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Prolific Reporter March 2, 1989

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most appropriate for you; and 4) a Published by the bunch of other things. Stu,dent Bar Assoc;i,atiQn U:. P. 5: ' - S'CHOOL GOV. GARDNER TO SPEAK THURSDAY Governor Booth Gardner will speak OF on "Washington's Next Centennial: LAW Legal Opportunities in Internation­ Prolific al Trade" this Thursday, March 30, at 4 p.m. in Room 501. The event is sponsored by the SBA and the Inter­ Reporter national Law Society. BAR PREPARATION STRATEGIES FROM UPS ALUMNI Those of you who are planning to BULLETIN BOARD sit for the bar this summer, don 't miss out on this chance to pick up some tips on how to prepare for it, both intellectually and emotional­ PANEL DISCUSSION ON ly, from alums who have been admit­ PRACTICING LAW IN A SMALL TOWN ted. Sponsored by the Law Alumni Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 28, the Society, the "Bar Preparation Board of Visitors' Student Services Strategies" discussion will be Committee will sponsor a panel Tuesday, April 4, from 4 to 4 p.m. , discussion on "Practicing Law in the in the Weyerhaeuser Lounge. Small Town; or Is There Life Outside Representatives from Barbri, BRAW Seattle?" The discussion will be in and the Stanley Kaplan Educational the Weyerhaeuser Lounge at 5 p.m. Centers will also present short and moderated by the Honorable Gerry overviews of their programs and L. Alexander, Chief Judge of the answer questions. Stop by for the Washington State Court of Appeals, whole program, or a part, but don 't Division II. forget to stick around after the The panelists will be Jeff Tolman program for wine, cheese and con­ of Poulsbo, Paul Stritmatter of versation with your soon to be Hoquiam (both serve on the Board of fellow alums. If you plan to at­ Governors of the Washington Bar tend, please sign up at Placement. Association), and Susan Dick Kirk­ patrick of Olympia (formerly of Port ATTENTION MAY GRADS! Angeles). They will speak from their STILL TIME TO ORDER ANNOUNCEMENTS own experiences about the realities Your Graduation Committee has of a small town practice covering come up with ELEGANT announcements topics from the lifestyle to earning that will make you $30 grand inves­ potential. tment at least look good. From Wilsie Cap and Gown, purveyors of GET READY FOR NEXT FALL'S the regalia, they are worthy of all JOB SEARCH of us. Gold-embossed, with a bevel­ The legal industry does most of led edge, they look great!! Best its hiring during the fall for the news - no minimum order - a strai­ following summer or for permanent ght $.38 each, plus the cards. If jobs, students are sometimes caught you don't like the card price, get off-guard. Now is the time to pre­ your own at PIP or wherever. A pare before the onslaught begins. sample and the order forms are Join Placement Services in Room 501 available at the Bookstore. Altho­ on Tuesday, April 4, at HIGH NOON to ugh it is too late to receive your learn: 1) exactly what to expect order by April 14 (orders had to be this fall; 2) what you can do now to in by March 24), you can still help decrease panic and stress; 3) order now and expect about a three­ what job search approach will be week delivery date. Do it NOW! Prolific Reporter - March 27, 1989 - Page 2

