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For more information, please contact [email protected]. _ OJbc i�rs <&cstac 7 Vol. 45 No.2 The University of Michigan Law School October 13, 1994 Student Arrested in 3Ls Cope with Dings Dean's OHice Gets By Brian O'Donnell summer and decided otherwise. Interview­ Case Dismissed RG Staff Writer ers often ask for explanations, and student The business uniforms on students in reaction runs the gamut. • Two weeks ago, the lawyer Room 200 these days disguise wide differ­ "There are some people who will stare representing Hugh Brooks, 2L, con­ ences among them. There are chipper 2Ls at you like you're a dead fish," said one vinced prosecutors to drop charges eager for their first flyback, veteran 3Ls student-call him Fred-who was rejected stemming from an incident in former confidently looking for that perfect post­ at a firm in a mid-Western city. "There are Dean Lee Bollinger's office last term. clerkship firm, and other 3Ls who liked but firms that write you off at that point. There "My attorney knew the prosecu­ didn't love the summer employer that made are others who are very sympathetic." tors," said Brooks. "And it took him a them an offer. "If they were a mentor for somebody long time to convince them that this Then, there are a distinct group of un­ who got screwed, they're going to be a lot wasn't a case worth pursuing." fortunates coping with one of the worst more sympathetic," said another 3L, Jane Department of Public Safety offi­ predicaments that law school has to offer. (not her real name). "I had one guy literally cers arrested Brooks last March after These are 3Ls returning from a summer job say to me, 'Every firm has their assholes."' he refused to leave the reception area with a ding. Nancy Krieger, director of law-school in Bollinger's office. Brooks had ar­ These students are now trying to per­ placement, said she didn't know how many rived unannounced to voice his con­ suade new firms to hire them, even though 3Ls came back from the summer with rejec- cern about the possibility of discon­ other firms got a close look at them over the See DINGS, page 4 tinued funding for the Public Interest Office. When Brooks refused to leave until Bollinger spoke with him, the Law Review Paper-Chase Ends former dean called DPS and had him Admission Criteria'· .' . :-i�- Computer Lab arrested. Brooks was charged with trespass and failure to accurately Aimed for Diversity By Chrysanthe Gussis identify himself. RG Staff Writer, Bollinger told a Daily reporter By Linda McReynolds In a stunning reversal of policy, paper is that he had been "annoyed" by RG Staff Writer back in supply at the law-school computer Brooks' behavior, and he alleged that The new selection criteria for the Michi­ lab. Brooks had used "fairly offensive" gan Law Review have produced at least two The paper was initially removed in language. changes at the student-run journal-ahuge August for reasons of expense and waste. At Bollinger later wrote a letter to increase in applicants last year and, pre­ one point, 30,000 pages a month were end­ DPS asking them to drop the charges, sumably, a more diversified staff this year. ing up in the dumpster. In a twelve-month but the campus police agency contin­ Half of the current associate editors period, output rose from 15,000 pages a ued to pressure prosecutors. A trial were selected strictly by their performance month to 100,000 a month. Students were date was set for this semester. "Ar­ on the Law Review's writing competition, running off draft copies instead of editing on resting him seemed to be penalty which takes place at the beginning of the screen, and occasional 500-page Lexis print­ enough," Bollinger told the Daily in summer and is open primarily to students outs were accidentally being sentto lab print­ May. completing their first year. In past years, ers. Appropriately enough, Brooks only 25 to 35 percent were "write-ons." These abuses triggered Dean Lehman, . hopes to work for a public-defender's In addition, the writing competition has Dean Eklund and Ted Graham to meet and office this summer. become more important for students admit­ consider alternatives in policing print-outs. ted to Law Review based on their grades. Although Lehman was not available for MacKinnon Q&A, p.3 After accepting write-on candidates, the Law comment, Ted Graham said that requiring Review editors accept students with the students to bring their own paperwas an easy An RG Crossword? p.6 highest adjusted grade-point averages. In policy and, unlike setting up a system of past years, students got a GPA boostof up to student computer accounts, cheap to insti- Princess Needs Job, p.B See LAWREVIEW, page 4 See PAPER, page 5 The Res Gestae - October 13, 1994- page 2 last Saturday night, they forked each What can I do? With quiet apprehension (Hail from tile Chief) other's thighs under the table and burped of an unbargained-for dependency, I'll in each other's faces. Only when the have to acquaint myself with the modern A married coupie I know went off the order of baby shrimp and baby corn version of an old anthropology: the ex­ pill, a decision they wisely arrived at col­ arrived did the conversation, irresistably, tended family. lectively. The spirit of their beloved dog turn. David Barringer Otis departed unexpectedly to bury bones My wife, big surprise, said she wanted at the gates of St. Peter, and this tragedy one, too. A baby. Like an eager convert, lent their sex lives, already redefined as she recited her own mommy mantra reproductive, a raw pragmatic urgency. while I, like a methodical Kronos, swal­ If they don't have a baby soon, they're lowed generations of baby shrimp whole. going to kill each other. Both career engineers, our friends They used to lean all their love on are willing, financially, emotionally and that dog, treating it like a child. They with reckless disregard for the future of bought it a cherrywood doghouse, a their relationship, to veto daycare in favor rainbow-colored pillow, a space heater. of her mother-that is, in favor of her They fed it salads, ground sirloin, es­ mother moving in. presso-flavored jerky. After work, they This is the childcare prophesy of the didn't report to each other; they cuddled dual-career nineties. No doubt one day Otis. But the affection they used to lavish soon (my wife the med student prays) I on that dog now misses the mark when will, with a resolute heart, auction off an Editor in Chief: David Barringer redirected toward each other. Over dinner empty doghouse and hire her mother. 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What ing an environment that was conducive to might take to set up a system that would students learning and teachers teaching­ Interview by David Barringer provide for that? which didn't seem to he a radical goal-to Late last year, I sat in Professor Equalizing pay more than it is,just as sweep away those on the basis of race and MacKinnon's offtee and persuaded her to a general tendency, even beyond based on also everything that had been there for the fwldquestions for fifteenminutes.