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September 14, 2004 Vol. 55 No.3

Large And Taking Charge: A Class of 2007 Profile By Erick Ong good balance of males and females and this year we came very close with a 54:46 utchinis Hall echoes with the split. throngs of people talking about the Rule Against RG: In last year's class we had artists, Perpetuities, or here's a Tort, there's a performers, musicians, PhD students, Tort, and about the intricacies of Bargains. Olympic contestants, and professional Yes, the Law School welcomes in another sports players. I see that this year's class of law students to its hallowed applicants have very similar numbers grounds. statistically to last year's. Can you tell us about some particularly interesting Sarah Zearfoss, the Assistant Dean of enrollees? Admissions at theUniversity of Michigan Law School, and one of the many reasons Z: I rather not single people out as it why we chose to attend this presitigious makes other students feel less unique, as institution of law, was kind enough to sit each admitted student is interesting in with me and give the RG the "4-1-1" his/her own way. Having said that, this about the class of 2007. year we admitted people who were llama farmers and have met the Dalai Lama. RG: What goals did the Admissions Office have for this past year's lL class RG: I noticed that the median and and did it meet them? mean age of our applicants has increased this year. Z: Every year we seek to enroll a group of students which are not only high in Z: Yes. In prior years our mean age and academic-caliber, but we try to enroll median age has been 24 and 23, students that will enrich the law school respectively. The mean age this year has and bring their own unique qualities and increased to 24.2 and the median age to are interesting people. I think we 24. accomplished that this year and this year's group in particular seem to be a Traditionally most of our students strong group not only academically but come straight to law schoolafter finishing are a great bunch of people as well. their undergraduate degree, however, this year 66% of our students have taken Every applicant we accept has one or more years off after completing somethingof interest which could benefit their undergraduate degree. the law school. We also try to achieve a Continued on Page 18 112 l\es �estae $eptemher14, 2004 II 3aes �estae Student Org Fair Should Editor-in-Chief" Last All Year Long Mike Murphy he student organization fair is Student organizations should make a Executive Editor: coming. It's a chance for concerted effort to remain open-ranked; Matthew J. Nolan every student organization at allowing people to join well beyond the M-Law to pass out free candy and one-day student organization fair. Perhaps Managing Editor: information about themselves, and a second student organization fair would Steve Boender collect e-mail addresses. Unfortunately, do the trick; allowing students a second it seems to many students that their crack to see what organizations are out Contributing Editors: exposure to those campus organizations there- and which ones are in need of self­ Megan Barnard, Adam diminishes significantly after the fair - starting member. Or perhaps LSSS should Blumenkrantz, Jessie Grodstein­ that some organizations keep to require each student organization to hold Kennedy, Karen Lockman, Erick themselves, don't hold many (or any) at least two open meetings a semester, to meetings, and generally don't solicit attract new students, in order for that Ong, Jana Kraschnewski, Mandy membership throughout the year. organization to receive funding. Or, Legal, Abby Rubinson, perhaps, it's simply a responsibility for Liz Seger For any student who has anything people in positions of authority in student better (or mandatory) to do that organizations to be always looking for Special Thanks: afternoon, this seems unfair. new members. Putting announcements in Adam Blumenktantz, the student publication of the law school J ana Kraschnewski But is it true? The perception is, isn't a bad idea; and can easily be done realistically, probably the reality. As the with an e-mail to [email protected]. We're

Res Gestae is published biweekly during the year progresses, it does seem that the happy to help. school year by students of the University of number of student organizations at M­ Michigan Law School. Opinions expressed in Law dwindles. Certain organizationsare The sense of community and bylined articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the more active than others; that's for certain. congeniality among M-Law students is editorial staffArticles with contact information A higher profile might not mean a more one of the school's selling points; it's the in italics at the end of the article or "submitted active membership, and it's each reason why many of us, the RG staff by" in the byline are opinion pieces, not factual organization's prerogative to do (or not included, are here and are happy to be news stories, and the opinions contained therein are not necessarily reflective of the opinions of do) what it wants. here. Student organizations are an the editorial staff Articles may be reprinted important part of that community, and the without permission, provided that the author and Further, some organizations are driven plethora of student organizations gives Res Gestae are credited and notified. by one (or two) committed individuals students dozens of options to spend their

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By Karen Lockman

he cafeteria food may still look delectable to the first year students, but as the year continues, students are bound to desire a change in their daily cuisine.

Though one might be tempted to frequent the familiar Jimmy Johns, Subway or Wendy's, Ann Arbor is home to an array of unique hidden treasures that should not be passed over during students' 3 years at Michigan Law School.

Cheap Eats

Many students agree with 2L Josh Kweller that "Big Ten Burrito is hands­ down the best Mexican food in Ann Arbor." Kweller, a particularly zealous fan states: "The anniversary of the day they opened last year should be a local holiday."

For "the best wings in town, bar none," 3L Jeremy Dyme recommends Fraser's. "It is a total dive bar on Packard near Stadium:'

Dyme also enjoys the 50-year-old Ann Arbor hamburger joint BlimpyBurg er's, which prides itself on being "cheaper than food."

"Where else can you get a five-patty burger?" says Dyme. 3L Len Gray adds, "and three clogged arteries?"

For healthier options, students can try It's Easy to be a Vegetarian Here 2L Jason Sanderson, also a vegetarian, a Chipatifrom the Pizza House or Pizza adds that ''both Big Ten Burrito and Red Bobs, or head to Mr. Greek's Coney Island Not surprisingly, Ann Arbor is also an Hot Lovers are cheapand close to the law for a fantastic Greek Salad. excellent place for vegetarian fare. "Raja school and have great vegetarian Rani is a great place for vegetarian food," options:' Though it is a little ways off the beaten says 2L Pamela Grewal. "Indian food path, one should not leave Ann Arbor tends to be heavily vegetarian so you can He warns however, that "Earthen Jar without enjoying a sandwich from the go in and have tons of different things to is dirty. There's been hair in my food famous Zingerman's Delicatessen. Any choose from." Other popular Indian there 2 or 3 times. Just nasty!" sandwich on their homemade grilled restaurants near campus include Madras Continued on Page 17 challah is simply divine. Masala and Shalimar. 11�=4=====�=�· =· ··=·· =·· �==· · · ===�==es=®==est==ae ======�� =re�===er l=4·=�====�11� ------

