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The Loyola Reporter Law School Publications 4-1988 The Loyola Reporter Loyola Law School Los Angeles Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/loyola_reporter Repository Citation Loyola Law School Los Angeles, "The Loyola Reporter" (1988). The Loyola Reporter. 43. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/loyola_reporter/43 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Publications at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Loyola Reporter by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Lovoto . Inside: Can Jesse Jackson Reporter Win in 1988? Loyola Law School Volume 11, Number 8 Yes. April, 1988 Leaving the Nest - , Hello, cruel world. Armed with their diplomas, Loyola s soon-to-be graduates prepare to face the bar exam and.a lifetime of legalfun. / 2 Loyola Reporter April, 1988 Ir---------- I I I I I I I I 'Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore' With the onset of finals, most Loyola stud ents are thinking about how to maintain their GPA, where they'll be clerking this summer, and the next school year. OJ course, for some students, such worries will all be things of the past once these finals are over with. These people will be a bit more concerned with the bar exam. and our statistics tell us that roughly 70 percent oj them will get through it unscathed. Some of them already have jobs waiting for them once the formality oj the bar is done with, others are still looking. At any rate, this is to wish all of them good luck in their pursuits, whether those pursuits are ultimately legal ones or non-legal ones (as opposed to illegal ones). Heck, these people deserve our congratulations=anyone who can get through law school in one piece, or close to it, is deserving of platitudes. Those of us who are still here can only look at them with some envy, knowing that our turn will come ... or should come. Parental phone calls: the ties that bind us, literally by Leni Janner species. The peacock displays ca using her labor pains when "Issues which are both If there is a common ground his feathers, the mountain goat you were born. It's no use. complex and intertwined." that links all law students locks his horns, but the Homo Nothing will help. "So eloquent." 'together, if there is a single Sapiens buys Turtle Wax and Soon, your father is on the "And in the interests of event that binds us as one, it is Trojans (ribbed, for her other line. equity, truth and justice ... " the par en tal phone call. We pleasure). A moment ago, your "How are your grades?" "The tuition money is disagree on outlines, statutes, though ts were monopoli zed The libido is now completely certainly being well spent." and .Ja d d e r s. We insult one with the prospect of violating shattered. What momen tsago . "I think you should cal1 another over PinbQt and every sex-oriented statute from had a thin chance of survival Cousin Ernie, the family Speedway, and during finals, the Bible Belt states. Now, has just uttered its last dying lawyer." we have been known to fight to you'll be lucky if you'll be able gasp. "You really think so?" the death over a cup of coffee. to sneak a peek at a couple of "Fine, Pops. Never better." "Absolutely." However, when it comes to a National Geographics before They have several legal "Whatever you say. You're call from Mom and Dad, we are the evening is through. problems, and feeling that law the lawyer." truly brothers and sisters under Suddenly, you are envious of school has trained you in such They hang up the phone, the skin. the authors of the letters to matters, have called to elicit convinced of their son's legal There is no warning. No Penthouse magazine. "Let me your expert advice. brilliance, and you recradle the indication of the storm which tell you a bou t an interesting "In ignorance is bliss," you receiver wondering if Cousin lurks on the horizon. You can't e x p e r ie nc e I once had . mutter to yourself, and listen Ernie ever resorted to such put your ear to the ground to aerobics instructor ... ripe . carefully. tactics when he was in law hear the stampede, and the tea firm ... quivering flesh . Thei r neigh bor's poison ivy school. leaves won't warn you of the OHIO REV. CODE ANN. crop is encroaching on their The evening is still monkey soon to jump on your section 1245.3 (WEST 1965)." property. The deed to their salvageable, and as you get back. You look up from your You remind yourself that such. home went unrecorded for' ready to leave, you check your reading, you pause bet wen rinse letters absolutely, positively, twen ty years, and the original look in the mirror. Springsteen cycles of your bi-weekly without a doubt, cannot be real. owner has since conveyed the style. The lines are setting in, laundry (less often for Ms. F-- These people must have paren ts, property to a dozen good faith the hair is falling out, but since her supply of clothing and like yourself, are buyers. Your brother's bail was dammit, there's still hope for will last her well into the next sometimes forced to give up the set in six figures, and your the Trojans. century), and there it is... the big things for the li ttle things. sister is having an affair with As you walk out the door, ringing phone. (In Howard's case, it's the other Stanley Kaplan. you survey the wreckage that is Even without answering, you way around). However, this is a You want to explain to them your apartment, and take it all know it's them. The tone sounds hollow consolation at best, and that law school has done very in. The toppling outlines. The different. The lights in your does little to alter the fact that Iittle in the way of teaching rambling' class notes. The apartment dim, and off in the the relevant Ohio statutes you the law, but since this unused casebooks with their distance, you hear the faint remain -unviolated'- Mick Jagger would imply an incredible virgin bindings. One final look sound of Peter Lorre organ said that you don't always get waste of tuition money, you as you turn out the lights, and music. Yet, you lift up the what you want, but then again, choose an alternate tactic. then you mutter alound what so receiver anyway, and utter a what does he know? He's "Well, folks, you've raised many before you have cried. tentative greeting into the married to Jerry Hall. Quite an some interesting legal issues." "I shoulda gone to med mouthpiece. Then it comes. The accomplishment for the ugliest "Such a smart boy." school." so u n d that mellowed James man in the universe, but one Cagney in 'White Heat,' which sheds little light on Congratulations: 1988-89 Day SBA Officers tempered Paul Newman in 'Cool resolving the ordeal at hand. Hand Luke,' and kept Ted You conclude that you can run, President Sports Chair Nugent in check when he went but that you cannot hide, and Laura Legge Jim Harvey on tour. sit down to end ure. Vice President Speakers Chair "It's your mother." The voice repeats. "It's your Terri Einbund Kristen Laskaris Just moments ago you were mother." Secretary Faculty Rep. Terri Hilliard Robin Burke on your way outthe door to go "I know." Treasurer ABA/LSD Rep. on a da teo You were happy. "Are you sure? One would Edvin Erdi Jonathan Mintz Carefree. Horny. You had think that you had forgotten Social Chair 3rd Year Reps waxed your car. Shined your that you even had a mother." Maria Ramirez Sue Hammi shoes, and bought all the You apologize. For not Larry Ecoff necessary birth control devices. writing. For not calling. For not Such are the rituals of our getting into Harvard. For April, 1988 Loyola Reporter 3 BLSA Reaches Out Loyola students go back to high school to inspire young blacks to reach higher by Adrienne Byers - The 12th-graders especially As Gary Scott stood in front had alot of Questions, and of the 11t h- and 12th-grade some fears, about college, says students at Washington third-year Loyola student Students in a Wa,shington Prep history class listen attentively to Prepara tory High School, he Deborah Shaw. "The most the BLSA Outreach Program's "Survey of Constitutional Law: saw a familiar face in the exciting part of the visit was From Dred Scott to Brown v. Board of Education." a udience--his own. Scott, a our one-on-one coversations. We have an obligation to reach out our visit was in our presence first-year Loyola student, showed the students, using our to kids and share our time and there as role models. We are attended the Los Angeles high own personal experiences, that knowledge. I was proud to see close enough to the students' school 10 years ago. Today, college can be exciting--and tha t 95 percent of the these ages so that they readily along with other members of that people with diverse kids were planning to go to identified with us. After all, Loyola's Black Student Law personalities and backgrounds college.