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DON'T GUT THE FOURTH AHEll\TD. Says Xamisar On-The Defensive Many members of the legal profession Wilkey of the U.S . Court of Appeals for mos t notably Chief Justice Warren the D.C. Dircuit, a critic of the Burger, have urged abandonment of the exclusionary rule. Wilkey is also a so-called "exclusionary rule" which former U.S. Attorney and former prohibits the government from using Assistant Attorney General. The final illegally seized evidence in criminal installments of the articles appear in trials. the current issue of Judicature (FEB'79) . Among other claims, critics of the The exclusionary rule, which was rule say the measure has handcuffed adopted by the federal courts in 1914 the police in dealing with increas and imposed on the states as a result ing incidence of street crime, includ of Mapp v. Ohio (1961), bars the use in ing assault and robberies with crimianl prosecutions of evidence gained deadly weapons, and makes gun control in violation of the Fourth Amendment regulat~ ons almost impossible to protection against unreasonable Bearch · enforce. and seizure. But Professor Yale Kamisar, a Kamisar says his defense of the rule staunch defender of the exclusionary is directed at both Judge Wilkey and rule, says the measure should be Chief Justice Burger, whom he calls maintained as a means of preventing "Wilkey's ideological ally." Editors "the government from profiting from of Judicature say the Kamisar-Wilkey its own misconduct." debate has generated more mail than Kamisar also maintains that the anything published in the magazine's alleged connection between the rule 62-year history. and higher crime rates is not borne The following is a point-by-point out by s tatistics in several states summary of some of Judge Wilkey's showing crime levels before and after criticisms of the rule and Professor exclusionary rules were put into Kamisar's defenses: effect . . --Wilkey: "We can see the huge social "Though critics of the exclusionary cost (of the exclusionary rule) most rule sometimes sound as though it clearly in the distressing rate of onstitutes the main loophole in the street crimes--assaults and robberies administration of justice, the fact with deadly weapons, narcotics traf ~ s that it is only a minor escape ficking, gambling and prostitution ... oute in a system that filters out To this high price we can rightfully ar more offenders through police, add specific, pernicious police conduct 'r osecutorial, and judicial discre- (such as police perjury, harassment and Li on than it tries, convicts and corruption) and lack of discipline- .' entences," says Karnisar . the very opposite of the objectives of Views of the Law School professor the rule itself." are set forth in a series of articles --Kamisar: Judge Wilkey "has presented i n Judicature, a national legal no statistical support for his asser t agazine. A series of three articles tion that there is a causal link between by Kamisar is contrasted with pieces the high crime rate in America and the Written by Judge Malcolm Richard exclusionary rule, and no such empirical (Continued on Page 2) KAMISAR DEFENDS RETENTION OF THE EXCLUSIONARY RULE AGAINST VICIOUS ASSAULT Continued from Page 1) evidence exists. In the decade certainly provide a far more effective immediately preceding Mapp (1950-60) , deterrent than . .. the exclusionary rule." crime rose much faster-in may states, --Kamisar: If such an alternative which admitted illegally seized were to constitute an effective deter evidence than in the District of rent, "the weapon still would not be Columbia, whose law enforcement brought i n as evidence in the case ... officers were subject to the exclu because the officer would not make the sionary rule ... Although Michigan had sear ch or frisk if he lacked the an 'anti-exclusionary rule' proviso requisite cause to do so." in its state constitution from --Wilkey : "The greatest obstacle to 1961-70 which permitted its police replacing the exclusionary rule with a to search for and seize forearms of rational process" is "the powerful, all types without 'probable sause' unthinking (!) emotional attachment" or any cause, the number of unregis to the rule by some lawyers and judges tered handguns increased dramatically, "heavily imbued with a mystique of the firearms robberies doubled and homi exclusionary rule as of almost divine cides committed with firearms in origin." creased fourfold." (Michigan's --Kamisar: "This cannot explain anti-exclusionary rule proviso was support for the rule by such battle struck down in 1970 as violating the scarred veterans as Roger Traynor federal constitution.) (Chief Justice of the California Supreme --Wilkey: "Compare the results in Court in the 1950's and 60's and other countries--in England neither generally regarded as the greatest the police nor the criminals carry state judge of his time) and former guns. ~fuy? The criminals know that Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren if a weapon is found they will be and Justice Tom Clark. Warren spent prosecuted. ~fuenever a man is caught more years as a state prosecutor than with a gun or narcotics in his any other person who has ever sat on possession in England or Canada, the U.S. Supreme Court and during the conviction is virtually automatic- entire 24 years Warren spent in state there is no denying the fact of law enforcement work, his state (Cal possession, there is not exclusion ifornia) admitted illegally seized of the evidence, no matter how evidence. Indeed, Warren was the obtained."(!!!!) California attorney general who suc - - Kamisar: "Judge Wilkey's attack cessfully urged Traynor and his on the exclusionary rule is really an brethren to admit illegally seized attack on the Fourth Amendment itself. evidence in 1942. Years later, however, It is the constitutional guarantee both Traynor and Warren became convinced itself (against unreasonable searches of the need for the exclusionary rule;" and seizures)--not the exclusionary --Wilkey: The 1961 Mapp decision rule--which imposes limits on police "removed frotn the states both the in operations . If the ban against centive and the opportunity to deal unreasonable search and seizure were with illegal search and seizure by obeyed as it should be, there would means other than suppression (of the be no illegally seized evidence to be illegally seized evidence." Abolition excluded . Thus, abolishing the rule of the rule would "permit in the would not confer a right on our police laboratories of our 51 jurisdictions to search 'on the slightest suspicion, the experimentation with the various it would not affect lawful police possible alternatives promising far practices in any way . Only a change more than the now-discredited exclu in the substantive law on search and sionary rule." seizure can do that." - -Kamisar: "For may decades a --Wilkey: The exclusionary rule majority of the states had no exclu should be replaced with "disciplinary sionary rule but none of them developed punishment and civil penalties direct any meaningful alternatives. Between ly against the erring officer in the time the Supreme Court adopted an volved"--an alternative which "would exclusionary rule for federal prose- 2 (Concluded on Page 6) by Nat Colley This past weekend the Black law But the most interesting question students hosted the Midwest Regional about Black