An M-Law Welcome to New Students From LSSS

By Jay Surdukowski commitment to public service, and, you love-if you are here to do something diversity in faculty hiring. Over the about it, don't give up. We need you. long with the cool scent of fall course of the next month or so, LSSS will comes a quickness in the blood fund student organizations, appoint folks We are lemmings, almost all of us. We for all that is happening: to several dozen law school committees, jump off the cliff into Lexus-driving starting a new life, finding a job, working and run elections for six new members. Lawyerdom. It doesn't have to be this on a note, planning activities, leaving And something very new: the Deans will way. We are a kind community, we have Rick's without great gouts of beer on your now meet with us periodically. Deans a good foundation as the friendliest of the pants ... Caminker and Johnson visited a packed "top ten." Fellow students and true meeting in April and committed to friends will support you if you want to We in the Law School Student Senate appear from time to time for better be a litigator in Alaska this summer, if (LSSS) are eager for this new year and communication. you want to work with a professor, or if have been at work even through the you want to go to Cambodia or Bosnia­ summer on making it a good one. Student This LSSS takes its role as the student Herzegovina or Geneva. organization funding, facilities issues voice seriously. (like recycling bins, wireless access, and Have the courage of your conviction. the snack bar) and course selection, Some Words of Advice Leave yourself open to growth, and not among other things, kept us busy in just the growth of the wallet. Remember recent months. Here's a quick preview of If you have come here to do rebellious your why for choosing this life in the law. what's to come in student life and some lawyering, to give your work shoulder to I suspect 350 people did not write I words of advice (by no means shoulder and not from behind the "heart" Big Law in their admission essay. authoritative, as I am barely more than a mammoth mahogany desk, don't give And if that is the path you truly want, lL myself, but they are heartfelt). up. We need you. thenby all means go for thegold. But stay true to your love of choir, or playwriting, The Social If you have come here after seeing or Faulkner novels, or painting, or social massacre sites in Rwanda, where they've justice-especially your sense of justice. LSSS will soon set a social calendar. left bodies where they fell to mummify Don't lose your humanity. We need you. After intense discussions in the spring as eternal reminders; if you have seen over thestudent constitution at which our young people with broken faces and My last bit of advice is personal. Stay meetings were packed to standing room missing limbs, if you have come to put open to who may come into your life here. only, we look forward to working on the perpetrators in jail, or to fight for the This is a new community, a fresh start. social side of the house this week. Old prevention of genocide, don't give up. We Follow your affections wherever they favorites like the Prom, the Halloween need you. lead. The people make the place. There Party and Bar Month will certainly are some heartstopping, bright, and kind continue. But we might also plan some If you have come to learn a craft, so that people at this law school-people who new things, including some family you can return to rural America to be a may change you forever. Find time for friendly events. country lawyer by day and a state senator them. An English poet wrote, "What by night, and someday maybe governor, happens in the heart happens." The Political don't give up. We need you. What will happen to you? Already LSSS has been talking about If you have come here to learn the making the callback season better, language of power, to use law to bring grading issues, the schedule, student equality to whole parts of our society who 2L Jay Surdukowski is the President of the allocations, e-mail delivery, and the law cannot marry, serve openly in the military, Law School Student Senate. E-mail Jay at school's participation in University or enjoy other rights; if you have come [email protected]. intramurals, to name a few. Also here frustrated by appalling state hatred: conversations started during thespring governors, senators and presidents who election continue: the law school's condemn you in thewords of law for who • ------���=�==es==�=es=t=ae===·=�= �=re=�==�=l4=,=2�======�=- 4=�� ··� =�···· · . ====5dll

