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College of William & Mary Law School William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...) Archives and Law School History 1988 The Advocate (Vol. 20, Issue 6) Repository Citation "The Advocate (Vol. 20, Issue 6)" (1988). Student Newspaper (Amicus, Advocate...). 267. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers/267 Copyright c 1988 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/newspapers The AM1UIC" '. OLDI:ST "l.AW SCHo4F- voca e Marshall. -Wythe School of Law Vol xx, No.6 November 17, 1988 ' Eight Pages Priorities on Minorities BLSA Law Day Held by Beverly McLean Pro pcctive ludent The farshaJI- Wythe Black haron Phillip '. a .gradudte of Ll\v 5t udents Associati )n held Hampton University, said, "I il ~ second annual Law Day on am reali, impres ed by the Saturday. , ovemb'r L. 19 . family atm osphere a nd The thl:m of the conkrence. teamwork that I've een today. "A Day in the Life of a Law I'm eriously con. idering ' tudent" illuminated both Marshall-Wythe." rheoretical and pra ti al Alumnus Wanda lien, a aspects of day-to-day law sol practitioner in Hampt)l1, chool attendance. talked about the faculty at Twenty-fi\'e prospective Marshall-Wythe. In particular, tudents and four Marshall Wythe alumni attendcd the she said that her contracts conference. The student professor (Dean Timothy participated in mock classes Sullivan) helped her to "know taught by Profe sor Margaret contracts better than any other Spencer and A lemante Sdassie area of the law," and advised "seriousness in your approach 1984 is past, but the spirit of Big Brother lives on in Trial Advocac". Here a faceless and small group ses ions in drone of the Evil Empire videotapes Cheryl Arflin in action. Y which panel of students and to law schooL" al umni an wered questions Holland stressed that "this about law school life. Law conference was held to school tour and adn.issions encourage mcmbers of Virginia Plans Response for interview's with Faye Shealy, minorities to enter the /ega I Dean of Admission, pr vided profession and Dot ju t ~ to tudents with an opportunit to attend Marshall-Wythe. This Environmental Issues 'dcp r mont. G crnor ()craIJ "btain = r in depth ~ philosophy is consi tent with by Stel'e Mulroy sponsored by the knowledge about law school the .. , goal o[ expanding t he Describing the combined Envir nm nlul Luw Society on Raliles drafter! the. legi,.lation November 9. offering ~ A reception for conference to a regional event federal and state creating t he Council wlti !e he including ot her law schools in both pro pective studer ts and administration of Butt leman criticized the was worki!1g in the Arr lflley the planning." General's office. alumni concluded the dJy-Iong environmental i sues in Chesapeake Bay fund, charging Forty percent more conference. Virginia as "chaotic" and a that some of the programs The Council is abo students attended this year's re pon ible for overseeing all Sec nd year Helivi " h odgepodge", Keith being ub idized by the $55 confe-ence than last year's, million cleanup fund are Virginian matters in reg" .·d to Holland. coordinator of Law Bultleman, chief administ~ator accord ing to Holland. Day, aid that "the idea for for the Cou"ncil on the "nonsense", He also shart:: d a cleaning lip Chesapeake B<:y. Additionally, the conference few thought on the future of Buttlcman said the primary ~aw Day originated during Em'ironment, spoke to h1-W [h er] attendance at a imilar included advisors and alumni students on how the environmental Issues In duty here i "t o see thal the for the first time. The goals event at another schooL" She Commonwealth distributes its 'v irgi ni a. taxpayers are getting their for tlIe next conference include "approached the Marshall power to deal with Buttl man aid the reason money's worth" on tht $55 increasing the attendance of all million all ocated for the bay. Wythe administration and environmental matters. for th e disarray can be t;'aced these groups. The budgetary jump from $6 received enthusiastic support About twenty-five students to th e Virginia Constitution. million to $55 million since for [her] idea", attended the lecture, which was ArticlG Eleven call for consen'ation of natura ! 