leadership in the 1980's convention of BALSA. The topic of is not what or how, but who? Who will the convention was "Black Leadership be the Black leaders of the 1980's, in the 1980's." Thus, it seems a and how will they be determined? good time to consider Black leader Traditionally, Black leaders have ship. been preachers and/or heads of major The issues confronting Blacks in organizations. Today, elected politi the 1980's are manifold. But several cians can be included. (This has meant of them are variations on the same incidentally, an increasing number of theme, of which Bakke was only the lawyers. Whether this is good, bad or forerunner. This is the issue of indifferent remains to be seen.) , legal equality of the races, for which Personally, I don't expect a tremendous we and our ancestors fought so bitter amount of Black leadership from elected ly. Now that Blacks are equal under officials acting otherwise than through the law, isn't affirmative action the congressional Black Caucus. This "reverse" discrimination? Why should is so because the more power a poli we tolerate the continued existence tician has, the more he or she must of all-Black colleges? Indeed, is respond to a variety of interests, and a Miss Black America contest legal? cannot be seen to be bending over back In short , is the cost of integration wards for one over others. This is the loss of Black identity? Black not to say that there is any necessary leaders are going to have to deal conflict between black interests and, with such issues in the 1980's, along say, what's good for the country, but with unemployment and all the other you never know how people will perceive more traditional issues. things. On the other hand, no one There are assumptions implicit in would expect a black politician to turn these questions which will have to a deaf ear to black demands just be be closely examined. Are we really cause he/she also has a white consti equal under the law? If we are, are tuency. But the very nature of a we treated equally in fact? If the government official and a special discrimination against Black people interest advocate are in conflict, and continues to abound how do we go we should recognize that. about proving that the techniques for As for the heads of major organizations such discrimination have become much a different problem is presented. A more sophisticated? What is the perfect example is Vernon Jordan. I justification for Black, in addition think it fair to say that he is one of to "general", institutions? It is an the most influential, if not the most, established fact that non-Black Black leader, with Jimmy Carter. But applications to traditionally all does that mean he is the most influen Black professional schools had been tial Black leader among Blacks? If he ' and is skyrocketing. is now, he sure didn't used to be. It Another question surrounds the issue is the classic "chicken and egg" problem. of the obligation of Blacks who've Which came first? This particular "made it" to do something for those example is not a dangerous one, but I who haven't. Apathy is a problem in think it shos that a black leader could all groups, and Blacks are no excep well be created for us. This, rather tion . The concern for "self" perme than a problem for Black leaders, is a ates the Black psyche as much as it problem for the Black masses. They does the general population. Many must be sufficiently aware of the issues Blacks bemoan this phenomenon, saying, themselves to be able to discern which among other things, that is is con spokesperson is takeing them to higher trary to the spirit of the civil ground, and which is taking them out of rights struggle. But perhaps the Hamlin and into the river. Right now civil rights struggle, in the words that may not be a problem, but if the of Sol Alinsky, was "for the right . of Blacks to be as decadent as whites."i (Continued on Page 9) ~ - - · ------• • ~-•~ _ _, _ , ._. ..- ...... ~---._._..._ _.._,. _ _ .._...... A...; ... o..-
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Casenote : 1 . Freedom of thought tri Both sides demur to the facts, leaving umphs over mindless suppression. only a single question at i ssue--are we in such need of such censorship? Cliche Legal Principle: 1 . A naughty remark law must b ow in light of serious thought does not a pervert make. The Res Gestae may ~;v- eed out smut \.vhere LASSITER, C., writing for the majority, ever found for public consideration, if not consumption. Call it the principle I. for the unprincipled. To the "offended", "confused" and " demoralized" students of a " demeaned II. Law School : " one need not be a Commentator William F . Buckley, Jr. staunch male chauvinist p i g to ap comments : "Before you begin changing preciate a bit cf wit, which is argu things, first find out just what it is ably s e xist. that you are changing and just where On 1 February 1979, the "overworked", i t is that you are going." So, where "indiscreet", "apologetic" Res Gestae were we. Ah, with the good Justice editors, who are admittedly part-time Holmes. We may take three approaches ma le chauvinist pigs, challenged the to the quotation i n question: Law School community with a "rude and 1) Humor shocking example of iwmature sexist 1 2) Historicity humor . ' That example came in the 11 Cryptic Quiz" column , the solution 3) Self-reflection of whi ch; a quotation from Justice As a joke the statemen~, in context, Oliver Wende ll Holmes , follows: i s undoubtedly humorous;- it adds a There are not infrequent t i mes when new dimension to the wit and charm of a bottle of wine, a good dinner and the eminent jurist . But after the first pooh-pooh, the attitude which the joke a girl of some trivial sort can imports may s trike a sensitive chord. fill the hour for me. Hov-Je ver, a worthwhil e joke , as the dis- On 8 February 1979, the aforemen ' ease of s ociety, can hardly do other- tione d disturbed students in a class , wise . A joke makes us laugh because it action, let loose with a myriad is a picture of how we are, not how we number of indignant cliches.l The say we are or how we think we are or editors quickly recanted. Thus stands how we would like to be. A heartfelt Enlightened Mature Moralists v. Res j oke is the immortal enemy of cant and Gestae Part-Time Male Chauvinist Pigs, hypocrisy and pseudo-liberalism. Such et al . , for the principle that public jokes should be said until we hear some writings may not quote material with of it . I need only recall the mimics a sexist n exus. A writ of certiorari of Lenny Bruce or Richard Pryor, or was issued because of the immen se court jesters any place or any time, to importance of this question to illustrate the irrepressible necessity perverts everywhere . of jokes whose purposiveness is to dent taboos . Satire does not dwell in 1 . The r emarks carne in a l etter to the an insensitive mind . Satire builds editor, three-fourths of which contains sensitive minds . The Holmes quip may mere signatures or ob i ter dicta. Note that 11 str ike our conscience, but to suppress the bandwagon appeal methodology" is such remarks leaves us impotent. overruled. One name is sufficient endorse ment i n a protest letter to an editor. 2. If some still find their world demoralized, when the j oke is taken in context, perhaps t hey will address their next letter to the society of trivial gi rls.