Thirty Minutes with Professor Friedman

By Matt Nolan A: Actually, it's hard for me to l\ remember. I'm sure I had some ichard D. Friedman is the inclination early in law school. I know Ralph W. Aigler Professor when I was with a law firm, I never got of Law. He earned a B. A. terribly racked up in whether I was going and a J. D. from Harvard, where he was to be made a partner or not. I mean, I an editor of the Harvard Law Review, always wanted to do well, get good and a D.Phil in modern history from reviews, but I think I thought I would be Oxford University. His research focuses out of there before a partnership decision principally on evidence and Supreme was made. The firm was very generous Court History. He took some time to talk with me. They made a deal in which I to the RG last week. could work half-time and do my own academic work at the same time. I was Q: Can you tell us how you ended up sufficiently enjoying the litigation and felt at Michigan? that I had enough to learn to try that for a while. Then I think litigation just A: Well, after clerkship I practiced law swallowed up my time, because in in New York for three years and then I litigationther e's always something to be went to teaching and I stayed teaching in done now. And I didn't have time to NYC at Cardozo Law School. I was there pursue my academic pursuits, so after for five years. It was a good place-very several months they said, "You know good college. Then Michigan made me a what? We're going to give you the back­ visiting offer and it's one of the best law pay-you're working full-time." After a schools in the country, so I came out here little bit more time, I was eager to leave. with great delight. weeks. I decided it was a good place to I thoroughly enjoyed the firm. The work be. Then, before I got my offer, I met my was good and challenging. I knew that Q: Had you grown up in Michigan? wife. So, I told the dean, "If you make the move to academics was one I wanted Where were you originally? me an offer, I will accept." That was my to make and I was eager to do it. I felt I hard bargaining. had gotten to the point where I would just A: I grew up on Long Island, so when be better off making the switch than I was in New York it was close to home. Q: Did you meet her here or back in waiting. New York? Q: So you had been a New York lifer? Q: You're teaching Civil Procedure A: Well, yeah, except for nine years of A: We were fixed up here. She's a this fall. What are your favorite and life for school-college, law school, and townie. Her father was on the History least favorite things about teaching first­ two years of graduate schoolat Oxford. faculty and she was a graduate student years? I enjoyed it very much. at thetime. She was babysittingfor a then­ colleague of mine. His wife had A: The favorite thing is easy: The So, I came out as a visitor, hoping that graduated recently from the program my eagerness and enthusiasm of the the school would make me an offer. I wife was in. students. It's not hard to get them to remember feeling like a ball player in the prepare, to be there, to participate. All of minor leagues getting called up for a Q: And the rest is history. that becomes harder with the upper­ look-over and hoping that I can stay. J.J. classmen. What goes along with that is White was the chair of the Personnel A: Yeah, at the time they made me the that,also, it is fun seeing people come into Committee that year. offer, I had a pretty good idea I was something brand new and, by the end of getting married. the term, see that they're really beginning On November 20th, the faculty made to deal with issues in a very orderly way. me an offer. I knew coming out it was a Q: So, it sounds like early on you had And that, for me, is pretty exciting. It's a great law school. What I had to resolve a pretty good idea that you wanted to much more excited and intense in my mind is whetherI would like living teach law. Was there a certain point in Ann Arbor. That took me about two when that became clear to you? Continued on Next Page II G c:%:·119 31\.es @estae $eptember14, 2004 II FRIEDMAN, from Page 5 who had been a student of mine, fun to teach because it transcends a lot of mentioned that there was one time that I intellectual relationship. The least different substantive areas. was wearing underwear with hearts that favorite, I suppose, is just dealing with were showing through my slacks. So, I the tension that generates. Particularly Also, I deal with a lot of little realized they were visible, but the worst as I teach a fall term course, as I am doing problems-we never spend very long on part of it was .. .I knew the student quite now, you give a mid-term. That's their one particular problem. It's just all sorts well. She was not in that summer class. first real law school exam and it basically of different settings. If you don't like this Soclearly , thestory had gotten all around. offers myself as a lightning rod for a lot one, something different will come along I later spoke at the graduation of that of their tensions and anxieties. I do this soon. It draws from an enormous range class and I was able to refer to that event. willingly because I think it is a good thing of intellectual disciplines and orientations. People found it very amusing. There was to do. The atmosphere sometimes gets a It uses philosophy, logic, sociology, actually something else that happened little over-wrought. The aspect of being history, and actually a little bit of math. with that class. I went to a party one a first-year teacher that generates the There's a lot of courtroom stuff­ Friday night, this is 1990, I believe. My most work, aside from grading mid­ psychology is a sizable element. wife is some years younger than I am, so terms, is writing clerkship Constitutional Law, of course, you know, at the time she was in her 20s. As we left recommendations. Students tend to go we're dealing with some of the base issues the party she was very pleased to tell me to their first-year teachers more than that face the nation and the government. that she had been asked out by one of others. I am such a big advocate of I teach a course that's historically oriented the students. I don't think whoever clerking thata lot of students come to me. because I think it is the best way to go. I asked her had made the association, but It is enormously time-consuming, but I think it is important for students to learn I was able to report on this in class the enjoy it. I enjoy it because I think it is a constitutional history. It helps put things following Monday and we had a good good thing to do and I think it is good for into context. I also enjoy dealing with time. They found that amusing. students. I enjoy chatting with students current-day matters. Issues dealing with about them and how they're doing, what separation of powers, structure of Another story: I had a student who's interesting stuff they are doing, and government. I find themfascinating and a big Yankees fan and I've bet against the trying to package that for the judge. very important. There are also questions Yankees all my life. In 2000 I bet on the That's actually quite gratifying. of individual liberty and the over-arching World Series with this student. We bet a themes of the democratic process. All head shave. He thought it wasn't fair Q: Now, you taught quite a few very important. Very exciting. because he had more to lose than me. He different courses here at the law school. also figured he should be okay, given the Which of those have been the one you Q: How long have you been teaching? odds because the Yankees were the enjoyed the most? Or are there different favorites. As events went down, I courses which you enjoy? A: I've been teaching since 1982. A little thought maybe I could make something over twenty years. good come out of this, so I auctioned off A: Asking, "Which is your favorite theright to shave my head and we raised course?" is a little bit like asking, "Which Q: You have to have some pretty good $600 for SFF for the public shaving done is your favorite kid?" There are things I stories from classes and from students. with Cheez Whiz. Because I had seen a enjoy more about one course than about Can you share a couple of those with us? guy witha bald head and asked himhow another. The three mainline courses that to shave it. He said with a Mach 3 razor I am teaching this year are Civil A: Well, all right. There was a time I and Cheez Whiz. So that's what we did Procedure, Evidence, and Constitutional was teaching in the summer. It must have and it worked pretty well. I will shave Law. There are things I enjoy about each been near the end of the laundry cycle, my head again to raise money. The of them. Civil Procedure is a because the only pair of clean underwear number I've come up with is $1400. If quintessential lawyer's course. You get to I had on was a pair of boxer shorts with any group or combination of groups can look at the whole of litigation, so there's little hearts and cupids on it that had been raise that money for SFF, I will do it. this feel of being in litigation. I enjoy the given to me some years before by a analytical aspects of it. I also enjoy the girlfriend. So, I wore them, that day, with Q: I heard you are in the middle of a fact that students tend to find it a better a pair of lightweight cotton slacks. I pretty big, important treatise. Can you course than they anticipated. They come noticed that I could see little hearts talk a little about that-where that is in with very low expectations, which peering throughthe slacks, but I made the going and what your research is like? always mystifies me a little bit, because calculation that they probably couldn't be most of them want to be litigators, so seen from a distance. I thought nothing A: I've got two big projects. The what do they expect? Some of them, after more about it, until probably a year and a treatise that you mentioned is called the a while, really like it and findthat it makes half later. I was speaking to a niece of sense. They enjoy thinking about these mine who had recently graduated from Continued on Next Page situations. Evidence, in a way; is the most Cornell. She told me that a friend of hers, ------111 3l\.es �estae • �eptember 14, 2004 ======;;;.;..;;.;;.;.;.;;,�;..;;.,;..;;;;,.;;,;======:::;��;;;;:;:�� ==�dJ7 II CONTINUED from Previous Page� === pressure. It was in large part personnel. that person. It is basically to say, "Do it in That's a big project which excites me. front of me, where I can cross-examine New Wigmore Treatise on Evidence. The you." So, I perceive the right as much great treatise on evidence, which Q: Last year you were involved in a narrower, limited to statements that are dominated the law on evidence for the pretty important Supreme Court case as testimonial in nature. By 'testimonial', I first three-quarters of the twentieth well. roughly mean, statements made in century was Wigmore. It went through anticipation of litigation. Within that four editions. By now it is very dated. A: Yes. As a result of working on category, the right is absolute. Once the Federal Rules of Evidence were hearsay and of teaching the course, I had adopted in 1975, they really became the to think very hard about the right of A year ago March, I was very excited dominant force in evidence law. The criminal defendants to confront the to see that a 1997 alumnus of the Law Wigmore Tr eatise is stilla very important witnesses against them. I became School, named Jeffrey Fisher, had filed a one. I was asked several years ago to convinced that understanding this right petition for certiorari for Crawford v. become General Editor of the Tr eatise and was the key to understanding the law of Washington. Thefirst I heard about it was I said I didn't want to become General hearsay as it is and how it should be. I when he sent me the petitionin which he Editor of a fifth edition, which would asked the Court to reject the then­ simply be like dusting-off a prevailing theory and adopt the museum piece. I said I'd testimonial approach. I put in an become General Editor of a amicus brief. We got Jeff out here new treatise. to do a moot court on the case. We explored the argument. Then, So, we call it the New he asked me to be second chair, Wigmore Tr eatise. We're so I was at counsel table during doing it from scratch. A few the argument. It was volumes are out on my phenomenally exciting. Sure editorship. I took the enough, in March of this year, portions on hearsay for they issued the opinion and by a myself. I've written a lot of 7-2 vote they adopted the pages. I probably have a testimonial approach. Big thousand pages written. Still transformation of the law and it getting it into publishable is having a significant impact in form. My other big academic some cases. What will happen project is totally removed we'll see. I think a lot of lower from theTr eatise. I have been courts are interpreting this too designated to write the narrowly. There'll be more volume on the Hughes Supreme Court cases to Court, that is from 1930-1941 determine exactly what the in the Oliver Wendell parameters are. It's kept me quite Holmes Devise History of the busy. United States Supreme Court. This is a project Q: How long do you hope to funded with money left to the became convinced that the Supreme teach? How long would you like to be government by Justice Holmes at his Court had gotten it way wrong. able to do this? death. It is a multi-volume history of the Supreme Court. I actually wrote my The Court had interpreted the A: I don't have an ending time. I doctoral dissertation on Hughes as Chief Confrontation Right as quite broad, as assumethat, at some time not far past 70, Justice. covering even hearsay, but it was rather I would teach less. I see John Reed still incipit that a statement could be admitted teaching in his mid-80s and if I'm up to Unfortunately, I haven'th ad time to get even though it was hearsay, if it was it, why not? My dad who died this spring to this yet, which bothers me. It's a very deemed reliable. And almost anything (I'm glad to say it was after Crawford) exciting project since the 1930s was a could be deemed reliable. I came to the sold life insurance into his 90s. And period of great constitutional conclusion that the right is about played tennis. If I could do that, it would transformation. It is the story of what testimonial statements. It's a complex be great. As 1 get into old age, if I can happened. Why did theCourt transform? thing, but basically, it is saying that, if pick the times that I want to teach that Was it change in personnel? Was it is someone makes a testimonial statement outside identities? It was not political against you, you have a right to confront Continued on Next Page II s �es Common Grill in like about first-years is the interaction­ occasionally the week, if I can. I ran that Chelsea. My wife and I just went to it people coming in and making decisions in 1982 and decided I never had to do it and I think the food is very good. about life and what-not. Do you have again. Then I did it in 1993 with my niece any advice for second-year students who just to keep her company. I have no desire Q: Do you have a favorite drink? Or are making decisions about where to be, to do it again. I've run a few half­ did you at one time? what type of law to do, what type of firm marathons since and will probably do to pick? some more of those, but I run to stay in A: I drink so little ... probably the shape. I think of tennis as a hobby, but bloody mary. But I drink so little most A: The best single choice that most this summer I hardly got to play at all. law students would think it's shameful. students have in the year after law school Most of my summer was spent watching I go up to free open bars and ask for is clerking. Some people might have a my kids play softball, t-ball, baseball, and seltzer mixed withcranberry juice and the rare opportunity that's better for them, then, in the latter part of the summer, bartender looks at me weird. but for most students in our school, the tennis. My daughter is actually getting best single opportunity they have is to to be quite a good tennis player. Three Q: Anything else you'd like to say to clerk. Whatever the court be, I think the kids. I don't know if that counts as a the student body at the law school? clerking experience is a very exciting one, hobby. But now with a dog as well. whether the student is interested in A: I've been here now for 17 years and litigationor not. Beyond that, I think that Q: How old are your kids? I've thoroughly enjoyed it. I'll be the most important decision that most enjoying it for many more years to come, students have to make is not what to do, A: My oldest will be 12 in December. I hope. It's not only a very good student but where to do it. Although it is possible My son will be 7 in November. My body, but it's a very nice student body. to move-I've done it myself-it is much youngest one will be 5 on September 17. The students, as well as everybody else, harder to move cities than it is to move are very civil and good-natured. It just within a city. Inertiawill tend to hold you Q: These ages keep you busy. makes for a wonderful environment to do down pretty quickly. I think people really serious work. have to focus on that. If you're in a law A: Yeah. And it doesn't get any less­ firm and decide you don't like it, you can so as they get older. Time-consumingin Q: Thanks for sitting down with us. move to public interest job or whatever. an excitingand gratifying way. I enjoy it But moving cities is just harder. My final all. It just doesn't leave a lot of time to do A: Good luck. piece of advice is to not put too much other things I might want to do. That's pressure on the first job hunt. The first okay because I've done them before. I go job is just what it is: a first job. Don't get to a lot fewer concerts than I used to. • ------����=�==e�=®==e�=t =ae===·=�=�=te=�=e=r=l 4=' =2�======�=� 4=· · ·•=. · �=�=· · ====9�11 Law Students Hit the Streets for Kerry

