The Alledger, Volume 01, Number 06 the Alledger

Boston College Law School Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School The Alledger Law School Archive 12-9-1981 The Alledger, volume 01, number 06 The Alledger Follow this and additional works at: http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/alledger Part of the Legal Education Commons, and the Legal History, Theory and Process Commons Recommended Citation The Alledger, "The Alledger, volume 01, number 06" (1981). The Alledger. Book 6. http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/alledger/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Archive at Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Alledger by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LAST ISSUE OF THE SEIV:ESTER B.C. Law Bi.weekiY THE ALLEDGER Vol. I, No. 6 Newton Cantra. Maeeachu•att• December 9, 19Rl HUBER DISCUSSES FACULTY SALARIES by Ellen Frank I interviewed Dean Huber qualifications are reviewed on Tuesday, November 17, by the tenured faculty, a 1981 concerning the subject student committee, a promo of faculty salaries. He tions committee which informed me that faculty consists of Dean Huber and salaries at Boston College Professors McDaniel, Katz, Law School range from the Willier, and Brown, and low thirties for beginning finally the President and tenure track positions t .o Vice President of the the mid-nineties for the college. top professors. The speci Even with several promo What Deans Do fic figures are confiden tions and · cost of living THE FIRST: NOEL tial and are only released increases, faculty salaries By Bob Moran to the American Bar Asso cannot keep up with the Have you ever wondered In addition, Dean Augus ciation in an annual accre private sector. Dean Huber what Asssistant Dean Noel tyn teaches Evidence spring ditation review. Faculty informed me that all pro- · Augustyn does? In an semester. salaries at Boston College fessional schools are in effort to keep the law On the quasi-academic Law School rank bet.ween the constant competition with students informed, this side, Dean Augustyn serves twentieth and twenty-fifth the private sector and Alledger _ reporter visited on various law school percentile as compared t .o Boston College Law School Dean Augustyn on Monday, committees, chairing the other law schools around is. no exception. Professor November 9th and discussed Co-Curriculum Activities the country, according to Thomas Abram will be re his job. Committee. The Co-Curricu the A.B.A. survey of Feb turning to his private Dean Augustyn's job is a lum Activities Committee ruary 1981. However, these Chicago practice next varied one, consisting of oversees the moot court, statistics can be mislead September. Dean Huber both academic and admini mock trial, and client ing because they do not predicts he will at least strative duties serving counseling competitions. take into account the mix double, if not triple his other administrators as Rather than supervise the of senior and junior facul current salary by this well as students. day to day operations of ty positions and the cost move. Although Boston On the academic side, these competitions, Dean of living differentials College law professors are · Dean Augustyn oversees the Augustyn and other commit among the different cities. not prevented from practic Legal Research and Writing tee members are responsible Based on the high caliber ing private consulting work course, the thorn in the for "policy type" decisions. of the faculty at Boston during the summer and one side of all first year On the administrative College, Dean Huber feels day a week during the students. Although the side, Dean Augustyn works that salaries should be school year, their annual teaching fellows put the on activities in conjunc higher. - However, the law income still cannot compare course together, Dean tion with the placement, school substantially bene to lawyers in the private Augustyn ensures that- the alumni relations, and fits from its Boston loca Sf'C'tnr four teaching fellows are admissions offices. tion. Although· Bos.ton has. cor.tinued on p. 2 "teaching the same course." the highest cos.t of living Assisting the placement in the country, it is als.o office, Dean Augustyn an amenable place to live. participates in career Naturally, with Harvard Law counseling and bar require School ac:r;oss the Charles, ment advisement, as well as the entire city becomes a general student advisement. city catered for academia. In connection with the Actual s.alaries a·t Boston alumni relations director, Dean Augustyn attends the Colleg~ have been able to meetings of the Alumni keep up with the rate of Association Coun~il and inflation until very re with cently. However, with