(Continued on next page) ENLIGHTENED MATURE MORALISTS v. RES GESTAE PART-TIME MALE CHAUVINIST PIGS, ET AL. (Continued from previous page) The historicity of the tradition unconsciously or unintentionally which the quotation captures is endorsing a perverse view. The obvious: it has been and is a man's conscious and intending have chance world. Naturally then women's suffrage to let their morals stand the test of is a first-order concern of everyone. public exposure. The already enlight As Martin Luther King, Jr. told us, ened souls must bear with others who "Injustice anywhere is a threat to wish to experience revelation. All justice everywhere." msut take heed to stay on guard as the How sexism? One may blame God, struggle for women's rights requires except that God stands exalted by still sharp concern. alloting Mary the virtues role in the But comes the last query: must we salvation scheme. One may blame learn in this way? And comes the evolution, except evolution is mind answer: yes. So deeply entrenched less beyond the aim of efficiency. in our tradition is the disgraceful One might even blame ourselves: men position of women that only by bringing for oppression and women for submis to light subtle, visceral senses, as sion. But surely one cannot blame reflected by Holmes, can we uproot and the Res Gestae for its exposure of rout the longstanding dogma of second the anti-women fever, albeit through class citizenship of womankind. Make self- revealing accident. If sexism no mistake about the intangible forces: is never mentioned would it therefore women will win. No one who has read cease to exist? Aristophane's Lysistrata can truly Blameworthiness is, of course, idle doubt the power of a woman. chatter, but suppression of our tra dition is not a solution. To right III. a wrong do not just sit on it. The Caveat: A joke does not necessarily squasher of injustice must come to mean anything. grips with the problem in every form The aim of society is freedom. Women and in all frames of mind. John hope for equality with men. But the Stuart Mill remarked that it is only Enlightened Mature Moralist gang are those who keep their mind open to all their own worst enemies for they chain things who become wise. To get wise themselves with paranoic oppression. in the cause of women's rights every No man can be pure enough, since some where, in every shape and every form, women want to damn every iota of ex one must see evil, hear evil and pression as sexist condemnation. The speak evil first. Evil does not go sole rationale of these women is ipse away by ignorance. How can we over dixit. This conclusion is premised come our own perverse, even if inno upon the obviously false condition that cent, views unless they are placed only the acquisition of headaches dis before us. In surprise lies the tinguishes a woman from a man. The historical significance for those issue of sex is all-pervasive in this who seek to spring change upon us. society. Not all of it is bad. To The Holmes remark seen in retrospect divorce ourselves from any mention of through means of self-reflection is sex amounts to intolerable overkill. invaluable. See, for example, C. S. Lewis, in his celebrated Screwtale IV. Letters. Lewis writes as a devi , Therefore Enlightened Mature Moralists using perversity to steer a person v. Res Gestae Part-Time Male Chauvinist to his/her true ideals. Self Pigs, et al. is overruled. One may reflection breaks down into two include sexist literature in public categories of inspiration--acceptance quotations. This decision only confirms and rejection. the elementary, if not instinctive, Those who accept th~ Holmes view as principle of fact that sex speaks for good doctrine may rejoice, as is itself. It is often said that one their wont. Those who reject Holmes' cannot legislate morality. Indeed, nor position will rejoice with the new can one enforce a judicial sanction of learning, as it is one more way in which they may rid themselves of (CONCLUDED ON NEXT PAGE) ENLIGHTENED MATURE MORALISTS v. achle's H~ _ ~ings RES GESTAE PART -TIME MALE CHAUVINISTS (From previous page) Two weeks ago my column gave you immorality. But surely we can practice some of my "true confessions." Since it. To ensure the effectiveness of that time the R. G. has experienced this decision please observe the a veritable deluge of questions and following saucy goody: requests for interviews. No one, "One Blind Look Was Enough" it seems, can live without knowing my opinion on just about everything . A blind beggar stood on Essex Street In t he interest of efficiency, I am in New York's East Side holding out printing the answers to the most his little t in cup. frequently asked questions . "Help a blind man!" he whined --No, my column is not intended as piteously. a testimonial to the Law School's An old Jewish woman hobbled by. need for a paper shredder. "Nebich--a poor blind man!'' she --No, I am not the reincarnation of commiserated, and gave him a dime. Martha Mitchell. The beggar was enraptured. --No, I don't think Feminist Legal "As soom as I took the first look Services should hold weekly bake sales. at you I knew you had a kind heart!" --Yes, I like red overalls very he exclaimed . 3 much. REVERSED. --Yes, I am very disappointed that I was not even nominated for the 3 . Note : Enlightened Mature Moralists, Guide Barristers. It's okay though; they to Sexist Perversion: Even where man is don't want the Raw Review to be funny. able to deny himself a lust for the good And while we're on the subject ... I woman's body, woman is still typically have never had an unbearable crush depicted as the ever-obliging pushover who on the Lord High Chancellor. has a soft heart and gives money to the --No, I doubt if WLSA will ever shifty, no-count man. co-sponsor a mixer with a U of M fraternity. --Yes, I have, on occasion, consid LET'S KEEP THE EXCLUSIONARY RULE. WHY ered a frontal lobotomy. MAKE THE 4TH AMEND. AN EMPTY BLESSING? --No, I haven't suggested that the (Continued from Page 2) Social Committee sponsor a Michael Quinley look-alike contest. cutions (1914) and the time the Court --No, there: is no truth to the imposed this rule on the state prose- ' rumor that Steve Fetter is my ghost cutions (1961), the state had almost 50 writer ... the quality of my column years to experiment, but in this half makes that pretty obvious! century not a single state legislature nor a singel law enforcement agency demonstrated that the search and seizure CLUE: V = N problem could be handled in other ways . . . . Who has ever heard of a police- prosecution spokesman urging for illegal PIX YDXYIGUG IP FTHG GURFHIV, BHZUGFIRL searches and seizures in a jurisdiction which admitted illegally seized evi IP MHPPUXUVF GUNUG WXU VIF YXIYUXFQ dence? Abandoning the exclusionary rule without waiting for a meaningful IP W BHLU LHVM. alternative-- as Judge Wilkey and Chief Justice Burger would have us do--will I.R.C. ~ 103l(e). not furnish an incentive for devising an alternative, but relieve whatever LAST WEEK'S SOLUTION: pressure there now exists for doing so.