The Docket Historical Archives 12-1-1984 The Docket, Issue 4, December 1984 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/docket Recommended Citation "The Docket, Issue 4, December 1984" (1984). The Docket. 110. https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/docket/110 This 1984-1985 is brought to you for free and open access by the Historical Archives at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Docket by an authorized administrator of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law Digital Repository. drcetingij THE Vol. XXI, No. 4 DOCKETTHE VILLANOVA SCHOOL OF LAW December, 1984 Placement Stats PAULING: END ARMS INSANITY Improve Nobel Laureate Blasts Reagan Administration by Jill Aline Cheilik by Michael McGrath Looking for a job? The new Board of Con- Students, faculty, and members of the suitors survey for 1983-1984 has come out, community packed rooms 29 and 30 on and the VLS Placement Office statistics are Monday, November 12 to listen to two time very impressive. 75% of the graduates from Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling deliver a the class of 1984 had legal jobs at the time of speech entitled "Nuclear Arms Control and graduation. Of this 75%, obtained their World Peace: What the Future Holds." The jobs through the Placement Office, from International Law Society sponsored Paul­ on-campus and 4-in-l interviews, and from ing's appearance in conjunction with the jobs listed in the Office. Law School. The number of on-campus interviewers In his speech, Pauling sharply criticized has risen considerably over just the past the participation of the United States in the three years alone. During the 1983/84 year, arms race. He argued that the destructive there were 37 new employers who had not potential of nuclear war posed too substan­ previously interviewed at VLS. As of April tial a risk to continue the arms race. He also in the 1982/83 survey year, there were 92 scolded the Reagan Administration for its recruiters in total; 60 on-campus inter­ rhetoric and conduct, charging that it had viewers and 32 4-in-l interviewers. As you exacerbated tensions in the international might expect, the largest number of these community. interviewers were from Philadelphia firms, Dean John E. Murray, Jr. gave Dr. Paul­ with out-of-state firms finishing second ing a warm introduction. Pauling, a re­ and government agencies and corporations nowned chemist and pfeace activist, tied for third. The final tally for the received a bachelor of science degree in 1983/84 survey year showed a total of 120 chemistry from Oregon State University, recruiters, a substantial increase from the and received his doctorate from the Califor­ previous year. So far in the 1984/85 year, nia Institute of Technology. He has also the number of on-campus interviewers, Nodel Laureate Pauling addresses S.R.O. crowd at Villanova. received more than thirty honorary de­ through October, (including 4-in-l s) is grees. only 9 behind last year's total number. Pauling was awarded the NobeJ Prize for Therfe have been 74ori-campus and 37 4-in- Peace in 1963 for his role in bringing about 1 recruiters, for a year-to-date total of 111. the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty between the For those currently seeking a job who say United States and the Soviet Union. In they don't know anyone who's had an LAW REVIEW BOUNCES BACK 1953 Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize interview: better ask your friends again. As for Chemistry for his work in that field. of 10/23/84,141 of the second year students by Scott Fe^ey comers to the Law Review spend much of In 1970, Pauling gained international (65% of them,) and 130 of the 3L's (63%) The Villanova Law Review is currently their time checking sources and proofread­ attention when he asserted that massive have had interviews. faced with a tough challenge. This year's ing. They are also required to write a 20-25 doses of Vitamin C could cure the common The Placement Office would love to be staff must complete the two issues left over page casenote and a shorter casebrief on an cold. Later, he said the substance could able to find jobs for all students who seek from last year and move on to complete issue addressed by the Third Circuit Court help cure other ills, including cancer. That them. First year student looking for a their own volume on schedule. Tom of Appeals. Associate Editors write "com­ contention is still a subject of controversy. summer job? Marie Helmig, assistant Spencer, the current Editor-in-Chief of the ments," while many third year members Pauling began by expressing his confi­ placement director, says there are usually Law Review, is optimistic that his staff can have the option to draft a comment or a dence that we live in an era when war will more jobs than there are students to fill meet the challenge. "Everybody's been casenote. The material which finally ap­ not occur. At the same time, he noted that them. Think you have troubles with inter­ working very hard," Spencer says. "The pears in each addition is roughly split be­ an accident that the authorities could not viewing? The Placement Office will hold a second issue of last year's volume was out a tween that of outside authors (including, control could wipe out the entire human mock interview for you if you want one, so few weeks ago, and Issue #3-4 should be out occasionally niembers of the Villanova Law race. that you can experience the actual atmos­ very shortly. The first issue of volume 30, School faculty) and the work of student Describing the present as an especially phere of an interview without the pressure. which is our volume, should be out some­ authors. Villanova, unlike other law crucial point, Pauling said that he had ex­ So if you're looking around for a job your­ time in March only about a month behind schools, solicits material for publication. pected that before the recent presidential self and haven't found anything that suits schedule." According to Spencer, many contributors election, President Reagan would an­ you, try the Placement Office. "The According to Spencer, a couple of prob­ appreciate the fact that the Law Review nounce that his policy of accelerating the statistics are very encouraging," says lems developed last year that contributed expresses a continued interest in their United States' build-up of nuclear weapons Marie Helmig. "Villanova's statistics are to the current lag in the production sche­ work. had forced the Soviet Union to the bargain­ rising comparably with the area's better dule. An author who was supposed to ap­ Along with the publication of the Law ing table. "As it turned out, he didn't have known law schools. It shows that Villanova pear in the 1983 Law School Symposium Review, the staff sponsors a symposium in to," said Pauling, indirectly commenting graduates are really starting to be in de­ the Spring on a special topic of law. This on the fact that the current stalemate be­ mand." held annually in the Spring never submit­ ted an article for the special Symposium year's topic will Federal Rules in Evi­ tween the U.S. and the Soviet Union did not issue of the Law Review. The staff delayed dence. A panel of several experts, chaired adversely affect President Reagan's recent publication hoping they would receive the by Prof. Packel, will present papers on the reelection. Avoiding direct criticism of Rea­ article by the time of the symposium, but topic in an event open to the entire commu­ gan, Dr. Pauling maintained that "Rea­ the article never arrived. The Law Review nity. These papers will later appear in the gan's solution is to replace some of his was also forced to switch publishers last special Symposium issue of the Law Re­ irrational advisors." year. The printer in Philadelphia that used view. Pauling discussed the changing percep­ to publish the Law Review folded. Now As if publication of five issues of the Vil­ tions concerning life on earth after a nu­ each manuscript must be sent to a pub­ lanova Law Review is not a big enough feat clear war. "We feel uncertain about what v lisher in Nebraska. in itself, the idea for a second publication is the aftermath would be like. We do not The faculty and the administration do currently being discussed among the fa­ know whether the fallout would subse­ not appear to be overly worried about the culty. The idea for a second, specialized law quently eliminate the rest of the human slack in the Law Review's production sche­ journal was the product of Dean Murray. race." dule. Dean Murray remarked, "There is no Although still only a topic for debate, Dean Pauling then mentioned the concept of law review in the United States that is not Murray feels a second journal will give the "nuclear winter," which scientists somewhat behind." The Dean expressed more students the opportunity to partici­ have discussed recently. A recent issue of confidence in the ability of the current staff pate in in-depth legal research and writing, the Atlantic explored this theory in detail. to pick up the slack from previous issues. an activity he described as a "uniquely It suggests the possibility that the dust and Several faculty members also shared in the educational experience." "The process of smoke and particles produced by a nuclear view that it is not at all unusual for a law legal research, digging into every crevice blast might be voluminous enough to cut review to fall behind in production.