SMOKING IN THE LAW CENTER The Law Center Rental Building is LAST CHANCE FOR PACIFIC COAST not a smoking area for students. LABOR LAW CONFERENCE ~ Please refrain from smoking in the The UW Extension Program is spon- hallways and atrium areas of this soring the Pacific Labor Law Con­ building. ference to be held on April 21-22, The Building & Security office at the Westin Hotel. Students gets many complaints from the ten­ interested in attending FREE OF ants about students smoking on the CHARGE need to sign up in Placement fifth· floor by the elevators. and by this Thursday, March 30. Stu­ using the atrium as a lounge. the dents may also purchase tickets on atrium is a waiting area for the site at the registration table. See tenants' clients and should not be Placement for details or call used by students for any reason . Teresa A. Spellman at 543-2300 Security & Building Services per­ (Seattle) . sonnel will police these areas for student violators. REQUESTS FOR GRADE INFORMATION There is a smoking lounge on the Students often ask the Registrar first floor of the Law School next for grade information beyond the to the student lounge, PLEASE use final grade (e.g., "Did I get a this area to smoke. Thanks!! bump for class participation?") . The Registrar is authorized to give NO CLERKS FOR JUDGE RAMERMAN out only the final grade. A student Judge Ramerman of the King County who wishes to know how his or her Superior Court is not accepting grade was computed should contact applications for judicial clerks as the professor. If the student is previously noted . He will conduct unsatisfied with the professor 's interviews for the '90-'91 term NEXT expl anati on, the student may see YEAR. If you have questions, stop by the Academic Chair to find out if Placement. any further process is available .

ATTENTION 2Ls! EXTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY DEADLINE FOR CITY OF PUYALLUP Here is a unique opportunity to The application deadline for the earn up to six credits clerking for City of Puyallup interviews on five superior court judges . Kitsap campus (April 11) is this Friday, County Superior Court has openings March 31, at 1 p . m. in Placement . If for fall and spring semester '89- you are interested in prosecution, ' 90 for several 2Ls and 3Ls. Judi­ this may be for you! See Placement cial externs perform research and for more information. writing and observe courtroom proceedings. Work-study funds may ATTENTION 2Ls AND 3Ls! also be available. Contact Madelyn OPEN SIGN UP FOR KENNEWICK Botta Mays, Court Administrator, at Anyone can sign up for an on­ 876-7140. campus interview with the City of Kennewick until Thursday, April 6. UNIVERSITY OF PENN GRADS WANTED It's on a first-corne, first-serve If you are a 2L, 3L, or 4L , and basis so stop by Placement for more received your undergraduate degree information. from the University of Pennsylva­ nia , please stop by the Alumni/ae ATTENTION 3Ls! Affairs Office as soon as possible. SIGN UP FOR METRO MORTGAGE Thanks! Open sign-up for on-campus inter­ views with Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities of Spokane is available PLAY VOLLEYBALL WEDNESDAY NIGHTS on a first-corne, first-serve basis 7 to 9 p.m. at the YWCA. It's co­ until Tuesday, April 4. Stop by ed and is 52 . 50 so bring a friend Placement for more information. Prolific Reporter - March 27, 1989 - Page 3

BOOK BUY BACKS Room 501; The Nebraska Book Company will be Organizing the Discussiop___ Sec- in the Bookstore on May 4 and 5, tion, HIGH NOON in Room 501; from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. to purchase Tu_;:ping the II B" paper in to an "A" used books. We are aware that there paper, *:15 p.m. in Room 504; are exams the following week, how­ Adv~nc~d sentence style J;, HIGH ever, this is beyond our control. NOON in Room 502; Keep in mind that many colleges and Advanced sentence style II, 1 universities participate in book p.m. in Room 502. buy-backs and you can contact other schools to find our the dates. The FRIDAY, MARCH 31: UPS main campus bookstore will be ~pplying law to fact, 1 p.m. in buying books back May 8 through 12, Room 501. from 9 to 3 p.m.

WASHINGTON ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL NOTES FROM THE CHAIRMAN TO SPEAK ON METHOW VALLEY SKI RESORT CASE DEAN Environmental attorney David Bricklin, chairman of the Washington Upcoming events: Environmental Council, will speak to Mondah_ April 3: Richard A. Epstein Professor Settle's NEPA-SEPA class (Chicago) presents "A Libertarian Tuesday, March 28, at 3 p.m. in Room Reflects on the Law", at 5 p.m. in 502. Room 501. Reception following in The "Early Winters" case involves the Weyerhaeuser Lounge. a citizen challenge to the U.S. Forest Service Environmental Impact Wednesday, April 5: A faculty/staf ­ Statement that approved the cons­ f/student social hour in the Weyer­ truction of a large, destination ski haeuser Lounge from 3:30 to 4 : 30 resort in the Methow Valley. Every­ p.m. one is welcome and a wine and cheese reception will follow in the Weyer­ Friday, April 7: Clark Byse (Har­ haeuser Lounge. vard) presents "A Traditionalist Approach to Law" at HIGH NOON, in REVISED LEGAL WRITING WORKSHOPS Room 501. Reception follows in the FOR THIS WEEK Weyerhaeuser Lounge.

