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Boston College Law School Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School Sui Juris Law School Archive 2-1-1967 Sui Juris, volume 11, number 02 Boston College Law School. Student Bar Association Follow this and additional works at: http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/suijuris Part of the Legal Education Commons, and the Legal History, Theory and Process Commons Recommended Citation Boston College Law School. Student Bar Association, "Sui Juris, volume 11, number 02" (1967). Sui Juris. Book 40. http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/suijuris/40 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Archive at Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sui Juris by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. /~ LAW LIBRARY MAR 14 1957 Volume 11 February 1967 SBA REPORT Number 2 SUI JURIS Joseph M. Hall NEWS JOURNAL OF THE President STUDENT BAR ASSOCIATION Student Bar Association BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Rowland V. Lucid, Jr. '67 Two other dances were held during the first se EDITORIAL BOARD mester. The Christmas dance was an obvious success Oliver H. Barber '68 as was the egg nog and other assorted cheer which Anthony J. DeMarco '67' we dispensed shortly before the Christmas vacation. Paul P. Flynn '67 The newly formed SBA Placement Committee John M. MuIIahy '67 conducted a Summer Placement Seminar on Decem Donald R. Perry '67 ber 8th for the benefit of first and second year stu Peter N. Rogers '67 During the past weeks, the Student Bar Associ- dents. Several upperclassmen related their legal ex Charles W. SuIIivan '67 ation has made creditable progress toward some periences during the past summer and commented on ASSOCIATES of its objectives. Perhaps it would be best to set forth how they were able to obtain such employment. The Charles A. AbdeIIa '67 a status report together with some observations as to committee has also compiled correspondence from law Richard C. Babineau '69 what more can and should be accomplished. firms which have either interviewed or expressed an Peter Brown '69 Through the efforts of Professor James Houghtel interest in the law school. Several inquiries have also Thomas H. Brown '69 ing and the Taney Law Club two seminars on pro been made to explore the possibilities of increased Leo Carroll '69 fessional responsibility have been held, and several interviews with business corporations. A survey of Our cover depicts that upon which law school success Gregory H. Hren '68 more are planned. The Student Bar Association has the student body indicated a widespread interest in is based - the examination. What is it that makes a James J. Mullen '68 sought only to broaden student interest in the series corporate employment. man enter the legal profession? How does a law stu John F. Murphy Jr. '67 and perhaps assist in establishing a continuing format. A second committee has met several times to make dent view his legal education? Should he be given We hope that through continued interest such a pro revision of the Constitution of the Association. Its more than is presently available? Sui Juris presents Robert J. ODonnell '69 gram will become a permanent part of the co-curric work is near completion and the suggested changes possible answers to these questions in this issue. ALUMNI CO-ORDINATOR ular activities at the law school. will be presented to the students for their approval. Sheila E. McGovern The Forum has undergone some administrative l1he Standing Committee on Elections has also proved changes which should improve the overall program most effective in publicizing and conducting elections. ming for the remainder of the year. The Board of During the Freshman class elections, renewed inter SUI JURIS is published four times during the Governors has allocated a thousand dollars for this est was expressed in the Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree. academic year by the Student Bar Association IN FUTURE ISSUES: year's speakers series and we hope that every cent of This is not a new discussion at Boston College. In the of Boston College Law School, for the· benefit it will be used to build a viable program. Now that past several years several student referenda have been of the students, faculty, alumni, and friends of Miranda from the Back Seat the post-Christmas lag of exams and brief writing submitted to the faculty which indicated a broad the School, at 925 Washington Street, Nor has passed, the Forum should be presenting a stimu student support for the adoption of the degree. Yet, wood, Massachusetts. Advertising rates on re lating and diversified program. though there have been very few arguments presented Comments on the Marketing System quest. Please address all communications to The several committees of the SBA have been very against adoption, the reasons for such a change have the editorial office at- active and in some instances have completed their been somewhat unsubstantiated. We hope to present . Report on Berney's Raiders BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL obligations for the year. This is true particularly of both sides of the coin and consequently help to place BRIGHTON, MASS. 02135 the Social Committee which has made the final ar more weight on the student body's ultimate choice. rangements for this year's Barrister's Ball which will I have corresponded with the President of the law 332-3200, extension 300 or 405 be held on Saturday, April 1st at the Statler-Hilton, school's Alumni Association, Mr. William E. Ryan, Boston. (Continued on page 30) FEBRUARY, 1967 3 That we prevented self-determination through the respect for "Charley"; and great sympathy for the over the constitution. Dr. Dan refused to speculate electoral process simply is not true. popular forces. on who might be responsible for the attempt on his The Gibbons article ends advocating that which The Saigon Military Junta announced that 80% of life. he concludes probably will lead to a Communist na those eligible voted in the Constituent Assembly elec Three weeks earlier Mr. Van had been assassinated. tion emerging in South Viet Nam. He states that this tion last September. There is no way to verify that Within an hour of the crim~, the government an LETTERS need not be a disaster if the nation is neutral. Has he figure. However, I do not doubt it. I predicted in an nounced the arrest of twenty year old Vo Van En, ever heard of a neutral Communist nation! Even article published in the Boston Globe the morning who allegedly admitted Viet Cong membership and Yugoslavia, while receiving hundreds of millions of of the election that a sufficient number of people participation in the murder. A military court has United States aid, was not neutral - we need only would vote for Saigon to claim a victory. I stated that since sentenced him to death. The clandestine N. 1. F. Surrender Policy, Communist Style look at its UN. pro-Soviet voting record to see this. it was not a true reflection of popular feelings and radio disavowed Viet Cong connection with Van's It is far better to fight over there than here but that it was not a free election. The people voted be death. then there are those who are against opposing Com cause they were coerced into voting. If they did turn Mr. Van was the leading Southern-born political I f William J. Gibbons' views are typical of the munism anywhere. Let's avoid accepting the kind out in large numbers it was because they feared re figure and it was widely thought that if free elections US.A.ID. I feel certain the "other war" which it of thinking which helped lead to making Yugoslavia, prisal more from the police than they did from the were held, he would be elected President. His widow, is waging is doomed. China and Cuba Communist and learn from our mis Viet Congo at the burial service, publicly accused the Military Although Gibbons mentions Viet Nam as a rice takes there and elsewhere. Former Communists and The people who lived in areas controlled by the Junta of his murder. Two leading Vietnamese news exporter in peace time, it probably never occurred to other authorities on Communism tell us to know the Government in daylight hours were issued green iden papers attempted to comment on Van's assassination him that that fact may be a strong factor in world party line so as to be able to detect the enemy's tification cards. Upon presenting oneself at the polls and were consequently suppressed. Publication of the Communism's effort to conquer this area. propaganda. the card would be officially stamped. Those not able Saigon Post was suspended for two weeks, and the He states that the bulk of the fighting in Binh I fail to note any difference between the position to produce validly stamped cards after the election Viet Nam Guardian was permanently shut down. Thuan Province is done by poorly trained, poorly led put forth by Gibbons and the Communist Party's could expect "administration" and "police" difficulties. The writer predicts that there will be another at and demoralized regional popular forces rather than position on the South Viet Nam war. The most kind A refugee dependent on the government for the sup tempt on Dan's life, and that a third victim will be the well trained and well equipped A.R.V.N. He fails thing I can say is that it appears this young man is port of his family had no choice but to vote.