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VOLUME XIV, NUMBER 2 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL OCTOBER 8, 1993 '93 a ''year fro01 hell'' for aid

by David Feldman incompatible with their computer systems Editor-in-Chief and the benefits of on-time availability were more than outweighed by the ensuing Financial aid has not been easy to delays. Students who chose to fill out the come by this fall. The lack of prompt GAPSF AS rather than the F AF did not disbursement of scholarship and loan funds have their applications processed in time has caused frustration at BCLS. Why the for priority aid review and had to wait for delays? The answers are many and may be the second round of available funds. COMMENT traced to two overall culprits: changes "Timing is a huge factor in financial made by the federal government in the aid, " said BCLS financial aid director ■ Jason ' way aid is handled and understaffing at Laurie Hogan. "That put a lot of the first the financial aid office. year class behind in terms of receiving Talerman The methods for disbursing federal scholarship funding and institutional promotes law financial aid are reauthorized every three loans." to five years. 1993 was a reauthorization In addition to being swamped with the school unity year. Changes made by the federal gov­ original wave ofuseless GAPSFAS forms through doughnut ernment included altering the methodol­ followed by a second wave of the revised ogy for calculating aid and attempting to forms, the financial aid office was under­ theft standardize the application forms. staffed during application season. No work­ ■ Steven Davis The change in forms caused a wide study student was working in the office changes, nor did they give the guarantors, variety of problems. When the federal during the hectic summer months. Hogan the lenders, the servicers or anybody criticizes the government introduced the Free Applica­ was the only person in the office handling enough time to implement the changes," tion for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the the continuing BCLS population. First­ Hogan said. media's response idea was to provide a free, simplified year applications were handled by Hogan BCLS relied on several means for to Somalia. manner for determining aid. Information and the office in Lyons Hall on the main alleviating some of the frustrations sus­ on the F AFSA form may not be duplicated campus. The student accounts office on tained during this reauthorization year. -PAGE2 on forms provided by private services. main campus had three people leave dur­ The emergency loan program was put to However, while the FAFSA contains ing the peak processing period. unprecedented use. For the first time, FROUC BANTER information sufficient to determine fed­ In addition to reauthorization compli­ needy students were given as much as & eral aid, it does not contain information cations and understaffing, other glitches $2,000 (the usual limit is $500 for emer­ ■ Larry Dobrow necessary to determine how scarcer, insti­ contributed to the delays as well. Com­ gency loans) to get through the costly tutional funds should be distributed. For puter problems plagued the on-line Law back-to-school months. Other schools exhorts law example, FAFSA does not require infor­ Access application process. American Stu­ without emergency assistance saw many mation regarding parental income. dent Assistance (ASA) experienced com­ students withdraw from their programs students to Because private services like College puter problems as well, resulting in late because of an inability to pay funds dur­ explore runners' Scholarship Service (CSS), maker of the processing of Stafford loans and even later ing the delays of 1993. Financial Aid Form (FAF), could not du­ processing of SLS loans. BCLS has brought in consultants to high. plicate the basic FAFSA information but "Aid officers across the country have meet with Boston College financial aid ■ Anthony still needed to provide institutions with called this the year from hell," Hogan said. officers and design methods for avoiding other information such as parental income, "My director has been in aid for 13 years problems like those which occurred this Depaolo provides their forms had to be completely revamped. and she has never seen a reauthorization year. Don Betterton, director of financial This meant publishing the forms and up­ year like this." aid at Princeton University, and Jim valuable advice dating vast computer systems in less than Hogan said that she thinks the changes Scannell from the University of Roches­ in"Dear a year. may be beneficial in the long run but were ter have discussed the methods now in While FAF forms were delayed, an­ thrust upon the process too suddenly. place and possible strategies for dealing Satachmo" other private service form, GAPSFAS, "The government was trying to do some with the ever-changing field of student ■ Food review: was available on time. However, far reaching changes, but they didn't give