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University of Michigan Law School University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository Res Gestae Law School History and Publications 1984 Vol. 33, No. 10, November 28, 1984 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, "Vol. 33, No. 10, November 28, 1984" (1984). Res Gestae. Paper 376. http://repository.law.umich.edu/res_gestae/376 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]. November 28, 1984 Vol. 33, No. 10 The University of Michigan Law School Profs: Ax Summer Term By Steve Hunter mer programs separately. The report both feel that the summer program less than 8 students. The report also Last Wednesday the Summer Session cited the virtues of the first year sum should be retained, and 80 of their said that the upperclass program " im· Review Committee released its report mer session : allowing older students to classmates signed a petition agreeing poses substantial additional scholar on the continuation of the Summer return to academics gradually, with them. They cite smaller classes, a ship costs." Session and recommended the summer providing a lighter load for students for more relaxed environment and a chan As for visiting profs, the report program's elimination. their entire first year, and reducing ce to see visiting professors as reasons states, " In light of the current number The committee recommended that streSs for students by giving them only for saving the session. of visitors during the fall and spring, both the upperclass program and the two graded classes at a time when the " We feel it's an excellent learning the limited number of summer upper first year session be terminated, but the law school has fewer people. environment," King said. As for "draf class courses, and the increased report states that the " summer The report discusses drawbacks to tees," Churchill feels the law school dispersal of our own faculty during the program should be eliminated as soon the summer session. One is that there doesn't sell the program enough. " If summer, that benefit is not nearly as as that can be done without adversely are many summer starters who are you sold it more, I am convinced you'd great as it once was." affecting the interests of students "draftees," who do not begin law school get enough students. You would The final section of the report ex presently enrolled. This assumes that in the summer by choice. This means eliminate compulsion." plored alternatives to the current elimination of that program will not that many students who choose not to The report does address the issue of summer program. The first is to result in a decrease of scholarship fun graduate early are forced to bear the promoting the summer session, citing abolish the summer program, thereby ds and that the monies currently spent cost of an extra semester of law school. Stillwagon's changes in the application, saving approximately $230-250,000 in on summer instructional staff can be Also, many students who are con· which, according to him, "emphasized scholarship money and $5,000.10,000 converted to hiring additional faculty. •· sidered hot prospects by the admissions the camaraderie and high morale found clerical time, as well as "consideraoJe A second concern of the report is the committee refuse to matriculate unless in Section Four, hinted at the attraction e.ffort on the part of the Admissions of cost of the first year program. Accor they can come in the fall, and some do of summer-starters to some firms fice." This would also save an ding to the report, " A typical class of go elsewhere. willing to consider first-year hiring, estimated $10,000 for the Lawyers Cl ub. summer starters will have 38 students But the report goes on to quote Admis and indulged in some blatant puffery." In addition, Dean Eklund is quoted in who receive aid for more than 6 terms sions Officer Allan Stillwagon as ap Nevertheless, in a footnote to the com the report as saying "there would be <ordinarily 6 terms plus the initial proximating that although 75 percent of mittee's recommendation, Prof. Israel virtually no effect on room assignments summer) . Additionally, if those those offered summer admissions expressed concern that " we do not for either fall or winter terms." The students had been working during that would prefer fall, by the end of the make a sufficient effort to sell the final virtue of this alternative, accor summer before they started, they summer 75 percent of the same people summer program." ding to the report, would be to "main would have accumulated an additional are glad they started early. The report In the second section, the report ad tain class quality in a period of $1,000 in savings each. A rough also states that a " petition from the dressed the upperclass program. One declining applications, particularly as estimate of total additional scholar summer students and conversations of the problems with it, according to the to residents." ship cost for the first year summer with those students suggests that that report, is dwindling class size. The The report states that on the other starters (that is, the aid beyond what percentage might be even higher." report stated that of the 8 classes taught side, this option would burden Cook they would have received as fall star That petition was circulated by last summer, only one had more than 35 funds for at least 3 more summers students, three had between 16 and 35, ters) is $90,000·115,000 for each class." current summer starters Nancy King See CUT, page 7 The report addresses the two sum- and Sally Churchill. King and Churchill three had between 8 and 15, and one had Sandalow Pulls Down Six Figures Annually By Kevin Tottis Not surprisingly, clinical law Law School Dean Terrance Sanda low professors' salaries ranked well below joined the $100,000 Club this year. Ac their counterparts in the classroom. cording to recently released figures by For example, Clinic Head Paul the University, Sanda low makes Reingold takes home $40,000; Prof. $105,952 for his job as law school dean. Martin Geer makes $35,256. That puts Sandalow among a small Other professors at the top end of the handful of University faculty members scale include: Associate Dean Edward who take home more than six figures a Cooper at $94 ,000 ; Profs. Yale year and the only full -time member of Kamisar, Wade McCree and Joseph the law school community to pull in that Sax each take home $87,000. amount. Most others in the group are Among other administrator s , deans or medical school professors. Associate Dean Susan Eklund earns On the other end of the scale, first $47,500 and Assistant Dean Virginia year Assistant Prof. Jessica Litman Gordan takes home $30,500. bas the lowest salary of any full-time Visiting professors also tended in academic professors in the school: many cases to take home large $41,000. However, like most faculty salaries. For instance, Visiting Prof. members, Litman has only a nine Roger Cramton will earn a whopping month appointment, which leaves three $91 ,000 for his eight month appointment months out of the year for other in while his fellow visitor Rudolf Dolzer terests. will get $68,000. Moot Court Results The following teams will progress to he semifinal rounds of the Campbell Dimon/ McCarthy Photo by Bruce Vie-lmttu Moot Court Competition in February: Sharp/Boehrer Masspirg's Doug Phelps says Michigan law students will serve one percent of Mueller McCallister/Garcia the population. Phelps spoke at the Alternative Practice Conference. See ALTER Weinhardt!Rundelli Foran/Berry NATIVE, page 5. Rynders Pfeifer/ Levy OQlhl on =--- Editor in Chief· Ruth Milkman Managing Editor: Bruce Viel melli Polarization Politics: News: Ktvl n Tollls Opinion: Andrta Lodahl Feature: Michatl Dunes Arts: Carol Shepherd Whose Side Are Yon On? Law in the Raw: Dana Deue, Stacey f isher. Nora Kelly Sports: teve Hunter Business: J . Kachen Kimmell By An drea Lodahl especially moral to choose to represent those who Photography: Dean Bruza Rather than try to write a detached essay for the need it most. I don't see how it rationally follows , Graphics: Eric Hard, Arthur Siegal Opinion page this week, I thought I'd indulge myself though, that a client who can afford the fee must be Staff' Kim Cahill. Bob Hafner. Mark Harris, Don l t in addressing my peers about a persistent thorn in a bad client. I could only arrive at that conclusion if zkorr, Lisa Ma rtin, J oe Mauarese, Liz McCoy, my side: the polarization of this commumty inter 1 condemned the accumulatiOn of capital in and of Elizabeth Peacock, Laura Kelsey Rhodes, Elizabethanne ms of legal roles. itself, and I'm not prepared to repudiate capitalism. uchwala, Joel Well Now that the interviewing season is over, maybe So I see no polar scale where "good" lawyers and poor people are at one end, and "bad" lawyers and The Res Ocscae u pubhshed .-ery Wednosday durina ohe S<:hool year by we corporate tools can relax and look our public in scudcnu 11 ohc Univctshy of Michigan Law School. Opinions uprcssed in terest buddies in the face again without feeling rich corporations are at the other.