~· "The most odious of all oppressions (U.M.I .S. ) are those which mask as justice." --Jackson, J., Krulewitch v. U. S., E; 336 u.s. 440, 456 (1949) . When a dissipated young man on his way ©©~1ffi~@j? home becomes stranded in town with no money, the officials wrongly conclude ©Th1ll~Th1~@ that he mu st be the inspector, and set out to bribe him into making a good by Polly Latovick------r~port to the czar. The slimey char acter is no more a government inspector than you or I, but he doesn't mind i f any cliche can be used to describe taking every bribe and compliment they . he I nspector General", the play put throw his wayo He ends up practically ln by the Professional Theatre Program . seducing (or being seduced by, the ast week, it is that some things never mayor's wife - it's hard to tell who hang~ . That is true both of the cor is seducing whom) and then proposing uption of small town governments, the to the mayor's fatuous daughter. He ubject of the play, and also of the scoots out of town with all his loot i r ed jokes that make up the play. The (and without his bride) just in t i me i ggest problem this play has is that to miss the arrival of the rea l inspec t is so predictable that one wonders tor general. My thought was good rid hy i t i s being performed . There are dance. o surprises, no excitement, and no Philip LeStrange, the visiting artist, eal comedy . The humor is a combination was surprising in the role of the mayor. f slapstick and old Henny Youngman He seemed to hold back and play his take my wife, please) jokes . Someone part in a more subdued manner than one auld t ake the play. would have expected, although at the - The only redeeming aspect of the end he gave the audience a taste of the erfor mance is the fact that it was done magnitism that Portnoy descr.ibed after the PTP. It was probably the his interview with LeStrange. s t technically smooth, most attractive: The funniest parts of the play in t , most interesting costumes, and the volved two town landowners reminiscent st act ing they have done this season. of Tweedle-Dee and T~veedle-Dum . Peter y did t hey put all this effort into Ivanovich Bobchinsky and Peter Ivan tch a tedious play? It has to be ovich Dobchinsky were continually 1at it was part of the Russian Festi- bumping into each other with well padded 1 being spo~sored by the U of M this tummies and interrupting each other, ntho I t seems that Russia has more making communication impossible but off er than thiso The play caused very funny. i te a s t ir when it was first performed It's hard to say enough about the 1 Russia, but in the land of Saturday quality of the performanceo Thomas "ght Live, comdey based on governmental Bloom, who played the phoney inspect or , rrup tion and ignorance lacks the was exquisitely disgusting. He liter ock va lue and humor it once had. ally slunk and minced around the stage, The s t or y revolves around the corrupt showing just how blind the town's self yor of a small town \vho interest was, that they could toady up The st ory is set prlor to the Russian to this worm. The rest of the charac vol ution, and revolves around the ters were equally believable. rrupt mayor of a small town who dis As an example of mid-nineteenth cen ver s t hat a government inspector is tury Russian theatre, t his play is his wa y in cognito o The mayor and interestingo When the PTP adds its e rest of the local leaders immediatel) panache, it becomes almost funny. nic as t hey realize that their well Indeed, if you don't mind a lot of dered by vile political system may corny humor and satir~, the play can · 02~pose d " provide a very enjoyable evening. . ~'7~f:)"'89 ~,~ ~ [j. r,· '' _jJ ' ,!;.!:.; ' 0 ' ' " . ,~C----....:::l~ -...J t'_, ___.)c_ _ ~ t:...... ::::....Jc.:.:.__-.::_; C~D: ((2 (?~r~~·J' :f0) JTlfD)~I~1T:G]ID) We have jus~ fi~ished hea~i~g semi-final a:cg•_nnents i:1 :::he Carupbell Compe-tition and :1ave selected the \~-.~~~(~:;L }~,~<·:-_::~~f~~:~.~~~ rc:f}:::l,J-;: the Henry M. four teams of twelve that will go Carr..l_) t~c~l.~ T\:s~: ~~c:: :.I ::-j~~ C!-::mpeti.t ion was on to the f:i.::!.al ~:·oend. The format he!.c~ l2r~t: \·;-eei:. C!•. ;:: of the tHelve of t he COITt~Jeti:::ion c~i.d D.Ot permit tee.!Tls cc:1~pr::<::~ng in the semifinals, four us the u s1.Ial opportunity for con "~;vere selec~e:::t ',::o <::1dv:omce t o the final gratulati~g one and all. rou.nd. The final round Hill be held We would like to take this opnor April 3, 1979 in Room 100, and it is tunit y to go bF~yJnd t i:.ose usua]_ tradition2lly ~ell-attended. forma l statements. Hearin g the The fc1.1 ::~ finalis~: teams for this ar g1.~ments and :read:~;~.g the briefs gave us a feAli~g of sa~isfaction J&mes Wallack- -Larrv Weithorn that t he st~dents of this school Paul C:c i_S '\·J ell-- - ~Hch~:wl Weinbaum coul d do su~h a~ outscanding job- t hat they cculd ma ster a difficult l:1a·rl( ~::~::C:J.- -E0. .. ~ · .Yi ::l 1:-12.so·r1 Ste-:;J"c:; }-:_2.]:-::i . s ~ .. -F:~cd R-sC.riguez area, pres en-: luc:Ld arguments, a.nd generally de2onstr2ted that they 'I'his yea:::- r s ~,Ioot Court c omp etition are capable of reeeting the tasks is base,~: en. tHo international lm·J that await them 2fter graduation. issue~ ., ~e.::dgr~ed by Professor Jackson. As teachers we don't alway s have Over 2~0 sc u~Pnts watched some part of the opportunity to see thes~ qualiti es the semifinal. r-ound, where competitors fully di c:> pJayed i n the s ome';Jhat argued over the corsti tutionality of confining se~ t i~g of ~he cl&ssroom. :eg~s:a~i~8 veto pc~er s and problems Likewise, we ~sn't often have the
The La\v S·.::hooJ. has announced a ne1;v RosenzvJeig, 1;,1hile in private practice, addit ion to the faculty . Michael has concentrated mos tly in the area Rosenzwe ig , presently with the firm of cor.-·Jo:::-ations and securities law. of Rogers & Hardin, Atlanta , Georgia , Profes~or T~ornas Kauper, on the has recently accept ed the offer to faculty search com_ruittee, noted that come to ~ichiga~. thi.s area "~;vas one •t.~hich \·Jas sorely in Rosenzweig atte~ded the University need of c:u:JclitionaJ_ Law School instruc of Michigan as an ur.derg:r.adt:.c:l te. He tors, and tl-:..at t his, combined with :.cece i ~Jed li.2-s 2..ct-r:i g:::c;2 f ·.::.~e.~~l CD lurn:) ia Rc.c;enz-;:-c:'.;; ' s ·::;ualifications, made him Lar.tV· Sc:~_c; ol in }_:.:_!7 6 _ -~.. :"1--:_ ~ ~-j_cJ_ ir~ .l~t: - ; the Schc~l ' s c~cice at this time. s choo 1 he cvas a Note 2.1--:d Cor:.'r::,e-::1 t KauDer n~t2d fu~ther that Rosenzweig
Edito~::- fo:!:· the Cclu:nb:Lo:i Lah Re'.;rie\:r. q-;:~l/'li ..... -'- _ r,~!:-' .L . .._.--.~ _.. L...,- c ,'··:l".-... L - - .: ur; ...... - ~ -,nle·me L-- ....._ ~ ent-._ r- a::~t her- than After grc.duati:1g from Colum'::lia , disp l -:'c~ the e~~isting corporations and Ros enzweig clerked for Judge Paul secur1t1es proressors. Hayes of the U.S. Court of Appeals Rosenz ~·Jeig is 2 7 years old, and is ( Second Circuit) . married. Eis wi fe is a physician. m(O)HXmA~xcoms GUX&D ~~©RY~~m~ ~ ~ FOR J§ii[!][~m_ vx&~~xm~(Q)~ ~£&~ The Jane Mixer Memorial Award is This Friday, February 23, Frank given annually at the spring Honors Wilkinson, executive director of the Convocation. A special feature of National Committee Against Repressive the award provides that nominations Legislation, will speak in the Lawyers' are to be made by students in the Club Lounge at 1 :00 p.m. Law School. No other award given by Wilkinson's topic will be the United the Law School calls for this amount States Criminal Code Reform Act (a.k.a. of student input. S-1, a.k . a. S-1437). As you may know, The Jane Hixer Memorial Award is this bill would wipe out many of the made to those law students who have civil liberties enjoyed by U.S. citizens, made the greatest