financial aid. Kenmore IHOP GAPSFAS forms turned out to be wholly the schools enough time to implement those shows signs of genius 2Ls Win Negotiation Contest Negotiation -PAGE4&5 By Andrea Berkman accident or, as in the final round, negotiat­ champion lL Staff Writer ing the termination of a business partner- .. Bill Blake ship. Each team tried to reach the settle­ NEws&VIEws At long last the 1993 negotiation com­ ment most beneficial for their client, and ■ Don Skrip petition at Boston College Law School is the winners advanced to the next round. over. On October 19, the team of Bill The negotiation competition is being recounts a Blake and Al McArthy defeated Pat Farrell run by the Board of Student Advisors memorable LAB and Larry Grihalva. Spectators agreed (BSA), and is part of a national annual that they did not envy the judges' task of competition. It occurs in the first semester Al trial picking a winner, and the judges took over of each year and is open to all students. It McArthy, twenty minutes to decide what they said is one of several national competitions for comprised -PAGE7 was a close contest. When asked how they which the student advisors oversee Boston other half of felt about this round of competition, both College's participation in any given year. top duo BCLS SPORTS teams agreed that they represented their Other national competitions run by the "clients" well and were surprised at how BSA include client counseling, mock trial ■ Geoff Howell much progress was made toward settling and moot court. Like negotiations, these the case. competitions are designed to give the par­ on hockey The negotiation competition began ticipants an idea of what a certain type of teams with feedback on how to improve with fifty teams. In each round of compe­ law activity is like. The judges for the their negotiating skills. -PAGES tition, the teams were given a fact pattern negotiation competition are Boston-area Alan and Bill will be taking part in the which gave them the role of the negotiator attorneys and BCLS professors. In addi­ regional part of the competition in the for one side of a controversy- such as tion to picking the winners of each round next few weeks. From there, the compe­ settling a claim for damages after a car of competition, the judges provide both tition advances to the national levei. Page 2 • THE ALLEDGER • November 5, 1993

Sweet path to school unity U.S. Inedia fails in SoIDalia by Jay Talerman rich. It is virtually impossible to eat by Steven Davis ing as the pictures of the Marines crown­ 3L Executive Editor without making a social ass out of one's lL Staff Writer ing Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. In­ As oflate, I have pledged a majority of self but, at the same time, successfully The United States finds itself in a stead, we got the antithesis of the Iwo my resources to the promotion of student resisting the custard filling and choco­ quagmire in Somalia, and there is no Jima moment- a beach scene lacking all harmony. I have directed my strongest late topping is akin to a heroin addict way around reaching such a conclusion. spontaneity and so contrived that any actions to the much needed breakdown of turning down a needle, any needle. The objectives are seemingly ill-defined meaning or inspiration that could have class lined here at BCLS. The opportu­ Hell, itdon'tmatterifit's the last donut (feed people? capture General Aidid? been taken away by viewers radiated nity has presented itself and the honor has in the box, or if it's stale - the typical restore stability? all of the above?), the away like desert heat in of the night sky. welled up inside of me. Of course, change Boston Creme eater couldn't tell pheas­ enemy is not massed in front of our The problem with media coverage is not instantaneous, but, instead, is the ant under glass from a weaver chicken forces as to make the fighting a conven­ was this- they chose to show footage of aggregate of good deeds not unlike the frank. tional exercise, the people of Somalia the death and the tragedy in Somalia and ones that I have undertaken ... Once a week, You have to respect the Blueberry are divided on whether or not they want that created the impetus for action, but I steal a donut from the offices of The Cake donut. So many have worked so us there, and people in America are failed to flesh out what involvement in Boston College Law Review. hard to reach respectability. The upper divided about whether or not we have Somalia was going to require. From the The French Cruller has had a lot of reaches of society may be unattainable any business being there. beginning common sense says that there recent sociological impact. Though the but suc~ess is knocking; the culmina- . What's happening there has many was going to more of this operation than sugar glaze is often too heavy and prone tion of generations of familial advance­ parallels to U.S. involvement in Viet­ giving starving people a few meals and to untimely breakdown in hyper-normal ment. The Blueberry