TUESDAY, MARCH 28: Qrganizing the Discussion Section, 7:15 p.m. in Room 504; SBA NOTES Wr_~ ting an effective issue state­ ment and statement of facts, HIGH NOON in Room 504, and 5 p.m. in Room 504; SBA POSITIONS OPEN Comen spelling miss takes and waze SBA President-elect Laurie Jin­ !:s>_ avqyg__ _ them, HIGH NOON in Room kins announces that two SBA Council 505; positions are open and invites any T_1:lrning the "B" paper into an "A" interested student to apply. Please paper, 1 p.m. in Room 503; contact Laurie Jinkins before 5 !'l~_iti~fective sentences, 8:15 p.m. on April 5, if you are inter­ p.m. in Room 504. ested. The first position is the Commun­ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29: ications Director. The duties of ~Ji~ing effective se~tences, 11 this position include: a . m. in room 505. 1. Production and editing of the PRo THURSDAY, MARCH 30: 2. Distributing the PR; ~ying law to fact, 7:15 p.m. in 3. Reviewing and proposing guide- .C... Prolific Reporter - March 27, 1989 - Page 4 lines and editorial policy to the SBA Council for the PRo STUDENT 4. Maintaining regular contact with the SBA President. ORGANIZATIONS 5. Handling all complaints regar­ ding SBA publications. The second position is the Library AT LA ELECTIONS THIS THURSDAY and House Chair. The duties include: ATLA will hold elections for 1. Reviewing policies regarding officers this Thursday, March 30, law school facilities and their use. at HIGH NOON in Room 501. ATLA 2. Working with the faculty House members who want to run for an Committee to oversee the maintenance office must contact Jon Tunheim by of the law school. Wednesday, March 29, to be put on 3. Work to improve the aesthetics the ballot. New officers will take of the law school. office on May 1. 4. Coordinating use of the student ATLA members must have paid the lounge . chapter dues to be allowed to vote 5 . Reviewing policies governing in this election. Payment can be the library acquisitions and opera­ made to Julie Lindstrom or Jon tions. Tunheim or left in the ATLA Box on the mezzanine. TWO ABA/LSD POSITIONS OPEN The ABA/LSD will be selecting two ATTENTION lLs AND 2Ls students to fill positions at UPS. The client Counseling Board is One second year student will be interviewing for '89-'90. If you selected as second-year representa­ would like to apply to the Board, tive. This person will be respons­ please submit a l-page memo telling i ble for recruiting new members, us about yourself and why you are setting up activities and events, interested in joining the Board . and representing UPS at three regio­ The memo should be placed in the nal meetings. The other position Client Counseling Box on the mezza­ available to a second or third year nine no later than 5 p.m., Friday, student will be responsible for March 31. Also, sign up for a n working on a regional level to interview. the sign-up sheet will circulate a newsletter among law be on the door of the client coun­ schools in Washington, Oregon , seling room on the first floor Idaho, and Montana. beginning Wednesday, March 29. If For more information concerning you have any questions leave a note ABA/LSD and these positions, please in the client counseling box. contact Trish Moran, Chris Green, Hugh Barber, or Mark McDougal. MOOT COURT BOARD WANTS NEW MEMBERS Please submit a brief letter of Anyone interested in becoming a application to the SBA office by member of the Moot Court Board next April 3. year should pick up an application from the Board room. There will be two information sessions. The first at HIGH NOON on March 28, and the last at 5 p.m. of CAMPEN & 14007 Lakeview Way N.W. ASSOCIATES G.g Harbor. WA 98335 that day (Wednesday). Both sessions Phone (206) 884-9028 FINANCIAL will be held in the Board room on SERVICES TAe (206) 279-9272 third floor. The applications are due no later than 5 p.m. Friday, March 31. Place them in the enve­ CARY l. CAMPEN Financial & Reti_nl PlannIng lope on the door. Individual & Group Insurance ORDER OF BARRISTERS Every year, the Moot Court Board nominates a maximum of eight indi- Prolific Reporter - March 27, 1989 - Page 5