From Tom Griffin Drinking at Dominick's on Thursday brothers scrubbing down their beer­ nights is one particularly creative - and washed floors to people milling about in group of law students are painless - strategy the group uses to front of the Church of Latter Day Saints, leading a large-scale effort to recruit new volunteers. "We put up some people at Michigan are charged and ready organize Ann Arbor's 14,000- Kerry signs and people just come up to to send Bush packing down to student graduate community into an us," says Brendan Goff, a sixth-year Crawford." effective field operation for the Kerry­ History PhD candidate and Coalition Edwards campaign. member. "Drunken recruiting is an Members of Swing Michigan canvas underrated campaign tactic." various neighborhoods in the Central So far, their efforts are paying off. Campus area, prowling in pairs for Hitting the Streets unregistered Democrats and potential Volunteer Recruitment 101 program volunteers. Armed with sign-up But finding energetic volunteers is the sheets and stacks of voter registration The Coalition to Swing Michigan, so beginning, not the end, of the group's forms, they knock on doors, looking for named to emphasize the importance of mission to increase Democratic turnout participants and potential voters. Michigan's role in the upcoming in Ann Arbor's student-based precincts. presidential election, is only "I think this program is a one month old -but more great idea because there are a than 300 graduate students lot of people at thisschool who have joined the group come from states where they already. This success can be think their votes don't count, explained, in part, by the but here voting is imperative," unusual degreeof interest in said former New York resident this year's election. and newly-minted first-year law student Fiza Quraishi. "There is an incredible "One of the first things I did amount of resentment when I came to Michigan was against Bush on this register to vote and sign up campus," said Alex Donn, with Swing Michigan." the group's founder. "We're trying to translate that anger This past Sunday the group into something productive." sent out a record number of volunteers Because students are constantly into the streets of Ann Arbor, hoping to The Coalition's success in identifying moving in and out of Ann Arbor - and lock up Michigan for Senator Kerry in volunteers can also be explained by its within the City itself - these areas are November. Tw enty volunteers met on the diverse network of graduate student notoriously difficult to organize. Just steps of Rackham, were treated to a brief contacts. With representatives in each of figuring out who lives in each house is training on Michigan's complicated voter the University's major graduate hard work, but it can be rewarding. registration rules, and hit the streets in programs, the group is able to keep track pairs. In addition, an identical program of countless orientation schedules, Adil Haq, a volunteer and graduate was run from the Michigan Union later mandatory meetings, and other rich student in the South Asian Studies in the day. recruiting opportunities. program, who has participated in the Coalition's Sunday door-to-door voter Inspired by the high level of volunteer J enna Hunter, the Coalition'scontact at registration and identification program, energy, the Coalition is recruiting new the School of Public Health, believes that argues that the program is a fun way to members more actively thanever. "We're to succeed, the group needs contacts in make a difference. going to keep building this network right every corner of the graduate community. up until Election Day," said Donn. "If "There's so much going on all the time "At first I was a little hesitant, you're reading this and you want to get that we're always looking for people to approaching people in their post­ involved, email me at [email protected] help us identify good ways to recruit Saturday-night, hangover stage, but then or stop by Dominick's on a Thursday volunteers." I realized how motivated people on this night." campus are," said Haq. "From frat • l l -- �!=l=O====�= · · =· ·· · =·· ·=· · ===· �=e=s=�=e=st=ae======�=�=re �==erl=4 =.�==�lr------

First Year Students: Don't Panic! Use These Lifestyle Tips

By Jana Kraschnewski Form a study group, even if you do o Crim: This really depends on your little more than socialize a few hours prof. Some seem to teach from a study (with a little help frommy friends) every week. Theseare your go-topeople guide. This will become clear as the 3J when you have a question you think is semester goes on. am by no means the law school unworthy of the professor's attention. o Contracts: Marvin Chirelstein (it has guru, but I do have some And it's good to talk with people who a sailboat on the cover) experience. As a 2L I am slightly know exactlywhat you're going through. o Torts: Gilberts less confused than I was as a 1 L, so here's some advice I wish I'd known (take it for Anything covered in cheese was last Do not miss the LSSS Halloween Party. what it's worth, which probably isn't night's unpopular Lawyer's Club entree. It is a thing of beauty. much). It worked for me, but may not be It probably won't taste any better, even if your style. it looks better. Do your own outline but also ask a 2L or 3L for theirs. They'll usually be glad Don't stress. (Nobody fails unless they to help and you'll see if you are missing really are clueless.) anything.

Grades are important to employers, "Don't Do not hook up with a section-mate if but don't let your As and Bs define you. you don't want everyone in your class to know within 24 hours. Four nightsa week at Rick's is doable. forget to Five and you may have a problem. You had a life before law school. Don't forget about family and friends just Do the bulk of your studying the way live. This because you're here. you did in undergrad. Whatever worked for you then will probably work for you The snack-bar under the Reading now. time can be Room has really good egg-sandwiches. Egg and ham on a bagel, egg and sausage You'll just have to do a lot more of it on a muffin, egg and cheese on toast, you a lot of fun name it Think McDonald's, only better. Take some time for yourself every day. Whether it's working out or watching TV; No, really. Don't stress. do something you enjoy. There is time ifyou let it." for it-really. Raise your hand in class if you've got something to say, but don't doittoo often, Do not take yourself too seriously. and certainly don't volunteer more than Nobody likes Creepy Suit Guy or Freak­ Seriously, don't stress. once a class. You don't want your Out Study Girl. classmates to hate you. (My own rule is Not all study guides are created equal. once a week.) Professors' old exams are on file in Here are some that helped me (listed by sub-2, sometimes with model answers. author or publisher): Make friends and enjoy yourself. Law They can be very helpful. school is a step in a process, but also three o Con. Law: Erwin Chemerinsky years of your life. Don't forget to live. If you take a cushion from one of the (black book) This time can be a lot of fun if you let it over-stuffed chairs in sub-2 and ride it like o Civ. Pro: Glannon is good for a sled down the big concrete wall, they learningthe rules and Friedenthal gives Jana Kraschnewski is a 2L. E-mail Jana at kick you out of the library for the day. an in-depth look. [email protected] Therefore, it is best to do it close to o Property: Emmanuel's (big yellow­ midnight, when the library closes. orange book) • · ------il ll =�==es===�es=t=ae===·=�=�=t=emb==�= l=4,=2=�======�=�,=•··=··· · =·· · =·===l=l=UII