Cake is the per­ nam, right down to uncannily familiar then leaving. Operation Rescue Hope temperatures, this particular type of fect transitional donut, midway between claims and counterclaims, for students was never a fly by night event, but the donut's ability to virtually melt on the the deep fryer at McDonalds and the of history, that general Aidid ( and in media treated it as such. tongue, is an absolute delight. It's tasteful stone hearths at your local Seattle-style Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh) is either a lib­ As soon as food was reaching the subtleties are not lost on a new intel) . afe. If you really knew your parents, erator of his people or an outright des­ people, the media was off to gays in the tual generation that has been forced to be the Blueberry Cake is the donut for pot. Only this time military, the budget, increasingly sensitive to specializaton in you. the Congressional and health care and order to St!rvive in ihe tight 90s. It is a Value judgments aside, we are all stomach for causali­ What a spectacle U.S. Somalia was con­ donut that must be eaten with two hands, guilty of our individual prejudices. The ties in this ''.police signed to dusty news­ twisted apart, oohed and aahed over. A donut is the missing link, the panacea action" is much entry into Somalia papermorgues ofback donut with ever increasing popularity. for the masses. The generation-old ques­ weaker. was- an amphibious issues and tape stor­ An up and comer, ready to usher Genera­ tion, "Why can't we all just get along?" How did this hap­ age rooms just like tion X into its inevitable but hard fought has anesthetized us all. The answer lies pen? How did U.S. night time landing met Ethiopia in the mid- power positions. atDoubleD... andourhearts ... Heydude, policy there go from 1980' s. Is it any won­ The Boston Creme is really a kid's I'm gonna grab half your jelly donut, sweeping approval by a formidable array der that Americans donut. The poor cousin to a proper eclair. you cool with that?" Just don't let Chris to a groundswell of ofjournalists and were confused and Its excesses are form fitted to the Stone see you, he'll tear you apart. discontentment in alarmed to see Ameri­ immaturities and indulgences of the new such a short time? klieg lights. The can soldiers being For once, I think the moment, in terms of taken prisoner, being media can rightly be killed, and having To: School Community as a forum in which everyone is encour­ blamed, and its in­ their bodies dragged From: LSA aged to share their own experiences and our purpose ofgoing volvement in this through the streets of Re: Town Meting of November strategies. In addition, those present policy shows again to feed the starving, Mogadishu? Ameri­ 11,1993 will have the opportunity to discuss how powerful a tool cans, because we can About: Legal Job Market Reality financial concerns. Jean French and was as singularly it is for shaping and rarely look at more and Law Student Stress Linda Malluch (Career Services Of­ galvanizing public courageous and could than what comes to us Financial Aid Concerns fice), Laurie Hogan (Financial Aid ), opinion. from the media, have Time: 4:30-6 Dean A viam Soifer, Dean Lisa DiLuna, have been as inspiring The story begins two incoherent snap­ Where: Snack Bar Dean Brian Lutch, and Father James with George Bush, a shots of U.S. involve­ O'Malley ( Dean's Office(s) Adminis­ as the pictu~ of'the man often pilloried ment- first, landing to While the last LSA town meeting tration) will all be presenting informa­ by the media for be­ Marines crowning help feed people and introduced Dean A viam Soifer to the tion and be available for questions. ing cold and unsym­ second, trying to keep school community, the next town meet­ One of the main priorities for the Mount Suribachi on pathetic, a man that country from slid­ ing will focus on the "real" picture of faculty and staff in attending this meet­ whose chief virtue as Iwo Jima. Instead, we ing into further chaos. the legal market and the ramifications ing is to help alleviate some of the a leader may have The need to do both for law students today. Not only will student angst which has developed dur­ got the antithesis of been not dying while go hand in hand, but this town meeting center on the market's ing the fall hiring time. in office. Pictures of the Iwo Jima moment­ they were never pre­ practical realities, but also it will serve death and starvation a beach scene lacking sented to the Ameri­ came from Somalia can public in that fash­ last fall and respon­ all spontaneity ion. sibility to do some­ With the power to thing about it was and so contrived that inform us about trag­ ___ LEDGER laid at President any meaning or edy that moves us vis­ Boston College Law School Bush's feet by news­ cerally, the media had 885 Centre Street• Newtgn, MA 02159 • (617) 552-4339 papers and the tele­ inspiration that could the responsibility to The Alledger is produced by the students of Boston College Law School. Views presented