the assists the director other alumni rel_ations current inflationary rate matters. of 13.5%, the faculty Although Louise Clark, salaries at Bostpn College director of a<tmissions, is have lost twenty per cent primarily engaged in re of their purchasing power. cruiting trips, Dean Augus The college has granted tyn assists with recruitment. cost of living increases Since Dean Augustyn does almost every year to help not teach fall semester, he all personnel cope with is available for recruiting inflation. Faculty members trips. Ordinarily, Dean who are promoted to tenure Augustyn spends between two receive substantial s.alary and four weeks on recruit increases as. well. Each ing trips. This fall Dean year the law school re Augustyn has visited or ceives. an increment package will visit law school fairs which enables the law D.C., school to select two facul in Texas, Washington, and various ty members who should be Welcome to the Boston College School of Administration? and Atlanta appointed tenure. Their continued on p. 3 -, PERFECT I LAW STUDEN.T school, you're intelligent I Part 2 enough to get out. " "I really think you're by Dave Herlihy making it more difficult Legal Fiction than it has to be," Holmes Things were getting offered . "People around I tense. Beneath the tran here are always feeling so I quil appearance of law sorry for themselves, school life, seethed all they're blinding themselves the impulses which drove to the great opportunities certain unidentified stu law school offers." I dents to scrawl foul and "Spare me Holmes," Jim I unmentionable graffiti on shot back, "I get enough carrel walls and bathroom lectures in class. I don't 1 stalls. need you to pretend you're But these were law stu t my father." ____ JI dents, people well versed "I don't mean to offend --- in the attributes of the you Jim, it just seems to Reasonable Man, so regard me that most of my class SALARIES less of an,v 1n~r torments mates treat studying for from p.l which may have nudged them law school like a late continued which go into running a toward insanity or Law night visit to a bad chi While beginning law university. The college Review, the appearance of nese restaurant, gorging school graduates command does not provide the law propriety and respectabil themselves at the last $40,000 a year at top New school with specific fi ity and social appropriate minute and subsequently York firms, the law schools gures concerning the cost ness was always impeccably vomiting all the peas of across· the country are allocation of overhead and maintained for the commun wisdom for the professor to offering $30,000 a year for adminis.trative costs. Dean ity eye. sift throught." a lawyer ·with top academic Huber recognizes however, Holmes was sitting in the "Well Holmes," Bill wryly and professional qualifica that the costs of a free snack bar with a bunch of responded, "I always do tions from a leading law standing law school such as his classmates discussing feel better after I throw firm. No wonder there is a Suffolk or New England are their various states of up." cn.s.1s in professional much higher and the quality apprehnsion due to the "Yes," said Holmes, "but education. of faculty and student body impending doom of first I would rather retain· my Forty per cent of each much lower. year exams. food through a well balan student's tuition at the "I'm really nervous about ced diet, a regimen which law school goes toward Although Dean Huber Property," Bill groaned. would enable me to digest faculty salaries.. The recognizes that faculty "It became obvious that the my food at regular inter remainder of our tuition salaries at Boston College only thing I was getting vals." covers personnel and admi are low compared to private out of class was confused. Holmes was quite obli nistrative costs, including practice, he does not think I haven't gone for a month viou~ to the fact that his the library, security, they are subs.tantially and now I have to teach eager-beaverism was aggra maintenance, secretarial lower than other universi this mess to myself." A vating his compatriots. In and .other hidden costs ties in the area. sympathetic sigh arose from fact, his demeanor through the table, mixing with out the semester has been coffee vapor and cigarette very disconcerting. His smoke in a metaphysical was a sort of nonchalant LIFE AT NEWTON cloud above their heads. academic excellence. He "I hate this," Jim said. never took notes in class by Fred Grant, Jr. "All this work I should be and he did all of his Some weeks ago this here. It is grossly evi doing, all the time I reading from course books ~olumn dealt with the topic dent (along with anti should be doing it.

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