November 3, 1977 University of Michigan Law School

University of Michigan Law School University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository Res Gestae Law School History and Publications 1977 November 3, 1977 University of Michigan Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.law.umich.edu/res_gestae Part of the Legal Education Commons Recommended Citation University of Michigan Law School, "November 3, 1977" (1977). Res Gestae. Paper 522. http://repository.law.umich.edu/res_gestae/522 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School History and Publications at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Res Gestae by an authorized administrator of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Snow in Room 150? In response to student concern UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL . Nov. 3, 1977 over the excessive warmth in a number of Hutchins Hall class rooms and offices, your LSSS CIA IS EVERYWHERE: HALPERIN facilities liaison investigated possi ble solutions to the problem with James J. Gribble, Assistant to Dean. by Nlckie Katroun recruitment activity on its campus. Mr. Gribble said that the pro CIA recruiters must register as blem of over and under heating is Morton Halperin, formerly on such with the Placement Office; no perennial and perplexing. The ,Henry Kissinger's National Secur information may be gathered on a antiquated heating plant lacks the :ity Council staff and now leader of person without that person's per sophistication necessary to keep the Coalition to End Government mission; faculty members are the law school building at the Spying, spoke at the Law School forbidden from engaging in covert desired level of 68 o during the fall October 21 . Halperin resigned his activities. and spring months, where tem White House post upon learning The likeliest targets for CIA peratures vary widely. Once the that his home and office telephones investigation, according to Halper weather "settles in," noted Mr. had been bugged for two years. It in, are foreign students, who can Gribble, the room temperatures is probably just as well for him, for, be useful when they go back where should be much more constant and had he remained with the Govern they came from (and who, asserts comfortable. ment, he now would be out of work. Halperin, may actually be endan There are stop-gap measures, As it is, he flies around the country gered in cases where the CIA is however, that can be used to talking about the ubiquitous Cen close to the secret police force in reduce the more severe problems tral Intelligence Agency, no doubt old country); faculty members of heat and chill in specific rooms. collecting lecture fee every now whose research involves travel; The thermostats and steam valves and then along the way. and, surprisingly enough, bright can be repaired or replaced to While it is well-known that the people. improve the responsiveness of the CIA overtly recruits support staff Halperin says it is inconceivable system. Students or faculty mem on this and other campuses, that the CIA is not operating here. bers with complaints should notify Halperin contends that the Agency While surprisingly few stories have Mr. Gribble, who will in turn carries on major secret operations, surfaced, given the alleged magni inform the plant supervisor. The ostensibly to recruit actual opera tude of the Agency's operations, University officials are concerned tives, on nearly all major campus Halperin says this Is because the with energy loss, and are quite es. Faculty and administrators Agency tells people not to tell. responsive to complaints of per everywhere, he says, are gathering As to legal remedies for CIA spiring and I or socially conscious information on the personal, pro invasions of privacy, Halperin denizens of H H. fessional and political activities of noted that, even ,hough the students and colleagues. When the Privacy Act prohibits the mainte- Agency hits upon a particularly nance of information on individuals INSIDE THE RES GESTAE interesting candidate, Halperin without legislative approval, the claims, it rematerializes in the form Supremes have held that the Steve Fetter makes his comments of an insurance company or credit Constitutional right to privacy is on the passing scene page 2 firm to investigate more thorough not violated by forced disclosure. ly. While it has been held that the The Speakers Committee reports Halperin believes these alleged Freedom of l.nformation Act gives page3 activities to be not only systematic individuals the right to see CIA violations of the fundamental prin recruiting files on them (weisner v. Gordon Miller pays tribute to Elvis ciple that people who are not doing CIA), Halperin has offered a prize