herein vision pundits. have been taken away show us what involve­ represent those of the author and do not necessarily express the opinions of The Al ledger staff. Boston Sensing that he ment would entail. College, or Boston College Law School. Submissions from our readers are welcome, provided they include the name and telephone number of had to do something by viewers radiated Parallels to Vietnam the author. The AUedger reserves the right to edit, adapt. revise and check all submissions to have them rather than continue fail in one significant conform with the standards and style of The Alledger. away like desert heat Typesetting and Printing by F.dinboro Offset. Boston, MA. taking his lumps in difference- the goal of © 1993, The Boston College Law School Alledger print and on televi- restoring order and sion, Bush ordered keeping hundreds of STAFF the United States into Somalia. There thousands from death is unquestionably Editor-in-Chief...... David Feldman was sweeping bipartisan Congressional good. Even knowing what a lengthy and Executive Editors ...... Larry Dobrow • Jason Talerman approval of the actions he was taking, a involved process that might entail, Associate Editors ...... Kristen Corbellini • Shawna Smith Jylene Lyvengood military operation supported by even America would probably have supported the dovish Ron Dellums of California. this action because it appeals to the best STAFF WRITERS What a spectacle U.S. entry into in our ideals. The problem is we never Andrea Berkman • Steven Davis • Sean Kennedy • Alexis Shapiro Somalia was- an amphibious night time got the chance to see what the scope of Anthony DePaolo Michael Jacobson • Gary Kaisen landing met by a formidable array of the operation was going to be before David Kalikhman • Geoff Howell journalists and klieg lights. The mo­ American soldiers started dying, and ment, in terms ofour purpose ofgoing to then, it was too late- public support was CONTRIBUTORS feed the starving, was as singularly cou­ doomed to whistle away like air racing David E. Danner • Daniel Skrip rageous and could have been as inspir- out of a deflating balloon. November 5, 1993 • THE ALLEDGER • Page 3 Join the Crowd

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by Larry Dobrow intellectually-oriented existences. Cyni­ time to get some regular exercise. by Anthony DePaolo 2L Executive Editor cal though I may be by birth (thanks, dad), Mind you, we're not talking the Ne_w 2L staff writer the fact that most B.C. Law students have Year's Resolution crowd, either- those So I'm about to enter the library the some regard for their physical health im­ behemoths who drag their sorry selves "Dear Satchrno" is a new but ongoing other day (really) when I'm accosted by a presses me more than all the law journal out of bed on January 3 in a last-ditch advice column for law students, their farn- st. classmate who probably likes to think of positions in the world ever could. attempt to fit back into a pair of circa- ily, their friends, their enemies, their en- th herself as my friend. Seems as if the [Incidentally, I don't know why I've 1982 Jordaches. We're talking people ernies' friends, their enemies' friends' en- al offending party had seen me while I was gotten this whole negativity rap pinned on who recognize that exercise tends to keep ernies, Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat and Pee a, out jogging last week, and had especially me. I mean, for every ten things that I hate the average stress-ridden human being Wee Herman when he's not hanging out in m enjoyed the strained, please-call-a-para­ about this den of idiocy there must be at physically and mentally balanced. Even movie theaters (so to speak). Satchrno wel- qt medic grimace on my face. least two or three things that I like: the Dean Soifer (pronounced: soy-'BEAN) comes any kind of letters from the reader- it himself looks like he's put in a couple of Which is fine; I heartily encourage burritos in the cafeteria; the LSA func­ ship, but he asks that you write them with wi everyone to laugh at my expense. If the tions celebrating, like, Arbor DaY,; Pro­ minutes on the Nordic Track. crayons on the back of large swaths of ti, person in question cares to join me on my fessors Brown, Hermann, and Sherman; I appreciate fitness in a way that only l 960s-style wallpaper. When (and if) ye daily jaunt through the neighborhood, I the intramural softball league; and lecture an ex-blimp can. Inflated by a hi-cal diet Satchrno receives any letters, he will re- m promise to scrape lip what remains of her room 103.) of beer and more beer, I blimped up to spond to them in The Alledger at a time is . on the way home. Go chug some Crisco, Where was I? Oh- anyway, I'm Roseanne Arnold-proportions following convenient for him. In other words, don't ra putz. quite impressed by the way most B.C. my sophomore year of college. Facing expect a response until after Christmas of bt Anyway, as we "columnists" are Law students actually lift their ample der­ the prospect