19 3 indicates how popular the resources in the tate and Chesapeake Bay i sue is, but manda t es " the "some programs try to jump Commonwealth's policy to on the bandwagon", diluting protect its atmosphere, ; lnds the cffectivenes' of the entire and water from poilu .ion, project, he said. impairment or destruction. for The recent growth of the the benefit, enjoyment. and Council \vas due to a "ueneral gen ral welfare of the people displeasure" with the abilitv of of the Commonwealth." the Council to respond' to localities on environmental The resultant pIethor.t of matters, Buttleman aid. New state guidelines, in addit;, -n to legislati on has created staff voluminous federal guide.ines, positions wh ose sole function is he said, leads to an unv ':eldy to respond to luestions by body of law. It also c.;u es localities about environmental difficulty for state attorney, im pact matters. because industries can aimost The Council identifies always find a provisiofl or environmental issues , measure to lend credence to researches the po licy their land dis, .. rbing acti\;ties. implications of those issues, The Council on the and then make Environment is a state af .;lJcy, recommendations to the created in 1972 to coon inate Governor on how to respond state activity in environn ;ntal to those environmental issues, matters. With fii'teen He said some of the current members and 2.+ employres it i ssues on Virginia'S is the 'smallest cabinet -level environmental agenda include The fine art of Power-Lounging was demonstrated by first-year tag-team combos "Bed office, but, as Butt I-:man the legal hurdles of changing Sores" and "Bed Sores Too" this past Friday, Nov. 1 ~. In the background, a captivated pointed out, that also ma"es it Neal McBrayer strikes a favorite pose. the most rapidly expa :ding Continued on Page Four P,age Two The Advocate Inter Alia __ --~~H~~~;D~~~~l~ IF I.{oc.> AIM. 'fovJ Whose Library ~b C-.rs ~ ~~T~ ~"~OE~ '"" ~IT HII"HE/i:. you <I>,I>J Is It Anyway? glT' ,~£ Tuesday's SBA meeting featured extended discussion of the 'rlov M~ bo ,,?u P/'"I: T€E IL... TWI",'$- Ov~ "R~n£.R.. new library policies and student dissatisfaction with them. The "ntl>t.... T"'l-4£. discussion turned, as SUCil discussions often do at this school, UJ FtY! '?OOIl to a larger complaint: a widespread student perception that no /VI II P-I C> I.JETrE $t one is listening to these concerns. Contrary to the opinion of new Librarian Jim Heller, the vast majority of students regularly using the library liked the .BOoI<!> Ml..>sr SE CHf'CI<£P o()r old shelf slip system. The system worke'd; when a book was not TO CARItEL.S WE (..o./ONr L.£T" YOe,) IJsc.L on the shelf, others looking for it knew immediately where it was, and students, generaily amicable and cooperative, worked something out. Now each missing volume triggers a trip to the Letters to the Editor circulation desk, a trip often fruitless because only books being used overnight need be checked out to a carrel. Nothing was broke, but it got fixed anyway, and we'd lay odds that the ON THE PRACTICAL SIDE ... students think matters ar~ now worse. Dear Editor, This letter is directec. to here. m some managerial rol! at a those students desiring a :ittle If Mr. Heller is unaware of student disgruntlement, it is not This letter is an attem ot to law fum or as a 'iolo- "practicality" in their law school S for want of trying on the students' part. Skepticism was inform students about - the practltioner, you .ould experience. expressed to Heller at the initial open meeting, meetings with course and let them know that ' consider taking the coun· . SBA Library Committee members, and in personal conversations Last spring, the law school if they are interested in The professor is' a offered a one-credit pass-fail since then. Heller has consistently been unreceptive to pleas enrolling they should lend their management consultant with 15 for a return to the old s)stem, modification of the new system, course (on a trial basis) titled support to Dean Sulliva:l ' in years experience who can or the addition of a concurrent, complementary system. "Law Practice Management." having it reinstated. charge top consultant fee.; fo!:, Approximately 15 students (Apparently the Dean has met his services. His contacts Official unresponsivenl ss is no new phenomenon at Marshall enrolled in the course offered some resistance from a brought guest speakers from Wythe. But library policies are an area where we should call Friday afternoons. I was one minority of faculty members.) out-of-state. The professo~ the tune, or at least sing the chorus. The library, after all, is of them. The course focused on polled Marshall-Wythe alumru supposed to be for our use. We use it more than faculty Dean Sullivan aIJld a specific problems of OpCI :iting before suggesting the course to members or visiting attorneys, and the policies governing it maJonty of the curriculum a small firm practice, ho·" ~ve r, the law school, and out of all should accommodate that fact of life.