vidualsfor membership in the Order does not need to be repaired. The of Barristers, a nationwide organi­ clothing does not have to be child­ zation honoring law students who ren's clothing necessarily because have made outstanding achievements the Project endeavors to outfit '- in Moot Court activities. To be Moms and Dads, too. Boxes for the eligible, a candidate must graduate clothing will be set up in the either this Mayor next December and Bookstore from March 27 to April 9. have participated in a Moot Court If you have any questions about the activity as a competitor. Involve­ project or want to get involved, ment as an administrator is also contact Bonnie Newton. taken into consideration. All inter­ ested 3Ls are encouraged to submit a WOMEN'S LAW CAUCUS MEETING letter of application which descri­ There will be a Women's Law bes any and all Moot Court activi­ Caucus meeting Monday, March 27, at ties in which they participated and HIGH NOON, in Room 104. Topics to the outcome of those events. Turn in be discussed include the spring re­ applications to the Board, attn: treat and the National Conference. Greg Zempel, in Room 319, by March Bring your lunch, your ideas and 30, at 5 p.m. Nominations will be your announcements. made during the first two weeks of April and will require the approval ATTENTION MAY, AUGUST AND DECEMBER of Dean Bond. GRADS Student speakers elections will ENVIRONMENTAL LAW SOCIETY TO MEET be held March 29, and 30, in the The ELS will meet on Wednesday, Student Lounge, from 8 a.m. to 9:10 AprilS, at 4 p.m. in Room 503. all ~ Here are the nominations: members and the public are welcome. Lenny Van Pelt, Connie Dillon, Annual elections will be held on Helen Bacon, Patricia McMahon, Kent April 12, at 4 p.m. in Room 503 for Caputo, Mark McDougal, Mark Fors­ President, Vice-President, Secretary trom, W. John Probst, and Timothy and Treasurer. All members should Dack. plan on attending. Candidates for Speaker give your "platform" to either Terry Lozano, PSLF GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING Bruce Walton or leave it in the WITH WINE AND CHEESE Graduate Committee slot located in There will be a PSLF general the mezzanine ASAP. membership meeting on March 31, from Nominations for the Faculty Award 5 to 7 p.m. in Room 500. Grant should be turned in to the Gradua­ applications will be presented for tion box, or left when you vote for selection. All members and interes­ Student Speaker. Nominations should ted students are welcome. A good be turned in no later than Thurs­ time is guaranteed. day, March 30.

HELP THE HOMELESS Phi Alpha Delta is sponsoring a ALTERNATIVE clothing drive for the Eugene P. RELIEF tone School project. The Project is by Mary Kohl run through the Tacoma YWCA, and offers education to homeless child­ Events for March 27 to April 3: ren in the Tacoma area. It is the Live music in Seattle includes, only program of its type in the Crowded House at the Moore Theater, country and other cities are hasten­ 4/1 and 4/2; a third and final show ing to copy its innovative format. has been added for Neil Diamond at The school not only educates child­ the Seattle Center Coliseum, 4/9; ren, but attempts to feed and clothe Harry Be1afonte performs at the them as well. PAD is helping the Paramount, 4/4. Project and asks you to donate your Actor Dennis Quaid, who is also unneeded or unwanted clothing that an accomplished singer, will be at Prolific Reporter - March 27, 1989 - Page 6