of looking like an especially 1997 or after he finishes his clinical assign- UJ. "wont" to "do," I got to thinking about the rieres out of library carousels for enough hairy meatball, I bought a cheapo pair of rnent for the BC Environmental Affairs ge role that physical fitness plays in our Keds and hit the turf. Law Review: whatever comes first. Luck- st1 What happened? Not much. I lost a ily, Satchrno has some experience giving lo, lot of weight, but that can probably be advice; in a previous life he was a bartender yo attributed to my nervous breakdown after for the Founding Fathers of the U.S. Cons ti- th. a beloved mate went back to her old tution at the Second Continental Congress. to boyfriend. But that's another column. Satchrno says, "The only clear original in- nu Alas, I also picked up a rare healthy tent of the founders was to finish up debate ba habit that comes in handy when I'm feel­ early enough to catch happy hour. Torn yo U, 8/oa~~~ef~w~~ ing b.ored and puffy. After stretching my Jefferson just loved the 10 cent buffalo lithe frame for a week or two, I throw on cffk 1.9.93 Pl306U»l, :?aw 6/ckd wings, and Ben Franklin put down more qlA ~+ the sweats and go scampering up Kenrick drafts than an LRW teacher correcting the it A venue. I run. I like to run. It makes me first objective memo." gi happy. I crank up the "Soul Hits of the Although there are no letters available ye '70s" tape on my walkrnan (sure, go find to answer directly, Satchrno created some Jo, a non-gender-specific way to say letters by combining bits and pieces of pe "walkrnan") and make like Little Rabbit responses from the Op-ed section of the gc Foo-Foo on amphetamines. Globe, "Dear Abby," and Penthouse "Fo- LJ It's a wonderful feeling. And believe rum" into letters pertaining to the legal W ~~ ~~ 19J 1993 me, you've got to do an awful lot of drugs educational environment as we ( claim to) to match the runner's high that kicks in know it. DJ ~ efnncu [ff~~~ after a couple of miles of self-punish­ ~ ment. Lord knows I've tried. DEAR SATCHMO: wi Pl306U»l,J After a couple of years, my daily trot 1 It was a pleasure to speak with you on re 8:00 o, c/od; doesn't do a whole lot for me physically, October 3 (not!!!). Although we were Sc except allow me to indulge in munchies impressed by your nice smile and low cut he ~ 110~ ~ without worrying about my salacious dress, we take joy in informing you that ab curves. Mentally, though, you can't be­ you are a piece of dog poopie on the th! Sponsored By: gin to appreciate the value of getting out bottom of the shoe of life as far as we're wl ABA, The Alledger, APALSA, BLSA, CPG for an hour or so every day. Based on concerned. I mean, really -what made A0cl>, ILS, ITALSA, JLSA, LALSA, Lambda, some of the lunatics I've encountered up LSA, cl>AA, St. TM, UCC Digest, WLC you think someone like yourself would Si here, a couple of minutes of mental vacu­ get a chance with us? However, I might ity can only help matters. be able to pull some strings if we can go the So now, for me, it's off to the next out on a date and you let me fondle your mt frontier. Fearing that I've been a little low voluptuous br- - Gi on my daily quotient ofhornoeroticisrn­ pr, Members of the Student Body, Faculty, Administration and Staff, and what the hell, it's not like I can con­ SATCHMO SEZ: dl1 Friends and Family are Invited to Attend. sciously do anything to make myself less Whoops!! Sorry folks, that's the wrong desirable to the babes I seek to bag- I've letter. I must have mixed up the piles ofmy DJ Tickets go on sale November 1, 1993 started lifting large plates of iron. Sweat­ in the Snack Bar and through various students. two jobs. Besides being a writer of an ad- ing in unison with steroid-bloated strang­ vice column, I also compose rejection let- is 1 For more information contact Frank Privitera (2L) ers? Gee, give me more of that weight tersfor big law firms. It's not a fun job, but ha Mike Amoruso (3L) or Amy Bliss (3L). room thang. I have to pay the bills somehow. is More on that adventure as it material­ Pa izes or when I shred a rotator cuff, which­ DEAR SATCHMO: sa1 ever comes first. As for now, I heartily I am a lL who right now is quite ha advise you to forget about those tendinitic distraught. Law school isn't all it's be knees, ignore that fourth chin, and get out cracked up to be, and I'm thinking of no there. quitting. What should I do? November 5, 1993 • THE ALLEDGER • Page 5

~ates read Throw? IBOP History made in Boston