contribution to possibly including the right to demon activities designed to advance the strate to protest government action, cause of social justice during the the right to picket at the scene of a preceding year. strike, and the right of journalists to The award may be given to as many publish classified information, such as as three recipients. Students may the Pentagon Papers . make more than one nomination, and In addition, the law is phrased so are encouraged to make nominations vaguely that it is tailor-made for soon . All nominations must be ac "pretense" prosecutions, where the real companied by a brief statement de intent is to suppress dissent. This is scribing the activities and the not surprising, since Richard Nixon was contributions of the nominee. the main force behind the bill. The statement should be addressed It is especially pertinent that this to the Awards Committee, which is is being discussed now, since the the group that will make the final "liberal" Senator Kennedy is under award decisions . Please submit all considerable pressure to push for the nominations and any questions to bill's passage in this session of Crispin Birnbaum, 307 Hutchins Hall Congress. In fact, Kennedy is one of by March 1, 1979. the prime sponsors of this repressive (C . Birnbaum) legislation. The speech at the Law School is a part of an organizing trip that Wilkinson is making for the Ann Arbor chapter of the national organ ization of the National Committe Against R~pressive Legislation. For more information call Carl Levine at 994-4591. This Week Gargoyle Films Presents-~ (J. McCullough) FROM HERE TO ETERNITY Starring Frank Sinatra and CONSIDERATIONS (Concluded from Page 3) Donna Reed Winner of Best Picture of the Year apathy spoken of before continues .... It is not my purpose to attempt to FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 provide solutions, but merely to raise the questions, and if I've gotten you 7 O'Clock and 9 O'Clock to think about them, I have accomplished Room 100 Hutchins Hall my goal. Admission: Law Students $.50 (Nat Colley) Significant Others $1.00 9 NIGHTS MANAGED, CHEAP! if very few other try to work it the same way you do--and, in fact, reminds me very much of 1 11 Since there is no mail delivery today~ some of the mail 'pyramid schemes which rely residents should think of this column as a on an everexpanding market-system. Without letter and use it to avoid heartbreak. If that reliance on picking up "fall-offs" from other doesn't work, well, blame the Postal Service attorneys Singer's advice contains nothing and not the Night Manager. In fact, whenever spectacularly impressive or new. It still there is a problem with the mail it can usually seems to me that there is very little available be attributed to the ·Postal Service. Almost to really help a student plan a solo practice. every day the Lawyers Club gets a large number At the Mid-Western BLSA Conference last week of pieces of mail which belong elsewhere. there was a symposium on this topic but I Just last Saturday, for example, we received was in Detroit Friday morning and missed it. a bundle of mail for the School of Public I hope that ~t was successful, and I hope that Health which included at least 100 letters, someone who was there will fill me in soon. several pieces of mail for the law library, several pieces of mail returned to the Law PINBALL SCORES------February 18, 1979 Student Spouses for insufficient address, a package for Mrs. Est~er Kern at 551 s. Division, machine wizard(s) scores and the usual two or three dozen letters for people who seem to have never existed. Either Jet Spin K. Rouse 260,350 delivery to the Lawyers Club is unusual in a way which increases the U.S. Postal Service Buccaneer Debi Kirsch 234,540 rate of error, or that rate is incredible. Jacks Open Debi Kirsch 305,500 I regularly am surprised by the naivete' of some Lawyers Club resident who expresses his $6,000,000 Man Mitch Dunitz 950,390 (or her) opinion that "Newsweek always comes El Dorado J. M. Shepherd 107,090 on Tuesday." What this really means is that the individual involved has been statistically Evel Knievel G. Robb 436,010 lucky. What actually happens is that both Space Mission The Sleeper 386,400 Newsweek and Time could usually both arrive on Tuesday, but the mail people don't like Speaking of filling things in, some people to overload the mail bags. The result of that dislike compounded by other factors will want to fill me in after reading this next means that 85% of the Newsweek magazines do section, but here goes: arrive on Tuesday, 10% on Wednesday, and the Once more with the groupies. I don't think remaining 5% over the next week or so. The they really exist! I personally think that naive resident mentioned above simply has never law school groupies are a mythology which is fallen into the unlucky 5% who have to wait. only infrequently supported by real life. My Another favorite is the resident who has timed pet theory is that the titillating existence of her (or his) last three care packages and an groupies serves to provide certain kinds of nounces to me that another is due today because: law students with convenient emotional scape "It always takes three days from New York." goats. A lot of male law students want, and Well, you can get 50 packages in a row in only even need to think that there are such people. three days, but I won't expect the fifty-first It is an incredibly ego-boosting and fulfilling to arrive in three days as well. I do make type of mythology. Female law students want to some mistakes in the mail room, as do the people believe that there is some simply and easily who help me sort. We will probably never get attacked extraneous reason for the fact that Thomas E. McDonald correctly distinguished from male law students profess not to be attracte~ Thomas D. McDonald. If you get a piece of mail romantically to female law students. The which isn't yours just push it back through periodic drives to rid the law library of your mailbox into the mailroom. I'll get it to groupies are a perfect example of periodic the right person next time I sort mail. displacement of frustration. The fact is that the law library is rarely really overloaded. t For those of us who are continuingly in And that when it is overloaded, groupies are terested in solo practice, I have discovered that not responsible. The next time you have troublE the Placement Office has one book: How to go getting exactly the seat you want, look Directly into Solo Law Practice (Without Missing around and see how many law students clearly : a Meal), and a bibliography of other potentially feel that they need the chair space for three useful books. I've read the Singer book and not people and the desk space for four, in order _ found it particularly useful, though. His to study properly. Is it impossible for us to version of "solo practice" is successful only recognize that the law library is pretty close 10 to a large residential off-campus area and that Welcome to the world of Disco. Disco in these days of cold weather walking another two St. Patricks Day? Help! The LSSS Social blocks might seeJI) d;tU;i.cult tQ sQ;ne unde:rgxads Connnittee and the Phid house have planned for Are we so blind to the beauty of the reading -room us a "Disco" St. Patrick's Day Party. A that we ignore the possibility that some people devoted and intense group of