page2 anything Illegal have the right to be to anyone who can figure out how a left alone, but also threats to person being spied upon can get The transcript of the landmark academic freedom. Harvard Uni standing. Certainly, nobody in Joe Gretel case Is reviewed page 3 versity shares this fear, and has Vining's Administrative Law class adopted guidelines restricting CIA will win it. If you are still looking for a job, we offer advice page 4 Page 2 i&ts ~rstur © 1977 by Steve Feuer you're reading this, it's Thursday- the other days of the week in order "Lafayette We Are Here" Dept.: are Friday, Saturday, Sunday, + Best line of the week once again Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, goes to our man from Oklahoma- and then Thursday again. Cross off I am dismayed at the law Tax Prof. L. Hart Wright: "The one day each time it gets dark and school.'s failure to commemorate lower court's ruling was so bad that then light again--and then repeat Elvis' death in any way. There are the Commissioner of the Internal the sequence--okay? No, don't no plaques or statues. Viewing Revenue Service vomited! And he thank me, Burt. Anything for a legal accomplishments compara took it all the way to the Supreme friend.) tively, if they named Hutchins Hall Court." (And was Justice Douglas after Hutch, this should be Presley peeved when some of it splashed Dicta: I found a copy of the book Law School. His legal work is up on his robe.) ... Aside to the Hustlers and Conmen at Domi legendary. Elvis made a mighty second-year student who thought nick's the other day sitting on a contribution in the battle for Prof. Wright was from Indiana- table--if anyone in Prof. Gilmore's prisoner's rights in the documen really now. "Elkhart" Wright? Professional Responsibility class is tary entitled "Jailhouse Rock'-'; missing their copy, feel free to give even those without a legal back ''It Takes a Licking and Keeps on me a call and I'll bring it ground knew Elvis was on the side Ticking" Award goes to Burt in ... Wouldn't it be nice to have of justice in "Love Me Tender". A Rosen for 1) noisily walking into more than one cold water fountain concerned student suggested to me Antitrust class· with only five in the law school (But then again, that the reading room would be a minutes left in the hour. After maybe we should be thankful that nice spot for a stained glass wards, he shrugged it off: ''I just it's in the library and not on the window of Elvis. wanted to get next week's assign fourth floor) ... LSSS announces a Incidently there was not a single ment?'', and 2) going to Enterprise new service--a question and an law school.administrator in Mem Organization on Tuesday, when it swer book outside their office--if phis at the funeral. When I'm only meets on Wednesd~y. Thurs you have any problems, write them selected dean there will be no more day, and Friday: "I didn't want down--and they will be answered slip-ups of this nature. anyone stealing my seat." (Burt, if (See MORE, page 6) Colloquium: II Heads will roll during my DIVERSITY TO AVOID BAKKE? administration and the dead wood program will still be defensible. around here knows it. So for the DEAN ST. ANTOINE: By using race as a factor of diversity will we We do not set a rigid "quota" for first time in years these gold-brick minorities; we have a flexible ers have done something besides be able to avoid the problems associated with the Bakke case? "goal" that we try to meet, not mumble in class. They've got always successfully. Moreover, the goons digging for dirt on me, but Editor, Res Gestae: California Supreme Court was not they won't find anything. I would You have asked: "By using race convinced that the University had not be running for dean if I didn't as a factor of diversity will we be established that race-based admis have an impeccable record. The able to avoid problems associated sions were necessary to integrate slime is going to start flying and I with the Bakke case?" Obviously, the Davis Medical School; we are want my backers to have their any answer must be tentati"'e until prepared to demonstrate that such boots on. we learn how broad or narrow the admissions are essential if we are Court's opinion will be. Oral to have more than a mere trickle of Ill argument suggested an uneasiness minorities entering this or any (For sport fans only) among the Justices that might other major law school. Anyone who has been involved foreshadow a limited ruling, a While it sounds beguiling to in intramural sports at U-M knows remand, or even a statutory speak of race as just one "factor of that the 1-M Department makes a decision regarding exclusion from diversity" in the admissions pro mess of scheduling.

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