The Vernonia School District v. Acton Supreme Court decision in 1995, forever changed the landscape of the legality of drug testing in schools. This decision stated that students who were involved in athletic programs could be drug tested as long as the student's privacy was not invaded. According to some in the medical profession, there are two…

Reports survey data on the relationship of personal characteristics to occupational success and the perceived importance of college course experiences to job performance. Concludes that practical judgment is the most important factor and informal activity experiences facilitate the development of interpersonal competence. (CC)

A personal account by the music and drama teacher of the conflict surrounding a student production of Fiddler on the Roof" in a Brooklyn junior high school. (MC)

Surveyed college chief fiscal officers (N=115) to study the state of student/college legal relationships. Results indicated student activity fees are mandatory in over 85 percent of responding institutions and are usually established without student participation. Several court cases concerning the legal aspects of student activity fees are…

Four areas of recent criticism in legal education, in which changes have been occurring, are discussed: development of skills for legal practice, ethics and professional responsibility, declines in student performance after the first year, and anti-intellectualism. (MSE)

Novels about female students in the early years of British university education for women provide insight into established attitudes about the status and expectations of women just before and during the campaign for women's suffrage. They also illustrate how much, and how little, society has changed. (MSE)

Reports on the progress of speech communication education in community colleges since the 1975 Association for Communication Administrators' Denver conference. (PD)

Despite limited monetary resources, a small New York City vocational and technical high school has concentrated efforts to expand its physical education program in three areas: facilities, curriculum, and extracurricular activities. (JN)

New approaches to investigate the contribution of extracurricular collegiate life to the moral development of students are described. Living environment is found to have the most impact, according to student perceptions. (MSE)

Results indicate student involvement scales manifest levels of reliability which are adequate for studying group differences, such as dropouts and persistors. Scales tend to be positively related to student satisfaction in conceptually similar areas. (Author)

Suggests eleven steps for the adviser of a student business organization in developing a program of work so that students (1) learn the management-by-objectives approach to planning and evaluating, (2) are involved in committees, (3) use principles of delegation, (4) base the budget on the planned activities, and (5) record chapter activities. (MF)

Suggests that private day schools cannot imitate boarding schools in offering a full "menu" of academics, athletics, and the arts to each student. Both student interests and parental finances would be better served if these three components were separated into optional tracks, each with its own tuition cost. (SJL)

Describes a project undertaken during fall semester, 1976, with secondary-science student teachers at the University of Texas at Austin. The project was designed to help student teachers identify science attitudes and successfully involving them in classroom activities. (HM)

What should a student activities program be? What should it provide? Who should be responsible for its organization and smooth operation? Answers these questions in a discussion of this important part of every school's total program. (Editor/RK)