young revolutionary study there because it is so nice? Are we so Irishpersons have spent the last year planning insecure with our status as special people'"'""' a gala teal St. Patricks Day Irish party, Law Students--that we need petty rules about who complete with singing, dancing, and drinking. can and can't sit in our library so we can feel This is coming up Saturday, March 17th in the more important? Main Lounge of the Lawyers Club. Won't the If more study space is needed, especially LSSS please buy the Irishpersons some beer? at finals week, couldn't the LSSS ask the Disco Susan B. _Anthony Dinner? Disco Halloween Lawyer s Club food service to open up the dining Party? Disco Sherry Hour? Disco Cocktail hall with its huge, long tables? The dining Party? Disco Welco~e Back to School Party? -hall can lock up so that no one could get further *Disco Groundhog's Day at Le Chateau was great, into the kitchen. It could be available from but Disco St. Patrick's Day? Disco is fine, it as early as 7:00 in the evening through the is fun and provides good entertainment. But night. It could be kept free of groupies, as Disco is to music as traffic courts are to the it is Lawyers Club property and although all law. law students belong to the Lawyers Club, no *This is unfair, actually Le Chateau prefers undergraduates do (unless they also happen to good old rock and roll. be members of the .Michigan bench). It would double the space available in the reading room. Time to disappear with a parting shot at Obviously the kitchen staff would be nervous the construction crews. Has everyone else also about their tables and chairs and other equip noticed how uninclined they are to be civil? ment. But it seems to me that it would be All of us should learn from their tactics. easier for the LSSS to protect the equipment The layman who is _confused by talks of "accrual, , than to keep undergraduates out of the library. limitation, tort, etc." has much in connnon with And a :lot nicer. - us listening to construction explanations of why their dirt has to be in our quad. Not to One thing I would like to do which also mention their trucks and cars. smacks of 'elitism (but really isn't, honest) Some of us residents are particularly con is to compile a directory of U-M Law Students cerned with the portions of the contract which working in Detroit this sunnner. If you plan to presumably require the construction company to work in Detroit, please send me your office replace our landscaping and walkways. Given (and home when you get it) address and phone the consideration they have shown so far for number. I'll try to get a list out near the . the quad, how many of us really expect them to end of finals week. Then we can all locate each willingly replace the slate slabs? How many of other over the sunnner. I've got some good us. expect to see concrete walkways in two years? friends in the law schools in Detroit, but once One bit of good news I picked up last week in awhile they get on my nerves. Those law is that the parking stickers which the pickup schools do all the nasty parts of the Paper trucks and cars of the workers have on them ~ and none of the good ones. Even the third are not good for parking in the quad or on grass year s tudents there appear to be under the At least that is how it was explained to me by kinds of pressures that our most anxious first the University Parking and Traffic Office. If year students go through. you see a construction vehicle which is where Was it the cold weather? Overflow of you think it shouldn't be, call the police or Saturday night parties? Surplus of good movies campus security and ask to have it ticketed. in town? How could a good X-rated flick lose Chances are that most of the time it will be money in Hutchins Hall? Hopefully the weather done. We all expect they have total innnunity won't mess with the Barristers' Crease Ball. because of the offhand manner with which they [Most first year students don't know by now that treat Lawyers Club property. That isn't this is our version of a prom, and is due to necessarily so, and if they can't treat the take place on April 7th.] I would like to take Club and the students with some consideration this opportunity to plead with the Barristers to then why extend it to them? Some will say that buy a different kind of chapagne this year. The such an attitude is not beneficial to the housecleaning staff is still using the remains construction deadlines. I say that when the f:om last year to clean out particularly~- d- ir~#·· company contracted to do the job there was an Slnks in the basements. ~ ./) implicit understanding that their behavior 1 ./c:''! i0/;: / 1 ' ...w~e doing it would be reasonablei Ti¢/jP. ' no( l' CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY EXTERNSHIP INTERVIEWS They Can't Sat We're Hoarding It The Center for Law and Social Policy, A large nurn er of appropriations Washington , D.C . , is a public interest marked the last Senate meeting. $300 law firm representing organizational went to the Environmental Law Society and individual clients who might other- 'to send additional members to a wise go unrepresented before courts, 1 pollution law conference in Washington, agencies and legislative committees. $125 went to the Sports Committee to The Center i s also dedicated to the increase court time for the basket clinical education of law students and ball tournament, and a $75 proposal each term it selects about 20 students for funds to help produce an animated from all over the country to partici film poking fun at the Law School wa? pate in its externship program. also approved. Michigan law students are eligible to Debate on the film proposal ~as participate during either their fourth des.cril:,ed as "long an~ e~oquent", or fifth terms. They pay tuition to finall;r leading to amendments pro Michigan for their term in residence viding that the Senate receive a copy in Washington and, instead of being of the film for future use, and that paid for their work at the Center, it be ineligible for prizes in the receive 12 units of mandatory Pass/ upcoming talent show . Fail credit. An easier request carne from La Raza The Center is organized into legal which asked that the Senate recommend subject matter projects (employment, that the Dean fund a regional health, international, media access, conference not anticipated in their · mental health, mine health and safety, budget. women's rights) and each student is assigned to a particular porject. And Next Week Is More Of The Same There is an effor to match student Budget items raised at the last preferences for a particular subject meeting· which will be voted on at the area with the choices of the project next one include $500 to the Social attorneys, but there is no guarantee Committee for St. Patrick's Day that students will be assigned their festivities and $100 to tune the first choices. Lawyers' Club Piano. In general, if Student selection at Michigan begins you've got comments on any budget with an on-campus interview. Randy proposal, drop a note at the Senate Bellows, director of the student pro Office. gram, and an attorney with the Media Coke Cans, Law School and Public Access Project will be here Wednesday, Policy Feb . 