Got A Fly-Back? Voucher It, and Fund a Fellowship

By Liz Seger they'll bite. Once you have the firm's 2. You never know. The SFF okay, fill out the SFF voucher form application that gets turned down next ongratulations! You survived {available at the Office of Career Services) spring for lack of funding may very well Early Interview Week, and and submit it to SFF, who will shake be yours. Yeah, you got the flybacks, some of those letters in your down the firm on your behalf. you've bought a new suit and we're all mailbox are not dings, In fact, some of very proud. Shut up. But buy yourself a those guys in suitsliked you so much that SFF gets $75 every time you and your little insurance, okay? they want to see more of you. They want comrades do this, and it all adds up. Last to buy you things. They want to take you year they raked in over $6000 from the 1. Pictureit: You, in a perfect black suit, to dinner, give you big glasses of wine, voucher program alone, and let's face it, shiny new shoes. You turn down your and put you to bed in fancy hotels, hoping every penny SFF can get from non­ buddy's couch (his roommate has a cat, that the sheer luxury of it all will cloud auction sources helps us keep more of and you have a perfect black suit). After your brain and keep you from asking the Prof. Simpson's clothes on his body two days of interviews, lunches, wine tough questions. {where, arguably, they belong). Plus, a receptions, and more interviews at Very lot of very deserving public service Big Firm, you're on top of theworld. You So it's time to ask yourself: Are you interns - your classmates - get to eat aced it. As you ride the elevator up to gonna be their patsy? something other than ramen noodles and your suite with a view of the river, you sleep somewhere other than in their cars have the uncanny sense that someone Sure, eat the steak, and drink the cab next summer. Win-win. somewhere is already making the sav from hundred-year-old vines. But nameplate for your office door. couldn't you use a little perspective? Not enough to convince you? Odds are you're looking in whatever Big And you're right. They loved you. You City it is for a reason, either because your Top Five Reasons to Participate In the decide to unwind, celebrate. You empty girlfriend is finishing that master's in SFFVoucher Program all of the tiny bottles in the rninibar French Lit, or because you promised your directly into the ice bucket, making the mom you'd interview close to home. 5. You're going to see the insides of world's biggest Long Island iced tea. As Sleep on the couch. It will help you keep plentyof hotel rooms while you're doing you polishit off,you notice thatyour Ve ry your head, and you can raise some money document review in Minnesota for six Fine Hotel offers a selection of Very Fine for Student Funded Fellowships in the weeks on that Big Tobacco case in a Adult Movies, which, in your process. couple of years. Hold on to, real life for compromised state, get billed to theroom. as long as you can. Thoroughlyrelaxed, you sleep like a baby, Here's how: When you're scheduling and fly home in the morning. Three your flybacks, tell your contact at the firm 4. So, that hottie who sits in front of weeks later, the ding letter arrives. A bill that you won't be needing a hotel room you in evidence is interviewing in for the movies is tucked inside. You have for the night, and that you'd rather have Denver, too! What a coincidence. Maybe the uncanny sense that someone them make a donation to the SFF you could propose sharing a room. Hey, somewhere is burningthe nameplate that program. They won't say no. According it's for charity! would've been on your office door. And to Brendan Geary, SFF maven, many firms you're right. already participate (a list of firms will be 3. When the auction rolls around, and coming your way on the law school those ghoulish SFF types are screaming So, stay with Mom. Stay at your listserv shortly) and no firm has ever said at you to do your share, you can tell them buddy's place, where the porn is free. Fill no when asked. It's cheaper for them than you already gave. Okay, that won't out that SFF voucher form, and turn it in. footing the bill for an actual hotel room actually work. You're still going to end Send a 1L to the public defender's office (not to mention your mini-bar raids), and up spending $1500 to play Parcheesi with and win yourself a few more brownie at this point in the process they're still Pottow. But, see, you'll be too drunk to points with Somebody Out There. Just trying to convince you that they have an care about it then, or to remember that remember to pack a lint brush. active pro bono program, so they won't you did this now, so just do it, and Jet the want to look uncharitable. Trust us, good karma roll. • 1!12 �es ®estae $epttmber 14, 2004 II OCI: It's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore

By Matthew .J. Nolan Interviews themselves varied; I had answer was White Pine, the state tree of one interview where 15 of the 20 minutes Michigan." o for those 1Ls who don't was spent convincing an associate that I know, EIW stands for Early really wanted to practice law. Another I Situation: "My buddy walking by the Interview Week, August 3D­ spent discussing a beef the interviewer's pool, seeing me in an interview, and September 2. While you were all moving little sister (yes, his little sister) had with making "odd" motions with his face and in and drinking 12 hours a day, most of U of M President Mary Sue Coleman (I body. While the interviewers wondered the 2Ls and quite a few 3Ls spent all day was on the committee that hired her). why I was grinning so hard, they never every day interviewing in 20-minute One interviewer informed me, without caught on to his antics." blocks. Sounds great for job prospects, prompting, that she had, "never missed right? a home hockey game in four years of 4) "Ryan bringing champagne to his undergrad at Michigan." That's an last interview was definitelyAMAZING! Well, yes. Unfortunately, there were intense fan. You should totally include that!" (ok, drawbacks as well. For instance, I would ok .. .I did! See?) guess that roughly 50% of people I've The benefits of OCI were many: I talked to had their #1 firm's interview learned a lot about the type of firm I want 3) "The worst OCI interview I had first on Monday morning. Seeing as it to work for, consequently changing my happened in 2003. I was interviewing has been two weeks since then with few previous ordering of them drastically. I with a prestigious New York firm about people receiving that call back, roughly learned that interviewers frequently go obtaining a position in their Silicon Valley 50% of us are now really excited about out drinking the night before office. I had ranked the firm #1 on my #2. interviewing while we're cramming last­ OCI list, so I was pretty enthused about second info about theirpartner / associate interviewing with them. I found thewhole thing pretty comical, ratios and "quality of life" rankings. which probably helped me keep some "I knew I'd wasted my time in the first levity during my 5-7 interviews/ day. I I learned that different firms definitely two minutes of the interview. The know one person who had 7 in one have different personalities, and that for interviewing attorney initially asked me MORNING. The first thing I noticed me that's going to be most important in which office I was interviewing for. I told upon arriving was the facilities. With selecting one. And finally; I learnedthat him Silicon Valley, at which point he hundreds of Jaw students in interviews there is an extremely kick-ass lunch place raised his head, scooted his chair back, they had to find a place to fit us all ...and called "Zoup!" between Blockbuster and and proceeded to tell me that the Silicon that place was the Holiday Inn. Kroger on Plymouth road that has Valley office was a mistake, and that the excellent soup, sandwiches, and salads. firm had been hasty in opening that That's right, kids - interviews with location. We continued theinte rview, but beds propped against the walls, and one Considering it's going to lead to the as expected, I never received a call back." giant waiting room full of circular tables vast majority of us getting ridiculously pushed too closely together to "ease our high paying jobs next summer and 2) "Hiring Partner Guy: (asking about tensions" between interviews. This beyond, I'd say the four days of pressure, my old firm) So did you hate anyone "relaxation" room ended up being mostly learning and fun were worth it. Most law there? a pressure-cooker, which prompted some schools don't have an interview week to rent rooms in surrounding hotels or structured like ours is, and we should all Me: Eh, no. Not particularly. just find other places to be between be thankful for the opportunities and interviews. advantages it is bringing us. HPG: Come onnnn. You had to have hated someone.. Do you hate anyone at Some things were great about OCI, And now, in cone!usion, I bring you the all? Do you hate? however. Having internet access was top five stories reported to the RG from something I didn't expect, and was a OCI: Me: We ll, what's the point? Generally much-appreciated resource. Thanks, I ignore people I don't like as best I can Career Services! In addition, free food 5) Weirdest interview ... and then there's no reason to hate them. showed up randomly throughout the week in the waiting room, and the Place: Bathroom in a hospitality suite. HPG: Ok, I'll take that. So how would hospitality suites provided by the firms you attack me? made up for what wasn't there. Question: "'If you were a tree, what tree would you be?' Seriously. By the way, the Continued on Page 18 ------til l\es �estae • �eptemher 14, 2004 A Survey of Summer Music Releases

