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Alumni Connection Cover Page IN THIS ISSUE New AMVETS clinic at Issue 1, Volume 1 September 25, 2009 Chapman Page 5 Alum broke baseball color barrier By Iman Sorat Get to know your professors Ask some of the baseball Pages 8-9 fans around campus to tell you who Emmett Ashford is Crude: Courier staff and chances are you will be met with blank stares and writer at the premiere more questions than answers. Page 11 Ask those same baseball fans to tell you who broke Why does law school baseball’s color barrier and suck? most will answer, “Hall of Page 13 Famer Jackie Robinson,” who became the first African- American to play profes - Sick of bad health care sional baseball in the modern coverage? So is this era when he debuted for the guy. National League Brooklyn Page 13 Dodgers in 1947. Fewer fans can tell you that Hall of Famer Frank Chapman alumnus Emmett Littleton Ashford became Major League - Dolby broke the color line in Baseball’s first black umpire on April 9, 1966. A message from the American League later that same year, or that Hall of managed the Cleveland Indi - milestones, fewer still could the Editor Famer Frank Robinson be - ans in 1975. tell you that on April 9, 1966, By Jean-Laurent Pouliot came the first African-Amer - But of the select few who ican manager when he knew of the aforementioned See ASHFORD page 2 Dear Reader, Law deans face off on Constitution Thank you for picking up By Tara Simon moderator. a copy of The Chapman Staff Writer At tension were the clas - Law Courier , Chapman sic concepts of constitutional University School of Law’s On September 24th, the original intent and evolving very own student-run periodical. I sin - Battle of the Deans took interpretation as viewed by cerely hope you enjoy perusing the place at Beckman Hall. these two great constitu - pages of our first edition of the year. As Dean John Eastman, of tional scholars and at times you will no doubt recognize, The Chapman University School ideological foes. The Stu - Courier team has been blessed with an of Law, and Dean Erwin dent Bar Association, the influx of incredible talent, and the sen - Chemerinsky, of UCI School American Constitution Soci - ior editors and I have been very im - of Law, were the event’s fig - ety and the Federalist Soci - pressed by the enthusiasm and vigor of Dean Chemerinsky, left, and Dean ureheads while Chapman’s ety sponsored this event. Eastman the many contributors to this edition. own Professor Celestine See READER page 3 McConville was the debate The Chapman Law Courier kindly acknowledges the support of Practical Academic Support Services and Fleming’s Fundamentals of Law for their sponsorship of this issue ASHFORD: Alum broke baseball color barrier From page 1 account of his skin color. Despite such challenges, Chapman alumnus Emmett Ashford persevered and taught Littleton Ashford became himself how to umpire. Major League Baseball’s first Blocked from umpiring in the black umpire, when he Majors, Emmett spent fifteen stepped onto the field in Wash - years toiling in the minor ington D.C. to officiate the leagues and developing his American League’s season- unique officiating style. opener between the now-de - Part of his eclectic style was funct Washington Senators STAFF to wear French cuffs with and the Cleveland Indians. Jean-Laurent Pouliot ... Chief Editor elaborate cufflinks when um - Yet, unlike those other pio - [email protected] piring. Although only five- neers, there is no plaque at the Aaron Goben ... Sr. Managing Editor foot six-inches tall, Ashford’s National Baseball Hall of [email protected] famous “Steee-ee-rike” call Fame to recognize Emmett Asal Nadjarzadeh ... Sr. Photographer would fill the ballpark. Ashford’s achievements. [email protected] When Ashford finally While attending Chapman Blythe Harris ... Sr. Opinion Editor reached the Majors in 1966, he University in the mid-1930s, [email protected] was faced with bigotry from and serving as the first sports Lauren Hazarian ... Sr. Entertainment Editor fans, players and even some editor of the school’s newspa - [email protected] members of his own officiat - per, Ashford also played back- Mike Grassi ... Sr. News and Features Editor ing crew, yet he never tried to up centerfielder for a local [email protected] make himself the victim. amateur baseball team called Nicole Marchandani ... Sr. Opinion Editor He always kept his dignity the Mystery Nine. [email protected] and his smile as he lived out On one fateful day, the um - Stephen Frieder ... Sr. Articles Editor his dream, which culminated pire that was scheduled to of - [email protected] during the 1970 World Series ficiate the game failed to show when he was assigned as an up. Out of necessity, Emmett Melissa Newman ... Layout umpire. took on the role of the judge Julie Anne Ines ... Layout/Jr. News