Parker's, 4/5. Backing Dennis will ion that taking a class from Pro­ be Bonnie Raitt's backup band, The fessor Reutlinger is preferable Eclectics. The MTV Headbangers Ball only to an imminent fear of se'rious at the Paramount, 4/3, features bodily harm - I'd like to say the Exodus, Helloween, and the band C.A. following: lives for, Antrax. Tickets for all I've taken two of the three clas­ of these events are available from ses he teaches. Yes, even after Ticketmaster. evidence, I volunteered for another Tickets are now on sale for a Reutlinger class. Why, you ask? recital May 4, in the Opera House by It ' s very simple. First, I want to tenor Jose Carreras. Carreras recen­ learn and he's committed to teach­ tly underwent a bone-marrow trans­ ing. He's organized, comprehensive, plant at the Fred Hutchinson Center and challenging. Yes, some days it in Seattle. This concert will be his is like being in a meat grinder. first post-recovery concert in the Second, his exams are straight­ U.S., and the proceeds will benefit forward and, above all, very fair. the Fred Hutchinson Center. 443-4700 Even though they are also tough . or 628-0888 for more information. Third, I feel as if I'm getting The Flying Karamazov Brother~ will real value for my money. At least host international stars of vaude­ until they raise the tuition again. ville in two performances in the Finally, when I write letters to Intiman Playhouse, 3/31. The perfor­ the editor portraying him as the mances will be videotaped and edited paradigm of fear and intimidation. into a TV special. 628-0888. he's able to laugh (a little). What At the Dome, The Tacoma Stars will more could I ask of a person en­ play Dallas, 3/29. The NCAA Women's trusted with helping me become a Basketball Championships will be lawyer. played on 3/31 and 4/2. Tickets are Margaret Brost available from Ticketmaster . ************************ On upper campus, The Tacoma Sym­ Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea phony Orchestra, with Edward Sefe­ itA pool need not be large to hold rian conducting and featuring Pepe beauty within pellucid depths. I Romero on guitar, will perform at remember one that occupied the the Pantages Center, 3/31 and 4/1. shallowest of depressions; as I lay Paul W. Schultz will conduct the outstretched on the rocks beside i~ Adelphian Concert Choir at Kilworth I could easily touch its far shore. Chapel, 4/1. At the Kittredge Gal­ This miniature pool was about lery, Bill Colby: Retrospective midway between the tide lines, and Prints will open 4/2, and run thro­ for all I could see it was inhabi­ ugh 4/16. 756-3419 for more informa­ ted by only two kinds of life. Its tion on these events. floor was paved with mussels. Their Robert Siegel, noted journalist shells were a soft color, the misty and co-host of NPR's "All Things blue of distant mountain ranges. Considered", will give a free lec­ and ~heir presence lent an illusior. ture called "Private Lives, Public of depth. The water in which they Officials, and the Media," Wednes­ lived was so clear as to be invisi­ day, April 5, at 7 p.m. in Kilworth ble to my eyes; I could detect the Chapel. interface between air and water only by the sense of coldness on my fingertips. The crystal water was LETTERS filled with sunshine - an infusion to the and distillation of light that EDITOR reached down and surrounded each of these small but resplendent shell­ fish with its glowing radiance. POST SCRIPT . Dear Editor, Lest I leave you with the impress- Prolific Reporter - March 27, 1989 - Page 7