By Steven Boender, MBA2 *Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand the whole CD from start to finish and can't recall one memorable moment. h, summer. The weather is For once the NME hype machine gets Now I know what "nonplussed" means. warm, the beach is open, and one right. This record is about as fun as millions of young people it gets, and makes even the most reserved Kid 606 - Who Still Kill Sound? suddenly boost their disposable income of us want to dance our blazers off. with jobs, internships, research assistant­ Supposedly they got some radio airplay This is what kids way cooler (but less ships, and shoplifting from sidewalk this summer. Another reason to celebrate employable) than you are dancing to at sales. Not yet completely insane, the the breakup of Creed. dawn. record companies take great care in providing a slough of releases for the kids The Ghost - This Pen is a Weapon *Magnetic Fields - I to snap up. Here's an alphabetical listing of some of the more notable releases of Aside from the awesome play on Stephen Merritt's proper follow-up to the past few months. While some of these words in the title, I was kind of the gargantuan 69 Love Songs brings 14 came out prior to actual "summer," our disappointed, considering their debut more doses of scathing wit and school year ends pretty early and I was one of the better releases of 2002. I hummable melodies. "So you - quote - wanted to give them their due props. was really disappointed, actually. Now love - unquote me, well stranger things Records marked with an asterisk are I'm angry. have come to be." How can you not love particularly good. this dude? *The Good Life - of the Year Album Leaf - In a Safe Place McLusky - The Difference Between "The first time that I met her I was Me & You is that I'm Not on Fire Mellow atmospheric instrumentals throwing up in the ladies' room stall. She recorded in Iceland with assistance from asked me if I needed anything; I said I The kid in me likes the creepy title, but the dudes in Sigur Ros. Initially I thought think I spilled my drink." This side the adult in me likes the ear-splitting of it merely as background music, but project of Cursive's Tim Kasher allows guitars and Steve Albini production. there's enough going on to warrant more himto explore his quieter side, and this They offer a few mellower songs on this active listening. record actually makes you wish this was one, and for some strange reason, the his full-time project. Pretty music, sad relative calm only makes Andy Falkous *Battles - EP C & Tras lyrics, and a voice that perfectly matches seem more sinister while he sings, "our both. old singer is a sex criminal." Take the drummer from Helmet, a guitar player from Don Caballero, and Guided by Voices - Half Smiles of the *Modest Mouse - Good News for New York avant-garde composer Ty ondai Decomposed People Who Love Bad News Braxton, and you get the soundtrack for a chaotic edition of This American Life. The final album by Robert Pollard and Possibly the most unlikely summer jam his full-time band, I can't help but agree ever. The rest of the world finally - To the 5 Boroughs that it's time to give up the GBV ghost. discovered what the hordes of devoted The past few have been more hit­ MM fans have known for years; the band The Beastie Boys are no longer boys, or-miss than their earlier work, though finally discovered just how good they no longer beastie, and quite frankly, no they're stillputting down some of the best could be if they brought in just a bit more longer fun. "Open Letter to NYC" is straight-ahead rock of anyone out there. pop sensibility. Everyone wins ...except great, as is the lead single, "Ch-Ch-Check whatever crappy mall-punk band got it out." However, the rest is quite - Tyrannosaurus Hives bumped out of MTV's "buzz bin" forgettable. What was I talking about? because of these guys. The Hives' U.S. debut, Ve ni Vidi Ben Kweller - On My Own Vicious, took the world by storm with a - You Are the Quarry Rick James backhand of 60s-influenced More -esque power pop from punk. However, the initial shock of their Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. former grunge wunderkind. Not terribly sound has long been replaced with Crap. Crap. I feel better already. innovative but a great party record for boredom as the myriad clones in their people who like their beer cold and their wake have watered down the sound to Continued on Page 18 dancing strictly at weddings. the point of annoyance. I just listened to I! 14 d•r• 3&es ®estae �eptember14, 2004 11�------Saved By the Bell: Reflections on (Finally) Growing Up

By Mike Murphy Ten years since high school? I admit it's interviewer, who was from Washington easy to forget since it seems like we D.C. (that's important to the story) said: his realization hit me as I sat haven't strayed that far. I was showing in a suit on a bench near a my orientation group around the school, "Are you interviewing anywhere other Holiday Inn trying to tell and I showed them the classrooms. Then than DC?" someone about my desire to litigate: my the cafeteria. (Okay, snack bar). Then the days of earninga glorious academicletter, lockers, which, conveniently, are big Dan said, "Yes, a little in Chicago." being the Outstanding Chemistry enough to be stuffed into. Then the bike Student and editing the school paper at racks, perfect for fighting at 3 o'clock That's not a good thing to say, but, it North Farmington High School were high. And talked about the prom. And the worked. The interviewer said, "Oh, rapidly receding towards a decade in the talent show. The comparisons are so easy really? Where in Chicago? past. I was on-campus interviewing at the nobody bothers anymore, and it's thrice­ time, and for some reason, mid-answer, I tread territory. Dan, not hearing him at all, said, realized that ocr really is not unlike a "Washington D.C." high school reunion. Everyone's dressed The worst may have been the 1L I just up, nobody's seen each other for a while, met who was born in 1983. Crap. I The interviewer, blessedly, gave him everyone's vaguely uncomfortable, remember 1983. I distinctly remember the benefit of the doubt. "What?" the there's lots of free food, everyone's lying 1984, when I was a young kid living in interviewer said. about their past to make it sound better ­ Detroit and the Tigers won the world and making up excuses and series. Baseball and I have since had what "Washington, D.C.," Dan repeated, rationalizations for the unabashedly you might call the classic "abusive emphatically. embarrassing parts of their resume. relationship;" despite what it does to me (labor strikes, tied All-Star Game, the After pausing for an interminable I graduated high school in 1996, which Yankees), I still cannot possibly stay mad length, the interviewer said "Okay... uh... means that at my ten-year high school at it (I think we call that the "loving so what did you do last summer?" reunion, I'll be .. urn.. just getting out of respite"). I feel thisfeeling of being old is here. That fifth year of undergrad for a probably only going to get worse with And that was pretty much how my Journalism degree? Well, that's the each passing year. But I can't be getting - interviews went, too. Try as I did to product of a program that stresses that-old right? I mean, it's not like I have convince them of my future worthto their practice over coursework, so it behooved chronic injuries and gray hair! No. I do. organization, it was really hard to avoid me to hang around in a free on-campus sounding like a complete doofus. apartment and take a half load of classes I mean, hell, I wore a suit! For four so I could complete my year-long straight days! Man, it's a stretch if I wear But maybe that's a good thing! Think research thesison the sociological aspects pants for more than four straight hours! about it. Really, my goal - and all of the of winning the Stanley Cup four straight Ask any my past or present roommates, goals of the people sitting around the seasons in a row in NHL 2001 on the Play or anyone who's been over to my Holiday Innin suits bought on credit and station. The thesis has not yet been apartment. (Okay, that came out all with catered cookies digesting in their completed. It is a work in progress. wrong. Let's just move on). stomachs - is to convince the firms that of all the bright young lawyer-types they Those two years spent producing web My buddy Dan has been telling this spoke to that day and many other days, sites? That's "media experience." I had to story for a week now, and I feel it's really that I'm some sort of mega-nerd. A "taste the 'real world'" before I felt indicative of the OCI experience. It was genetically engineered mutated alpha compelled to "come back to the grind." late in the day and late in the week, and nerd. A nerd among nerds. A workhorse That last summer where I backpacked Dan's brain was completely fried. He got whose non-billable hours, like spending through Europe and slept on my friends' to an interview and had real trouble, of time with his family and pro bono work couches? I was a "freelance writer," damn all things, paying attention to what the for kids with cancer and going to the it, which is certainly a noble profession! interviewer was saying. I know this bathroom are really, honestly less See? It's "easy" when you have no seems like the entire point of the valuable to him than the ones in which problem being "full" of "crap." (I have interview and of the process. It is. But boy, no problem being full of crap). it's not as easy as it sounds! So, the Continued on Page 19 ------411 l\.es @estae · $eptember 14, 2004 � 15 II Pro-Life Students Should Organize Submitted by Jon Siegler the prospective law student researching As it is now, those who want to save � the school, or for a Michigan student from millions of lives appear less serious, less o the editors: some other school who is just lost down motivated, and less invested than those by the bulletin boards, it is possible to who want to prevent undue government wonder whether there is a pro-choice interference into private affairs. This A few days before corninghere I was consensus here. So there needs to be some lends weight to arguments about leafingthrough the Bulletin. There I was formal student organization opposing insincerity and bad faith. (Again, talking taken aback to discover that the forty or abortion rights. about outsiders and neighbors, not law fifty some student organizations include students.) a pro-choice group but no counterpart. If there aren't twenty convinced What a relief then during orientation to students, there should be twenty students Come on, my idealistic public servants. hear abortion specifically mentioned at interested in advocating such an (at least Where's a more voiceless population? least three times as an issue about which locally) under-represented position just Where are there higher stakes? there remains controversy, about which for the sake of it. But one would think people could disagree vehemently, about that the Catholic Law Club, the Christian Jon Siegler, lL which people may try to persuade each Legal Society, the Muslim Law Students other. Association, or the Republican National Jon Siegler is a lL. E-mail comments about Lawyers Association might include some this article to [email protected]. But while perhaps everyone within the anti-abortionists among their members. law school community realizes that there Perhaps some of these people would use is still a dispute, we are allowing an their organizationexperience to help start unfortunate inference to the outsider. For up the new group. •