-signed, "Ray Zip" SATCHMO SEZ: by Michael Jaacobson, Gary Kaisen I think people like you are what law and David Kalikhman SATCHMO SEZ: school had in mind when the Socratic Method 2L staff writers g I really feel for you. A lot offirst year was developed. One man had a dream. They said it 1- students go through stages of doubting couldn't be done. After all, no new IHOP themselves and their DEAR SATCHMO: had been built in the Northeast in the last - abilities. A lot of them How was the 25 years. Yet Hal Martin is no ordinary e are also named Tho­ If you are going to Socratic Method de­ man. Hal's dreams die hard. When Hal n mas, although I'm not veloped? Martin sets his mind to something, things - quite sure why. I think quit, my advice is to happen. And Hal Martin decided THERE ...... ______, w AS going to be a new IHOP in Boston and Alledgerfood critics evaluate new mop it has something to do do it right after SATCHMO SEZ: h with the Jesuit tradi­ Well, the Socratic that he was going to be the man to open it. efits of national advertising and local co­ ,f tion. Anyway, since Thanksgiving. You Method has a long and From humble beginnings as a dish­ operative advertising. !HOP provides trade- · ) your name isn't Tho­ glorious history. I twas washer at IHOP, Hal has worked his way mark recipes for certain dishes while we - mas, my advice to you can go to your high invented by Socrates, up the IHOP hierarchy during the last 35 prepare others from our own recipes. But ~ is to not do something school's football the greatancientGreek . years. Hal now owns IHOPs in Brookline, the bottom line is: no processed foods are t rash. Things may be thinker, some time dur- · Cambridge, Peobody and Brighton. But served at any IHOP. f bad now, but cheer game or reunion and ing the 5th century,, al­ just acquiring another old IHOP wasn't Alledger: After World-Wide up---they' re going to tell all those people though back then it had enough for Hal this time. Hal wanted to Volkswagen, under what circumstances s get a lot worse. Try to an entirely different construct an IHOP from the ground up. will out-of-state manufacturers and dis­ - stay up with the work you dread running purpose than it does And Hal had heard the voice. The voice tributors be vulnerable fo suit in the courts ~ load, and if you find today. Socrates would ringing in his head day and night. But this of the state where an injury caused by their r you still don't like it, into that you are ask these impossible voice wasn't like the other voices. This product occurs? - then do what you have going to law philosophical ques­ one was louder: "KENMORE SQUARE Hal: Uh ...Uh .. .I like eggs. to 1do. Who knows, ticms of his students; NEEDS IHOP." - mayb·eyou'llgetasoft­ school,but you'll the students could ei­ But the only open space in this area was Next we decided to tour the kitchen. ~ baU team named after avoid any LRW ther (I) attempt to an­ a run-down old deli in horrible disrepair The staging area for food preparation is 1 you. swer the question (and that had recently gone out of business. comprised entirely of stainless steel. Hal > If you are going to deadlines and all face inevitable embar­ Even Hal began to question himself, espe­ informed us that all the stainless steel com­ ! quit, my advice is to do rassment), or (2) go to cially since he had announced that the ponents were custom manufactured for ! it right after Thanks- exams. the liquor store and get Kenmore IHOP would be ready for busi­ him in Colorado. giv.ing. You can go to another bottle ofwine. ness in ju st five short weeks. Hal knew that The proportions of the kitchen allow a your high school's This was an histori­ he couldn't disappoint the hungry hoards, maximum of nine cooks to work together football game or reunion and tell all those cally important development: it both gave so he pressed on. And right on schedule, in food preparation - five cooks at the f people you dread running into that you are law schools a means to test student knowl­ on October 18th at 6 a.m., the IHOP opened grill, four at the ovens and three at the large going to law school, but you'll avoid any edge and kept the babbling Socrates suffi­ its doors. commercial mixers. Down the galley from LRW deadlines and all exams. Good luck. ciently drunk to supply Plato with enough On the Friday before the opening, we the kitchen is the dish-washing station, and We all know you can do it! material to write The Republic. were able to get a glimpse of the new IHOP still further down are two walk-in coolers. The Socratic Method disappeared for a at the gala VIP brunch (it's amazing what However, we did not want our perspec­ DEAR SATCHMO: long time after the fall ofthe Roman Empire people will do for you if you tell them tives to be tainted by a flattering view of I read One - L by Scott Turow and during the Dark Ages, although there are you 're writing for a local newspaper, es­ IHOP determined solely on VIP day. We was quite captivated by it. So far, I have reports it was cited as an inspiration for the pecially if they never ask you which one). wanted to see and experience this IHOP as 1 read his account of life at Harvard Law Spanish Inquisition. It next popped up in Initially we were struck by the bright would you - the reader. And so, on Mon­ School in sequence with the school year France around 1789, where the French revo­ airiness of the new interior. Peach is the day night we· arrived with the masses. here, but I'm discovering some notice­ lution took over the Bastille by driving the predominant color, with light peach cush­ We thought that even for this auspi­ able discrepancies between what he went guards crazy with these unanswerable ques­ ions, peach formica tabletops and peach cious occasion it was a bit crowded. Over through and what I am going through. tions about who was more evil: Napoleon or accents in the wallpaper. 