would still be winners. However, on Tuesday night before RUMINATIONS the polls were closed, the votes by Jeff Fishel cast on Wednesday, Monday and Tuesday during the day were appare­ The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ntly counted and tallied. And these reported last Saturday that the same people who tallied the votes community of Woodinville in north went through the school to corral King County missed becoming a city more people to vote prior to the by 13 votes. The County Clerk had to polls closing at 9:10 p.m. Apparen­ destroy 37 ballots because the tly, these people tried to extend people punched the wrong holes, or the voting time to 9:15 p.m. to didn't sign their names or for some allow a class that let out at 9:10 other minor irregularity. p.m. to vote. In our own elections for SBA This behavior, if it actually Council positions and for various happened, should only concern the amendments to the SBA charter and 300 people who bothered to vote in Student Code of Conduct, there were the election. The remaining two­ also minor irregularities but no thirds of you who did not vote have votes were discounted nor destroyed. already proved your willingness to Apparently, neither the SBA nor the be sheep. One-third of the students Student Code of Conduct have rules who attend this school have imposed that determine when a vote is inva­ a $37 bill on all of us to support lid and when an election is inaccu­ the SBA next year. One-third of the rate. Nor are there rules to deter­ students decided who shall repre­ mine who may monitor the polls and sent students on the Faculty co~mi~ tally the votes nor govern their ttees that are responsible for conduct while performing those recommending tuition increases, who functions. will teach us law, who should be The run-off election for Vice­ given tenure, and what we are President and Academic Standards was taught. One-third of the students proof that bad things happen in decided who will be spending a threes. First, on the first day of budget of $26,000 plus to which we the run-off, it began to snow. The all contributed. election officials decided to shut­ I am concerned about what : down the polls at 5 p.m. Second, the consider abuses of my right to following Monday morning, Jinkins vote. When I vote, I want to know discovered that the polling machine that it has a much weight as the was broken. Thus, when the polls next person. When I vote, I don't opened up a 5 p.m. that evening, the want the people who tally to tally voters had to cast paper ballots. it until after the polls close. Third, last week it was discovered When I vote, I don't want it to be that eight people did not sign their treated as a pawn in some game that names in the proper spot on the child politicians believe adult roster of students, therefore the politicians play. number of ballots counted did not The SBA and the Student Code of equal the number of students who Conduct should be amended with signed off. rules that guarantee that a per­ 'The final result was that Brantley son's vote will treated with as Jackson won the Vice-Presidency by much respect as that person's nine votes over Mary Pate, and ~A'~~ personal property. The SBA should ~.')6'J won the Academic· Standards guarantee that the monitors and position by 12 votes over David talliers should be objective, non­ Snell. participants. The SBA should estab­ There was no way to tell who did lish rules so that irregular votes not sign-off, nor for whom those are destroyed and not counted. And people voted. Assuming the worse at the very least, SBA officials case scenario, Jackson and lfoJ.'.1 should respect my right to vote. Job Offer to Feminist Scholar May Mark Turn · ,.