What Would Jesus Do? Vote Democrat Submitted By Nicolas Jampol focusing less on the evils of homosexual­ raise taxes to fund social programs and ity and more on tolerance, acceptance, aspire to global understanding. The true In the past few months, I've noticed love, and sharing. I must have missed the legacy of Jesus is the desire to understand, that Republicans have been frequently in­ part where people should be able to keep accept, and help others in the face of any voking the name(s) of God and Jesus more of their income because I only re­ danger. According to Churchdoctrine, He Christ when discussing the upcoming member parts about sharing your mate­ gave His life for the sins of others. The political elections. In the U.S. Senate race rial possessions with those in need. And least you we can do is pay higher taxes in Illinois, Alan Keyes recently suggested due to his personal experience with this, to help fund socialprograms forthose less that Jesus Christ would not vote for his I am sure He does not agree with the Re­ fortunate. The least we can do is tolerate Democratic challenger, Barack Obama, publican policy of capital punishment and accept others regardless of their po­ due to Obama's views on abortion. Jerry (particularly against execution by cruci­ litical, sexual, or religious beliefs (unlike Falwell called voting for President Bush fixion). Jesus' enemies two thousand years ago). the "responsibility" of evangelical Chris­ tians and Pat Robertson claimed God told It seems that Republicans these days But we need to get back to the main him Bush would win the election in a are focusing more on a couple narrow issue here. In the upcoming presidential blowout. contemporary political views of the election, what would Jesus do? Well, I Christian faith and ignoring the broad will tell you ... This frequent invocation by Republi­ principles of Christ. At a recent confer­ cans begs the question ... how would ence in Texas, political author James C. Just like with Pat Robertson, God spoke Jesus vote in this presidential election? Moore commented that "if ever there was to me. He said: "Vote for Kerry." Luckily for you, I have this information: a bleeding-heart liberal, it was Jesus Although he disagrees with some of the Christ. I think the carpenter from Galilee *I make no representations, explicit or implied, as to party's platform, Jesus Christ is a regis­ was the original Democrat." the voter registration status of Jesus Christ. tered* Democrat. While Republicans argue for lower Nicholas Jampol is a 2L. E-mail comments Although I am not a Biblical scholar, I taxes and defend a preemptive strike about this article to [email protected]. distinctly remember the New Testament policy against other nations, Democrats • �'' =l =6 ===�==·····=·=·· �= ·===�=e=s=® =e=st=ae=====�=�= tt=�==erl=4 =, �==�''r------Shoot to Kill: The First Week From a Trigger Happy lL's Perspective

From Abby Rubinson . \ • • • •• ��C') � ...... ;; .t�� ,..,.._" fter careful evaluation for a full "'fj;�;.J'·ill cf week, I've come to the thank ... ful, comforting conclusion that • . : ;' . our class is living up to its reputation as 1 .,,. •.: collegiate and non-competitive. Some­ how, the prevailing conversation topic of I. L 1 L' s seems to suggest otherwise, as the armed and dangerous have become the common denominator among just about everyone I've talked to. Already I was mildly concerned when I came to visit last year and the faculty kept insisting how friendly the students were - so friendly that they would even share notes with each other if someone became too sick to attend class. Personally, that raised some red flags for me.

I thought sympathy for the ailing should be a given. I've come to expect common congeniality, too. Apparently, though, I was being slightly presumptu­ ous, since such humanity is said to per­ vade other law schools and other lands. ate the gunners. If it weren't for those the budding days of our law school years, Fortunately for us, it looks like the worst eager, go-go-gadget arms taking the early there are few things better to bond over of it here really is just localized to one initiative, the rest of us would be at a se­ than collectively making fun of each notable species. Embodying the very rious loss for what to talk about. Sure, other. I suppose we could debate the idi­ traits we're supposed to possess as aspir­ we've all had the urge to try to morph ocy behind connecting two buildings and ing lawyers, these self-proclaimed self­ law school vocabulary into humor. It'll then pretending one is six stories higher starters have become easy targets on the happen. But tying the possession of your than the other - but the people we see commiserating front - that species beer to private property just doesn't trig­ every day are inherently more fodder­ overpopulating the front row. ger the same resonating laughter as imi­ generating. tating the awkward duels that have tran­ So here we are, a week into classes.? spired every time a professor poses a But this is law school; not life. No hard And if you're anything like me, you're question. Those of us lacking the confi­ feelings. Fire away! And, of course, I'm still playing mind games with yourself, dent, on-the-spot gunning edge have not trying to discount myself from this trying to figure out whether you're talk­ been bonding over this behavior ever population. After all, I wrote an article ing too much or not enough in class. As since the mouths started going in mock for the school paper, didn't I? We ll, in if we don't have enough to think about class. So you see -we should be grateful. my defense, I plead guilty. Precedent of deciphering what exactly the judge's The gunners may infuriate us mid-class, hypocrisy and dull humor upheld. opinion affirms, we've also been handed but, at the very least, theytake the pres­ the dilemma of balancing solid class par­ sure off whenever we speak up, since Abby Rubinson is a 1L. E-mail comments ticipation and not being vilified by the we're allowed the relative comfort of pal­ about this article to [email protected]. rest of the section. ing by comparison.

And what I have realized in the pro­ Admittedly, it's semi-third grade to • cess, though, is we truly have to appreci- mock people in order to be funny. But in Ann Arbor Knows Ice Cream

If you haven't noticed yet, Ann Arbor has a plethora of ice cream choices. Stucchi's is locally owned and offers enormous portions of both ice cream and frozen yogurt.