28 to interview 2d-year students A complaint about the continued interested in spending the Fall '79 · sale in Senate-operated machines of term in Washington. There will also non-deposit cans of soft drinks was be an informational meeting at noon on voiced at the last meeting. The Feb. 28 in Room 132 Hutchins. non-complying cans won't be sold in For more information, contact the the future, and arrangements with the Placement Office or Sheila Haughey, a Social Committee will be worked out former Center externship student, at to allow distribution of remaining 662-5877. stock at social events . Rate The Professors Miscellaneous The Senate still needs volunteers Those persons who applied to work on to work on the faculty/course evalua next year's law school student directory tion project . Anyone interested in should come to the next LSSS meeting on working on it please leave a note in Wednesday night, Feb. 21, 6 : 30. the Senate office or talk with Al The Senate will vote on the proposed constit~tional amendment to §9.8 which Knauf. would allow the senators-elect to take offi ce within 15 days of their election in the spring . 12 Here are my weekly rankings fo1 Gradu ate Basketball (includes law tourney) : 1. Dental Derelicts (5-l) 2. Epidemics (7-2) .3. Law Black'n 'Blue (Law Trash) (7-2) 4 . MBA Green (4-1) 5 . DSD "A" (4-1) 6 . Law Stin Space (Law Booters) (4-2) 7. Abar Cadaver (4-2) 8. Law Gold (5-1) 9. MBA Bl ue (3-1) Law Black'n'Blue (a.k . a. Law Trash) lO .{~LSA (5-2) advanced to the finals of the "A" grad ;_,a;:.; Green ( 5-] ) uate division basketball playoffs. The Second Annual Canyon Memorial They also look like the team to beat Open Law School Basketball TourPament in the law school tournament. ~ got underway on Saturday. Commis s ioner Tn the grad quarterfinals, MBA Blue Jack Butler has done a great job organ led 38-32 with six minutes to play. izing the event, which drew a record "Bad" Jack Fortner's three long jum 25 teams. Generally, the games went pers led a surge of ten unanswered pretty smoothly. Please remember that Black'n'Blue points, to make it 42-38 . many of the referees have never offic i Wi t h two minutes left , Fortner fouled ated before. Therefore, their quality out . A one-point technical was awarded may often be less than you get in intra to the MBA' s \vhen " Bad" Jack kicked mur als . towels on to the court to protest his Law Green beat John Sloss 's Law Devo foul. Thanks to several missed MBA 52- 46 , led by Bruce Engler's 19 points. shots and a 90 second Trash Stall, the Ralph Simpson added 17 to the Green ef scor e remained at 42-39 at the buzzer. fort. In their second round game, Green Brent Graber and Fortner scored 10 blasted Law Bronze, 61-36. Simpson po i nts each. scored 31, while Engl er had 20. Black'n'Blue trashed the law school's Law Phids wiped out a four-man Law arch-rivals , DSD"A" 46-42 in the semi Pnrple, 74-27. Jordan Miller scored 30 , finals . Fortner's shooti ng was awesome~ while Warren Taylor hit for 20 . Law He got 15 points , mainly on 15-20 foot Trash, led by "Bad" Jack Fortner ' s 22 jumpers. Joe Inamorati scored 10. Black points, buried the Canyon, 70-40. Jeff ' n'Blue led by ll with three minutes to Liebster gunned for 25 for the- losers. play, but several turnovers and hot In the second round, Trash annhilated DSD"A" shooting neaxly gave the game Phids 78-43. Joe Innamorati hit for away. 22, Tom Bourqu~ had 14, while Fortner Black 'n'Blue lost their first two and Graber scored 12 . Miller scored 18 game s- to BLSA and Law Crimson . After for the losers . t heir one-point Crimson humiliation, Yo Adrian (a .k.a. Law Crimson) upset B'n'B instituted their tough 2-3 zone. the Pistols, 50-48. Randy Kaplan They turned their season around, win scored 18 for the victors, while Joe ning their next seven in a rm,., (inclu Tilson gunned for 14 for the Pistols . ding the law school tournament) . The Pi stols look like the favorite in the team is well-balanced, but Fortner's losers' bracket, but faceschallengcs shooting and Graber's rebounding have f rom Lav1 De t ergent and t ~: c C'anym: . Later been the key to their closer victories. Pistols shut down the 1122 PW 1 s, 88-45. The team is all first year students, " Pi stol" Pe t e Kupel:Lan scor ed 32. Yo primarily from $1. Adrian went on to whip Law Silver, Next Sunday, Black.'n ' Blue meets the 62-45. Stefan Stei n sank 17 point s for Yo. Silver had beaten 1122 PW's 67-25 Dental Dere licts for the championship. in the fir st round , led by Paul Ruffin's '~ he Derelicts upset the defending cham 17 and "Mean" Dean Ro chelPau al'1 d Art pion Epirlemics in the other semifinal. Kepes, both with 13. The Epidemics had beaten BLSA 48-33 in Law Stin Space edged Detergent, 66-61. the quarterfinal round. That game was George Higgins scored 18. Space went close until the last several minutes . on to n ip ~LSA. 61-59. on a bucket by when Ep i demics got red-hot and shot ' Higgin ~? \vi th about ten seconds left. away the BLSA zone . j(~ - (Continued on Page 14) L!..LVLt::· .LV llU ~ .- \. t....J _... .! '-'-" ___ , --- T I .. ., I~'eidelburg and Leopodvile (i· ·' <.::1 1 -cam A .lW 0 CORNER 11 lI· ~-~;:s icc hocke y) have brought ·in rin ( C or '·:L1~ued h:-<·m P;:u;e 1 3) ! gGrs n l ~ga :.l y this year. b ' ge:, · ·'· •-, s ;-: ~ · e d l 8 2 a a in VJhi. le K c. vi , ~ '~ ~ns · :e , 1 ~~~Ll. -i_od·- :L'J · ~~r -.t·;_; tc;;·e Fel~ s ~l~i t E I2fr f0©cmrrGiL0©0lF©l , 1 >) : Jame s Brev-Jer E;eo ~ ~ed ZO for BLSA, I wh:Lle Bruce Sc:n1 cl e ~-.· s hit 12. I GRADUATE BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS t1 I n the l•Jome.!l ' s di,?ision , Law Gunners 1; "A" QUARTERFINALS il beat Law Femal e, 16 ~ 9. Hissy "Can't ' Epidemics 48, BLSA 33 Mis e:;" PolJ.ick n.etted 12 points for ~ Law B1ack'n.'inue t:~ 2, MBA Blue 38 the Gu.nneYs. The t ourname-:.1t conc:.J.udes ~ nNv SEMIFINALS next Saturday a f ternoon at the Coliseum. ! Law Black'n'Blue 46. DS D " A" 42 nB" QUARTERFINAL~ AL'S PREDICTIONS ~.' l Law Red 3 7, Lmv Silver 28 Hinners' Bracket Th ird Round ~ Law Yellow 34, Legales2 33 Law Trash by 7 over Law Green ~ nB" SEHIFINALS Law Stin Space by 10 over Yo Adrian Law Yellow 44. Jets 29 \tJinne ~:s : Bracket Fourth Round "A" RECREATIONAL SEMIFINALS
'i_;__:..,..'-v-as,t-. l_ l b ''_/ l- o-ve.~...... r L"'•JCL'J< (~old~ Law Phids 56, Law Raza 45 Win ners 1 Bracket Final DSD "B" 68, L ato? Gray 20 La~7 T ~~·ash by :1_ o•rer La\·J Stin Space "A" ~lECREATIONAL FINALS Losers 1 Bracket Final DSD 11 B11 56, Law Phids 44 Pistols by 8 over Canyon "B" RECREATIONLL SEMIFINALS Tnurnaraen t Final Corpus Delecti 18, Law Bron ze 14 Law Trash by 12 over Pisto.ls "B" RECREi\TIONAL FINALS Corpus De l ecti 32. , LaV>J Purple 9 Ip. coree intramural b asketl?P ll, the 'trJOMEN' S BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS Nursing School defeated Lm.v Strawberry , "B n QU!' R T ','S~~'T NP J .C' 62-40. Sue "Farah" i;..'unk scored 28 Alpha Gamma DeJ~ta ?5, Law Gunners 2 1 for Strawberry. Law Female W, Mo j o Mashers F All three Law mini-soccer teams won this week. Law Purple (1-3) whipped INDEPENDENT 'A" BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS MBA Gold, 6-1 . Russ Finne stein scor ed The Cany on 63 , Supremes 3 1 four goals, while Brooke Schumm and CORE C "A" BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS Long Shots 61 , Law Maroon 30 Sco tt Smith f, cored one each . Law Ex press beat outdoor soccer champion COREC "B" BP.SKETBALL PLAYOFFS Rowdies , 2-1. Edwin Meysmans scored Nursing School 62, Law Strawberry 40 both goals for the foreign lawyers . Michigan Bar Association 33, Nursing School 32 Law P assers beat O's Bah ionos in a : shoot-out. The o ~s t i ed the score ALL- CAMP US ICE HOCKEY "A" SEMIFINALS at 6 all with less than a minute to ulay. In the overtime period, Passers Leopodvi l le Leap := .ng Lumberj acks l l, ~ent ahead on Phil Schradles's goal. Law Gold 1 But, the Bah i onos knotted the score ALL-CAMPUS MI NI-SOCCER PLAYOFFS ·with seconds left to play. In the nAn PREQUARTERFINALS shoot- out, eac h t e am had five players Law Express 2 , Rowdies 1 kick penalty kicks to decide t h e game. Law Passers 10, ovs Bahionos 9 (shoot- Phil Schradle, go alie Steve Moser, out) an d defenseman J ohn Cashen all scored , I "B" PREQUARTERF INALS while only 2 o f the 0 1 s kicked past ! Law Purple 6, MBA Gold 1 Moser. John Schubitowski, ~;.;rho scored i SECOND ANNUAL CANY ON MEMORIAL LAhT SCHOOl a hat trick in the game, did not have «I OPEN BASKE T Bi~!. L TOURNA1'·1ENT to kick in the shoo t-out, since Passer s Law Bronze 31 , Hutchins' Heroes 19