0 ' . ,. ByTAMAR LEWIN recognize other models of scholar­ matter. Last week, Catharine MacKin­ ship than the traditional one." ". think a lot of people Initially That has not always been the · .' non, a leading feminist legal feel threatened by her Ideas," said . , scholar and a critic of the legal sys­ case. Indeed, the very process of Dean Bollinger. "She starts talking considering her as a teaching can­ about the sexual relationships be­ tem, received a telephone call of­ ': fering a tenured seat on the faculty didate has led to bruising baules tween men and women and people .. of the University of Michigan Law among the tenured faculty at some don't want to listen. But as you look School. of the schools where she has at what she's written, the force of And whether or not Ms. MacKin­ taught. The decision to offer her a her scholarship and the quality of non, who has never taught at the visiting faculty slot at Yale, for ex­ her mind becomes more and more University of Michigan, accepts ample, was preceded by months of apparent." the Job, the offer may represent a debate, a number of. confidential Joseph Weiler, the professor who kind of turning point for legal memorandums about the merits of headed the appointments commit­ academia. her work and two lengthy meetings tee, said that reading so much of What makes the offer to Ms. that polarized the faculty. Ms. MacKll1non's works had been MacKinnon noteworthy Is that so Ms. MacKinnon'S supporters "a transformatlve experience" for many of the feminist academics said sevp.ral Yale faculty members him, and, he thought, for the fac­ who criticize the I~gal system as a at the meetings last year aUacked ulty as a whole. male-biased institution have had Ms. MacKinnon's work as "ex­ "An overwhelming majority trouble winning tenure. These crit­ tremist polemics" rather than ics often find themselves ho"n('in~ scholarship, while others ques­ from one visiting professorship to tioned whether someone so ac­ another, with their research and tively Involved In politics could Tenured law writing dismissed as marginal to really be a top-notch scholar. mainstream legal studies. 'Degrees of IRJIOrance' school posts are 'Called to the Priesthood' In one particularly harsh memo­ Catharine MacKinnon, who re­ Ms. MacKinnon, a visiting randum, Prof. Geoffrey Hazard rare for critics of teacher at the Yale Law School, ceived an offer of a tenured seat wrote that It was " not clear that has been an unusually controver­ on the faculty at the University she has genuine comprehension of the system. sial figure within the legal profes­ of Michigan Law School. law." The memorandum said, sion. While she has received wide­ "There are degrees of Ignorance, spread praise for the theoretical or worse, that may be outweighed work that helped transform sexual taught at seven Jaw schools In the by brilliance, but by any canons of harassment from a fact of work­ last 10 years. Ms. MacKinnon said academic responsibility Ms. voted for her," Professor Weller. she had never sought tenure before MacKinnon seems to have gone be­ said. "Once we put together the place lire Into a recol!nized form of and had not been convinced that a sex discrimination, Ms. MacKin­ yond them." file, and read her works, It became , . non has been widely criticized for lire in legal academia could allow By contrast, the Michigan offer one of the easiest cases we had to her work In drafting, and cam­ her to do all the things she wanted seems to have been made with deal with this year. To the extent paigning for, local laws defining to do. comparatively little dissent. that feminist jurisprudence Is "I take It as a victory for women, Lee Bollinger, the dean of the becoming part o( the legal culture pornography as a violation of In that you can hold out for the in­ women's civil rights. Michigan law school and Ms. she Is undeniably the leading fig: tegrity of your work and still sur­ MacKinnon's main backer, said ure. • consider her a major So when the call came from vlve," she said. HI understand It as that as faculty members read scholar, a major social theorist. Michigan, "It was kind of like being an expression of the seriousness more of her work, they became And we know she's a political ac­ called to the priesthood," said Ms. with wh ich they take the kind of more Impressed wilh her scholar­ tivist, we know c:he's an engaged MacKinnon, 41 years old, who has work I do, and their willingness to ship and less put of( by her subject scholar, and we're glad of that."

•______1 · , . ' PACULTY AUCTION A SMASHING SUCESS

Many thanks to all who donated and participated in this year's faculty auction. Remember, if you were a buyer at the auction you will get tickets to the Law Revue show gratis. Tickets will be in the Bookstore by Monday, April3rd.

LAW REVUE- APRIL 1~- TEMPLE THEATER

We have had the eItraordinary good fortune to be able to book the Temple Theater's Grand Ballroom for this year's show. The show will begin at 8:00 P.M. on Friday, Apri114th, at the Temple, which is located on St. Helens.(Exact adress to be printed later) Due to the auction's sucess and other strokes of good luck this year's tickets will only cost a mere $2.00 at the Bookstore, or $3.00 at the door. So get ready for lampoonery, comedy and music, followed by a dance, with plenty of good munchies and other sundries. As usual. a good time is guaranteed for alll

ACT PROPOSALS DUE

Nows the time, the time is now, to solidify and commit to paper an idea of the skit you and your compatriots have conceptualized. The Acts will be limited to 10 minutes, and your proposal must be turned in to the SBA office or Kathleen Kelp man by April 7th so that we may structure this year's program. just put the name of your group or skit, members' names, and a short description of what you plan to do. We will also be asking for volunteers to help serve, set up, take tickets, etc. so keep this in mind also. If you have any questions just accost one of these people: Martin Duenhoelter, Paul Ferris. Laurie jinkins, Renee Alsept, Howard Comfort, Brantley jackson. Ace Forsythe.