and Features Editor The Emmett Ashford Soci - behind the plate. Amber Hurley ... Marketing, Admin./Jr. Opinion Editor ety was formed by law stu - Ashford took to the posi - Jessica Yim ... Marketing, Admin./ Jr. News and Features dents at Chapman to help Mr. tion, and his natural show - George Hartline ... Staff Writer Ashford gain the recognition manship made his officiating Tara Simon ... Staff Writer that he deserves, and help him Alex Samofalova ... Jr. News and Features Editor as much of an attraction to the enter the National Baseball Cecilia Hong ... Jr. News and Features Editor fans as the game itself. Hall of Fame. Edward Coe ... Jr. Opinion Editor Ashford’s story is one of a We have been working Ian Silverthorne ... Jr. Opinion Editor different era in American his - with Ashford’s daughter, Jared Kelly ... Jr. Entertainment Editor tory. Adrienne Bratton, to accom - Joanne Lembo ... Jr. Opinion Editor The Supreme Court was plish this goal. If you are in - Jon Mason ... Jr. News and Features Editor still four years away from the terested in joining the Julie Chang ... Jr. News and Features Editor famous Brown decision in Emmett Ashford Society, or Katelyn Walsh ... Jr. News and Features Editor 1952, when Mr. Ashford took aiding our efforts to get Mr. Lindsay Sullivan ... Jr. Entertainment Editor a leave of absence from a Ashford into the Hall of Fame, Luis Gonzalez ... Jr. Opinion Editor well-paying job at the United Mary Liu ... Jr. Opinion Editor please contact Iman Sorat at States Postal Service to pursue Mellissa Mielke ... Jr. Entertainment Editor [email protected]. his dream of umpiring in the Scott McIntyre ... Jr. News and Features Editor Major Leagues. Thomas Corhiran ... Jr. Photographer Segregation was a way of Will Hadikusumo ... Jr. Entertainment Editor Background information life in many parts of the coun - David Finley ... Faculty Supervisor provided by: try in the 1950s and baseball Larry Gerlach, The Men In umpire schools were no ex - A special thank you to Stacy Leventhal for her contributions Blue (Viking, 1980) to The Courier ception; Ashford was summar - ily refused admission on Page 3 Career Services: Taking Interview with award-winning the job market by storm Professor Tehranian By Blythe Harris cluded being a participant in the Sr. Opinion Editor Elder Law Clinic and externing By Mary Liu When I asked if he could give at the as an extern at the Orange Jr. Opinion Editor the 1Ls advice on how to suc - “Chapman is my school,” County District Attorney’s of - ceed both in law school and in Suzanna Adelizi proudly stated, fice. Both of these experiences If you watch ABC’s Night - their legal careers, Professor eyes sparkling, during an inter - allowed her to develop advo - line , or read articles on legal is - Tehranian encouraged us to view I conducted with her re - cacy skills and ultimately made sues in such publications as the specialize in an area of law that garding her recent promotion to the law “come alive.” Los Angeles Times , you may “fulfills another part of you.” Director of Career Services. Following law school, Adelizi have heard of Chapman Law For Professor Tehranian, this Suzanna Adelizi is an alumna of worked at the criminal defense professor John Tehranian. Pro - specialty is the intersection of Chapman University School of firm of Kenneth L. Schreiber, fessor Tehranian also recently law and art, as well as teaching Law, having graduated in 2005. after which she returned to received “Top Lawyer” distinc - his craft. He emphasized that it During her time at as a student Chapman as an Associate Direc - tion from OC Metro magazine, is “a function of outside inter - at Chapman, Adelizi was, tor in Career Services in 2008. recognizing him for his expert - ests” that makes a job more en - among other things, a contribut - Her current position as Director ise in entertainment law and in - joyable and drives us to excel ing editor with the Nexus Jour - of Career Services allows tellectual property. at our legal work. nal and President of the Public Adelizi to combine her interests This past week, we were for - As a partner at One LLP Interest Law Foundation. Al - in law, teaching, and counseling tunate enough to land an inter - (formerly Turner Green), Pro - though Adelizi has many fond in a job that she finds both chal - view with Professor Tehranian. fessor Tehranian was asked memories of her time as a Chap - lenging and rewarding. See TEHRANIAN page 12 man student, her favorite in - See CAREER page 12 READER: Articles are now more tailored to law school community From page 1 one more point of contact by which past stu - tion, remember that this is your paper. Our The Courier has undergone some notable dents can keep informed about the happen - next edition will appear in the beginning of changes this year.
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