If you want a less gluttonous serving, order a junior scoop. And be sure not to pass up the opportunity for a free ice cream cone on your birthday.

Don't be scared off by the "Teriyaki Frozen Yogurt" sign in front of Rod's Diner. Rod's Diner is home to the famous "collider" in which you can choose from mix-ins ranging from cinnamon toast crunch to snickers pieces, and add as many as you'd like to an overflowing cup of soft-serve frozen yogurt. For Bigger Groups Late Night Munchies

While long-time Ann Arborites For birthday parties, try Grizzly Peak After a long night at the bar, students reminisce about the days when the tiny or Miki Japanese Restaurant. Grizzly can stop by the New York Pizza Depot eatery was actually owned and managed Peak brews its own beer and has excellent ("NYPD") for a slice a mouthwatering by Rod and his wife, the colliders beer samplers. They have long tables and BBQ chicken pizza or rehash the night themselves have not lost their flavor. a wide variety of food to accommodate over a "Hippie Hash" at the Fleetwood your friends' diverse tastes. Diner. Other popular late-night fare If you still are not satisfied or prefer a includes In and Out Pizza, Cottage Inn more traditionaltreat, head next door to Professor Omri Ben-Shahar has been Pizza, Pizza House and Bell's Pizza. Pizza Bob's for the best rnilkshakes in rumored, on occasion, to join in on the Notice a theme here? town. sake-bomb birthday toasts at Miki. Finer Dining on Your Student Loans

For those of you with more sophisticated tastes, Main Street offers a number of finer dining experiences. Enjoy a fabulous martini and distinctive tapas for a memorable evening at Cafe Felix. This is a fun place for a group or for a date, but you should be sure to bring someone you like- they have incredibly slow service. Other excellent places to bring a date (or your parents) include the Pacific Rim, Palio and the Prickly Pear. Only try the Chop House if you are already dating a corporate lawyer- and they are paying.

For a romantic after dinner treat, 2L Jennifer Klem suggests La Dolce Vita "because there's nothing like a dirty martiniand a good cigar." Who can argue with that? • �' '=l=S===�=·�=· ��• 6" g�· ···===�=e=s=�=e=st=ae======�� =�re=e=r =l4=,�==�'1� ------­ LARGE, from Page 1 MUSic, from Page 13 rate. Although we accept more of our applicants than say a Stanford or Yale, it Muse - Absolution RG: In prior years the Admissions is because our classes are much larger Office had aimed for class sizes of than theirs are, and truth be told, schools If I read one more review of theseguys around 350-360 students. Last year the from the Coasts have a larger pool that that mentions I'm going aim was for 380 and this year around 375. they can draw from. The University of to ...damn. Are larger class sizes a sign of the future? Michigan Law School does not have the pull of a large city (such as New York, Los PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her Z: No, next year we are aiming for a Angeles, or Chicago) that attracts people, class size of about 350-360 students. and the weather ...is the weather, but I Another soul-searching exercise from am proud to say that when compared to one of rock's prettiest/ scariest/ strongest RG: Why is that? Is it because the our analogous schools such as Duke, women. Recorded at her home, it lacks economy is showing signs of picking up University of Virginia, and Cornell, our the polish of her last one, and there aren't and less people are applying to law applicant pool is larger. any Thorn Yorke duets, but in a world school? nearly devoid of female musical role RG: What can we expect from our models, PJ Harvey is more necessary than Z: No, we still expect well over 5,000 Admissions Department in the future? ever. Britney needs to quit marrying applicants next year, but the dudes and start listening to Polly Jean. administration and faculty have decided Nothing very different than what we they wanted to enroll a class size more in try to accomplish every year. The staff in Athlete - Ve hicles and Animals tune to what we had in the years prior to the Admission Department tries hard to the last two. assemble and enroll students which can Like , but 50% more boring. carry on the great tradition and I'm really mad I paid for this. RG: The University of Michigan has reputation that the UMLS has earned and consistently increased its total to represent the school well. The Law *The Streets - A Grand Don't Come applications, yield, and attracted better School's faculty, through its For Free candidates in the past few years. Can recommendations,has also played a great we expect this trend to continue? role in achieving our goals of bringing in Who'd have thought that thesuccessor students which are strong not only to Jay-Z's throne of hip hop would be a Z: I hope so, every year that I have been academically, but are good all-around skinny white guy from the UK? I defy here, the number of applicants to the people. With that said, I wish to welcome you to find a better hip hop record than University of Michigan has increased. the Class of 2007 to the University of thisreleased in the past 5 years. This is a testament to the faculty, Michigan Law School. May your time adminstration, staff and students here at here be one of great challenges, rewards, Trans Am the University of Michigan that is it such and experiences. an attractive place to study law. I do get D.C. instrumental band tries to go questions regarding our high admittance political on their latest effort. However, • the instrumental nature of their music means that it's hard to get a message OCI, from Page 12 on the back of my resume, then he'd hold across besides the album cover art. The it up to me so that I could see it (in other cut-and-pasted George Bush track is Me: Like physically? words, the back of the resume was closer funnythe first time and scary after that. to me than thefront was to him, so I could When the apocalypse arrives, thisis what HPG: No, like verbally. How would read it). The notes he wrote, in big CNN will play in the background. you tear me down? lettering, were: 'Cheeseball.' 'Self­ Aggrandizing."' *Wilco Me: Umm, I wouldn't. Seeing that you're INTERVIEWING me for a JOB and And on that note ...happy fly-backs! More ink has been spilled because of all. thisthan any other recordin thepast year. Matt Nolan is the Executive Editor of Res If you like Wilco, you already have it. If 1) (Note: this story had the most Gestae. Questions? Comments? Phone you don't like Wilco or don't know who submissions for it BY FAR, and hence is numbers?Send 'em all to [email protected] they are then this probably isn't the best the undisputed # 1 OCI ): point of entry. I think it's brilliant. "In my Latham interview, the guy • started writing negative things about me • ------�11 l\.es ®estae · �eptember 14, 2004 c:%-t�t 19 II SAVED, from Page 14 �======� he can, in six-minute increments, bill to Well-Dres.s--ed 2Ls someone else. Someone who will stab somebody in front of his own momma to win a motion for summary judgment. DeffiandEinpl oyme.nt The evil demonic meta-nerd. That's me. That's what I tried to sell!

Of course it didn't work. After all, I cried once when I saw a fallen nest filled dead baby birds outside my apartment. And there's no crying in corporate litigation. Especially among the mega­ nerds.

I can work for a firm; I just can't live for a firm. I'll always be the kid who came here looking to solve the world's problems. And I'll always be looking to solve them. Somehow.

On a side note, I love it when people here call other people here "nerds." it's like saying "Hey, pot. It's the kettle! Tough luck against Notre Dame, huh?"

Seriously, if you dropped any average Joe M-Law student into "Saved By the Bell," you're either Jessie from the infamous speed-taking episode or Screech from .. okay, from every episode.

And, as has been said before here (I think), maybe that's all law school is; the TV-Sitcom version of high school, where twenty- and thirty-something actors play the roles of teenagers. I still have zits, I still carry my lunch to school sometimes, and I definitely have pictures hanging in my locker.

I've yet to give or receive any atomic wedgies or purple nurples ... but the year's only a week old.

See you around, Jessies and Schreeches. Try to keep your hearts and your heads in the respective right places. Got me?

Mike Murphyis the Editor-in-Chiefof Res Gestae. He is a Sagittarius and wants to be a lawyer (or something) when he grows up. E-mail Mike at [email protected] • I! 20 �"_, �es �estae • �eptemher l4, 2004 lt-1 ------

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