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4 GAMEGOCK Monday, Feb. 28, 1977 University of South Carolina, Columbia S.C. Vol. LXVHI, No. 33 J ^?-r-n ?Ti-TTTimr??TiTriTnrnirirwrrnrT?wCTTrrrrTw?iiwTwr?-w?wwrmtwwrtnTir?rrrarrwrTrTBM-BTmwMr^?i - * MCjM ^S^HHH|HH|HH|8Bra t. T _ i^aw gradui false ' v 4 '' t - Si:- . ? . Wig \4^rnm ^ P II hS School .i _1 tie usea records o ffet in JD t 4 f t r v . "x' < , - By KAREN LEE Gamecock Staff Writer An admissions hoax at I] has caused officials to re policies for possible alters Haynesworth, law school d A YOUNG WOMAN graduated from law school assumed name. The worn herself Gabrielle Ann Scott 1 from USC's law school in sworn into the State Bar < 1975. 1 !ii 1 i ne woman was aamiuea the strength of transcript College in Poughkeepsie, claimed to have graduatec High School in Beaufort, S The Bassar transcripts, 1 to a woman in New York Ci Blanchard (the former Ann not to the woman who used tl high school said it has neve the name of Elliot attendir TO HIT eWARN in ac a a v V7?? ^ 111 uo u South Carolina, a person mi 3Bv? m 4 ?|R IB i|ja ':' ^JjjpBLH 'I i4 n2?fl W^B?x^W^Sh:4M .in |" I. im'f I'? |gg|g^ i war CAdii backgroui fSC's law school forcemenf view admission taking th itions, Harry J. graduated ean, said. USC's lav* It is not enrolled and attended I here under an dergraduf an, whp called The wo Elliot, graduated Washingtc i 1975, and was to May, 19 an December 1, law and i university to law school on was not a Is from Vassar The US< N. Y. She also woman a 1 from Beaufort General's . C. professor however, belong whose idei ty, Mrs. Alan F. reviewed Scott Elliot) and noticed th hem at USC. The born in It r had anyone by then she w ig there. when she The profe bar member in asked vei lot nana tKn ointn VflCCAP IOI uiV/ oiaiv - * ? ? ? V w i i i 'iiiiiiriifiirufll IHmtratton ky Mark Atoxantfor-THB GAMECOCK lination and undergo a routine id check by the State Law En; Division. The prerequisite for e bar examination is to have I from an accredited law school. r school was accredited in known if the woman Artu?11v wAr either high school or unite school anywhere, man attended the University of >n in Seattle from September, 1975 76, working on a masters degree in marine affairs. Officials at the I of Washington said the degree warded. C hoax was discovered when the ipplied at the S. C. Attorney office and listed a USC law school as a reference. The professor, itity is not known, then reportedly the woman student's records and at if the woman had indeed been >45 as was listed on her records, ould have been 18- or 19-years-old graduated from Vassar in 1964. ssor was suspicious of this, and rification of the records from See LAW SCHOOL, page 3