, is under scrutiny for inflated
job placement and salary statistics shared with
incoming students.
A New York attorney, David Anziska,
is heading the initiative to sue the 20 schools,
arguing that law schools have misled prospec-tive
students, The Miami Herald reported.
The UM School of Law chose not to comment
on the matter.
Law schools’ posted graduate job place-ment
rates include not only part-time and tem-porary
work, but also work unrelated to a law
license, Anziska told The Miami Herald. For
law school graduates who rack up hundreds of
thousands in debt and remain unemployed,
this misrepresentative data can be an issue.
UM’s website advertises that 83.5 per-cent
of all 2010 graduates are employed, but
17.1 percent of these employed graduates hold
short-term positions.
Marla Neufeld graduated from the UM
School of Law in 2007 and has been with the
same law firm ever since. She was able to find
a job through family connections in the legal
community, but not all of her classmates were
as fortunate.
“I still have friends looking for jobs that
have availability to keep them,” Neufeld said.
“You’d think being a lawyer, you’d have some
security, but it doesn’t feel that way at all.”
Attorney claims inflated
job numbers are deceitful
BY LYSSA GOLDBERG
ASSISTANT EDITOR
UM among 20
schools under fire
for misleading stats
HANDS UP: Throngs of people dance as confetti swirls around them during DJ Steve Aoki's set at Ultra Music
Festival on Sunday.􀀗􁝔The Miami Hurricane scored an exclusive interview with Aoki before his performance.
Read that story and a Q&A with WVUM’s Laura of Miami, and check out photos from Ultra on pages 7-8.
MUSIC FESTIVAL
MARLENA SKROBE // Photo Editor
SOCIAL MEDIA
Kony 2012 explodes in popularity
Over three weeks, Invisible Chil-dren’s
“Kony 2012” video has
gotten more than 85 million
views and sparked massive discussions
across all social media platforms.
Invisible Children, an organiza-tion
dedicated to bringing Ugandan
warlord Joseph Kony to justice, post-ed
the 30-minute video on March 5.
“Kony 2012” offers a simple break-down
of Kony, his Lord’s Resistance
Army (LRA) and the more than 30,000
children who have been abducted and
forced to serve as child soldiers.
#STOPKONY was consistently
in the top five Twitter trending topics
during the first week the video was on-line.
Invisible Children also reached 3
million Facebook “likes” and 415,834
followers on Twitter.
The Kony 2012 campaign ad-vocates
a two-step process that asks
young adults to spread the word, first
to celebrities, or “culturemakers,” and
then to politicians, the “policymakers.”
“I think it’s incredible how the
younger, more technologically-savvy
generation is able to create movements
so quickly using tools like social net-working,”
sophomore Gabrielle Ro-land
said.
A screening of the video will be
held on Tuesday at 5 p.m. in UC Ball-room
B, followed by a discussion.
The campaign will culminate in
a national Cover the Night event on
April 20. On that night, supporters will
be encouraged to plaster their respec-tive
cities with posters of Kony and
Invisible Children. Cover the Night
events have been planned in Coral Ga-bles
and the surrounding Miami area.
Ultra brings color, chaos, crowds
SEE STATS, PAGE 4
SEE KONY, PAGE 3
UM Invisible Children club to hold screening of powerful video
BY DANIEL CEPERO
MULTIMEDIA EDITOR
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