500 people were in line. We went to the what should I do? Ghengis Kahn? The Germans took the next Booths are stained a light honey oak end of the queue, only to realize people initiative by using it to train their troops and color, which blends perfectly with the brass were facing away from IHOP. Tums out SATCHMO SEZ: teach their schoolchildren. Kindergarten, rails and finials across the tops of the everyone was headed into Strawberries, One -L? I can sum up my thoughts on the schooling method for young children, is booths. The floor is covered with a blue the record store located down the block, , that book with a quote from my great legal actually German for "Question with no right low-pile commercial carpeting, and bright where the new Pearl Jam C.D. was going to mentor, friend and confidant, Emmanuel answer." Roscoe Pound was spending the white ceiling tiles are an exclamation point be released at midnight. Gilbert: "The Supreme Court makes good spring in the Ruhr Valley one year, saw what to a flawlessly designed interior. We asked local residents for their reac­ precedent; Scott Turow makes good kin­ was going on with the schoolchildren, liked We asked Hal about how much latitude tions to the IHOP opening. BU students dling." what he saw, brought it back to Harvard, IHOP allowed him in decorating this new were elated. As one student said, "I'm so and the rest is history. facility as well as other pressing questions: drunk. Do they have a bathroom I can hurl DEAR SATCHMO: in?" However, another resident fretted, If a tree falls in the forest, and no-one Well, that's about it for this week. If Alledger:Do you like gladiator mov­ "First the Red Sox, now IHOP. I'll never is there to hear it, but a beaver with the anyone has any letters for "Dear Satchmo," ies? get a damn parking space." bark ofthe tree caught between his teeth please drop them off in The Alledger mail­ Hal: Huh? While we sympathize with this troubled is arrested by the ranger of Jellystone box. And remember: the views of this col­ Alledger: Could you tell us a little resident, we feel that such inconvenience Park for violation of CERCLA, nui­ umn do not necessarily reflect the views of more about the franchise arrangement with is well worth the benefit. As another resi­ sance law, the public trust doctrine and The Alledger, Boston College Law School, IHOP? dent said, "whoever built this place is truly battery, can the bark between his teeth The Founding Fathers, the Courtship of Hal: We pay IHOP 4.5 percent of our a visionary." be admitted as evidence if the beaver has Eddie's father, Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam, revenues and in tum we receive the ben- We couldn't agree more. not been read his Mirdanida rights? grape jelly, Polaner All-Fruit or Bill Clinton. Page 6 • THE ALLEDGER • November 5, 1993 Seeking public interest careers

By Shawna Smith Weissberg was a 1979 BCLS graduate. to remain in contact with former employ­ 2L Associate Editor While a student, Weissberg participated ers for future employment opportunities. Wang stressed the In anticipation of the Government and in the U.L.L. program and interned at the Willis Wang, a 1991 BCLS graduate, importance of Public Interest on campus recruiting days firm she is now a partner in. She greatly was the second speaker at the presenta­ (November 8th and 9th), the Career Ser­ enjoyed working at the small firm, unfor­ tion. Being such a recent grad1:iate, Wang attending public vices Office sponsored a panel presenta­ tunately, upon her graduation the firm had was perhaps most easily able to identify tion entitled "Careers in the Public Inter­ no openings, and Weissberg worked for with the "plight" oflaw students presently interest career est" on October 19th. The program was the Mass Committee against Discrimina­ searching for jobs in the public sector. forums and intended to not only inform students of tion for a little over a year. Weissberg Wang stressed the importance of attend­ different types of career choices available enjoyed the responsibility of her hectic ing public interest career forums and ag­ aggressively in the Government/Public Interest realm, job but did not enjoy the bureaucracy of gressively "networking" the public sector "networking" the but also to quell that feeling of being "left working for a state agency an