had their last ups. Other Passer goal s 11 Law Green 52 , Law Devo 36 in the game were scored by Charlie · ~ Law Phids 7l:, Law Purple 27 Glerum ( two) and " Pistoln Pete Kupeli- i Law Trash 70, Canyon 40 an. Next ~7ee6:, the Passers f ace the ~ Lega1ese W, La~1 Yellow F Hei Winners' Bracket While the winter weather prevents Law Green 61, Law Bronze 35 the construction outside from progres Law Trash 78, Law Phids 43 sing, the work continues inside thw Law Gold 56 , Legalese 55 (protest pen-. library, as the noise of the jack ding) hannners proves. Yo Adrian 62, Law Silver 45 . Three major projects are in progress Law Stin Space 61, BLSA 59 at this point . The subcontractor Women's Division continues to remove the dirt from the Law Gunners 16, Law Female 9 Quadrangle; the demolition of areas tosf;!rs' Bracket on levels One and Three of the library Law Devo 63, Hutchins' Heroes 29 where use of the space will be changed; Canyon 41, Law Purple 18 and connection of pipes which will run Pistols 88, 1122 PW's 45 from the steam tunnel that enters the Law Detergent 44, Wept Philadelphia north side of Legal Research, through Speedboys 39 the basement, and to the air-condi tioning cooling tower, which will be on top of the existing building. The general contractor, J.A. Fredman, claims to be making every effort to limit the noise of the construction. 1 But what can you do to muffle a B B.lliSTEB.S jackhannner? They have to break down walls, remove concrete, and install SHUT FILH IS: large pipes. The noisiest work is scheduled to be done over Spring Break, during the hours of 8 a.m. to FIASCO! 4 p.m., so the Library will be very The Barrister's Saturday night (even more than now) noisy while we showing of the porn film "Bel Ami" are all trying to achieve the perfect intended to raise money for the La~ tan. School drinking society, didn't . This work inside the building is Instead, the Hutchins Hall smut fest necessary so that the heat, water and turned into a fiasco, with a criminal air conditioning will be ready when complaint being sworn against the the new building is completed. A lot · Lord High Chancellor John Lonsberg of what is going on now is preparation by the projectionist, Joel Russman. for the work that will be done in the The dispute between Lonsberg and Reading Room this sunnner. Russman was apparently precipitated Once the weather gets warm enough by.a quarrel over the salary to be to pour concrete, you construction pald Russman for working the three fans will have lots to look at. showings. Between the second and Highest priority is put on completing third showings a fracas occurred in the north end, adjacent to the dorm, which Russman was allegedly assaulted. which will be the machine room for Several of Ann Arbor's finest arrived the new addition. at 10:09 p.m. to put an end to the Several persons have asked how the disturbance. dirt can be moved out of the Quad . The Barrister's spring initiation when the frost load-limit ordinance ls scheduled to take place in law was the reason the dirt was put in library this Wednesday night. the Quad in the first instance . The Cheers! ordinance does not go into effect until the weather warms up enough to ~Ed.--This story was prepared from thaw the frost under the roads . The lnformation contained in the Ann uneven melting causes some parts of Arbor Police Department report. None the streets to be softer than others of the principals have been contacted and until the frost is entirely gone by the R. G. ) the heavy loads must be kept off the ~treet~, or potholes will result. SUMMER SES SION I TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 HOFSTRA MAY 29-JULV 9 WLSA LUNCH--Bring a brown bag or buy COURSES CREDITS a Lawyers' Club special and meet LAW Conflict of Laws 3 other ~omen. Noon/Faculty D.R. SCHOOL Criminal Procedure I 3 Debtor Creditor 3 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW SOCIETY--will show Evidence the movie "Role of the Interest 4 Family Law 3 Group_ Leader" plus the Disney Individual Income Tax cartoon short "Litterbug" -4pm/J_32HH Summer 4 International Law 2 SOCIAL COMMITTEE- Plan Night in the Program Land Use Planning 3 Tropics party, 7pm V-Bel~ . Secured Transactions 3 \~DNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 1979 SUMMER SESSION II P.A.D.--Bailiff jobs meeting , Noon/ JULY 11-AUGUST 24 236 HH. The Washtenaw County Court Administrator and Judge Ager's Business Organizations 4 bailiff will be present to explain Commercial Paper 3 the details of the bailiff program. For further information Communications Law 3 write or call Health Law 3 CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY - (51 6) 560-3636 Labor Law 3 Deadline for turning in interview Products Liability 3 cards . Noon/Placement Office. All · Wills, Trusts & Estates 4 present 2d years are eligible for Fall '79 externships in Wash., D.C. HOFSTRA WLSA NEWSLETTER--meeting. 1:30/WLSA SCHOOL OF LAW office (Lawyers' Club) The staff UNIVERSITY will be reorganized and the HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK 11550 possibility of changing the format ~.. ._.__._._.~_.._.__.aEma.a-..-am-.a.-.~ will be discussed. Interested persons please attend . NOTICE CHRISTIAN LAW STUDENTS--Bible study, PETITIONS FOR THE L.S.S.S . ELECTION 3:35/Cook Room. Romans 12. are now available at the L.S.S.S. Office (217 Hutchins Hall) . All LAW REVUE TALENT SHOW--meeting for petitions are due by Wednesday, r all participating acts (at least February 28, 1979 . l one representative from each) 4:00/Lawyers' Club Lounge.. FOR SALE--Plane ticket to Philadelphia ,J L.S.S.S.--regular meeting. 6 : 30/ one way, $50 on United Airlines. 1 LSSS Office . - - March 1, call Dave 764-8979. l I FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 WANTED--Unfortunate soul studying in ' Ann Arbor area for the July Mass. -~ NATIONAL LAWYERS .GUILD--Frank Wilkin- Bar exam to share cost of taped ~ son will speak on the Criminal Code, lectures. 971-1789 early a.m. or I Reform Act. 1 : 00/Law Club Lounge . J late p .m. A NIGHT IN THE TROPICS- LSSS So------~ cial Committee party, 9 pm Law Club Lounge. $2 tickets on sale all week MONDAY, FEBRUARY · 26 in front of room 100 HH 11-3:30, but not at the party. Free beer, tropic LAW SPOUSES--C .P .R. demonstration by al drinks, music, dancing, drawinr, the American Red Cross. 7:30pm/ for trip for two for week in Bahamas. Lawyers' Club Lounge.