U.S. hockey teant trounces BC by Geoff Howell coach. Peterson was strongly criticized in player. The 1992 pre-Olympic tour was a Westfield State graduate and the only IL Stam Writer U.S. hockey circles for the weak team made with 27 players. Among the current graduate of the NCAA's Division ill on The population of despondent ice defense of the the '92 and '88 teams. Olympians are former B.C. defenseman the U.S. team. "Looking back on my hockey goalies in the Boston area swelled In additi.on to Taylor, who is on leave Ian Moran, who would have been a sopho­ career, the one thing I regret is not getting dramatically recently as the U.S. Olympic from his head coaching post at Yale, the more this season, and Ted Crowley. The an Olympic medal. Now I'm ready to do team roared down Commonwealth Av­ Olympic team is counting on some key Terriers contributed forward David Sacco. whatever it takes to help these guys get enue searching for victims on their 26- forwards who are currently with profes­ Franklin's Laviolette, Waltham's Jeff one." game U.S. tour. The Lillehammer, Nor­ sional teams. University of Minnesota­ Lazaro, Wakefield's John Lilley, Improved team defense is expected to way-bound patriots paid Oct. 13 and 15th Duluth graduate Derek Plante (Buffalo Westboro's Jim Campbell and make a big difference in Lillehammer, visits to Boston College and Boston Uni­ Sabres), 1992 Olympian Ted Drury Wrentham's .Garth Snow round out a but Taylor still voices concern for finding versity, respectively, and were in no mood (Calgary Flames) and Lake Superior healthy Massachusetts contingent. some offensive firepower. It shouldn't be to play the gracious guests. The switch to State's Brian Rolston (Albany of the "Snow is sharing the goaltending with too much of a worry if Drury, Rolston and alternating Winter-Summer Olympics on American Hockey League) are expected University of Maine teammate Mike Plante are available. a two-year cycle has resulted in some to be Taylor's top three attackers. Drury's Dunham and University of New Hamp­ Rounding out the current group of sports posting back-to-back events, and NHL contract stipulates that he will be shire alumnus Jeff Levy. The NCAA eight defensemen are UM-D's Brett an assortment of skaters, skiers and sent to the Olympic team just prior to the. champion Black Bears also placed for­ Hauer, Minnesota's Travis Richards and bobsledders got the call. February tournament, but Plante and wards Chris and Peter Ferraro and Wisconsin's Barry Richter. One blueliner There are few similarities between the Ralston's situatkms are not so well-de­ defensemen Matt Martin and Chris Imes and a couple offorwards could be dropped '92 U.S. skaters and this year's edition in fined. Also expected to join the Ameri­ on the squad. Martin and Imes excel at the prior to the tournament, but Taylor hopes spite of the short turnaround. Although it cans prior to Lillehammer is Peter transition game Taylor considers a key to to have room for everyone. was hard to judge from the combined 17- Ciavaglia, a teammate of Drury's at keeping the goals-against average down The U.S. is hoping for a top-three 3 drubbing the Olympians handed to the Harvard who is currently playing in Eu­ to a minimum. finish, something it has accomplished Eagles and Terriers, a new coach and a trio rope. "There was a lot of negative press just twice since winning the gold in 1960. of absent college stars have everyone "I don't think ( 1980 gold medal coach) about our defense in 1988, but we've Prognostications are particularly difficult wondering what to expect when the tour­ Herb Brooks lost anybody for part of the improved quite a bit in that area this year," this year because of the unknown status nament begins in Norway on February 12. pre-Olympic tour because ofconflicts with Laviolette said. "We just came from (an of the former-Soviet Union entry and "(Coach) Tim Taylor's a perfection­ pro hockey," said Taylor, who will also exhibition game) against the St. Louis defending gold medalist, the Unified ist," said U.S. defenseman Peter Laviolette, escort his charges through a European Blues where we held them to 28 shots." Team. A power struggle currently taking a veteran of the 1988 games, after the 9-3 exhibition tourpriorto the Olympics. "But Laviolette is the team's elder states­ place in the Russian Ice Hockey Federa­ win over B.C at Conte Forum. "He likes it's 13 years later and the game has man. He turns 30 in December and is five tion is considered a real threat to the to work hard in practice and have things changed. The Ken Morrow's and Mark years older than anyone on the squad. The quality of the Unified representatives. down to a T. He knows a lot about the Johnson's of the '80 team would be hard experience he gained in the seventh-place Canada, the 1992 silver medalist, and game and sticks to his game plan." to keep out of the NHL now." showing at Calgary and six years of minor Sweden are expected to be favorites if the Laviolette' s comments say as much as Rather than pick up players who would pro hockey are invaluable to Taylor. Unified Team is in disarray. about Taylor's predecessor, Dave be cut later when Drury and the others "Because of my experience, I'm not as Peterson, as they do about the current return, Taylor has been travelling with 23 nervous as I was in '88," said Laviolette,

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